blind melon "no rain" cassingle image
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Topic: blind melon "no rain" cassingle image
Posted By: edtop40
Subject: blind melon "no rain" cassingle image
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 10:51am
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http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg256/edtop40/2296864917_ 5da2ca7f8d.jpg ------------- edtop40 |
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 10:55am
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 10:55am
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 10:56am
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 11:00am
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how do you guys like the scan i posted.....yah shure was real helpful in getting this figured out.....i plan on putting all my cassingles up on the board in the near future......thx yah shure...
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 11:21am
| Nice work, Ed! I like it! |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 12:02pm
| Nice job, Ed! That Blind Melon cassingle was cut-out VERY early on and it was near-impossible to find one as the song was peaking in popularity. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 12:38pm
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Uh, oh.... looks like I may have created a monster :)
Looks great, Ed! I'll add the CD maxi single. "No Rain" always reminded me of Thunderclap Newman's "Something In The Air," and the two songs segue together very well. 
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 12:41pm
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is that really the color of the border, green.....it's unusual to have the same picture and a different border, no?... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 1:06pm
| I have the maxi-CD single too, Ed, and the border surrounding the cover photo and back cover is indeed green. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 1:08pm
| Green it is, matching the CD's label. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 1:11pm
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lol......good one.....btw.....the cassingle version is identical to the lp verssion which runs 3:35, even though, as paul haney points out in the n2deep thread, the cassingles sleeve states a run time of 3:15, incorrectly.... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 04 March 2008 at 4:14pm
That seemed to be the rule rather than the exception with cassette singles...very limited production runs and if a song was a big hit the singles were pretty much all gone by the time the song peaked. I suppose it cut back on returns, but probably resulted in a lot of lost sales too. |
Paul Haney wrote:Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:23am
It's true that many cassingles were a limited run (usually around 500,000), but "No Rain" proved to be an even more limited run. I looked high and low for that cassingle for several months back in 1993 and there were NONE to be found. It was the single toughest thing I've ever tried to track down. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 9:52am
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paul...i guess with no internet or ebay in 1993 it WAS probably a tough find... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 10:41am
lol, Ed...yeah, times have certainly changed! |
Posted By: TimNeely
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 6:25pm
Labels started doing that in the 1993-98 period so that the songs could make the Billboard Hot 100. They issued the singles long enough to say "hey, we released a single," and they then discontinued them promptly, often the same day they came out. "No Rain" was far from the only single that was released to manipulate the charts; it was simply one of the first. You then had some "cash-in" labels come along and record sound-alike versions of the hits to sell as singles, often with fake artist names that were similar to or a pun on the "real" names. (My favorite of these fake group names was the cash-in of Aqua's "Barbie Girl," recorded by "Velva Blu.") Some of those cash-ins even charted on their own based on sales. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 29 December 2015 at 4:43pm
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As I was going through my CDs today, I noticed there were no details on the promo CD of "No Rain."
DPRO-79805 1. Edit (listed 3:17; actual 3:16) 2. LP Version (listed 3:15; actual 3:35) I never heard the "Edit" version aired anywhere when the song was a hit, but I'm sure some stations must've played it. The intro on the "Edit" is shortened, and it fades out before the cold ending. It's a very odd sounding edit when you're accustomed to the LP version. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 January 2016 at 10:39pm
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Just today, I obtained another promo CD single for "No Rain." This one is clearly mislabeled, so it's probably best to list the printed tracks followed by the actual tracks.
DPRO-79693 (printed info) 1. No Rain (LP Version) (3:15) 2. No Rain (Live) (6:00) 3. Drive (Live) (5:00) 4. Soak The Sin (Live) (3:50) I'm guessing that the above track listing is based on the commercial CD single, because here's what's actually on the disc: 1. No Rain (LP Version) (actual 3:35) 2. No Rain (Edit) (actual 3:22)* 3. No Rain (Live) (actual 5:24) 4. Drive (Live) (actual 5:40) 5. Soak The Sin (Live) (actual 3:41) *This is an early fade of the LP version and NOT the edit found on the 2-track promo. Although the track is not listed on the printed artwork, some copies have a sticker on the jewel case that say "No Rain Edit (3:17) Second Track." ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: Underground Dub
Date Posted: 05 January 2016 at 2:38pm
| A friend of mine owned the cassette single back when the song was all over MTV and radio and, despite my obsession with record stores and singles in general, I never once saw it at any of the stores I frequented. Drove me batty. |