I have a bone to pick with Hanson fans. I don’t know if this will make any sense to non-fans, but I’ll try …

For any non-fan visitors, Hanson made an album in 1992 (5 years before Middle of Nowhere) called The Beginning. When Hanson gained popularity in 1997+, fans started to learn of and somehow acquire songs from this album.

Today I was looking at pictures of the actual cassette (front and back), and realized that 50% of the song titles I’ve known for the past 9 years are wrong This means my bootleg cassette of the album is wrong, all the internet lyric sites are wrong, and every time I see one of the “right” titles in my iTunes Hanson playlist, I think what the hell song is that?

A person (or people) with the actual album had to have released its presence into the world at some point, right? If this is true, what’s with all the incorrect information? In my many years of fandom I’ve seen the same information over and over with very little deviation — how can such a big difference can go undetected by fans/album owners (especially the stalker-ish ones) for so long? Even I sometimes wondered about the lyrics, but since bootleg cassettes are notoriously crappy in quality and Hanson has quite a few impossible-to-understand songs, I never thought to question it. A few examples of my newly discovered changes:

Album name: Beginnings ‘92 The Beginning
Song title: “I Need You Lord” “Wake Up In the Night”
Song title: “Rock Her Heart Away” “Rap Your Heart Away”

Obviously, subtlety is not the word of the day, especially when the title differences above can be clearly heard in the songs. If any knowledgeable Hanson fans are reading this, what do you think?