FLOCK OF SEAGULLS - "Space Age Love Song"
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Topic: FLOCK OF SEAGULLS - "Space Age Love Song"
Posted By: abagon
Subject: FLOCK OF SEAGULLS - "Space Age Love Song"
Date Posted: 16 August 2008 at 8:30am
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FLOCK OF SEAGULLS - "Space Age Love Song"
The actual commercial 45 running time is (3:21), the listed time is "3:17" on the record label (Jive VS 2003) |
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 16 August 2008 at 8:55am
| Anyone know edit point(s) to create the 45 from the LP version? |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 16 August 2008 at 9:16am
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It can't be done, unfortunately. There's a section on the 45 that's not on the LP version. ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 17 August 2008 at 4:01pm
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i have the edit somewhere...i will try and get it when i get home... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 17 August 2008 at 7:54pm
| Actually, Ed, I have the 45 version. Many thanks. |
Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 10:06pm
| The promo VS 2003 is stereo/mono. Another late mono release. |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 6:31am
'83 was about the end of the line for mono/stereo promo copies. I think Warner Bros. & Arista (who distributed Jive at the time) were the last to discontinue this practice. |
Indy500 wrote:Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 1:17pm
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You tube has this very rare version also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG3_a0v9wTk&feature=related They call it the (12" mix"). It is in fact the Hot Tracks remix service version from 1983. Not an official extended remix issued by the record company but not a modern remix either. It runs 6:28 |
Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 09 June 2012 at 3:11am
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Has the 7" single mix made it on to CD anywhere, foreign or domestic? ------------- Gene Savage http://www.BlackLightRadio.com - http://www.BlackLightRadio.com http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage - http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage Tulsa, Oklahoma USA |
Posted By: Roscoe
Date Posted: 09 June 2012 at 9:30am
I have looked high & low for the 45 version over the year and have never found it on CD. |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 3:45pm
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Just curious,
my memory fades, but i had thought the 45 was just an edit in the intro.. can you tell me what the section in the 45 that is not in the LP version? thanks |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 4:37pm
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Hi Mark. It's a little confusing, but there are two edits
on the LP version, but you can only make one of them using the LP version. You can make the first edit by cutting from (:07) to (:34). However, the second edit (which replaces the (:48)-(1:00) section on the LP version) is the guitar bed that runs from (2:11) to (2:25) on the LP version. However, there's a vocal there, and the 45 doesn't have a vocal in that spot (it does later as the LP and the 45 are same from the (1:00) mark of the LP version onward). Make sense? ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 6:17pm
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Don't forget, ya still can't make the 45 from the LP because the second half of the "guitar hook" is an octave higher on the 45 - which in my opinion is the best hook of the record (nowhere to be found on the LP).
Andy |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 6:45pm
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It's the same hook that's at (2:11)-(2:25) of the LP
version, only difference is there's a vocal there, starting at (2:16) (there's a slightly different version of that hook at around the (3:05) mark, also with a vocal). ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: AndrewChouffi
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 7:16pm
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To Doug:
All true. But the singing obfuscates the guitar hook for me!! Andy |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 7:27pm
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Agreed, Andy. I guess what I was saying is if there was a
way to remove the vocal in that section you could then find a way to recreate the 45. ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 11:51pm
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Thanks, guys. It was so long since i heard the 45, i
never noticed that! MM |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 03 August 2015 at 11:01pm
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I just recently re-visited this topic when I realized I
never added this 45 version to my digital library. I dubbed a mint 45 and just to be thorough I sync-checked it to the LP version. Doug's description of the 45 version above is 100% accurate. I was only confused about one thing, I thought there was one more difference on the 45 version somewhere in the middle, but that's not the case. After the first edit to shorten the intro, they just took the segment in the LP version from 2:11 - 2:25, removed the vocal and placed it in the intro of the 45 between :21 - :35. All other parts of the 45 are the same mix. Oh, and the 45 is pitched slower than the LP version. As an editorial comment, I can see why they did that edit and it really makes it a better single. You need that higher octave guitar to come in way sooner because it sells the song, and the intro otherwise would have been too boring. MM |
Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 27 January 2017 at 9:07pm
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Any difference between the UK and the US 7"? A new British comp will have a 7" (3:17) version from the master tapes.
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/remixes-rarities-deluxe-2 cd-edition/ |
Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 03 April 2017 at 6:40pm
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The 7" version is featured on the 2017 Cherry Pop release Remixes & Rarities.
A great, great 80's song. |
Posted By: vinyljay69
Date Posted: 03 April 2017 at 7:14pm
| That's good news! Even though my single is pressed on polystyrene, it sounds great - very clean, with no distortion, so my own transfer has served me well over the years. I'm only a casual fan, but Space Age and Wishing are among my favorite '80s songs, so it may be worth checking out. How is the mastering? |
Posted By: headstar
Date Posted: 22 August 2020 at 5:06pm
The UK 7" version and US 7" version (that I have) are two different edits. Comparing my US 45 dub to the CD compilation version, the difference is obvious in the intros. |