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crapfromthepast
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Posted: 08 November 2007 at 10:01pm \| IP Logged

I don't have a promo CD single for this, so I want to check with someone who does.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the LP version starts with a 16-beat guitar intro and runs about 3:48. I have this version on

Rock The First Vol. 6 (Sandstone, 1992; mastered by Steve Hoffman and is best-sounding version available)
Pump Up The Hits (PolyTel Canada 845096-2, 1990)
Hearts Of Gold The Pop Collection (Foundation CDP-96427, 1991)

I also have what appears to be the Swedish CD single for "Dangerous". Track 1 is labelled as 7" Version, and also runs 3:48 but with a 16-beat a cappella intro instead of the guitar intro. The rest of the song appears to be the same, but it's hard to tell if there are any subtle mix differences. There are five other tracks on the single, including a 6:26 "Waste Of Vinyl 12" Mix" and four live tracks.

Is this a cappella intro really the US single version? There was no vinyl 7", so this would have been the cassette single. Anyone have the promo CD single?

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Posted: 09 November 2007 at 12:14am \| IP Logged

Ron, we got in two different promo CD singles for this, with no listed times anywhere, on either one:

Roxette-"Dangerous" (DPRO-4445)
1-Album Version (actual time 3:49)
2-Club Edit (actual time 3:46)
3-Extended Club Mix (actual time 6:25)

Roxette-"Dangerous" (DPRO 04516)
1-Power Mix (Short Version) (actual time 3:37)
2-Power Mix (Long Version) (actual time 7:01)
3-A/C Version (actual time 3:48)
4-Album Version (actual time 3:47)

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Posted: 09 November 2007 at 12:19am \| IP Logged

Jim:

Do you remember playing the version on the radio that starts with the acapella intro that Ron mentions?

I've come across a version that sounds very similiar to Ron's description of the 7" version.

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Posted: 09 November 2007 at 2:21am \| IP Logged

John And Ron, the DPRO-4445 "Club Edit" starts with the a cappella, "Hold on tight...", while the DPRO 04516 "A/C Version" starts with the a cappella, "Oooh, you're a little bit dangerous". Those are the ONLY two a cappella intros present, for all of the combined versions. We played the "Album Version" back in 1990.

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Posted: 09 November 2007 at 7:28am \| IP Logged

Jim - The 7" Version from my foreign CD single starts with "Hold on tight...", so it appears to be the Club Edit from DPRO-4445.

It sounds like the album version got a lot more traction from radio here in the US than the others, being "track 1" on the first promo single. I can't remember which version my station played; it seems like I repressed all the Roxette songs.

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Posted: 09 November 2007 at 8:11am \| IP Logged

The version I have also starts out with "Hold on tight..."
Had Aaron listen to it, and it's the 7" version.

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Posted: 09 November 2007 at 12:45pm \| IP Logged

Yes, the "Hold on tight..." intro version is the one on my TM library. Based on the fact that the db has no designator, I'm guessing that the vinyl or cassette single contained the album version?

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Posted: 12 November 2007 at 10:23am \| IP Logged

Bumpingn this one up to answer more questions about the 7" or single version of Dangerous.

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Posted: 12 November 2007 at 4:14pm \| IP Logged

crapfromthepast wrote:

There was no vinyl 7", so this would have been the cassette single. Anyone have the promo CD single?

Actually, there was a US 7-inch single for this song. I have a copy.

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Posted: 14 November 2007 at 11:33am \| IP Logged

The UK single (EMI EMI 149) and Swedish Album version of Dangerous (Look Sharp - Parlophone 7910982) start with a guitar intro and 'Oooh, just a little bit dangerous'
at 0:09 - fades out at 3:48. I suppose this match none of the US versions. The Swedish Greatest His (Don't bore us .. - EMI 8354662) has a version of 3:46 w/accapella 'Hold on tight..' at the beginning - the cover tells Single Version. In US this is probably both the Single and Album Version then?

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Posted: 14 November 2007 at 7:15pm \| IP Logged

Oddbjorn wrote:

I can only speak for the vinyl 45, but what you're describing was on the 45. By that time though, vinyl wasn't the main singles format anymore.

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I was digging through my 45s looking for "It Must Have Been Love", and discovered that I have a commercial US 45 for "Dangerous". Neat!

The A-side is labelled 'LP version', with a printed time of 3:50. It starts with 16 beats of the guitar intro, like all the CDs I described above.

The B-side is also "Dangerous", labelled '12" Version' with a printed time of 6:26. It's the same as the 'Waste Of Vinyl 12" Mix' from my Swedish (?) CD single, also with a printed time of 6:26.

Does this mean that the "hit", and the only version commercially released here in the US, is the guitar-intro LP version? (Excluding the 12", of course.)

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Posted: 20 November 2007 at 12:21am \| IP Logged

crapfromthepast wrote:

Does this mean that the "hit", and the only version commercially released here in the US, is the guitar-intro LP version?

That depends on your definition of "hit version," I suppose. I remember hearing that acapella intro version on the air quite a bit, so there could be more than one "hit" version, in my opinion.

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Oddbjorn wrote:

The Swedish Greatest His (Don't bore us .. - EMI 8354662) has a version of 3:46 w/accapella 'Hold on tight..' at the beginning

This version also appears on my Canadian pressing of this CD. Can someone confirm which version appears on the U.S. pressing of the Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus - Greatest Hits CD?

As previously stated in this thread, the U.S. single version is the same version that appeared on the Look Sharp! album.

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Posted: 13 September 2010 at 6:35pm \| IP Logged

Don't know if this helps, but my US promo of Don't Bore Us has the acapella intro version.

Edited by mainrhythm on 13 September 2010 at 6:35pm

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Posted: 14 September 2010 at 11:07am \| IP Logged

Mainrhythm, I think you might be onto something. Perhaps the database needs to reflect this info.

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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 8:12pm \| IP Logged

I have obtained the cassette single of "Dangerous" and the lead track states "album version" and is indeed the album version as found on the "Look Sharp" album.

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Posted: 23 August 2020 at 12:00am \| IP Logged

aaronk wrote:

I remember hearing that acapella intro version on the air quite a bit, so there could be more than one "hit" version, in my opinion.

Consider that I always heard the acapella version (the 7 inch club edit) here in New York back in 1990 on the stations, so I can confirm. So I concur with Aaron that both probably got airplay. In a year where almost everything is a cd single, I would go with the 7 inch club edit.

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Posted: 23 August 2020 at 6:05am \| IP Logged

Seemed about 50/50 where I was at the time (southern
N.H./Boston market). We played the album version at
first, switched to the club edit later.

ISTR Kiss 108 in Boston playing both.

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