See I'm the opposite - I always go for the album version of Crazy Cool with the longer instrumental intro. I feel it does a better job of letting the whole song....breathe I had to.
Head Over Heels is definitely the strongest Paula album for me. It doesn't have the single highlights of the first and second albums but it's much more cohesive and stellar across the board. And songs like If I Were Your Girl are very much hidden gems.
Probably my favorite Paula single. I’d say I prefer the pacing and production of the album version but the additional middle-8 just makes the song even more perfect.
I posted this on the TOTP thread a few weeks back but this is a more suitable place ... I just played a Paula Abdul song, If I Were Your Girl, from her third album and it was very similar to Jacko's "Librarian" Girl, especially towards the end.