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Usually ext mixes are just a waste of time, especially anything by Depeche mode is a real challenge to test one person's patience.
Of course there are exeptions :

sisters : tol - lucretia obviously

echo and the bunnymen : killing moon (it could go on for another 9 min and still be great, what a version)

Jamc : sidewalking (what a beat, what a bass!!!!)

New order : sub culture (guilty pleasures)

all you good people will know a few more..

Silence is platinum wrote:echo and the bunnymen : killing moon (it could go on for another 9 min and still be great, what a version)

no, that's just meringue

Silence is platinum wrote:especially anything by Depeche mode is a real challenge to test one person's patience

Oh, I can't agree with you there! DM were the absolute masters of the 12" remix. The Hands and Feet Mix of Enjoy The Silence is just heaven and Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix) is one of the most godlike noises ever committed to vinyl

Other greats? Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order, Situation by Yazoo, and the ten minute glory from on high that is the "Wally MacDonald Disco Mix" of Follow Me by Amanda Lear. True, she couldn't sing for toffee and everything else she ever did was rubbish (apart from appear on the front of For Your Pleasure and go out with Bryan Ferry) but this is wonderful, OTT '70s Eurodisco In Excelsis. With great bastard crashing gongs for good measure.

The Factory Benelux version of this

James Blast wrote:

Silence is platinum wrote:echo and the bunnymen : killing moon (it could go on for another 9 min and still be great, what a version)

no, that's just meringue

seconded.


& let's not even go near Bring On The Dancing Horses.

I kind of feel Lucretia extended is a bit too much really. A bit like Long Train. Totally loses its impact in the format.

Monsoon's Ever So Lonely was a belter of a 12" extended version though

Pista wrote:I kind of feel Lucretia extended is a bit too much really. A bit like Long Train.

Agreed and agreed.

Ah Lucretia could go on forever and it wouldn't be too long...Bring on the Dancing Horses is a great song...Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds doing Tower of Song...the 45 minute version...I hear there's an hour and a half version of it!

vision thing (candandian club mix) ok not a word "extended" in name of song but we all know that it's extended VT with louder doc beats and some interwieve fragments

I've always had a soft spot for the extended versions of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Two Tribes"

I did like the New York mix of Heartbeat by the Furs on the B side of the Heaven 12"

abridged wrote:Ah Lucretia could go on forever and it wouldn't be too long...:

The Mish : into the blue (first avenue mix)

Not neccesarily an extended version, but wasn't the original Psychonaut rumoured to be around twenty minutes long..?

Norman Hunter wrote:Not neccesarily an extended version, but wasn't the original Psychonaut rumoured to be around twenty minutes long..?

And cost more to record than the whole of Elizium by all accounts.

streamline wrote:I've always had a soft spot for the extended versions of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Two Tribes"

Right, I still have it somewhere in a box.

Sticking with FGTH, the 15 Minute version of Rage Hard that Annie Nightingale used to play back in the day Especially the "God-like Bass Guitar" bit...

Also a fan of Depeche Mode's Hands and Feet mix of Enjoy The Silence (Japanese Promo Only copy I acquired!)

Can I mention Spacemen 3 here? That 17 minute Rollercoaster - sheer bliss.

Thompson Twins b-sides.

If you disagree, you can go to sleep knowing that you are WRONG.