Smash Mouth - I’m A Believer

can someone please enlighten me as to the two versions I hear of this? One is the 60s-sounding version starting with organ that runs about 3:03. The other is much heavier starting with a guitar shriek and runs about 3:10.

When I play a sample of the "Shrek" CD via amazon, I get the 60s-sounding version, while on allmusic, I get the heavy version!

What's up? Which version was played in the film? I assume the radio version to be the 60s one.

Edited by davidclark

David, as far as I'm concerned, my friend, if you choose to delve into the land of "offical downloads", and then ask us to try to figure out where "allmusic" might have gotten the version that they sent to you, you're asking an AWFUL lot of us, especially with Pat's database already being so conscientious about all of a Top 40 hit's domestic CD appearances. Going forward, I believe similar situations will probably be happening to you more often then you'd like it to, and is probably just gonna have to be accepted by you as an "occupational hazard" of you choosing to go this route. And that's unfortunate, because I know downloading is a good money-saver for you. And although my promo CD single collecting had almost totally stopped by 2001, and I'm also a little surprised that none of the Board's "young guns" have yet chimed in to offer you a detailed response, on a recent 2001 hit (I'm just back from a cross-country vacation, and trying to catch up), I quickly checked my collection for you. I did manage to locate a 1-track, promo CD single for it, which features the organ intro:

Smash Mouth-"I'm A Believer" (Dreamworks/Interscope INTR-10464-2)

1-Film Version (Radio Edit) (listed time 2:54; actual time 3:04)

That's all I've got for you, David - good luck from here, sir.

Thanks for the info. Just to point out, allmusic is a site that offers 30 second samples of music from CDs that can be available for sale on other sites, the other sites themselves having 30 second samples also. Neither allmusic nor the sites that sell the CDs (e.g., amazon, barnes and noble) offer "downloads", and i didn't download or get sent anything from allmusic.com.

I've always had the "organ version" from an official CD source, and after hearing the sample on allmusic as coming from the "Shrek" CD, I managed to locate that heavier version, so it's out there! Hence my question as to what it is and where it might come from.

I would hope that the sample there would be from the actual CD, but of course maybe it isn't. Or, the CD itself could be remastered at some point. So these sites could have a challenge in keeping up with all what the record companies do.

Edited by davidclark

thanks Andrew.

so it seems it might be a case of the "Shrek" CD having had the heavier version at first, with it later being changed to the more "hit friendly" organ version!

that would solve it!