colonel@gloria.UUCP (12/31/84)
["That is not what I had in mind at all." --T. A. Edison] I can think of a counterexample: "She Blinded Me with Science" was much tighter as a single than as an album cut. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (01/04/85)
> ["That is not what I had in mind at all." --T. A. Edison] > > I can think of a counterexample: "She Blinded Me with Science" was > much tighter as a single than as an album cut. > -- > Col. G. L. Sicherman > ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel Scritch scritch scritch. The single and the album version for "She Blinded Me With Science" were the same. However, they also, for a bit, had the unremixed version available. (I can remember Casey played it on AT40 rather than the remix because it was shorter) A better example is Robert Plant's "In The Mood", a 3:30 minute single but a five minute album cut. It worked because, on the album, after 3:30 all that happened was the instrumentals continued for a bit while Robert Plant kept humming "I'm in the mood". A real snorer. -- "Oh, you mean user-compatible Peter Merchant liveware? No, he's out today."
ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) (01/19/85)
About songs better in the single version - here are a few :
Light My Fire - Doors Just too long and boring full length
Fun, Fun, Fun - Beach Boys Tempo a little better and we get the
famous falsetto trail off.
Help Me Rhonda - Beach Boys
Be True To Your School Both of these were redone for single
release and done better there. HMR did
make it to a later album, but I don't
think BTYS did. (Notice that _Endless
Summer_ has the wrong version of all
three BB's songs)
Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (01/27/85)
Sometimes, the long versions of songs, which are sometimes found on albums,
tend to be boring and repetitious. The shorter 45 versions are tailored for
radio airplay. This is not to say that the album versions are no good, just
not fit for radio listening.
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{allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbojeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (01/29/85)
> Sometimes, the long versions of songs, which are sometimes found on albums, > tend to be boring and repetitious. The shorter 45 versions are tailored for > radio airplay. This is not to say that the album versions are no good, just > not fit for radio listening. "Ravel's Bolero is good, boring and repetitious." Is this a new trend? It has one advantage - all the elitists or whatever we decide to call them can now hide their hideous deformity by comfortably calling all music good. Thus soothing all you anti-elitist types (lump, lump) out there. No? But, but, I thought... WHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With apologies to Gregbo... Jeff Winslow *** DON'T READ THIS LINE, BLAST YOU! ***