Kim Carnes - Crazy In The Night CD comp.

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   Stumbled across an extremely cheap-looking Kim Carnes compilation called Crazy In The Night, subtitled and other classic songs of love and loss.  It's Capitol Special Markets COLL-57273, released 1990, and it's Canadian.

Track listing is:

1. More Love

2. Cry Like A Baby

3. Mistaken Identity

4. Draw Of The Cards

5. Does It Make You Remember

6. Voyeur

7. I Pretend

8. Invisible Hands

9. You Make My Heart Beat Faster

10. Divided Hearts

11. Hurricane

12. Crazy In The Night

It's got the original copyright dates for the tracks, and they're all original recordings.

It looked promising, especially for the $1 I paid for it.  However, I found two very severe flaws with this disc:

(1) They put together a Kim Carnes compilation and left off "Bette Davis Eyes"!?!  Really?

(2) There's noise reduction on every track on the disc.  You can hear the treble disappear on the fade-out of every track.  Not good.  The three tracks in common with the 1993 Gypsy Honeymoon GH disc sound infinitely better on that compilation, which has no NR.

The packaging looks like some of the Cema discs from around 1990, like Modern Girls (I think that was the title - I don't have it anymore).  Just black and white text on the back cover for the disc.

Any other instances of NR on Cema or Capitol/EMI discs from that time frame?  I should point out that this is not one of the 10 Best Series collections - those are usually digital clones of tracks from an earlier GH disc, and they tend to sound terrific.

Edited by crapfromthepast

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crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 25	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Kim Carnes - Crazy In The Night CD comp. Posted: 05 August 2011 at 6:05pm
	Stumbled across an extremely cheap-looking Kim Carnes compilation called Crazy In The Night, subtitled and other classic songs of love and loss. It's Capitol Special Markets COLL-57273, released 1990, and it's Canadian. Track listing is: 1. More Love 2. Cry Like A Baby 3. Mistaken Identity 4. Draw Of The Cards 5. Does It Make You Remember 6. Voyeur 7. I Pretend 8. Invisible Hands 9. You Make My Heart Beat Faster 10. Divided Hearts 11. Hurricane 12. Crazy In The Night It's got the original copyright dates for the tracks, and they're all original recordings. It looked promising, especially for the $1 I paid for it. However, I found two very severe flaws with this disc: (1) They put together a Kim Carnes compilation and left off "Bette Davis Eyes"!?! Really? (2) There's noise reduction on every track on the disc. You can hear the treble disappear on the fade-out of every track. Not good. The three tracks in common with the 1993 Gypsy Honeymoon GH disc sound infinitely better on that compilation, which has no NR. The packaging looks like some of the Cema discs from around 1990, like Modern Girls (I think that was the title - I don't have it anymore). Just black and white text on the back cover for the disc. Any other instances of NR on Cema or Capitol/EMI discs from that time frame? I should point out that this is not one of the 10 Best Series collections - those are usually digital clones of tracks from an earlier GH disc, and they tend to sound terrific. Edited by crapfromthepast
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EdisonLite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 18 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote EdisonLite Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 August 2011 at 9:41am
	I remember buying this CD right when it came out in 1990. I've noticed it in many US stores over the years and figure it might be both a US and Canadian release (despite the Canadian printing listed.) I was glad it had the single edit of "Does It Make You Remember". (In fact, this is the only song on that CD that I use as a source for my Kim Carnes songs.) Off hand, I don't recall the treble dipping during the fade, but I see in the database there are few other CDs with the single edit. Do any of them NOT have the noise reduction you speak of? Edited by EdisonLite