Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 45
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Topic: Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 45
Posted By: The Hits Man
Subject: Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 45
Date Posted: 31 August 2010 at 7:54pm
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I discovered today that "Rebel Yell" is a unique single mix. It has a delay effect on his vocal in parts of the song.
Unfortunately, I lost my subscription to the database. Is this mix on CD? ------------- |
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 31 August 2010 at 9:22pm
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It's listed on only one CD:
Rhino 79969 The Big 80's - Arena Rock |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 31 August 2010 at 9:43pm
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BTW on iTunes you can find the single versions for several of Billy's 80s vinyl 45s including "Rebel Yell," "Hot In The City," "White Wedding" and "Mony Mony" (Live). ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 01 September 2010 at 9:49am
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Santi, on iTunes, is the single version of "Rebel Yell" shown as "Rebel Yell -
Single", containing "Rebel Yell (Edit)"? Have you verified this is the single, with the delay effect as indicated here? thanks.... ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 01 September 2010 at 5:00pm
Perhaps David or Grant can tell us where exactly is the delay effect on his vocal so I can listen and determine if it indeed has that effect. I usually listen once (when I add songs to my iPod) and then I may not listen to it again ever so I don't recall if it did or didn't have that effect. I do know it is a full minute shorter than the LP version which is why I downloaded it a few weeks ago. ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
davidclark wrote:Posted By: Roscoe
Date Posted: 01 September 2010 at 7:18pm
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The additional vocal effects on the 45 mix sound like
more than just standard reverb...the last word or couple of words are actually repeated in an "ECHO, Echo, echo" canyon-type effect. The first occurrence is at 1:25 on the line "brought you to me babe [babe, babe repeated in echo effect]". Again at 1:30 with an echo repeat of "by me, by me". This is based on the lone CD appearance of the 45 mix on the VH-1 "Arena Rock" CD. I never noticed this before. Thanks for pointing out the difference! |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 02 September 2010 at 3:57am
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Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 9:25pm
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Santi, can you tell us on exactly where you got the 45
version of Rebel Yell on iTunes? All I can find is one Sony comp, and you have to buy the whole album for that one track. ------------- |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 5:43am
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 11:09am
| I'm pretty sure it's one of the Digital 45's. |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 4:49pm
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Found it. Thanks.
Why can't iTunes make their searches more comprehensive? ------------- |
Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 12 November 2022 at 12:01pm
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Just an added bit of info in case it ever comes up: the echo of "babe" at 1:25 is in the left channel only, while the echo at 1:30 of "here by me" is in the right channel.
The 45 version also appears on "Now That's What I Call Music / The Millennium Series / 1984, disc 1." I'd be curious to know if anyone's compared the fidelity between Arena Rock and Now 1984. Now 1984 has some visible hard limiting but it's not truly brick-walled. I don't see any hard limiting on the iTunes version... but is it lossless? ------------- 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: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 13 November 2022 at 12:17pm
Itunes downloads are NEVER lossless. They are 256 AAC lossy. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: Bounder's Bay
Date Posted: 22 March 2023 at 2:04am
| It's available on Qobuz in lossless. |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 22 March 2023 at 6:50am
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The version on Now The Millennium Series 1984 (1999) appears to be digitally identical to the UK Billy Idol collection 11 Of The Best (1988), or at least the file I have in my collection that's labeled as such. (I owned Now but not 11.) It seems a little loud for 1988 mastering, but it has a nice dynamic range, no significant clipping, and a decent EQ.
The Rhino disc has a comparable dynamic range, but the EQ seems just a little muffled compared to the 11/Now mastering. I think that Rhino may not have gotten the lowest-generation source tapes for their Billy Idol tracks; "Dancing With Myself" doesn't sound that great on Like Omigod (compared with Eric's Hard To Find 45s On CD Vol. 16 More '80s Essentials And Beyond). ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |