MARQUEE MOON AGAIN...

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Bonjour again,
Thanks for the answer, but it seems that the original 1977 LP version of "marquee moon" was shorter than 9.58 minutes. Can anyboby confirm this to me ???
Thanks.

― robert clerc, Sunday, 9 May 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, time it...

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 9 May 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

If it is shorter, it probaby wasn't by very much. Bigger question: why does it matter?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Alex, it is quite a big deal...

The original LP faded the track. The CD and the remaster let the track conclude to a brilliant ending, adding 2 mins onto the track.

Regards

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not alledging that it isn't brilliant....I'm asking why it matters to you. Do you have a copy of the original LP that you think might be worth something as a result?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

at what (exact) point does the original fade down?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

As Tom starts singing "I remember how the darkness doubled" once again. There.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What happens after the fade on the original LP version?

― Tim Ellison, Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You get this run out groove thing.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This having two Marquee moon threads is a bit like when Focus had two singles in the chart at the same time. And none at any other time...

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 9 May 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, the 12" single had the same length track on both sides but one was Mon and one was Stereo. It has a track timing on it, mind.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless it goes dub I don't fuckin' care, eh?! omg lol wtf

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(Have you heared the mashup with Bring the noize, public enemy?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Heard it? I ate it!

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

And don't call me Public Enemy.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

nick are you drunk

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Monday, 10 May 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

No; it's 11am and I'm at work. I'm just fucking bored.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone with Sonic Youth's Washing Machine album please time "Diamond Sea" for me? It seems to me like it's longer than the single I've got.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick only likes twelve bands.

― ..., Monday, 10 May 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard an edit of this on the radio this morning (off some punk compilation, apparently) which had all the solos cut out. WTF is the point of this song with no solos?

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That would probably be the seven inch single a-side. I have this also. And Little Johnny Jewel seven. And twelve. Oh what a television completeist I was back in the last century...

Anyhow, it just fades, three mins or so in, to carry on on side 2.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Twelve? That's a few too many, innit.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Orbital and Disco Inferno and everything else can FUCK OFF.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Twelve inch single.

Actually, I probably do have twelve of that track. Fuck ON!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer the original LP version that just fades out, 'cos you can imagine that the song goes on forever.

I was very disappointed when I bought the CD as a 'replacement'.

Cheers.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, that's Half on the mark (HOTM?), as that's the impression I got about it.

However, the story I heared was that TomV was quite p.o. about the fade at the time... (12" single of The Funniest Thing has a 'remake' with Love or Money backing him of the full version with ending for the first 'available' time)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually preferred it when it faded out and I also preferred when Focus had two singles in the chart at the same time

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"I prefer the original LP version that just fades out, 'cos you can imagine that the song goes on forever."
Yeah! I always found that fade-out totally haunting and suggestive, like an eternal loop. Sometimes more IS less.

― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

.. but now I have the ending, I just can't go back...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it fade out before the bit where it goes dead quiet and then the drums just meekly shuffle back in and it starts up again? I love that. The imaginary infinite loop idea sounds pretty cool as well though, I'm gonna have to find the original version.

― ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's after that. Theres a description, upthread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. That probably is better then.

― ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Good. We can all get with the infinite Marquee Moon, then.

Let's petition the record company.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's like virginity/innocence. You can't go back!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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