Body Electric (Body and Soul version)

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So much better than the original. Why? Better equipment? Better studio? Better production? Better guitarist? Never having got anywhere near any of these, it's a mystery to me. Can those with such experience please enlighten me.
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I prefer the original! :lol:
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Why?
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I prefer the B&S version.
It's really in your face & takes no prisoners.
My only qualm with it is the massive level drop after the huge scream.
I wish someone could fix that.
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Pista wrote: My only qualm with it is the massive level drop after the huge scream.
I wish someone could fix that.
I was always wondering how this could happen.
They change from self-produced independent records to a major label, and the first thing to happen is the biggest production-fail in the band's history.
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But none that I could ever understand...
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Caravaggio wrote:
Pista wrote: My only qualm with it is the massive level drop after the huge scream.
I wish someone could fix that.
I was always wondering how this could happen.
They change from self-produced independent records to a major label, and the first thing to happen is the biggest production-fail in the band's history.
Well, after Anaconda. The production on that could've been a little better... :wink:
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abridged wrote: Well, after Anaconda. The production on that could've been a little better... :wink:
Anaconda sound cheap, but you can take it as a certain style (actually I like it's crappy sound, but it is surely a bad production).

The BS-version of Body Electric sounds like "Ooops, I didn't expect him to scream this loud, let's put down the master volume..."
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There s another volume drop on "on the wire" and also when guitars start on "afterhours" you always hear this electrostatic noise like you havent clean your vinyl in ages, i have 3 different versions of this 12" and they all sound the same
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On topic BE on the 12" is far better than the original.
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Francis wrote:Why?
Something about the jangly guitars and crappy tinny garagey production just appeals. Von's shrieking on the repeat of the verses in the second half is better to these ears. It's more raw, more unpolished, more of a feeling that the band fell out of the upper floor of the chemist at 4 AM, stumbled into a studio and just hammered it out. The B&S version to me just seems to have taken the original blueprint, watered it down and smoothed off all the rough edges, and taken whatever was edgy or exciting about the original out of it.
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BE original is pure ecstasy, while it's counterfeit is pure disappointment, nothing else, having lost all the spirits that make you walk on the ceiling. its counterfeit is an early attempt of using professional gear, obviously without success

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Let the people decide
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I like the wild Pearson era performances.
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False tits!
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