crapfromthepast
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The second Crowded House album, Temple Of Low Men, didn't sell nearly as well as the first, and the leadoff single, "Better Be Home Soon," narrowly missed the US top 40, depending on which charts you were using.
Still, Crowded House is much beloved by pop music fans like me, and I thought this would be of interest to the forum.
I have the promo CD single for "Better Be Home Soon" (Capitol DPRO-79341, 1988), which contains only one track and has the same cover art as the US 45.
I wanted to see if the song was the same version as on my Temple Of Low Men CD, so I ran a null test (invert one of them, add them together, adjust levels until they leave only dithering noise).
I found that the samples line up perfectly, so they're taken from the same digital source, but they won't cancel out completely because the single contains reverb that's not on the LP version. The null test leaves only the reverb, which peaks around -24 dB and is kinda cool-sounding by itself. This different mix explains the "Original version appears on the album..." found on the back of the CD single and the 45.
I think the easiest place to tell the difference between the mixes may be at the 0:10 mark, when Neil Finn sings "something's got a hold on you" - the syllable for "got" seems to carry just a bit longer on the single mix.
I listened to the version on the Recurring Dream greatest hits CD, and it appears to be the LP mix, although it's really hard to tell the difference. Probably the LP mix on the Australian EMI Eighties Complete 5-CD box as well.
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Topic: Crowded House - "Better Be Home Soon"
