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| PopArchivist   Music Fan     Joined: 30 June 2018 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 67 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 03 May 2021 at 9:48am | 
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   Sorry Aaron, its the 20 seconds of speech by UB40 that opens the single version instead of starting on the instrumental.
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| aaronk   Admin Group   Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 260 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 03 May 2021 at 10:05am | 
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   Oh, okay.  That portion sounds fully sung to my ears (just without any percussion behind it), so I was confused about the "talking."
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| BSharp   Music Fan   Joined: 23 July 2020 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 03 May 2021 at 1:55pm | 
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   There's one version that has a busier-sounding 
 bassline... I'm pretty sure it's on UB40's album but is not the hit version from the Sliver soundtrack. The soundtrack version was the one that got serviced to radio - everybody got the version that started with the singing of the first verse with minimal instrumentation (just a keyboard-string background), but many stations cued past that to get to the part where the beat kicks in. The 3:01 version without that sung intro was then sent to radio. | |
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| AdvprosD   Music Fan   Joined: 12 June 2020 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 03 May 2021 at 3:58pm | 
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 I would call the intro as sung "Acapella." I'm going to have to revisit it to find the "Minimal Instrumentation." As far as I remember, it was only the singer. | |
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| aaronk   Admin Group   Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 260 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 03 May 2021 at 6:33pm | 
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   There are definitely synthesizers along with the singing, although they 
 are at a low volume level. | |
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| radiofan16   Music Fan   Joined: 18 March 2016 Status: Offline Points: 21 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 May 2021 at 3:04pm | 
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   Here's the "Promises And Lies" version. The only difference is that Ali's vocals 
 are dry and lower in the mix during the first verse. On the "Sliver" hit version, there's a delay on his vocals making them sound thicker. The drum machine is lower in the mix. UB40- Promises And Lies Version | |
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| BSharp   Music Fan   Joined: 23 July 2020 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 May 2021 at 4:39pm | 
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 The basslines are also completely different. In that "Promises & Lies" version, the bassline doesn't follow the chord changes like it does in the single mix. It's almost as though they re-wrote it to make the song more musical and just a bit less reggae- influenced. Edited by BSharp | |
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| BSharp   Music Fan   Joined: 23 July 2020 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 May 2021 at 4:44pm | 
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   Duplicate post. Sorry. Edited by BSharp | |
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| VWestlife   Music Fan   Joined: 02 April 2020 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 07 May 2021 at 5:01pm | 
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   The music video has the single mix:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajp0Uaw4rqo | |
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