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    Posted: 29 August 2010 at 8:41pm
Since it hasn't been discussed on the board before, I wonder if anyone can weigh in on the strange mixing on "Blinded..." I always thought the crossfaded sections were something they did for the 45 release, but the album version has the crossfades, too.

Also, is there a decent sounding copy of this on CD? The copy I have of the single version gets muddy and swishy when folded down to mono.
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Hi Aaron,

I was recently listening to a broadcast of Bary Scott's 'Lost 45s' and Chris Thompson (lead singer of "Blinded By The Light") was commenting on how at the time of mixing, with all that crossfading with different machines, he didn't think it had the stuff big hits were made of. It was only until he noticed how many new radio stations continued to add the record & up the rotation of it did he start to realize the band might have created something special.

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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

Is there a decent sounding copy of this on CD? The copy I have of the single version gets muddy and swishy when folded down to mono.



Nothing I've heard sounds remotely like the original WB 45.
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SoCalDrew is right. The WB Single can't be beat for sonics. Unless you have a UK Bronze original 45 which this recording was released originally on in the UK. The best single version on CD I know of is the Time-Life Sounds Of The Seventies 1977 volume which has the single edit.
I turn up the good and turn down the bad!
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I would assume that the single is stereo. Why is the WB single so different sounding? Are the "45 versions" on CD not the right mix?
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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

Why is the WB single so different sounding? Are the "45 versions" on CD not the right mix?



Not to my ears. Even the version on T-L's "1977" CD sounds wrong. I don't recall the harmony counterpoint at the end, for instance.
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Perhaps the database needs to be updated, then?
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Hmm.

As i recall, the 45 is simply an edit of the LP version, and is not a unique mix.

I assume the cd versions out there just aren't mastered the same, or the tape they are left with is a poor safety copy.


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I'm definitely curious to get a definitive answer on this one. I'm also curious
to know if there's a mono side to the promo 45, and if so, does it sound
swishy and muddy like my fold down? I thought I read somewhere on the
board that by the mid-'70s, unique mono mixes were not very common.
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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

I'm also curious to know if there's a mono side to the promo 45


Yes, there was.

Haven't played it since back in the day, though. Will do that tomorrow.

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