tlhouns@ns.PacBell.COM (Lee Hounshell) (04/19/91)
I was browsing the local CD store the other day and noticed a "compilation" disk titled "16 songs for a really cheap price." The thing that caught my eye about this disk is that the 1st song is "Be Kind to my Mistakes" by KaTe!! Next to the song's title were the words "(Not the Album Version)." Is there another (different) version of this song? Does anyone have the album (or song) I'm talking about and is it worth buying? Let me know, Lee Hounshell
ed@das.llnl.GOV (Edward J. Suranyi) (04/20/91)
>I was browsing the local CD store the other day and noticed a "compilation" >disk titled "16 songs for a really cheap price." The thing that caught my >eye about this disk is that the 1st song is "Be Kind to my Mistakes" by >KaTe!! Next to the song's title were the words "(Not the Album Version)." >Is there another (different) version of this song? Does anyone have the >album (or song) I'm talking about and is it worth buying? Let me know, > >Lee Hounshell There is NO "album" version of "Be Kind To My Mistakes", at least from CBS's point of view. This compilation (called _Theodore_, by the way) contains the same version of that song that is on _Aspects of the Sensual World_, and the British "This Woman's Work" CD single. The song was originally from the movie "Castaway", and a longer version of this song (some would say the REAL version) exists only on the soundtrack for this movie. Unfortunately, the soundtrack is extremely difficult to find -- it was never released in America, and even in Britain it is fairly rare. Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
logic@wet.UUCP (Henry Kwan) (04/22/91)
In article <1991Apr19.150100.11268@PacBell.COM> tlhouns@ns.PacBell.COM (Lee Hounshell) writes: >I was browsing the local CD store the other day and noticed a "compilation" >disk titled "16 songs for a really cheap price." The thing that caught my >eye about this disk is that the 1st song is "Be Kind to my Mistakes" by >KaTe!! Next to the song's title were the words "(Not the Album Version)." >Is there another (different) version of this song? Does anyone have the >album (or song) I'm talking about and is it worth buying? Let me know, > >Lee Hounshell This would be "theodore: an alternative music sampler". It has as the first song, "Be Kind To My Mistakes" by Kate Bush (NON-ALBUM CUT). Since I only have two of Kate's albums, I couldn't say if this version is any different from any other version she has recorded. In any event, the album is quite good for the price ($7) so I heartily recommended it. Along with Kate, you get the likes of Public Enemy (quite a contrast from Kate, eh?), B.A.D., Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls, Living Colour, Poi Dog Pondering, Toad The Wet Sprocket, and a bunch of other groups from the Columbia/Epic stable. -- Henry Kwan | AppleLink: FWB [] CompuServe: 71320,1034 FWB, Inc. | Voice: (415)474-8055 [] FAX: (415)775-2225 2040 Polk St. Ste 215 | Internet: claris!wet!logic@ames.arc.nasa.gov San Francisco, CA 94109 | UUCP: {claris,hoptoad,lamc,ucsfcca}!wet!logic
jondr@sco.COM (King Hell Wombat) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr19.150100.11268@PacBell.COM> tlhouns@ns.PacBell.COM (Lee Hounshell) writes: >I was browsing the local CD store the other day and noticed a "compilation" >disk titled "16 songs for a really cheap price." The thing that caught my >eye about this disk is that the 1st song is "Be Kind to my Mistakes" by >KaTe!! Next to the song's title were the words "(Not the Album Version)." >Is there another (different) version of this song? Does anyone have the >album (or song) I'm talking about and is it worth buying? Let me know, There are, in fact, two versions of Be Kind To My Mistakes. HOWEVER, the really good version is ONLY available on the soundtrack to the movie "Castaway." Every other time this song has been issued, it has been in what some clever L-H termed the Reader's Digest Abridged Version. This version is truly annoying, if you know the original, because it takes out most of the intro/outro/bridging material and otherwise castrates an amazingly wonderful song. I don't know what prompted Kate (or whoever) to do this - after all, if "I'm Still Waiting" can run 4.5 minutes, why can't "Mistakes," which is a far far superior song? Anyway, the compilation you were looking at is called THEODORE and it has the lame-o short version of BKTMM. Save your money and try to find the Castaway soundtrack instead. (Sorry to rant, but I really really really loved this song until it was butchered. This is probably the one and only issue that Chris & Vickie (TM)(R)(C)(P) agree with me on.) -- jon drukman jondr@sco.com always note the sequencer: sco docland wage slave uunet!sco!jondr this will never let us down