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Topic: "Closer to Free" - BoDeans

Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Closer to Free" - BoDeans
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 11:39am

I'm most familiar with the hit studio version of BoDeans' "Closer to Free" as it appears on the group's Go Slow Down CD. However, I have a longer "live" version on my Promo Only Mainstream Radio subscription CD series that runs 3:35. I don't have a commercial or promo single of this song, but my research indicates that a "live" version appeared on both.

Does anyone recall hearing (or playing) this "live" version of "Closer to Free" on the radio? If anyone who has the commercial and/or promo single could pass along the track listing and run time info, that might be helpful too.

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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 3:37pm

I don't know about a live version, but my promo CD on Slash/Reprise (PRO-CD-8097-R) has:

1. Radio Version (3:08)
2. Album Version (3:09)

The only difference is that the Radio Version, if I remember correctly, removes the yell before the first verse. Our station always played the Album Version with the yell.

Posted By: PaulEschen
Date Posted: 15 November 2009 at 8:49am

I have the commercial CD single (Slash/Reprise 2-17674) and Track 1 is the
Studio Album Version (listed 3:09, actual 3:08) and Track 2 is the Live Album
Version (listed 3:54, actual 3:52). The live track is from the album Joe Dirt
Car (Slash/Reprise 45945).

Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 16 November 2009 at 1:18am

Thanks for the info, Aaron and Paul! The "live" version on my Promo Only CD runs shorter than on the commercial CD single, but it's very possible the engineer who mastered the Promo Only disc may have taken liberty to edit or fade out some of the beginning and ending audience applause. It's also possible this shorter "live" version could be on a promo CD single.

Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 20 November 2009 at 6:11am

aaronk wrote:

I don't know about a live version, but my promo CD on Slash/Reprise (PRO-CD-8097-R) has:

1. Radio Version (3:08)
2. Album Version (3:09)

Aaron, I have a total of 3 different "Closer To Free" promo CD singles. Two are identical, except for the stock #'s, as WB was prone to do during this time. So, in addition to the PRO-CD-8097-R promo you cite above, the exact same two tracks also appear on PRO-CD-6594. Now to the "live" version. Here is the info for my third promo CD single:

Bodeans-"Closer To Free" (PRO-CD-7979)
1-Studio Album Version (listed 3:09; actual 3:08)
2-Live Album Version (listed 3:54; actual 3:53)

Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 13 August 2011 at 4:45am

the db needs to be revised as it says the below regarding the bodeans track "closer to free"...

1996 - CLOSER TO FREE (dj copies of this cd single run (3:08) the )

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edtop40

Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 06 April 2022 at 8:14am

aaronk wrote:

I don't know about a live version, but my
promo CD on Slash/Reprise (PRO-CD-8097-R) has:

1. Radio Version (3:08)
2. Album Version (3:09)

The only difference is that the Radio Version, if I
remember correctly, removes the yell before the first
verse. Our station always played the Album Version with
the yell.

The radio version, without the yell, is not noted as
being on any CD's in the database. Besides the promo CD
single, It's also on a Hitmakers CD sampler from 1994, a
full 2 years before it was a hit. I also have it on a Top
Hits U.S.A. disc.

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