Cranes - EP Collection Volumes 1 & 2 album flac

(Taken and reedited from my own original Amazon review)This is an odd compilation with an inappropriate and misleading title. While this is called the EP Collection Volumes 1 & 2, this is sadly not the case at all. In fact, this collection is missing quite a few songs from their actual respective EP Ereleases and instead replaces them with common album tracks instead leaving this far from a complete EP collection at all.I have recently compiled every single and EP from their initial Escapable EP to the Shining Road Double Single onto CD-R's and still had a little room to spare on the first disc. The following is what I compiled in complete and chronological order and what should have been released if this were to have been a real EP Collection. Songs with the asterisk are the songs that are missing from their EP Collection.My Compilation:Disc 101. Inescapable02. Give03. Dada 331*04. Inescapable II (Inescapable EP)*05. Untitled (Gigantic 2 compilation)06. I Hope07. E.G. Shining08. Cha Cha Escueta09. Adoration10. Brigher11. Tomorrow's Tears12. Casa Blanca*13. Sixth Of May (Wings Of Joy CD)14. Dreamless15. Starblood Remix (hidden on the official release)*16. Fuse (Self-Non-Self CD)*17. Self-Non-Self (Wings Of Joy Bonus 12")Disc 201. Adrift*02. Everywhere (common track on Forever)03. Underwater*04. The Puppet (Forever UK Bonus CD)*05. Shine Like Stars (Forever German/UK Bonus CD)*06. At Sea (Forever German Bonus CD)07. Slide (hidden on the official release)*08. Wings Of Joy (Forever German Bonus CD)*09. Trumpet Song (Forever German Bonus CD)*10. Jewel (Robert Smith Remix)(Jewel CD-Single)*11. Leave Her To Heaven I (Jewel German CD-Single)*12. Leave Her To Heaven II (Jewel German CD-Single)*13. Clear (Ring Tailed Snorter Mix) (Jewel CD-Single)*14. Cloudless (Thais Mix) (Jewel CD-Single)15. Shining Road16. Lilies17. September*18. Green Song 7 (Shining Road CD-Single)*19. Shining Road (Brauer Mix)(Shining Road CD-Single)20. Lilies (Flood Mix)*21. Don't Close Your Eyes (Shining Road CD-Single)*22. Organ Song (Shining Road CD-Single)Now looking at that, you are missing 5 songs from disc 1 and a whopping 15 songs from disc 2. And that's considering that I was including album songs that were originally on the EPs/singles which could have been removed to make room for more of the senseless Forever Remixes that add nothing to the songs anyways. In fact, some of the best songs like Leave Her To Heaven I & II and the awesome Robert Smith remix of Jewel were completely ignored. Granted, some of the missing songs probably should be left missing, but my aim was to have a complete EP/singles collection unlike the one offered to us. Oddly enough, there are two hidden tracks tacked on to the last song on disc 2 of the official release which contains the songs Slide and Starblood(Remix). Unfortunately you have to wade through 5 minutes of silence before you get to them. I've never understood nor cared for this "hidden" track gimmick.All in all, this isn't a bad way to get a lot of hard to find and expensive EP/singles tracks and to also get a good best of collection of Cranes songs. Unfortunately, some of the missing songs are extremely hard/rare to find and often times very expensive if found. I just wish they would have put together something that was more in line with what they were claiming to offer.