Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW

[lennyleonard 1,829]

So, I've compared this release of YCD - Single Edits from Qobuz to the tracks from the 1987 Promo CD. I took a very fast look at them at Spek, and ran them through Audacity to compare them. To my ears they don't sound bad at all, but, quite curiously to me, they are not exactly the same files.

All of them run at the same speed through the whole thing, which indicate they come from the same master, but they sound a little bit... tweaked - all the tracks from the 2022 release are cutoff at a slightly lower frequency.

Additional things I noted (current release compared to the 87 promo CD):
For Holiday, Everybody, Physical Attraction and Into The Groove, the volume is a bit lower; in Over And Over, it is a bit louder; and in Where's The Party, there is some variation in this matter
In Everybody, Into The Groove and Where's The Party the bass is not as prominent/or the treble is enhanced. I can't say this for sure, as my ears are untrained for this.

Anyway, I think it's curious that they are not the exact same tracks, as they were using the tracks from Promo CDs for other releases of this campaigns, but not for this one. The differences are very subtle (at least to me), but I wonder why there are there at all, as it wouldn't make sense to alter the tracks just this much.

[ChrisK 8,933]

OK! So they have released both the single edits AND the full remix album!

[nito84bcn 2,942]

2 hours ago, Jackie said:

OK! So they have released both the single edits AND the full remix album!

The full remix album was already on Spotify from ages, right? 

[Brendanlovesu1 13,283]

1 minute ago, nito84bcn said:

The full remix album was already on Spotify from ages, right? 

I think the dub's were exclusive to the CD 's and cassettes originally

[nito84bcn 2,942]

Very thankful with the last digital releases, I'm discovering a lot of material (I'm a fan since Ray of light and didn't pay attention to previous maxi singles etc).

But why You can dance is mixed with the 30 years of Erotica releases? Lol 

[Roy 7,900]

It sounds amazing! Emily's on a roll! 

[Frank 43,955]

Listening to it right now and it sounds so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

[Prayer 16,615]

8 minutes ago, nito84bcn said:

Very thankful with the last digital releases, I'm discovering a lot of material (I'm a fan since Ray of light and didn't pay attention to previous maxi singles etc).

But why You can dance is mixed with the 30 years of Erotica releases? Lol 

It's the 35th anniversary of the "You Can Dance" album today, that's why they've released it today. 

[Prayer 16,615]

"You Can Dance (Single Edits)" is charting on iTunes worldwide:

#1 Greece

#4 Australia

#4 Spain

#5 Poland

#10 Ireland

#11 Italy

#12 France

#15 Hong Kong

#17 United Kingdom

#97 Germany

https://kworb.net/itunes/artist/madonna.html

[Roy 7,900]

56 minutes ago, Prayer said:

"You Can Dance (Single Edits)" is charting on iTunes worldwide:

#1 Greece

#4 Australia

#4 Spain

#5 Poland

#10 Ireland

#11 Italy

#12 France

#15 Hong Kong

#17 United Kingdom

#97 Germany

https://kworb.net/itunes/artist/madonna.html

I won't say anything about the Philippines' whereabouts, but it is what it is. 

[dominbil 262]

How is the sound ? Remastered?

 

Thanks 

[planetbenjamin 261]

it got to Number 5 on iTunes in the UK 

[lucasciccone 4,283]

I've never listened the You Can Dance single edits, streaming now and loving them. Spotlight is definitely one of my fav 80's song, it always brings a good feeling! 

[subversive 1,142]

Spotlight is a little bit forgotten, unfairly

[moloko 2,684]

Did they forgot to update Fever and Rain to HD?? Still waiting 

[nito84bcn 2,942]

10 minutes ago, moloko said:

Did they forgot to update Fever and Rain to HD?? Still waiting 

I'm affraid that they will be lost between all the releases... 

[steady75 10,278]

15 minutes ago, moloko said:

Did they forgot to update Fever and Rain to HD?? Still waiting 

I think they’ll resume after the next few weeks. 

[Shoful 8,796]

If we want unreleased songs why don’t we make a petition. How many can we get 10k?

[wtg1987 10,618]

2 hours ago, subversive said:

Spotlight is a little bit forgotten, unfairly

It’s a cute song that belongs with her other 80s gems - I wish we had the full unmixed version in digital as the vinyl rips are hideous 🥹

[Lucky90210 742]

You Can Dance (Single Edits) - November 17

Everybody (Remixes) - November 25

Bye Bye Baby - December 2

Gambler - December 9

 

Love it! I'm enjoying the new cover art for YCD!

[clkelley39 1,074]

3 hours ago, dominbil said:

How is the sound ? Remastered?

 

Thanks 

Nope. When you listen to "Everybody", "Physical Attraction" or "Into The Groove" back to back with the same tracks from Finally Enough Love, you can hear that they're very obviously NOT remastered. 

[Ayham 6,162]

2 hours ago, moloko said:

Did they forgot to update Fever and Rain to HD?? Still waiting 

Maybe canceled... 💀

[MPowered 7,733]

7 hours ago, Brendanlovesu1 said:

I think the dub's were exclusive to the CD 's and cassettes originally

No, I think they have always been there for me. Physical Attraction is also still the incorrect version. It’s playing the album version instead of the mixed one.

[OceanBlue 599]

7 hours ago, Brendanlovesu1 said:

I think the dub's were exclusive to the CD 's and cassettes originally

Spotlight (Dub) exclusive to cassette !

[New_Boy 7,900]

8 minutes ago, OceanBlue said:

Spotlight (Dub) exclusive to cassette !

It was on the vinyl promo too!