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Jan 13, 2024 - 8:57 PM
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Phil567
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Now yer talkin'!
Tracking down elusive single/radio edits is one of my favorite hobbies.
And if I can't find them, I recreate them!
Anyway, off the top of my head...
Mike Oldfield--Tubular Bells.
Excellent.
The Atlantic Records staffer who did this back in 1974 took a sprawling, wonderful epic and whittled it down into an
almost-traditional pop tune structure.
(Technically, it's just an edit of the first 7-1/2 minutes of Part 1, but it works brilliantly.)
Oldfield himself was reportedly displeased with the result, but the single (and the concurrent cross-promotion with the Exorcist film) did more to promote the album than would have been accomplished by Oldfield and Virgin on their own.
Kraftwerk--Autobahn.
This one is also as brilliant as the Oldfield single for all of the same reasons.
It was a well-deserved hit.
At approximately the same time the UK released their own single edit, but IMO the USA/German edit is the superior of the two.
The UK edit has cuts that are a wee bit too jarring--almost hamfisted.
The other edit flows much more smoothly for a more satisfying listen.
Thanks. I'll have to give those two songs a listen (in their radio edits, of course).,
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