Human League - "Human"
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Topic: Human League - "Human"
Posted By: abagon
Subject: Human League - "Human"
Date Posted: 03 February 2011 at 11:42am
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Human League - "Human"
QUIZ: Where is the different point? The database currently indicates the "length" designations for the CD entries. I found out one difference between the U.S. commercial 45 (A&M 2861) and the U.S. LP "Crash" (A&M SP-5129). Answer, please. You will be surprised when you've found it. Listen carefully from the very start! --abagon |
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Posted By: Jody Thornton
Date Posted: 03 February 2011 at 1:00pm
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Besides the fact that the 45-rpm fades during the last chorus? I think the LP has three light cymbal sounds strung together very rapidly on the very beginning, prior to the downbeat. I don't have the two records in front me so I'm guessing.
------------- Cheers, Jody Thornton (Richmond Hill, Ontario) |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 04 February 2011 at 8:03am
Wow, great recollection! Thank you for the answer, Jody!
CORRECT! The 45 doesn't have the cymbal sounds at very beginning (from :00.000 to :00.170.). Therefore, this tune doesn't have "length" designation, but has "version." --abagon |
Jody Thornton wrote:Posted By: Jody Thornton
Date Posted: 04 February 2011 at 8:24am
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I can't friggin' believe it. That was a total guess. The only reason I thought that was the case was this.
When I bought the 45-rpm disc at Melody Lane in Hamilton, Ontario (this was 1986), there was a girl behind the counter. I thought it was uncanny that she also had a copy of the 45 on her turntable. Now she had the instrumental side on (which I didn't realize at the time). The instrumental had those cymbals on the beginning, and it just seemed to sound more "complete" than I had ever heard on the radio before. So I get my 45 home, dropped the cue lever, and I remembered it sounding truncated comapred to what I just heard. Of course I was listening to the A-side. I had never critically thought about it again until you asked that question. In fact, I never paid attention to the LP version much at all, except I knew it had the instrumental ending. That was cool. It shows the weird things one can lock into their memory sometimes....lol. ------------- Cheers, Jody Thornton (Richmond Hill, Ontario) |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 04 February 2011 at 12:00pm
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nice story, jody....amazing how the mind works.... ------------- edtop40 |