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AJ · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 320

I always thought there was some subtle differences in the two (apart from length), but listening to them on Itunes this morning, am I correct in thinking they're actually in different keys to each other?

Why?

UglyFrog · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

I hadn't noticed that! Thought they were both in D... are they dramatically different keys?

Or perhaps your CD player span too quickly when ripping it your iPod... Wink

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orangefiltersky · Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 447 Location: Munich, Germany

I don`t think that`s possible. Why should they re-record the song in another key? The only difference is the shorter guitar solo on the single version, if I remember correctly.
But in the new line up with JM they play some of the songs a half note lower, I`ve been told. But you didn`t mean that, obviously.
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AJ · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 320

AJ · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 320

DS · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject:

It was (is?) quite a common practice when mastering singles to speed them up just a little, to give them a bit more 'oomph' so maybe that was what happened here? I'll try an A / B test with the single and album versions tonight..

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wayfarer · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 318

I've got the 3 inch CD single and I thought it was slightly different
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russhd · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

Just listening to them now. Definitely not in a different key, but there is something slightly different about the sound, so they're either mixed or mastered differently. Also the opening guitar riff is different, as the 'wah's' are different on each version and the riff is repeated twice on the album version.

I think!

Still bloomin' marvellous though, whichever version you listen to!

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frenchyphil · Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 396

There are the single and 12" versions of the original single (with the blue sleeve) and the remixed 12" and 7" versions (red sleeve with band picture) are also different . And the vinyl mix is also different. On the EMISL vinyl LP, some tracks (STYTR, Posituvely animal, people of america) are really different in the mix, not only in the mastering (more backing vocals on Positively, more guitar bits in People...).
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Dena · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:59 am Post subject:

I remember listening to Postively Animal on vinyl (in the olden days when I used to have a record player) and the mix definitely seemed different, something I noticed more toward the end of the song.

However, I must admit that I just put the difference in sound down to a different sound system and different format. It didn't occur to me that there would be a different mix for the vinyl and CD.
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0ldman · Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 359

The 7'' versions had slightly shortened versions of the main guitar theme (used in the intro and after the middle- Cool

wheras the 12'' was a direct lift of the album track (apart from the "I think it's 'cos Dolly's died").

The 2nd release of both had been remixed slightly (I think it amounted to more "reverb" effects).

Pretty much the same was true for the original and re-issued version of Underneath Your Pillow - the only real standout difference was that the yodel-yodel-yodel-grunt was much higher in the mix and had more effects layered on it in the remix.

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