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Todd Ireland
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Without a doubt, here's an entry that needs cleared up for the next edition of Top 40 Music on Compact Disc. The 10th edition reports Paul McCartney's "So Bad" as only having appeared on the Give My Regards to Broad Street CD issued on Capitol 46043 and Columbia 39613. In actuality, this song can also be found on the McCartney CD Pipes of Peace (which I have on Capitol 46018, but I imagine the song also appears on the Columbia 39613 pressing) and runs 3:18.
Now, here's the real kicker... The version of "So Bad" on Pipes of Peace is the correct LP and 45 version (I verified Ed's copy of the 45 to make sure). By contrast, the version appearing on Broad Street is a re-recording, and therefore not the hit 45 or LP version! Oddly, McCartney elected to re-do "So Bad" for the Broad Street album even though the song had already been recorded and released on the Pipes CD just less than a year previous. In fact, all of the songs on Broad Street are re-recorded versions of McCartney and Beatles tunes except for "No More Lonely Nights" (here, Pat correctly notes the CD contains the "LP ballad" and "LP playout" versions).
Edited by Todd Ireland on 11 September 2005 at 11:02pm
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Perhaps also worth noting, the B-side in the United States, the title track "Pipes Of Peace," is technically a unique mix... but just barely.
The organ on the LP version seems to trail a bit into the beginning of his singing while it is absent on the single mix on "Wingspan."
In addition, the entire intro, until the second downbeat at 28 seconds into the single version, is not what I'd called remixed exactly... but it's not an exact match to the LP mix. It's sounds more like an attempt to match the mix on the LP, but perhaps a separate mixdown session.
By the second bass drum hit, we are spliced into the LP version... UNTIL...
...about 3:04 in, at the ending where he sings, "...to hear..." we're again in a different mixdown session. They suddenly pop slightly out of sync... I'd never have noticed had I not been playing them together.
It pops slightly more out of sync on the final note at about 3:12. for no clear reason.
In both of these cases, the mixes sound either identical or an attempt to be identical. I can't figure out why they did this.
The density is higher in the single version, but that could be the result of the mastering. I don't have a vinyl copy of the LP to compare to a vinyl copy of the 7" single.
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