I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls

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   strange thing on this one...I have an original LP on Jive JV 6600 (pressed by Quality Records of Canada) from 1982 that has the version running 3:57 on it.  It's titled simply "I Ran", starts with a cymbal crash and ends cold.  Perhaps another instance of a Canadian issue being different from the U.S. (it's happened before!).

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davidclark Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 17 November 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 27	Post Options Post Reply Quote davidclark Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls Posted: 08 April 2006 at 5:27am
	strange thing on this one...I have an original LP on Jive JV 6600 (pressed by Quality Records of Canada) from 1982 that has the version running 3:57 on it. It's titled simply "I Ran", starts with a cymbal crash and ends cold. Perhaps another instance of a Canadian issue being different from the U.S. (it's happened before!).
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anthology123 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 20 January 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote anthology123 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2006 at 9:09am
	Doesn't the US version have the same cymbal intro and cold end as described above? I think I have the LP and maybe the 45. The best time I can find is that it's 3:46.

edtop40 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote edtop40 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2006 at 9:43am
	my 45 lists the run time as 3:32 but actually runs 3:43 and is identical to the version from the cd "new wave hits of 80's volume 5"
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davidclark Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 17 November 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 27	Post Options Post Reply Quote davidclark Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2006 at 10:57am
	As I mentioned, my LP version runs about 3:57, a bit longer than the single. Pat's database indicates the 5 minute version as being the LP version and the 3:57 as neither the 45 nor LP version. I've no question on the 45 version. Care to jump in, Pat? Edited by davidclark
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sriv94 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 September 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote sriv94 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2006 at 11:23am
	Just so I'm getting the picture here, is this the version that essentially has the 45 version open and the LP version close?
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aaronk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 178	Post Options Post Reply Quote aaronk Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2006 at 11:52am
	Doug, I think that's exactly what we have here. The version on the Canadian LP ends cold like the LP version, so essentially it's the 45 version extended to the end instead of fading to the 3:43 mark. Edited by aaronk

sriv94 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 September 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote sriv94 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2006 at 12:37pm
	Interesting. Back when I was growing up, that was the version WLS-AM/Chicago played. At the time I hadn't realized that the LP version was about a minute and change longer (on the front end)--so I always assumed that what WLS was playing was the LP version. I wasn't collecting this music on a regular basis then. Never too late to make up for lost time. :)
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Paul Esch Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 15 August 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paul Esch Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2006 at 3:07pm
	My American LP has the 'cymbal-crash-3:57' version, but the CD of that album has the 'synth-fade-in-5:08' version. So I would say that the 3:57 version is the true LP version. My question is, where did the 5:08 version come from? Is that the 12" version?

Indy500 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 January 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Indy500 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 December 2009 at 9:41pm
	"I Ran" Arista VJ12011 Available formats: 12" Single (Promo) Track List - I Ran (Extended) - 5:05 Space Age Love Song (Live) - 3:44 I don't have the record to verify but this info comes from a fan site.

budaniel Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 12 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote budaniel Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 December 2009 at 7:43am
	My understanding was always that the 5:05 version with the trippy fade in made its debut on the CD (which angered many who had the original US album with the near 4 minute version). But if you look on discogs, all the original album releases in 1982 from different countries have different versions of the song. Some have the US LP version (near 4 minutes) and others have the 5 minute version. So that version seems to have been around from the start, just wasn't on the US release of the vinyl LP.