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quoted 18 lines I did the same with the Pusher 'Untitled' 12", and once I listened to it at

>>I did the same with the Pusher 'Untitled' 12", and once I listened to it at >>45 it sounded totally wrong so I always listen to it at 33. Just >>sounds better >>to me. After listening to so much drum and bass slower beats sound better for >>some reason. Probably after a while I'll go back to the faster beats. > >Funny thing is, the "wrong speed" thing really hit me when I picked >up funkstorung's "post art" 12" and, while playing it, thought that >it sounded funny at 33. But only for half the tracks -- the other >half sounded better at 33. > >But it wasn't based on the sides, it sounded like the first track >was 45 and the second track was 33. Or vice versa. > >Needless to say, I wasn't sure whether they were being weird or if >it was just me. So I picked up the CD for cheap and realized that >the whole thing was at 33. Which sucked, cos I liked the 45 songs >more on the EP :(

back when prince's black album was a bootleg, i loved it. i bought a crappy cassette, then a vinyl album. then someone pressed a boot on CD and the whole thing was slow. someone at the store said the early tapes and records were done at "the wrong speed". i don't know if that's true or not - when i saw prince in 1988 he did 2 songs from that album and they seemed to be at the speed and tempo of the fast version. plus, the album was allegedly perpetrated by "camille", prince's evil female alter-ego, which is basically just his voice sped up. so the album with sped-up vocals seems correct. years later, i saw warner bros. released the official version, but by then i just didn't care anymore (having bought 3 versions of the bootleg, and having decided that prince stopped being good somewhere in the early 90's). i wonder if anyone here has that official version? but regardless, to me the "correct" one is the one that sounds good to *me*, which is the fast version. sometimes the artist (or in this case, "the artist") may not always get it right. d. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org