There are several songs of which I have more than one "original mix," yet side-by-side they sound different. I realize that mp3s are "unreliable" esp. w/r/t labelling (I'm putting this in the "Digital" category.) Anyway, this is a thread where you sort me out - tell me where each one comes from, if you know - and list your own mixups, should you have any.
1. Isolee - Beau Mot Plage ("Original Mix" mp3)
2. Isolee - Beau Mot Plage (another "Original Mix" mp3)
The first one has a long bit about halfway through where the melody falls away and it gets kind of dubby, for lack of a better word - echoes, sharp stabs, impending doom. Then finally at the end the main hooks come bubbling back. The second one doesn't have that long dubby part at all.
1. The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward (US CD release)
2. The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward (some mp3)
The two sound exactly the same except! for the rhythm of the sung part of the chorus, where the guy goes "let's push things forward." In the US CD version the line snags the music in an interesting way, sort of letting the beat finish off the rhythm of the sung melody. In the second, the word "forward" is actually repeated!! which makes the words fit the music better, but it loses the off-kilter propulsion of the first one. Is that what the UK release sounds like?
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 March 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)
Tracer is the second "Beau Mot Plage" shorter? It sounds like it must be an edit to me.
The versions on both Famous When Dead (I think) and def. Rest have the dubby bit. I can't imagine it without that part.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 March 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)
When he played live the dub bit went on for twenty minutes or so. One of the most awesome things ever.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 March 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Cheeeeeeez that would be cool to hear live!! What chutzpah to edit that song, especially that way! The mp3 I've got sounds like it "ends" several times and then comes in from somewhere in the middle, like a million codas. It also doesn't start on the off-beat.
Okay, so full marks, Mr. Finney. But what of the Streets strangeness?
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)
I think the Streets track (some mp3) was the single, released before the album, and the other version tweaked for the album release. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
― Bill E (bill_e), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)