Ugo
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Posted: Mar. 03 2002, 21:36 |
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Hi all. I'd like to ask to you: are all of Mike's 'extended versions' of songs really extended versions? Or weren't some of them born as long songs, then Mike edited 'em down for single releases? 
An example of this might be Pictures in The Dark. On the 7-inch version, on 1:50 I can hear what sounds like an edit in the middle of the guitar solo. As you may know  , on the so-called 'extended version' (which, I think, is actually a 'long' version), Mike starts the solo by repeating the same phrase twice, and then changing into another, and the whole solo seems to flow naturally, at least to me.  But in the 7-inch version the first phrase is done only once and the transition to the second one sounds a little bit abrupt. Plus, at the very end of the song, if you have fine ears , you can hear an edit cutting off the guitar notes before the last synth chord comes in.
Something like this also happens in Moonlight Shadow: on the common version, I think there's an edit right before the words "Caught in the middle of 105": Maggie sings it way louder than the rest of the song. In the 'long'/'extended' version, you can hear the full verse, and the volume rise in Maggie's voice happens [again, to my ears ] in a more plausible way.
Of course, I'm not saying that all of Mike's extended mixes are like this: I can clearly hear that the extended versions of Guilty and Shine, for example, are very different from the 7-inch ones and thus they are certainly re-played, but I think that at least the two songs listed above were born as long songs that Mike edited down. Please reply and tell me what do you think of this.
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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