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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AdvprosD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 February 2022 at 1:46pm
Originally posted by mjb50 mjb50 wrote:

My partner grew up in San Diego and only remembers hearing the short version on radio, although this would've been late '80s by the time she heard it.

Meanwhile, I grew up in southwest Ohio and only heard the long version. They'd always let at least some of the ending play, sometimes almost all of it. Now, whenever I hear the short
version, I find the guitar-based intro to be kinda lame, and the ending jarring. I know the meat of it is basically the same, but when stripped of those elements, it just feels too much
like just some silly pop song. The long version's intro & ending impart a more serious and slightly off-kilter new wave vibe. Also I was just a nerdy kid who couldn't get enough of anything
"computery".

Anyway, I don't have anything to add. I just wanted to express some love for the long version, and mention that in some regions, the long version was the radio version.


mjb50, I'm kind of curious about this version. Do I understand that the long version has the long drum coda and the number of stuttering samples as well?

On my personal note, I find the stutter sample fun at times, but really disliked it when used on this song. I assume it's because I didn't remember ever hearing it
presented this way on the radio. When I picked up a few different CDs, they frequently seemed to never fail to use this version. Not my personal preference. :)
<Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo!
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AdvprosD, yes, the long version, which is what's on the US 45 and EP, is as you describe. There's about 50 seconds of mostly instrumental intro plus some exclusive muttering from the scientist, whereas the short version just has a brief guitar intro and gets right into the vocals. Once the vocals begin, the two versions are basically the same, although there are differences, like the stuttering "science! i-i-ience!" at 1:45 (it's just in that one spot), and the echo on the falsetto backing vocals is different, and then of course the drum coda.

I admit that the stutter edit is dated and unnecessary, but it doesn't ruin the song for me. Overall, it's just a better song in its longer form, in my opinion. The short version just feels too stripped down, with too much of its "atmosphere" removed.

That said, usually I find songs sound better in their shorter versions. I much prefer the video/45 version of Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance", for example, whereas the relatively plodding but arguably more spacious-sounding LP/12" version seems to be at least as popular, if not the only version some people ever heard on the radio.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AndrewChouffi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 February 2022 at 5:48am
I believe the 'DJ edit" was the actual tape submitted to
the label (Venice In Peril/EMI) by producers Tim Friese-
Greene & Thomas Dolby; a club remix (not sure who created
it) became the U.S. commercial 45. Anyone please correct
me if I'm wrong!

Andy

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mjb50, you are not the only one.

In Tulsa, the way I remember it, is K107 playing the long version.

The synth intro, to me, was a better talk-up ramp for the DJ to speak over than the short single, and when I first heard the electronic drums at the end jumping from left channel to right channel and back again, I was mesmerized.

I bought the Capitol LP of "She Blinded Me With Science" and got the version I loved.. with the bonus of no DJ fading the drums early!

The first time I heard the DJ edit, on Retrospectacle, I was shocked. As you said, the "meat" was there but somehow it now sounded like another throwaway pop song... and I love Thomas Dolby!

Years later I worked for a friend who had a mobile DJ company. It was the first time I saw "Blinded By Science." (The cover is hysterical, BTW.)

CFTP, that guitar version HAS made it onto CD. You'll find it on the extended remaster of The Golden Age of Wireless (which thankfully is not brickwalled). You can hear it at Amazon.

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