Two edits I would like to see given a digital release are the 4min 10sec version of Mike & Mechanics Living Years which is on the US Promo and also the DJ Edit of Tears For Fears Way You Are which comes in at 4mins. Hopefully somewhere down the line these edits might become available. For me being a big Depeche Mode fan I would like to see the 4min 11sec edit of Policy Of Truth from 1990 see release . .There are loads more which I shall list here as I come across them, There is an American 3min 35sec edit to ABBA Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie which I would also like to get my hands on!
All Important Single Edits On CD
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The Kick Up The Eighties series is quite good for single mixes...
Volume 5 has Visage's 'Night Train [Re-Mixed]' 3:32, from the UK 7", which I think is an exclusive still...
Volume 8 has The Kane Gang's 'Closest Thing To Heaven' 4:05, from the UK 7" (most compilations have the 4:47 album version... and there's also a 5:03 12" Version).
Volume 5 has Visage's 'Night Train [Re-Mixed]' 3:32, from the UK 7", which I think is an exclusive still...
Volume 8 has The Kane Gang's 'Closest Thing To Heaven' 4:05, from the UK 7" (most compilations have the 4:47 album version... and there's also a 5:03 12" Version).
"Charly" is also on Monster Hits Of Dance - http://www.discogs.com/Various-Mons...Monster-Hits-From-The-80s-90s/release/1506797
That "Greatest Hits Of House" is also the only CD I've found the 7" of Funky Worm "Hustle! (To The Music...)".
Does anyone know where I can find the correct 7" mixes of these on CD?
Sister Sledge "Lost In Music" (1984)
Evelyn Thomas "High Energy"
Freeez "IOU"
Beatmasters "Rok Da House"
any of the Starsound "Stars On 45" singles
I had a version of High Energy on a "20 Hits Of The 80s" CD by Tring, but it was slightly different. The Starsound Abba medley is also slightly different on many 90s/00s compilations to the proper 7".
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Sister Sledge's Lost In Music 7" 3:25 is most recently available on Ministry of Sound's 80s Groove III 3CD from 2012 (which was just in HMV's 4 for £10 sale!). I don't know much about the 1984 release... other than a Nile Rogers 1984 Remix which is on the 1993 Sure Is Pure Remix CD single, but that's 6:39. Is it just an edit of this mix? Could it be on this? Track 9? 4:40?
Evelyn Thomas' High Energy 7" is listed as 3:48 on the original UK vinyl, and Anthems Disco features a 3:53 edit?
Freeez's I.O.U.[7" Version] 3:48 is on the 2011 2CD album re-issue of Gonna Get You (a great re-issue!).
Beatmasters' Rok Da House [7'' Original] 3:54 is a bonus track on the CD format of their debut album, Anywayawanna. It's on a few compilations but things like House Hits 88 seem to have an even shorter edit at 3:05, or 3:10. Given the original UK 7" lists the time as 3:50, the 3:54 is the correct mix.
Evelyn Thomas' High Energy 7" is listed as 3:48 on the original UK vinyl, and Anthems Disco features a 3:53 edit?
Freeez's I.O.U.[7" Version] 3:48 is on the 2011 2CD album re-issue of Gonna Get You (a great re-issue!).
Beatmasters' Rok Da House [7'' Original] 3:54 is a bonus track on the CD format of their debut album, Anywayawanna. It's on a few compilations but things like House Hits 88 seem to have an even shorter edit at 3:05, or 3:10. Given the original UK 7" lists the time as 3:50, the 3:54 is the correct mix.
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I love and hate this thread! Just bought a used copy of that Freak Out compilation...for the 1984 remix of Lost In Music. Will be interesting to see if the remix of We Are Family is also from 1984.
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Well, the original album version is 4:40, too... so? I don't think the remix changes it all that much, so it's entirely likely it's the same length and slightly touched up, but I'd bet the 1984 7" had a shorter edit than that. There isn't even a video on YouTube for it.
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You mean We Are Family? I think any 1984 remix was much subtler than the overhaul given to Lost In Music, yeah. If it's a different version/mix to what I already have, it's a bonus.
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No, Lost In Music. The original 7" is 3:25, but the album version is 4:40. Hence the 1984 remix is likely to be around 3 mins too, with the 4:40 on that compilation you just bought probably being the 1984 remix, but an album version there of? The 1984 remix of We Are Family on 7" has a time; We Are Family [Edited Remix] 3:25, so it's not that mix on this CD either... nor is it the 12" which is 7:12.
Haha,sorry...colour me a bit confused there. I'm not quite so confused now though! You'd think I'd have all the bloody Sisters Sledge and Chic stuff I'd ever need...but to my knowledge I only have the 6.39 '84 remix of Lost In Music. And the original 12" mixes of both LiM and We Are Family on the reissued album, plus there are probably things on the 4CD Chic Organisation boxset I haven't even opened yet.
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It is stupidly confusing... the We Are Family [Remix] on that CD is 3:21, so is almost certainly going to be the 1984 remix. It's only the Lost In Music [Remix] which has a question mark over it...
Discogs don't seem to have an entry for the most recent MCD 2-disc comp, We Are Family, so I can't compare the tracklisting times with the other collections. According to them, the original LP mix of Lost in Music is 4.52, so the plot thickens!
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I ordered a copy of the Freak Out compilation, too. It was £1.20 and I was sold when I saw it was on Telstar and has the "As Seen On TV!" on the front cover... I'm a sucker for those dated compilations! It looks like the Thompson Twins and Imagination compilations from around the same time... and I don't have either of those 1984 mixes. I wish there had been an official Sister Sledge megamix... and I wish BBR would re-issue their albums! They would sit comfortably alongside The Pointer Sisters on their roster, I think. I'd like the Frankie mixes, which haven't made it onto CD yet.
Ha, yes it's a 1988 compilation and so won't be full of cock-ups and vinyl rips.
The Style Council's 7" versions were hard to get on CD for years, and even now there are multitude of various edits on the Style Council compilation albums; someone on the superdeluxeedition helpfully explained what all the different You're The Best Thing versions are, but also Long Hot Summer in 7" form didn't turn up until recently. It's the 3.51 mix on Weller's "Hit Parade". Previously we had to make do with 12" mixes, and the 1989 remix on The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council. Likewise, My Ever Changing Moods 7" didn't arrive on CD until the same Hit Parade release, as far as I know. Before that, it was LP mix, 12" mix, and so on.
House hits 88 suffers from the 'telstar we must get 60 mins 20 tracks on vinyl' problem, not sure telstar edits isnt a thread in its own right?!
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No, it's not!
I do wonder how many of these things are genuine edits though, and not just shortened to fit onto a CD. I've been reading the thread, but I don't really bother with 7" edits of anything unless they're drastically different (completely remixed, to be honest); and it leads me to ask how many of these things getting mentioned are that drastically different? In some cases is it nothing but a time difference?
I do wonder how many of these things are genuine edits though, and not just shortened to fit onto a CD. I've been reading the thread, but I don't really bother with 7" edits of anything unless they're drastically different (completely remixed, to be honest); and it leads me to ask how many of these things getting mentioned are that drastically different? In some cases is it nothing but a time difference?