Quote Originally Posted by MindGoneHaywire
Don't Bring Me Down was a B-side, and seems to work more as that than as an album track on the album for some reason. Across The Universe was originally done for the World Wildlife Foundation or something like that & the original version of it is way different. It's on the British version of the Rarities LP. There are sounds of birds & backup vocals that weren't on the LP version. Don't know if that's the one on Past Masters, but it's an entirely different recording.
Yeah, the wildlife thing is the one on the Past Masters CD, as is the better version of Don't Bring Me Down, which has a way better mixdown of Billy Preston's sumptuous organ (keyboards that is).