C. Martin doesn't give enough credit to Lovers in Japan (album version) - Live Conten

[freezingcoldplay]

I could not believe my ears when I heard LIJ (Osaka Sun) from the new EP. It's basically the Live version. All the stuff that I thought was the live interpretation (the general harmonies and the "Ooooooooooooooo" before "tonight, maybe we're gonna run") were found on this new EP mix. Then I recall C. Martin's letter saying the album version didn't have enough energy... well, it does! In fact, it's cooler than the new mix. I can understand that C. Martin is maybe being a perfectionist and reading into stuff that we don't see/hear, but the move to album-ify the live version is just weird. There's an album version, and it's live interpretation... but don't album-ify it.