Some quick thoughts on BPU's availability on CD releases

[GhostEmperorX]

For reference, there was a bonus podcast episode dedicated to discussing the iconic, yet almost wholesale ripped-from-an-entire-album insert track from Hit Song Collection VI, used 9 months after the CD release in episode 120 (which was almost certainly structured around that track for the two moments it was used in at the middle & end of the episode).

Within it, the possibility was raised that somewhere along the line some staff member(s) may have detected the track's sources and excluded it from getting on any future compilation releases, and that its use in other DB media such as the RB2 game was a case of "not getting the memo". However, after some database editing on more than one dedicated site, I've noticed a problem with this hypothesis.

In the first place, outside of BPU's use in the series, it was really no different from other Hit Song Collection instrumental tracks credited to Yamamoto (composition/arrangement) and MONOLITH (performance). A lot of these "original work" image tracks that may or may not have been named after the tagline of their collection volume (Journey of the 7 Balls, Virtual Triangle, The Sounds of Battles to Come, etc) had a bit of an identical structure, such as shorter overture or "scene" versions that came before either the final track or the suite. BPU was no exception to this with an "overture" version, the only difference being that unlike all those others, the main track was plopped into the Z series at some point (which may be the singular basis for the initial line of reasoning to explain its absence).
And all of these MONOLITH-performed instrumentals, even the ones that didn't share that structure, never appeared on any other releases beyond their Hit Song Collection CD's, as opposed to most all of the songs on them.

To address the fact of Solid State Scouter (Yasunori Iwasaki) appearing on more than one release afterward (Great Complete Collection, Complete Song Collection, etc), that one was an entirely different production team (IMAGINE), not even having, ironically, the one DBZ-affiliated associate of the YMO that it's referencing (Hideki Matsutake of MONOLITH) involved in its production. Furthermore, unlike all those other ones, it was actually made to be used in the animated special it appeared in (hence the battle power reading by the programmed TOKIO voice concluding at 1st form Freeza's battle power), and the gap between the release & air date of the CD it was part of and the special it was featured in was within the same month, rather than months apart like the others tended to be.

In summary, BPU's exclusion from future compilation releases was just the same as any other MONOLITH instrumental on those initial collections, and not actually because its true origin was found out. Don't know what anyone else out there has concluded, but I think this will help if anyone's interested.