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    Posted: 14 May 2025 at 12:48pm
I'm curious to get people's opinions on this. Almost always, I prefer the single remix to the original mix found on the album. It usually has extra instrumentation and more excitement.

But 2 exceptions for me are Amy Grant songs: Baby Baby & Good For Me (although for me, the Good For Me remix is still pretty good, just not my favorite mix). So my question to you folks is - what are some top 40 hits where you prefer the album mix to the single mix? (I'm especially curious to know about songs from the '70s to '90s because after that, many singles had a slew of remixes and it gets complicated. :)

BTW - The only example I can think of where the single mix had LESS than the album mix - though not by much - was Billy Joel's "Movin' Out," which simply removed the car or motorcyle sound effect near the end of the song.
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Off the top of my head ...

"Maniac" by Michael Sembello. I love Jellybean's remixes, but I think that the album mix is superior in this case.

For the record, my favorite mix of "Good for Me" by Amy Grant is the "7" You Like to Dance Mix".

I will chime in later on this topic, as I imagine that there are a handful more.

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First time forum post! I registered in response to this question. My immediate responses, being a huge Olivia Newton-John fan, is the 45 mix of "Livin' In Desperate Times" from early 1984. Much better than the "Two Of A Kind" album soundtrack version, and now can be found on CD for the first time on the "Physical" expanded 2-disc set.
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I'm sure I'll come up with more over time, but the first one that came to mind was "The Reflex" -Duran Duran. Always thought the single was, for lack of a better term over-produced. Apparently most of the regional PDs here in New England felt the same way, because the LP version was the one that got the lion's share of airplay. Both Kiss 108 & WHTT in Boston used the LP, our station switched to it mid-chart run.
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For Amy Grant, I prefer the "Good For You" mix for Good for Me, and the LP version for Baby, Baby.

Gotta say that Duran Duran's 7" for The Reflex has the most memorable intro, since that was played on-air most of the time in my market. For Expose's "Let Me Be The One", while I like the edit points on the single, I like the LP mix better. For Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again", the single and the LP are actually two different performances altogether. I like them both equally.

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I have to say my preferences are almost always biased based on what version I originally heard on the radio.
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Originally posted by 995wlol 995wlol wrote:

I have to say my preferences are almost always biased based on what version I originally heard on the radio.


That would closely reflect my general thoughts as well.
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Well, the remix of "Baby Baby" was only on the B-side of the single, so technically that's not the official single version. I was going to mention her "I Will Remember You" as one where I prefer the album version, but it's the same situation as "Baby Baby," where the remix is only on the B-side.

Two come to mind for Madonna. The first is "Rain." The album mix is far superior to the Radio Remix. Daniel Abraham cut the simultaneous dual spoken verse in the middle of the song in favor of only one vocal, and it just ruins it. The Radio Remix also has a smoothed-over, less impactful sound than the album version does.

And the album version of "Like a Prayer" is a better mix than the single, too, in my opinion, for the same reason: the single has this smoothed-over quality. The choir on "let the choir sing" jumps out of the speakers on the album version, but it's sort of buried in the mix on the single. Although I do like the Prince guitar solo on the fadeout that is on the single mix.

And here in the U.S., technically the "single remix" of Mariah Carey's "I Still Believe" was that dreadful "I Still Believe / Pure Imagination (Damizza Reemix)." I never understood that decision. The album version was only available on the maxi-single.


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I preferred the original album mixes of all the singles released from Duran Duran's Rio album. I felt that the remixes made the songs sound bigger on the radio, but gave up some of the production aspects that made the whole album sound cohesive.
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