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  1. Not necessarily. But you have a point. That is possible -- that the single was faded on the fly while the 45 was being mastered, and then the fade would only be on the cutting master (a backup tape dub made during the disc cutting process so the necessary EQ adjustments to get it sounding good on vinyl would not have to be redone on future pressings). I've wondered if that's what happened with the digital version of "Holiday," as it has a longer fade.
  2. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I think it's quite possible that the 7" version of "Lucky Star" on this new download COULD be a recreation. It's a very good recreation, if so... they seem to have gotten all the edit points perfect. However, the fadeout decays faster on my 45, on the "It's That Girl" tape, and on the audio ripped from my "Immaculate Collection" laserdisc than it does on this new digital version. To test this, I synced up the download with a dub of my 45 in an audio editor, then muted the download's right stereo channel and muted the vinyl 45's left stereo channel -- so the download was playing in my left ear and the 45 playing in my right. Then I got both tracks at the same volume so the sound was centered in the headphones and listened to them in sync to listen for differences between the channels. The edit points seem to be perfect, everything seems perfect, until the fadeout. At 3:42, on "star bright," the sound starts to shift towards the stereo channel containing the digital download, and it's quite a bit louder by the time we reach "you make everything all right"... which means the digital version is louder during the fadeout than on the 45. Then at the very tail end of the fade, it suddenly shifts back towards the other channel. Now, if the download was consistently the same volume or quieter than the vinyl is during the fade, I would think nothing of it -- engineers "help" a fade all the time when remastering tracks, to make the tape hiss less noticeable as the volume gets lower at the end of the song. But the opposite is true in this case... the volume on the digital version fades out (decays) more slowly than on the 45. And speaking of tape hiss, that's another tipoff: there's no audible tape hiss at end of the song at all, unless you crank up the sound by about 15 decibels. This song was recorded on analogue tape and the volume gets very low at the tail end of the fade. There should be at least some tape hiss audible through headphones during the last couple seconds. There's not. This indicates to me that it's a digitally recreated fade, not a fade originated in the analogue realm. It's possible there's another explanation for all this, so please tell me if there is.
  3. I'm not worried. She's tough as nails. But glad to hear she's back at home and I wish her a speedy recovery.
  4. True, and I do wish she was more prominent in the later choruses, but she does have the entire second verse to herself. And she's in very good voice.
  5. So am I understanding correctly: the short version on the new "Borderline" digital single is the "Celebration" version?
  6. Finally, I'm getting Shep's Deeper Dub and David's Deeper Dub after 30 years! I know, I know, they're just dubs, but I remember being really frustrated back in the day that those were on the commercial vinyl 12" but not the CD maxi, and I spent quite a bit of time (pre-Internet) trying to find out if those two dubs were included on any import CDs. It's a shame they didn't "Mariah Carey" this and put all the promo mixes on there, too, but it's a step in the right direction after there being nothing new to CD/digital on the "Bad Girl/Fever" release.
  7. I'm so disappointed in this "Bad Girl/Fever" release. There's nothing on it that hasn't been released in digital format in the past.
  8. But Edit One was issued on CD, and it's not expensive.
  9. I think so, too. Qobuz is listing running times for the album, and it lists "Fever (Radio Edit)" as 5:09, which is about right for that version. And "Open Your Heart" is listed as 4:28, so there go any hopes of it actually being the "Edit of Extended Version."
  10. Hey, where's "Causing a Commotion"? That was one of her 50 #1 hits. Looks like they dropped it so they could include both "Everybody" and "Physical Attraction" from the "You Can Dance" album.
  11. The Second Disc lists Lucky Star (7” Version) instead of Material Girl. I’m sure that’s an error, but I wonder where it came from?
  12. But there was a separate soundtrack album issued of the Danny Elfman score from the film. To me, that's the soundtrack, not "I'm Breathless."
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