BILLY JOEL - Top 40 hits info

The single edit of "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" takes out the sax solo before the 3rd verse.

Using the original 1985 "Greatest Hits" CD, you're removing 14.6 seconds, from 2:46 to 3:00. Your endpoint comes right before the girls again sing "only human."

The trickiest part to me was getting both start and end edit points at the beginning of the synth snare drum. I prefer to edit in the middle of a beat but doing so, in this case, created a bit of a stutter effect.

Based on a YouTube video of a rip of a Japanese single, the song is still barely audible at 4:24. I hesitated to mention this because Abagon is so meticulous in timing these recordings. It is possible the U.S. pressing faded a hair earlier.

The YouTube version starts a deathly slow fade at 4 minutes in, just as Billy Joel (and one of the background singers?) scream(s).

The YouTube video also runs slightly slower than the CD version, which I'm going to suspect is the poster's error.

Based on the Japanese single, the last audible sounds are the girls at 4:23.5 singing, "whoo-hoo-hoo" and then it is gone. There MIGHT be one more barely audible snare at 4:24 but there is a turntable "thump" right as the beat would have hit so it's hard to confirm.

TL;DR -- Your CD version should remove 14 and a half seconds starting at 2:46 and run 4:24.

NightAire wrote: The single edit of "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" takes out the sax solo before the 3rd verse. Using the original 1985 "Greatest Hits" CD, you're removing 14.6 seconds, from 2:46 to 3:00. Your endpoint comes right before the girls again sing "only human." The trickiest part to me was getting both start and end edit points at the beginning of the synth snare drum. I prefer to edit in the middle of a beat but doing so, in this case, created a bit of a stutter effect. Based on a YouTube video of a rip of a Japanese single, the song is still barely audible at 4:24. I hesitated to mention this because Abagon is so meticulous in timing these recordings. It is possible the U.S. pressing faded a hair earlier. The YouTube version starts a deathly slow fade at 4 minutes in, just as Billy Joel (and one of the background singers?) scream(s). The YouTube video also runs slightly slower than the CD version, which I'm going to suspect is the poster's error. Based on the Japanese single, the last audible sounds are the girls at 4:23.5 singing, "whoo-hoo-hoo" and then it is gone. There MIGHT be one more barely audible snare at 4:24 but there is a turntable "thump" right as the beat would have hit so it's hard to confirm. TL;DR -- Your CD version should remove 14 and a half seconds starting at 2:46 and run 4:24.

I edited it in the middle of the beat and got the stutter effect. Does anybody
have a clean copy of the song without the stutter effect?