Hillie wrote:
quoted 3 lines I just read the article in Newsweek.. sucks rocks, they say they are
> I just read the article in Newsweek.. sucks rocks, they say they are
> going to "cut up" the tracks and make radio edits, and they say The
> Prodigy and Chemical Bros. have already done this
Why this is a necessarily "bad" thing is beyond me. I would suggest that
the 4-minute versions of "The Box," "Born Slippy (NUXX)" and "Voodoo
People" (to name three) are perfectly acceptable representations of those
respective songs. I would even go so far as to say that the edit of the
Prodigy song is *better* than the album version, because it flows better
and has less extraneous stuff in it; it hits hard and finishes clean
(even with the fade at the end). On the other hand, I heard an edit of
"Leave Home" on the radio the other night which felt much more
discontinuous and haphazard than the original, which is truly a damn fine
song in every way IMHO.
Some people have said on this list that one of the things they didn't
like about the Aphex Twin album is that the songs were too short. I am
of the opinion that some songs need to be short, and other songs need to
be longer, just based on how they feel. A couple of the songs on _RDJ_
just *feel* to me like they need to be longer ("Peek"), whereas others
work perfectly well at their short length ("Corn Mouth") and others just
seem to be drawn out a bit too long ("Girl/Boy"). In the past, I've felt
that AFX does a great job of making tracks just as long as they need to
be, but on this most recent album he didn't do quite as good a job. I
still like the disc a lot, though.
quoted 1 line but I can surely say the radio edit of Firestarter sucks shit.
> but I can surely say the radio edit of Firestarter sucks shit.
Actually, every version of "Firestarter" sucks shit, but that's a
different argument. :-) To think that they wasted a perfectly good Art
Of Noise sample on that tune... _Jilted_ was so good, I really thought
they were headed in the right direction.
quoted 3 lines Radio edit usually = a fucked up
> Radio edit usually = a fucked up
> version of the track so that the masses want to buy the record when
> they hear it on the radio.
The inherent problem with a radio edit is that it implies an artistic
meltdown in the face of potential airplay, ie, "we'd play your song if it
was a minute shorter," so the artist (or worse, the label) slices and
dices the song to conform to that. It is very likely that if the artists
in question were not concerned about radio play, they would not release
such edits, and to do so compromises the integrity of the artist just a
bit. But the end result isn't always all bad.
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