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Post by hector on Nov 20, 2005 18:40:02 GMT -5
Amazing track from an amazing album!  |
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Post by josh on Nov 21, 2005 17:25:07 GMT -5
It's not one of my favorites from the album, but it's a classic from an amazing album.
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Post by RedDragon on Dec 9, 2005 22:41:57 GMT -5
Classic. Does anyone like the version from The Cranberries? I do.
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Post by irock on Dec 31, 2005 21:55:45 GMT -5
It's a great song, and good quality vinyl singles are almost priceless as collectibles. The B-side featured the studio version of Silver Spring, which became very popular at the time but was never made available in any other format.
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Post by tozion on Dec 31, 2005 22:07:10 GMT -5
It's a great song, and good quality vinyl singles are almost priceless as collectibles. The B-side featured the studio version of Silver Spring, which became very popular at the time but was never made available in any other format. Well now "Silver Springs" is available on CD. It's on all versions of the Rumours CDs now being pressed I believe. |
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Post by irock on Jan 1, 2006 7:20:37 GMT -5
[ Well now "Silver Springs" is available on CD. It's on all versions of the Rumours CDs now being pressed I believe. Wow, the studio version? I knew a live version had been released, but if you come back and say "yes" then I know what my next CD purchase is gonna be. There's a bit more to the story of this single, at least for me. I originally bought it, of course, for the A-side. When local rock station WZZQ started playing the flip side I did too, and it wasn't long before it was worn out even though I took very good care of it. The problems were two: first, the Arab oil embargo of the early '70s. That mini-crisis was the first time gas prices in America rose to a level that threatened the economy. One of the results was that for a few years afterward record companies reduced the amount of oil they used in pressing vinyl, and the result of that was that records would scratch much more easily and thus didn't last long. Promotional DJ pressings continued to be made by the old formula, and lucky for me years later I was able to find a DJ copy (still have it, still sounds great but I'd still like to have a CD). The other problem is the long, quiet opening passage. Even on the best vinyl, quiet music is more easily scratched than loud music. If you'll look through a magnifying glass at the grooves of a disco record and compare them to the grooves of a quiet love song or a classical piece you'll see why: the disco grooves are not very straight. The high level of bass not only obscures scratches by drowning them out to some extent, it also causes the grooves of the record to be cut in a relatively crooked fashion. Crooked grooves are more impervious to scratches than straight grooves, so the more bass a song has the more indestructible the resulting vinyl disc will be. The phenomenon was intriguing enough that some record companies - I think Capitol was one of them - experimented with adding subsonic pulses to quiet music in order to create a more durable record, but I don't think the idea was ever implemented because the advent of the CD obviated it. |
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Post by tozion on Jan 1, 2006 9:05:33 GMT -5
[ Well now "Silver Springs" is available on CD. It's on all versions of the Rumours CDs now being pressed I believe. Wow, the studio version? Yes, I know they were on versions being pressed after 2004. |
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Post by duh5 on Jan 19, 2006 11:54:32 GMT -5
Classic song. Love it. They always kill this song live too. Great stuff.
As for "Silver Springs," yes it is available on the re-issue of "Rumours." "Fleetwood Mac," "Rumours," and "Tusk" were all remastered and re-released back in 2004. Each comes with a bonus CD of demos, radio edits, and earlier versions of some of the tracks (and "Tusk" finally has the unedited version of "Sara"). They all sound better than ever, and I highly recommend any FM fan pick them up.
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