Mystery Girl Deluxe / Expanded

For the 25th anniversary is the last real Roy Orbison album "Mystery Girl" in 2 new editions. The actual edition is called "Mystery Girl Deluxe" and really comes as a deluxe CD + DVD with book, the smaller version of "Mystery Girl Expanded" only comes with a CD.

In addition to the 10 songs on the album, there is the "Expanded" still 5 bonus tracks. But this is only a selection of bonus tracks from the "Deluxe" Edition. This has namely 9 bonus tracks and a DVD.

The bonus tracks include 2 songs that did not exist on the original album, "The Way Is Love" and "You Are My Love". The former was fertiggstellt of the Orbison-sons, zweiteres is only a demo. These two songs are included on both editions.

There are also demonstrations in various stages of 7 songs from the album (She's A Mystery To Me (All I Can Do Is) Dream You, The Only One, The Comedians, In The Real World, California Blue, windsurfers). (There is also an eighth Demo, "Careless Heart (Original Demo)" was published in the "King of Hearts" album.) These demos are more or less close to the album version, sometimes even with other text (share), otherwise (rudimentary) instrumented. The studio demos sound good, the work tape demos are dubbed cassettes and sound that way. This also applies to the two "new" songs and in "The Way is Love" for singing.

ME it would have been clever not to pack the demos on the music CD, as well as fans will probably not hear the demos too often. My idea of ​​"Mystery Girl Deluxe" would rather the original album on CD 1 and "King of Hearts" and the "new" demos on CD 2. "King of Hearts" is anyway not a real album but a hodgepodge with some "Mystery Girl "outtakes.

The DVD of the Deluxe Edition includes a documentary featuring new interviews as well as the music videos of the singles from the album, as well as new and unreleased video clips.

The book (Booklet's actually not true) contains photos and detailed background information at that comeback of Roy Orbison and the making of the album.

The CD and DVD are packaged in a jewel case, the jewel case and the separate book in a slipcase.

Interestingly, comes "Mystery Girl Deluxe" from Sony though it is then published by Virgin (Virgin today is yes to Universal).