DEAD OR ALIVE - "You Spin Me Round"

The "rocket rocket" intro appeared on the Dead or Alive CD Rip It Up, which was a pseudo-greatest hits collection where the songs were all mixed together. A very good CD, actually, but not if you're trying to hunt down the 45 versions.

I'm pretty sure that's the first place it showed up, but not 100% certain.

I'm pretty sure I have a UK compilation that has that intro. Everything else sounded the same to my ear. I can investigate, if anyone can use that information.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Pop-Wave-Vol-3-Lots-More-Hits -Of-The-80s/release/508095

From Germany. On Disc 2, track 7. I just had a look at it in Audition, and it's 3:16.

Edited by Steve Sharp

I've always presumed that that intro was removed for the U.S., while Europe (and Japan, apparently) got that intro, on the LP version.

I also browsed Allmusic.com. As my thinking... we will be able to conclude about an origin of the "rocket" intro when we've got the "Rip It Up" CD, the U.K. original single and the U.K. pressing "Youthquake" vinyl LP. Also, the Japan commercial 45 is the same version as the U.S. compilation CD "18 Modern Rock Classics From The 80's" (those don't include the "rocket" intro). Thus I think as well as crapfromthepast report that the "Rip It Up" is the first CD including "rocket" intro. But I can't drop the thinking that U.K. original items might include that intro. I'll report back when I get the above three items in the future. Thank you, Steve Sharp & crapfromthepast.

--abagon