Rock and Roll was very slightly longer for Peel Slowly and Fully Loaded. It wasn't labelled as being different for Peel, but Fully Loaded labelled it as full length.bobbydriver wrote:Answering my own question perhaps on the "restored" segue between I Found A Reason and Head Held High - but I realised that they aren't next to each other in the original running order.bobbydriver wrote:On the plus side - it looks like the Matrix tapes will get a full boxset in their own right!
Couple of other observations - I'm surprised that they haven't included the original edited mixes of SJ and RnR. I know that Lou wasn't happy with them, but for 20+ years they were THE official versions. Surely just as valid to include these for reference as it is some mono fold-downs?
Or is the Disc 6 "96/24 Hi-Resolution Original Stereo Mix" going to be exacty that? The ORIGINAL mix/edits?
What's this about restoring an intended segue between IFAR and HHH? Is this genuine? If so, why only include it on the surround sound version?#
If you listen to them though, IFAR ends with a faded doo-wop outro and Head Held High starts with a brief snippet of the same doo-wop vocal before the main HHH track starts. I'd never noticed this before, so it will be interesting to hear how they've done it and how the new running order works out. Bearing in mind that HHH was Track One on Side B, whichever way they do it will be a big departure from the original LP vision (which we know Lou was never happy with)
I'm also confused by the references to Rock And Roll being the "full length version" - as it's only ever been 4:45 long right back from the first pressing right?
New Age on the other hand my old 80's vinyl issue has a 4:39 edit and then there is a "full length version" of 5:42 and a "long version" of 5:09 on Fully Loaded, but no mention on the new press release of New Age being restored to full length.
That would be really odd if the 45th has the album edit of New Age while the other 2 are the extended versions, but that is what the track list indicates.