I wonder if the gospel version of DD existed when they released it..? Cause I wasn't impressed when it came out but I didn't mind it, but now the other version totally rehabilitated it for me!
And like others said, if I can make an 'a la carte' album with some the acoustic/alternate versions, and forget that GUAF exists, I really really really love this album! And I was pretty afraid with ST since it looked it was gonna spread pretty far off my usual tastes, and yet like it happened for say, Madness, sometimes I'm surprised at how much I end up loving some songs!
And also I'm still impressed with how many good versions of different songs they can come up with.. It must indeed be very hard sometimes to decide which way to choose in the studio.. I just wish I was there to tell them so it's MY opinions and not Timbaland's (or whoever agreed those fucking Tove Lo's ahahs were ever worth putting in a song!)