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anjoel got a reaction from jemboy1973 in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
You are right, it was shown twice. I think it was quite elusive as we never had MTV (rarely anyone did in the UK) and it was excluded from her video collections. I think I bought a bootleg that had it on but it was the MTV 'Make My Video' one (which might be why I thought I'd never seen it before).
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anjoel got a reaction from Aiwa08 in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
Yes, it was the single mix outside of the US.
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anjoel got a reaction from Veronica-Electronica in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
Yes, it was the single mix outside of the US.
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anjoel got a reaction from LX54 in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
Yes, it was the single mix outside of the US.
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anjoel reacted to MPowered in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
True Blue True Blue - Remix/Edit True Blue - The Color Mix True Blue - Instrumental if we're lucky: True Blue - Fade (aka. Edit/Fade) maybe instead of the album version.
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anjoel got a reaction from MikeyK in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
Does anybody know if it's true that in the UK, her next single release after Papa was meant to be Open Your Heart. It was announced in Smash Hits with pictures from the video. True Blue was gaining traction on UK radio and that was released ahead of it to make the most of it's popularity. It might be the Mandela effect for me but that's the memory I have.
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anjoel got a reaction from Inco in DL/ The Look Of Love (AI Stems)
Yes, I have those thanks and both nice but something more could be done using the stems.
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anjoel got a reaction from Boombox90 in DL/ The Look Of Love (AI Stems)
Yes, I have those thanks and both nice but something more could be done using the stems.
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anjoel reacted to Inco in DL/ The Look Of Love (AI Stems)
Dubtronic and his amazing 6'27 extended version
This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Lukes and his amazing 7'10 extended version
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anjoel got a reaction from Boombox90 in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
You are right, it was shown twice. I think it was quite elusive as we never had MTV (rarely anyone did in the UK) and it was excluded from her video collections. I think I bought a bootleg that had it on but it was the MTV 'Make My Video' one (which might be why I thought I'd never seen it before).
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anjoel got a reaction from ChristosM in DL/ The Look Of Love (AI Stems)
Can some clever soul make a nice extended version?
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anjoel got a reaction from Jorick in DL/ The Look Of Love (AI Stems)
Can some clever soul make a nice extended version?
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anjoel reacted to MPowered in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
That is true! True Blue was originally not going to be a single at all. I think it was rush-released because radio stations loved it and it received airplay without beibg a single.
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anjoel reacted to Nobody Knows Me in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
Yes, there was no getting away from her in 1985! She had eight singles in the charts...
Like A Virgin (peaked at #3 on 06 Jan 1985) Material Girl (March, #3) Crazy For You (June, #2) Into The Groove (July, #1) Holiday [re-issue] (Aug, #2) Angel (Sept, #5) Gambler (Oct, #4) Dress You Up (Dec, #5) It's strange that Warner Bros gave the greenlight to saturate the UK market with singles from several projects (Like A Virgin, The First Album, and movie soundtrack singles), but they took a different approach in the US denying single releases for Into The Groove and Gambler due to not wanting to detract from the Like A Virgin singles campaign.
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anjoel got a reaction from Boombox90 in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
Yes, I remember we got quite a lot of Madonna singles in 1985 all in the charts at the same time.
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anjoel reacted to Nobody Knows Me in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
Yes it was. It was released as a single on 9th Sept 1985 and peaked at #5 on 22nd Sept.
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anjoel reacted to MDNA22 in Like A Prayer - Mousse T Remix ?
At 1:42:30 seconds
Does anyone know who did this remix? Maybe Mousse T himself ??
There are lots of terrible remixes of this song - this ones not bad!
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anjoel reacted to Scor-pi-o in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
You're on the guest list
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anjoel got a reaction from Scor-pi-o in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
There's a queue
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anjoel reacted to Scor-pi-o in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
My balls are available as well
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anjoel reacted to Nowheretohide in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
https://requiem4adream.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/celebration-a-retardation/
Here is what is included on Celebration.
There are 16 previously released songs featured in their full-length, original album versions.
BURNING UP
HOLIDAY
MATERIAL GIRL
INTO THE GROOVE
LIVE TO TELL
PAPA DON’T PREACH
LA ISLA BONITA
WHO’S THAT GIRL
LIKE A PRAYER
JUSTIFY MY LOVE
TAKE A BOW
FROZEN
BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
MUSIC – MASTERING ERROR: multiple digital pops and clicks that are not part of the original recording can be heard throughout this song.
DIE ANOTHER DAY – MASTERING ERROR: Track fades up late due to the incorrectly placed track index on the American Life album. This is ridiculous. The unaffected album version appears on both the US Promo CD single and the Die Another Day film soundtrack, all Warner Bros. releases.
HOLLYWOOD – MASTERING ERROR: Track starts abruptly and end of “American Life”‘s fade out is audible.
Of these, ten were released as singles in versions that differ from these LP mixes. I would have much preferred the inclusion of the difficult to obtain single mixes, but I’m in therapy and have mostly moved on. Mostly.
Fortunately, five tracks do appear in their official single versions.
SECRET (Edit)
RAY OF LIGHT (Edit)
SORRY (Single Edit)
4 MINUTES (Edit)
MILES AWAY (Radio Edit)
…and one more is a rarity from a US promo CD:
HUNG UP ([Unblended] Album Version)
Next up, there are five remixes lifted directly from The Immaculate Collection.
BORDERLINE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
LIKE A VIRGIN (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
CRAZY FOR YOU (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
OPEN YOUR HEART (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
VOGUE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
And now we pause to ask ourselves why.
The remaining nine tracks are unique to the collection. The first two are new recordings.
CELEBRATION
REVOLVER
One appears to be a from-the-vault rarity, likely included by mistake.
LUCKY STAR – ALTERNATIVE Q SOUND MIX
Virtually identical to the version heard on The Immaculate Collection, though there is noticeably more reverb on the “ee-yeah“‘s at the foot of each chorus. The music leading into the first verse is different (on TIC is was edited to match the original 7” version, on here it is not.) The most obvious difference is right at the fade, instead of the chorus it edits to a set of adlibs heard on longer versions of the song, but not heard on the Q Sound version. Odd, but inoffensive as it seems to be a genuine unreleased variation.
As for the rest, quality control has reached an all time low:
EVERYBODY – FAKE EDIT
This uses the full length, original 12″ version as its starting point (as did the official 7″ single version), but is structured differently. While the overall idea for this edit wasn’t horrendous, whoever was placed in charge of actually executing the edits needs to be tortured. Slowly… painfully.
DRESS YOU UP – FUCKED UP INTRO
What the hell happened here? This isn’t a mix variation so much as a mastering error… the album version started late with severe tape pinch/phasing issues right at the top. Of the four beats on the intro, all but the fourth are missing.
EXPRESS YOURSELF – FAKE FUCKING FUCK.
The most offensive. In a failed attempt to kindofsortof recreate the video version, they have taken the complete intro straight off of the Local Mix, “zipper” included. The actual, official video version starts at the percussion and is specially mixed to have echo on the line “Do you believe in love…” which is dry on the Local Mix and therefore not present here. This new monstrosity then incorrectly cuts to the 7″ Remix/Edit version and then again where they have BUTCHERED the song right at the bridge. A bad edit jumps the track from the end of the chorus to the repeat of the bridge which kills the structure of the track. This version is unlistenable.
CHERISH – FAKE EDIT
The original album version cut to the length of the super-short Immaculate Collection version. AMATEUR doesn’t begin to describe how bad these edits have been executed. Poor edits result in creating entirely new lyrics! How about this chestnut… “Can’t get away, I won’t let to” ?! They render all prior complaints about bad edits on Madonna’s releases void. Again, unlistenable. In the cases of “Express Yourself” and “Cherish,” why not just use the fucking Q Sound remixes?! They’re the exact same length as the fake edits and it’s not like there aren’t 6 others from that release present here.
EROTICA – FAKE Radio Edit
The edit points are around the same places as the OFFICIAL radio edit, but are poorly executed. The worst is around 3:30… they cut a beat late making for one of the sloppiest moments on this royalfuckupofacompilation. I don’t understand why this needed to be recreated as the official edit appears on countless singles and 2001’s GHV2 compilation. Oh. And the “surface noise” on the end of “Erotica” overlaps the beginning of “Justify My Love”.
DON’T TELL ME – FAKE Radio Edit
The least offensive/noticeable fake edit, but incorrect nonetheless. The true radio edit was a unique mix for the very last second that does not feature the “whimsical strings” tag. For Celebration, they have chopped off the end, but the first millisecond of this tag is audible.
Regarding the mastering: It sounds as though noise reduction was used to remove “tape hiss” which is unnecessary on most recordings post 1980. This process kills part of the high end of recordings. In addition, the entire album has a smear of bass over it. I really wanted to like it, but it sounds like a cheap “bass boost” EQ effect was applied to the songs, not proper remastering.
I had accepted the slightly shoddy sequencing, several major omissions and overall lack of consistency and attention to detail with the mixes chosen for this release. I love the look of the entire project, but I cannot understand the use of newly created, butchered versions of songs.
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anjoel got a reaction from Aiwa08 in [FANMADE] Causing a Commotion (Real Movie House Mix Edit) [Updated with a minor fix]
That's more like it. Sterling work @Aiwa08
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anjoel reacted to Aiwa08 in [FANMADE] Causing a Commotion (Real Movie House Mix Edit) [Updated with a minor fix]
As many of you know, the Movie House Mix Edit is actually an edit of the Silver Screen Mix. I've decided to create a genuine edit using the Movie House Mix. I hope you enjoy the final result.
WAV, 4:21
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anjoel reacted to Aiwa08 in Single Reissues Campaign - Causing a Commotion - OUT NOW
I would love for each You Can Dance track to have an EP that includes its corresponding Remix Edit, Unmixed Extended, and Dub versions.
JUSTICE FOR WHERE'S THE PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!