https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:53:02 +0000 Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:29:59 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=321 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55846&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55846 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 321
Posted: 17 September 2020 at 9:29am

I only heard "Pop Life" on the radio exactly how it is on the 45.

Edited by Paul Haney]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:29:59 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55846&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55846 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55837&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55837 Author: NightAire
Subject: 321
Posted: 16 September 2020 at 1:26pm

I would have sworn my station had an edited crowd noise section... I'd have to look it up to be sure... we're confident the LP and single versions were identical? I guess they might have shortened it for airplay... just the crowd noise was shorter, they left all the music and the fade as is.]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:26:16 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55837&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55837 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55836&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55836 Author: aaronk
Subject: 321
Posted: 16 September 2020 at 12:59pm

Interestingly, the UK "Extended Version" of "Pop Life" is the original, unedited recording, which was likely later edited down for the LP. At 3:01, where the boxing sounds begin on the LP version, you instead hear another chorus on the Extended Version. 3:21 of the Extended Version is the start of where the LP version fades back in. If you wanted to create a version that doesn't have the sound effects, you could essentially just fade the Extended Version in the same place that the LP version fades out.

Edited by aaronk]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:59:47 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55836&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55836 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55835&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55835 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 321
Posted: 16 September 2020 at 12:38pm

Nope; "Pop Life" aired as-is on top 40 radio back then.

Some stations ran the song until the actual fade of the music. Others faded out quickly after the "ding" of the boxing ring bell.]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:38:43 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55835&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55835 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55834&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55834 Author: jebsib
Subject: 321
Posted: 16 September 2020 at 12:20pm

Question about "Pop Life" - for the life of me, I don't recall ever hearing this on
the radio in Fall '85…

Did they play the jarring "boxing ring / cheering crowd" elements that interrupt
the LP version? That would seem so radio-unfriendly.

Was there an edit or remix that most CHRs played back then?]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:20:00 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=55834&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#55834 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=54447&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#54447 Author: EternalStatic
Subject: 321
Posted: 12 May 2020 at 3:15am

There is a short version of "Let's Work" on the posthumous Prince compilation, '4Ever', that seems to match the 45 except that it has been allowed to play out to the cold ending with no fade. One may be able to start with that file and just apply a fade as described above, to the last 10 seconds or so.
]]> Tue, 12 May 2020 03:15:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=54447&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#54447 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=54416&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#54416 Author: NightAire
Subject: 321
Posted: 07 May 2020 at 10:49pm

"Let's Work" has three edits, a trim from the beginning, and a fade.

Starting from the beginning of Prince's fast count, "One! Two! Three!" at the beginning of the LP version:

Remove 0:18 to 0:34.
From what is left, remove 0:21 to 0:29.
From what is left, remove 1:58 to 2:30.

Now go back and trim off the "One! Two! Three!" at the beginning so the song begins, "Let's work!"

Finally, turn the cold ending into a fade. The length of the fade runs all the way to the end of the song... but it's faded to nothing by the end.

Your resulting file should run about 2:56.]]> Thu, 07 May 2020 22:49:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=54416&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#54416 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=47392&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#47392 Author: aaronk
Subject: 321
Posted: 28 April 2017 at 12:10pm

Yes, "Baby I'm A Star" is an edit on the B-side. It's a very easy edit:

- Delete 0:00 to 0:15 of LP version (45 edit starts on a snare beat and piano slide, right after "1, 2, 3")
- Delete 3:03 to end of LP version
- Fade from 2:49 to 3:02 of LP version

When finished, your resulting file will run 2:48 with the fade starting at 2:35.]]> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:10:08 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=47392&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#47392 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=47391&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#47391 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 321
Posted: 28 April 2017 at 11:45am

Please remind me on this song that ended up as a b-side in 1985. Wasn't "Baby, I'm A Star" an edit on the 45 (a-side was "Take Me With You")? I ask because it looks like this edit will be a bonus track on the new deluxe reissue of the soundtrack album (due out in June). The listed time on my 45 is (2:55).

Edited by Santi Paradoa]]> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:45:56 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=47391&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#47391 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=321&PID=29482&title=prince-45-lengths-versions#29482 Author: Hykker
Subject: 321
Posted: 20 March 2011 at 4:31pm

NightAire wrote: Does anybody remember broadcast radio in 83 - 84 playing the flip-side of "Let's Pretend We're Married," which was "Irresistible Hctib?" (I might have taken some liberties with the spelling of that second word in the title.) ;) It charted together on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts, & Wikipedia claims it received "equal airplay," but #1 I sure don't remember it playing on the radio in Oklahoma! and #2 it's hard to imagine in the conservative 80s it playing unedited.

I don't remember either side getting airplay in Boston. It only peaked at #53 so I'd guess a lot of markets passed on that one.
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