https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 09 May 2026 18:01:41 +0000 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:08:42 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3974 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=3974&PID=39048&title=shake-it-up-the-cars#39048 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 3974
Posted: 08 September 2013 at 8:08pm

Ron:
I was going to ask you if you've listened to this track off
of the Complete Greatest Hits (2002) but chances are it's
going to be too loud like those two Rhino discs you already
covered.]]> Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:08:42 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3974&PID=39048&title=shake-it-up-the-cars#39048 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3974&PID=39037&title=shake-it-up-the-cars#39037 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 3974
Posted: 07 September 2013 at 5:58pm

There's a perception on the Steve Hoffman board that the Cars catalog on CD`doesn't sounds so good. I think I'm starting to agree.

I don't have the Shake It Up CD, but I wasn't impressed with The Cars, Candy-O, or Heartbeat City discs on Elektra.

For "Shake It Up", the version on Greatest Hits (1985), drops about 2 dB in volume over the course of the song. It runs 147.6 BPM throughout. The same analog transfers are used for:

• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties Vol. 5 1982 (1994; differently EQ'd digital clone)
• Time-Life's 2-CD Modern Rock Vol. 1 1982-1983 (1999; differently EQ'd digital clone)
• swaitek's promo 50-CD The A List Disc 13 (1994; has noise reduction, too)

Slightly better is the version on Warner Special Products' 3-CD After Hours (1990), which has nice levels throughout, and runs 147.9 BPM throughout. The same analog transfer is used on Razor & Tie's 2-CD Awesome '80s (1994).

There's another analog transfer on Time-Life's Guitar Rock Vol. 4 1980-1981 (1994), but the left/right channels are reversed. It runs 147.4 BPM throughout. The same analog transfer is used for JCI's Only Rock 'N Roll 1980-1984 (1994), also with the L/R reversal.

Rhino's 2-CD Anthology seems to use lower generation source tapes, but it's a little too loud. The version on Rhino's 7-CD Like Omigod (2002) is digitally identical.

Which to choose for best sound quality? I begrudingly choose After Hours. Awesome '80s sounds pretty much just like After Hours, and should be far more common.]]> Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:58:58 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3974&PID=39037&title=shake-it-up-the-cars#39037 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3974&PID=17786&title=shake-it-up-the-cars#17786 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 3974
Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:28pm

The actual commercial 45 run time for the Cars' "Shake It Up" is 3:29, not 3:32 as stated on the record label. Abagon had posted this information in another message thread, but it never got updated in the database.]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:28:24 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3974&PID=17786&title=shake-it-up-the-cars#17786