The Police - Bring On the Night
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Topic: The Police - Bring On the Night
Posted By: kaqueno
Subject: The Police - Bring On the Night
Date Posted: 07 March 2025 at 6:51am
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Hi guys, how are you? I'm opening this thread regarding
The Police's single "Bring On the Night". The LP version has a time of 4:15, and the US 45 version (according to discogs) 3:17. https://www.discogs.com/release/2300069-The-Police-Bring- On-The-Night Does any member have this US 45 version in flac or wav to share with me, or know if it was released on CD. I was looking on youtube, and a user uploaded the video, it seemed that the version is sped up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMs_LATQ7xk thanks for advance. ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
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Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 08 March 2025 at 2:15am
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US promo 45 version, you mean. The retail 45 has the LP version.
Sorry I can't help though. |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 08 March 2025 at 5:47am
Exactly Mike, it's the US promo 45 version that I'm looking for. Thanks ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
mjb50 wrote:Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 08 March 2025 at 9:55am
Aaron is our resident Police superfan and him and I worked on finding EVERY Police 45, digital releases and gathering all of them up years ago. We both missed this apparently. It says on the 45 promo EDITED VERSION. I think taking away any of the song in an edit form is a cardinal sin. I heard the youtube video. It's not a bad edit if that is what it is. Until Aaron can get the promo 45 to confirm I reserve judgment. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Aaron you want to chime in? ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 08 March 2025 at 11:26am
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Yeah, it's weird that we didn't spot this when we worked on our Police project. I ordered a copy of the promo 45. The YouTube video might be a dub of the vinyl, but I can't tell from the intro and fade due to poor audio quality. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: whyaduck
Date Posted: 09 March 2025 at 2:20pm
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HI,
@aaronk @PopArchivist Has "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da" Japanese lang Version version every been on CD? |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 March 2025 at 2:25pm
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The Japanese and Spanish versions have appeared on CD, but I'm not sure I knew there was an Italian version until just now. When Rich and I were working on gathering all the Police stuff we could find, we limited our research to US releases. There might be other non-US versions of Police songs I'm unaware of, but we definitely did miss the US promo 45 for "Bring On The Night." ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 March 2025 at 4:16pm
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I see you edited your post to read "Japanese," and in that case, yes. It's on this CD:
https://www.discogs.com/release/6107284-Sting-The-Police-The-Very-Best-Of-Sting-The-Police - https://www.discogs.com/release/6107284-Sting-The-Police-The -Very-Best-Of-Sting-The-Police ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 09 March 2025 at 5:06pm
Aaron: I'm looking forward to hearing the details of the US Promo 45 when you get your copy. ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
Posted By: whyaduck
Date Posted: 10 March 2025 at 7:38pm
thanks! |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 11 March 2025 at 11:50pm
| Forgive me for veering off onto a totally unrelated side story here, but several years ago, I spent nearly a full month visiting Colombia, South America and was struck by all the '80s pop and rock music hits, mostly by British artists it seemed, that I heard played in stores and shopping malls in a country where most people speak little to no English. In particular, I remember hearing no less than five different songs by The Police, and thus, I began wondering if the band had a large following in Colombia? Well, when I asked a native about this, he simply told me that the music is largely treated as "background ambience" and that most people in Colombia probably don't pay much attention to it. Anyway, I just found that very interesting and imagined what it would be like to be here in the U.S. and regularly hear "foreign" music from four decades ago in a different language at most retail and business establishments? :-) |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 12 March 2025 at 3:48am
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It's my understanding that the Police were quite popular in
many Latin American countries and always drew big crowds to their concerts there. |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 12 March 2025 at 6:45am
Your experience and vision of The Police in South America is very interesting. Here in Argentina, The Police is a well-known and popular band with many followers and fans. It is one of the most influential bands in Argentine rock (Soda Stereo, Charly García, Virus, Zas, etc.). It emerged after the military dictatorship and the arrival of democracy. The arrival of democracy allowed the entry of cassettes and vinyl records of uncensored international rock, so that people could understand what happened in Argentina during the military governments. You could only get a Police, Queen, or Bob Marley album if you were lucky enough to travel abroad, or if a family member or friend brought one with them when they left Argentina. Everything else was censored, or the national editions had some songs removed from the LP, etc. Everything was controlled by the military, a terrible time, but it existed. ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 12 March 2025 at 6:51pm
| Thank you for sharing that, Marcelo! I'd be very interested to know if other South American countries like Colombia ever went through a similar situation with censorship of international popular music? I really ought not further deviate from the original message board topic, however, so feel free to Private Message me more about this, if you'd like! |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 18 March 2025 at 7:15pm
Of course, Todd, I like to share with you all how music was and is received in other parts of the world, with a huge influence on the American and European charts. ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 6:44am
A-ha is a rare case, as in Europe, but especially in Argentina and South America, they're a super popular band with many hits. In the US, however, they're considered a one-hit wonder. It's curious, though, and that's a topic for another post. Returning to this topic, I'd like to know if Aaron received a copy of the promo and if it's the same version that appears in the YouTube video I mentioned earlier. ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 9:46am
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I think it should be waiting for me at my PO Box. I'll report back once I have it here. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 3:55pm
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I received the record, and thankfully it wasn't snapped in half. The seller shipped it in a bubble mailer without any cardboard reinforcement. Anyhow, to answer Marcelo's question, no, the YouTube video is not a dub of the vinyl. Instead, someone created an edit to mimic the promo 45. While the edits are in the right place, they took some liberty to smooth out a couple edits (using a crossfade) that are rather clunky on the 45 (straight cuts). ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 4:26pm
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I put my headphones on for a closer listen, and I noticed something I hadn't before. "Bring On The Night" from Message In A Box has added reverb compared to the promo 45 AND the more recent remasters of Regatta De Blanc (2003 and 2019). When I worked on compiling things for my own collection a few years back, I liked the mastering on of this album on Message... over the later ones, but I clearly did not realize they used "doctored" masters (at least for this one track). Makes me wonder if they added reverb to any others on the box set.
EDIT: This might not be reverb but rather something related to Dolby decoding making it sound like the hi-hat has extra reverb. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 4:40pm
Further proof you can't always trust what people post. Sellers of records should know better then to not reinforce it. So the 45 is clunky? Interesting. I don't think the 45 ever charted on the Hot 100 or bubbling under. What parts are missing compared to the album version Aaron? ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 7:08pm
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One edit on the intro, three edits on the guitar solo, and an early fade. The guitar solo edits are noticeable. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 7:30pm
Aaron: Can you send me a copy? thanks. ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 20 March 2025 at 9:13pm
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Check your PM ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |