We know 8 tracks do funny things to the track orders of albums but this evening I noticed some cool bits with Queen ones.
SHA: Flick Of The Wrist has a clean end - leading straight into ITLOTG..R, and Lily Of The Valley has a clean start. I couldn't quite put my finger in what was different until I referred to the usual cut. In this case this is unique edit due to the single edit of FOTW not having TF before it.
cmi · Member since
Nice find indeed!
dysan · Member since
Was going to post a couple more but now watching Eurovision.
Saint Jiub · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
We know 8 tracks do funny things to the track orders of albums but this evening I noticed some cool bits with Queen ones.
SHA: Flick Of The Wrist has a clean end - leading straight into ITLOTG..R, and Lily Of The Valley has a clean start. I couldn't quite put my finger in what was different until I referred to the usual cut. In this case this is unique edit due to the single edit of FOTW not having TF before it.[/QUOTE]
Flick of the Wrist was prematurely cut before the end of the song, and the last "Baby you've been had" Is instead included as the start of Lily of the Valley
dysan · Member since
Yes on some CDs. What's that got to do with this?
Saint Jiub · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
Yes on some CDs. What's that got to do with this?[/QUOTE]
On 8 track, after KIller Queen, Lily of the Valley begins with the last line of Flick of the Wrist ("baby you've been had")
On 8 track, Flick of the Wrist ends with "all this time honey" and is missing the last line.
dysan · Member since
Not on mine as shown on the mp3 above.
dysan · Member since
Maybe yours has been recorded from a CD which has that same track mark? It does happen.
Saint Jiub · Member since
Sorry I misunderstood.
EMi must have done a better job at cutting and shuffling songs on 8 tracks.
On the 8 track I had many moons ago, Elecktra performed the hatchet job I described.
dysan · Member since
Ah gotcha. Yeah they obviously put some thought into it and had a different master to use. Some 8 tracks even have extra music (Lou Reed's Berlin for example). Currently looking at all my Queen ones for other oddities.
Was yours a proper 70s elektra one? I only ask as it does sound like the same track mark on the CD - a very unnatural point to make the same cut. Unless in both cases (CD and Elektra 8-track) they followed erroneous mastering notes that put the cut a few seconds early.
Saint Jiub · Member since
Mine was 70's Elecktra.
They cut it at the pause after "all this time honey". "Baby you've been had fades into the beginning guitar of Lily of the Valley. It would have been awkward to cut it at that that overlap point on the eight track when ItLotG immediately followed.
My CD sounds good as FotW naturally segues into LotV. it is not the unnatural bastardized shuffled track order of the 8 track.
dysan · Member since
'It would have been awkward to cut it at that that overlap point on the eight track when ItLotG immediately followed.'
This is my point - did you listen to the clip above? I can imagine many people were surprised if they only heard the UK 8 track and then got the vinyl :)
dysan · Member since
Next clip from ANATO. A very satisfying but slightly mood killing tape noise as the programme selection skips to track 4 between Prophet Song and LOML. Don't worry - the next ones are better :)
