genesis "abacab"
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Topic: genesis "abacab"
Posted By: edtop40
Subject: genesis "abacab"
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 11:54am
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the 45 of abacab runs 3:56 and is just an early fade of the mislabelled version from the hits cd which runs 4:09 edtop40 ------------- edtop40 |
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Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 12:45pm
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So what you're saying is the Hits CD version is the 45 version but :13 longer? Weird, considering that the difference between the 45 and the LP is essentially at the end--the 45 edits back to a good chunk of the opening instrumental passage, while the LP continues with a much longer and entirely different ending. ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 1:24pm
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yes.....you're correct......in other words the version from the cd "hits" is the same as the 45 version but 0:13 longer........so technically, as far as i'm concerned, it's not truely the 45 version on that cd.... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 1:57pm
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Another question about the version of "Abacab" on Turn It On Again - The Hits--at about the (3:25) mark there's some sort of weird noise (something like a tape being eaten)--pretty sure that noise is not present on the Abacab LP/CD version. Was that noise on the 45 as well? ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 7:15pm
| I have a 3:56 version of "Abacab", which I presume originally came from the Turn It On Again collection. There does appear to be a glitch at the 3:25 point. Been so long, I musta faded the song to match the 45. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 1:32pm
i don't hear a glitch at 3:25, but there is a real bad edit at the 3:33 mark...
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Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 2:21pm
Thanks to the dub Ed provided, it would appear the glitch on the CD is a bad mastering error--not part of the 45. ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
edtop40 wrote:Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 7:53pm
| That is weird. It sounds like the tape momentarily slipped. Are all CDs mastered with this tape glitch? |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 7:55pm
Ed, I'm not hearing a bad edit at 3:33 on the CD. I think I have a dub of the 45 somewhere, so I'll check that copy to see if it's on there... |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 7:58pm
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I was able to paste a section into the 45 version that doesn't have the glitch that the version from Turn It On Again - The Hits has.
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 8:19pm
| Was this from the vinyl or from CD? |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 8:45pm
| Doug sent me a good section, I presume from CD...perhaps from Abacab, I just pasted it in... |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 7:24am
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The section I sent was indeed from the Abacab CD, although there was just an ever-so-slight difference in the mix that made it a little more difficult for me to smooth out the sound. John lowered the volume and made a real nice file out of it. ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 04 August 2008 at 8:41pm
| To elaborate on Ed's initial comments that started this thread, the actual commercial 45 run time of Genesis' "Abacab" is 3:56, not 3:59 as stated on the record label. (Credit an assist to abagon here as well.) |
Posted By: vinyljay69
Date Posted: 06 March 2017 at 7:35pm
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Here's what I've been able to discern about the 45 version. First, I have two pressings - one Canadian WLP, and one U.S. stock. The Canadian 45 features the same version as what's used on the Hits CD - LP pitch, and runs 4:11. I presume that is what was used as the international single version. The U.S. version was sped up .8%, and faded earlier - my copy runs 3:57. The U.S. 45 does sound different - maybe a little hotter on Phil's vocal - but I think it's due to a combination of eq and compression, and not necessarily a mix difference.
Believe it or not, the glitch at 3:25 has always been there - it's on the vinyl LP, the 45, and the CD versions I've heard. Up until the Hits CD, it's been virtually undetectable - but once you know where it is, you can absolutely hear it. My educated guess is that there's a splice on the tape at 3:24 right before "he's..". Based on how audible the glitch is on Hits (and that the single version had never appeared digitally until then), I'm guessing the tape had not been played since 1982 and that the splice has broken down over the years, causing the tape to violently jerk at 3:25 on "..where" when it peels off the reel. (And as noted earlier in the thread, the glitch can be removed using a less than :01 second paste from the LP version.) If there is indeed a tape splice on the single master, however, what I can't explain is why the same glitch is also audible on the LP version in the same spot (again, albeit hardly noticeable, like on the original 45). I have a theory about that as well, but I won't postulate further unless I'm provoked. :) |
Posted By: radiofan16
Date Posted: 16 March 2017 at 12:04am
I'm provoking you :) Please elaborate. |