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crapfromthepast
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One of my favorite tracks, possibly of all time.
I was lucky enough to be working at a top 40 station in Tucson when the Gin Blossoms broke. They were from just up the road in Phoenix (Tempe, to be precise), and they were as close to local heroes as we got in '93! This one song refused to burn out - I seem to remember that the callout research on this track actually got stronger and stronger over the course of a full year!
The album version on New Miserable Experience has a printed time of 3:56, actually runs 3:54, and plays at 152.8 BPM (the whole album uses a click track).
There are digital clones of the album version on the UK Now 27 (2.148 dB quieter than NME) and on a commercially available CD single from Canada (A&M Canada 314 580 586-2, 1992, "Hey Jealousy"/"Found Out About You", and odd back cover art in the jewel case: a giant picture of a CD with "Music For All It's Worth", which apparently is a trademarked phrase in Canada)
There exists an edit for the song, which probably appears on the promo CD single (which I don't have), and appears on the promo collections Hot Hits Pop Vol. 22 (sounds excellent) and Top Hits USA RH20 (sounds so-so). The edit runs 3:48.
Lucky for me, the version on Hot Hits Pop Vol. 22 appears to be a digital clone of the promo CD single, because the samples line up exactly with the album version. It makes finding the edit points very easy.
To recreate the edit, based on the timing from New Miserable Experience:
Keep 0:00 to 1:54.3 of the album version.
Edit on a downbeat, 32 beats into the guitar solo.
Remove the 16 beats from 1:54.3 to 2:00.6. This shortens the solo from 64 beats to 48 beats.
Keep 2:00.6 to 3:56.6 (end) of the album version.
Your mixdown will run about 3:48 (3:52 to end silence) with one edit at 1:54.3.
(There are also two "unused" edit points, which show up when you line up the samples. One is at the snare hit at 0:12.6, and the other is at the snare hit at 3:20.3. These don't matter, and you won't notice them unless you do what I did and line up the samples...)
This was also one of the last commercial 45s I bought - it's "Found Out About You" on the A-side and "Hey Jealousy" on the B-side. Red-label A&M. The printed timings correspond to the album versions, and I've never played the 45 to find out if they really are the album versions.
Edited by crapfromthepast on 09 February 2010 at 9:25pm
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I have a total of two different promo CD singles for this song. I recall that only the 2-track promo was received in to the station. In my subsequent travels, however, I acquired the second promo CD single. I believe it to have been issued before the 2-track promo was. And, as has always happened on occasion, but seemingly occurred more frequently during the early and mid 90's, earlier non-hit releases would somehow get a second life, and end up becoming a hit after all, for a variety of reasons. That appears to be the case here. Here are the particulars for both promos:
Gin Blossoms-"Hey Jealousy" (75021 7602 2)
1-(non-described version) (listed & actual 3:56)
Gin Blossoms-"Hey Jealousy" (31458 8005 2)
1-LP Version (listed & actual 3:56)
2-Edit (listed 3:38; actual 3:49) (just :07 shorter than the LP version, as it turns out!)
Edited by jimct on 12 February 2010 at 12:21am
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AndrewChouffi
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To Jim:
In many cases, it wasn't that the record was originally a non-hit, it was that the cut was originally intended to be worked at, say, AAA & Alternative radio.
As momentum builded at those formats and people were talking about the success of the record (or callout), the record company decides to work it at less-niche formats such as Top-40 or Hot AC, and knows that those formats like choices like shorter edits, excised guitar solos, muted rhythm guitars. Therefore a second promo was released.
Andy
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The promo CD single info Jim graciously shared with us for Gin Blossom's "Hey Jealousy" a while back has been incorporated into the database. Thanks to some assistance from Ed, I thought I'd pass along that cassette single copies have an actual run time of 3:55 (the printed time on the label is 3:56) and is identical to the album version.
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By the way, I believe the 3:56 non-described version and the 3:56 "LP version" from the promo CD single releases are identical. I've never heard any other mix of this song other than that of the single/album version.
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