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Drealm Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 11 2010, 18:43 Can anyone explain the difference between track #7 and #14 on Tres Lunas? For me they sound exactly the same so the last song is very annoying while listening to the album on random, getting the same song two times. So what in the hell is different in this "#14 radio edit". The only difference is 25 seconds. #7: 4:21 #14: 3:56 So if I understand, they just "cut" 25 seconds from the original song to gain more time for publicity (on the radio)? That's not new. But what is the point to put this version on the album? There's not any difference in the music, so why would anyone want the same song minus 25 second?! I don't get it. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Feb. 11 2010, 19:20 I've never understood it either, and since it's my least favorite song on the album (second least fav MO song ever after "Foreign Affair"), it's double the torture for me. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 11 2010, 19:24 I quite like "To Be Free", but it's spoilt by the clumsy, rather gauche sounding lyrics (eg, "Because I'm me/Doing just fine"). Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 12 2010, 03:28 @ Drealm: as far as I know, that's what a "radio edit" of a song is supposed to be - a shorter version of the original. How much shorter it is depends, of course, on who does the edit. It's got nothing to do with radio, the name comes from the fact that most "pop" radio broadcasters don't play songs that are longer than four minutes - "Bohemian Rhapsody" often being the only notable exception. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Feb. 12 2010, 04:31 I had to play them both again this morning back to back,but I did remember there were a few noticable differences.Mainly in the first chorus in the longer version there is no "big timpani"  as well as a few other subtle changes in the mix.It`s a typical Mike Oldfield "arrangement trick" I suppose in that you kind of know he`s going to give you a bit more second time around.The edited mix pretty much goes into the second chorus first time of asking to kind of grab people`s attention I guess.Personaly I much prefer the longer version. Back to top

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