LastNameonEarth
The Fly
It's very feasible that the band played the tracks back and are unhappy with a couple. I don't see how that's out of this world. They are perfectionists. I wish they would just say fuck it, it's great, but you know they will look for anything to fix until they think it's perfect. They don't want to have to look back with regret- which they do with Pop- because they think they could have made it better. Staring at the Sun they said they desperately wished they could have had another month with to turn into an all time classic or something like that. That was just three albums ago. I think it's likely that they would go back and do something like that than release it unprepared again. But that's just me.
And yet the original version of Staring at the Sun was better than the "new mix" on the Best Of
If they weren't happy with a couple of the tracks, would they not be calling Lanois and Eno back in to work on it as well? Have there been any suggestions of this since Lanois said it was done back in June?