Alice 82 or Alice 93?

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Alice '82 or Alice '93 - What's your fave?

Alice 82
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56%
Alice 93
10
20%
Like both for different reasons
10
20%
Don't like either
1
2%
Alice 2004 (probably)
1
2%
 
Total votes: 50
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What's your fave?

(yippee for polls!) :roll:
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Pedantic wanktrap really, but wasn't Alice in '82???

Anyway, I actually like '93, it's more mechanical n meaner sounding, like there's something genuinely sinister lurking underneath.
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I love the 93 version, much better production, a bit more euh wow would you say that in englich....dragging? no....euh I mean something like it catches you more (but not meaning catchy...I can't find the word, sorry...hope you understand what I mean.....)
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Wowee, I like taking tests. Let's have more polls!
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82 :blush:
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I use to really like alice... but it really depends what kinda mood im in, as to which version I want to hear.. Alice 82 has more oomph, but 93 has more atmosphere.
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i used to love alice 82, but it's a bit overplayed now.

i hated alice 93 when i first heard it - i thought it sounded like the doktor was recorded in a barn... :( but the more i listen to it now the more i like it - apart from too much reverb on teh dok, it sounds more representative of the band as they are now, and as such i think provides a direct comparison with the sisters sound then & now - the 82 version was a goth song, the 93 version is the sound of an industrial groove machine at work :)
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Quiff Boy wrote:82 :blush:
I knew you meant the extra 5 inches! :wink: :D 7" + 5 = 12" :roll:
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Mmm.I do like both but I think '82 is just in front for me.
I'm quite attached to it for sentimental reasons...having one of the grooviest Summers so far blah blah :wink: but I won't bore anyone with my reminisces of my days of yore :roll:
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I vote for Brighton 84 version (as to be found on Black October).

Doktor Avalanche really kicks ass in that one.

I hope I made no mistakes now with any spelling or date mix up or something. I am rather ... :notworthy:
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listened to 93 version last night and it rocks like an industrial groove machine should
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Red Sunsets wrote:listened to 93 version last night and it rocks like an industrial groove machine should
agreed! :von:
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I voted for both :von:
To be true I love all (if my memory serves me well, or at least almost all) versions of this song I have heard. Honestly. I can't say it about all Sisters songs.
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82 if Im forced to choose.
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I'll have the 82 version anytime !!!
Or the live one on Kama Sutra
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i cant choose any version
they are so different it d be a shame to choose one

82 vrsn is like running through the rain
93 vrsn is like running through a house full of mirrors

... the rain stops
... the mirrors brake
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I rank "Alice" as the best song ever written, all categories, and I prefer the 1993 version. Tractor-bass rules.

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Pre 1993 - Alice 82 - live or otherwise
Post 1993 - Alice 93 - for reason see above :-)
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I find it hard to choose, though I think the production wins out in the end for
93. Though the 82 version- if I recall correctly, is notable for starting with
"Alice stays pressed" instead of "She stays pressed", which is the official
version given in Postcards From Above The Chemist, and sung live for a
hell of a lot of years.

Trainspotting, I know.

Acutally, to be even sadder, in favour of 82 is of course the medium i.e vinyl and run out groove messages.

And for the record, discussed elsewhere, Body Electric 84 is the definitive
version IMHO of that song.

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Erudite wrote:And for the record, discussed elsewhere, Body Electric 84 is the definitive version IMHO of that song.
Discussed elsewhere? Where, pray tell?
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On this very forum - can't be bothered hunting the thread down at the momment, but the various re-recordings have been discussed in the past.
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You mean I've got to hunt it down myself? Oh well. At least you replied. My poll's not going too well. D'ya reckon the Body And Soul version's a bit too hard to find, or does everyone else have more interesting things to do with their Saturday nights?
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They probably do have better things to do, but ah well.

Oh, you might get lucky, it's the sort of thing that will bother me until I find it.
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Got the bugger:

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 37&start=0

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Cheers. I'm gonna have to buy your book now, aren't I? Catholic guilt. It never leaves you.
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