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 Topic: spacehog in the meantimePosted: 26 February 2011 at 8:41am |
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my commercial cd single for the spacehog song "in the meantime" issued as sire 64303 does not state a version or run time but runs 4:58 like the db entries, but the question is. was there ever a promo cd single issued with a shorter edit?
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Posted: 26 February 2011 at 9:20am |
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Bowie lives! Well, not exactly, but in 1995, Spacehog
was more David Bowie than Mr. Bowie himself. A brilliant track! I have a 4-track promo called Was It Likely? 4 songs from the forthcoming debut album Resident Alien (Sire PRCD 9313-2, released 1995) It's got "In The Meantime", "Space Is The Place", "Candy Man", and "Only A Few". It's the LP version for "In The Meantime" - not sure about the other three, since I don't know the rest of the album very well. The version on my Top Hits USA disc is also the album version. I'm 99% certain that the only version released in the US was the LP version, with the odd sound effect at the end (that may track into the next selection on the album?) However, I have a German CD single with a designation of "Edit" and runs 4:34 (including outro silence). It does indeed cut out about 20-25 seconds near the end of the song, and ends with the piano note fading out, with no sound effect! It's kinda shocking to hear it without the sound effect, but musically it makes a little more sense. I've never seen this edit in the US, and I've been looking since 1995, since is this is one of my very favorites from that time period. |
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Posted: 26 February 2011 at 9:32am |
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I have the US promo CD single (PRCD 9314-2). It runs the full 4:58 as well.
Back when the song was charting, our local alternative rock station used to play a version which abruptly faded out around the 4:28 mark right before the piano notes. I continued to search for a second promo which matched that version, but have never found one. At this point, I believe it was simply an in-house version that they aired. |
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Posted: 04 April 2011 at 6:22am |
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Mike & Ron, the only promo CD single I own for the song is the same, PRCD
9314 one that Mike has, so I would also agree with both of your conclusions here. |
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Posted: 05 April 2011 at 12:23am |
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I no longer have Spacehog's Resident Alien CD, but the database does confirm that "In the Meantime" tracks into the next song on that disc. Nonetheless, "Meantime" still gets plenty of recurrent airplay on our local modern rock station here in Pittsburgh and it always ends with that odd synthesizer sound effect that crescendos loudly and then abruptly truncates into complete silence.
I agree that it's a great '90s rock tune! I've always particularly liked how the sampling of European ringback tones can be heard in the background (if you don't know what I'm talking about, think of the short repetitive double-pulsing tones heard on the telephone line at the end of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" LP version... you can hear these same tones during the softer passages of "In the Meantime"). Edited by Todd Ireland |
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Posted: 05 April 2011 at 4:37am |
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If I'm not mistaken, the phone tones on the Spacehog song were sampled from a 1976 song by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra called "Telephone and Rubber Band". |
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Posted: 05 April 2011 at 7:41am |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but that "odd synthesizer sound" is actually a piano note played backwards. |
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Posted: 05 April 2011 at 9:29am |
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Ah, I didn't know that! |
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