Roxette - "Dangerous"
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Topic: Roxette - "Dangerous"
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Subject: Roxette - "Dangerous"
Date Posted: 08 November 2007 at 10:01pm
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I don't have a promo CD single for this, so I want to check with someone who does.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the LP version starts with a 16-beat guitar intro and runs about 3:48. I have this version on
Is this a cappella intro really the US single version? There was no vinyl 7", so this would have been the cassette single. Anyone have the promo CD single? |
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 12:14am
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Ron, we got in two different promo CD singles for this, with no listed times anywhere, on either one:
Roxette-"Dangerous" (DPRO-4445) 1-Album Version (actual time 3:49) 2-Club Edit (actual time 3:46) 3-Extended Club Mix (actual time 6:25) Roxette-"Dangerous" (DPRO 04516) 1-Power Mix (Short Version) (actual time 3:37) 2-Power Mix (Long Version) (actual time 7:01) 3-A/C Version (actual time 3:48) 4-Album Version (actual time 3:47) |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 12:19am
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Jim:
Do you remember playing the version on the radio that starts with the acapella intro that Ron mentions? I've come across a version that sounds very similiar to Ron's description of the 7" version. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 2:21am
| John And Ron, the DPRO-4445 "Club Edit" starts with the a cappella, "Hold on tight...", while the DPRO 04516 "A/C Version" starts with the a cappella, "Oooh, you're a little bit dangerous". Those are the ONLY two a cappella intros present, for all of the combined versions. We played the "Album Version" back in 1990. |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 7:28am
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Jim - The 7" Version from my foreign CD single starts with "Hold on tight...", so it appears to be the Club Edit from DPRO-4445.
It sounds like the album version got a lot more traction from radio here in the US than the others, being "track 1" on the first promo single. I can't remember which version my station played; it seems like I repressed all the Roxette songs. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 8:11am
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The version I have also starts out with "Hold on tight..."
Had Aaron listen to it, and it's the 7" version. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 12:45pm
| Yes, the "Hold on tight..." intro version is the one on my TM library. Based on the fact that the db has no designator, I'm guessing that the vinyl or cassette single contained the album version? |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 10:23am
| Bumpingn this one up to answer more questions about the 7" or single version of Dangerous. |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 4:14pm
Actually, there was a US 7-inch single for this song. I have a copy. |
crapfromthepast wrote:Posted By: Oddbjorn
Date Posted: 14 November 2007 at 11:33am
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The UK single (EMI EMI 149) and Swedish Album version of Dangerous (Look Sharp - Parlophone 7910982) start with a guitar intro and 'Oooh, just a little bit dangerous'
at 0:09 - fades out at 3:48. I suppose this match none of the US versions. The Swedish Greatest His (Don't bore us .. - EMI 8354662) has a version of 3:46 w/accapella 'Hold on tight..' at the beginning - the cover tells Single Version. In US this is probably both the Single and Album Version then? ------------- OddNor |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 14 November 2007 at 7:15pm
I can only speak for the vinyl 45, but what you're describing was on the 45. By that time though, vinyl wasn't the main singles format anymore. |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 10:09pm
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I was digging through my 45s looking for "It Must Have Been Love", and discovered that I have a commercial US 45 for "Dangerous". Neat!
The A-side is labelled 'LP version', with a printed time of 3:50. It starts with 16 beats of the guitar intro, like all the CDs I described above. The B-side is also "Dangerous", labelled '12" Version' with a printed time of 6:26. It's the same as the 'Waste Of Vinyl 12" Mix' from my Swedish (?) CD single, also with a printed time of 6:26. Does this mean that the "hit", and the only version commercially released here in the US, is the guitar-intro LP version? (Excluding the 12", of course.) |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 12:21am
That depends on your definition of "hit version," I suppose. I remember hearing that acapella intro version on the air quite a bit, so there could be more than one "hit" version, in my opinion. |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 2:08pm
This version also appears on my Canadian pressing of this CD. Can someone confirm which version appears on the U.S. pressing of the Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus - Greatest Hits CD? As previously stated in this thread, the U.S. single version is the same version that appeared on the Look Sharp! album. |
Posted By: mainrhythm
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 6:35pm
| Don't know if this helps, but my US promo of Don't Bore Us has the acapella intro version. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 11:07am
| Mainrhythm, I think you might be onto something. Perhaps the database needs to reflect this info. |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 8:12pm
| I have obtained the cassette single of "Dangerous" and the lead track states "album version" and is indeed the album version as found on the "Look Sharp" album. |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 23 August 2020 at 12:00am
Consider that I always heard the acapella version (the 7 inch club edit) here in New York back in 1990 on the stations, so I can confirm. So I concur with Aaron that both probably got airplay. In a year where almost everything is a cd single, I would go with the 7 inch club edit. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 23 August 2020 at 6:05am
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Seemed about 50/50 where I was at the time (southern
N.H./Boston market). We played the album version at first, switched to the club edit later. ISTR Kiss 108 in Boston playing both. |
Posted By: AaronsAmazing
Date Posted: 04 April 2026 at 4:39pm
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I just found this "US Club Edit" version on YouTube. It appears to be the same as the European 7" version but it has some differences, such as extra backing vocals and a cold ending. Does anyone know where it came from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpqk9bBnCo&list=RD8mpqk9bBnCo&start_radio=1&pp=ygUeUm94ZXR0ZSBkYW5nZXJvdXMgdXMgY2x1YiBlZGl0oAcB" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpqk9bBnCo |
Posted By: MangoMusic
Date Posted: 04 April 2026 at 4:56pm
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That's a competely different mix from the "US Club Edit" found on the UK CD Single - https://www.discogs.com/release/1064003-Roxette-Listen-To-Your-Heart-Dangerous" rel="nofollow - https://www.discogs.com/release/1064003-Roxette-Listen-To-Your-Heart-Dangerous
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Posted By: EternalStatic
Date Posted: 06 April 2026 at 9:44am
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I won't pretend to know all the ins and out of Roxette's worldwide discography -- but the version in the Youtube video is likely to be someone's homemade edit in my opinion. The cold ending and the parts with extra echo, etc., after the first verse seem to come from the 'Extended Club Mix' (aka 'Waste of Vinyl 12" Mix'). Roxette fans are pretty observant (collecting all those random mixes and releases takes attention to detail for sure), and the fact that this alternate version doesn't appear to have been mentioned on Discogs, etc., throughout the years is suspicious to me. Again, just my opinion though! |
Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 06 April 2026 at 10:38am
| EsternalStatic, I second your opinion. MangoMusic, how is that "US Club Edit" in the UK CD single different from the one in the US promo? I hear the same version. |
Posted By: MangoMusic
Date Posted: 06 April 2026 at 2:56pm
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I don't have the US Promo so I can't advise. The mix featured on the UK CD Single (double a side with the re-released Listen To Your Heart) is the version I would hear Benny Brown playing on the American Countdown here in the UK, I always found it odd that it was labelled as "US Club Edit" as it doesn't sound like a club mix at all. On further investigation it appears the UK CD Single is in fact mislabelled. According to the discography page on The Daily Roxette "The US Club edit is really the Swedish 7″ version".
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Posted By: elcoleccionista
Date Posted: 06 April 2026 at 3:57pm
| I have the promo disc with the "club" mixes and can confirm it features the same version found on track 4 of the UK CD single. And just like you, I found it misleading that they labeled them like that. It would have made much more sense to name the Daniel Abraham "power mixes" that way, those were the ones that got played in the clubs. Labelling is often times best ignored, this is one of those cases where the same version is named differently depending on the country. On the German "Dangerous" CD single, this very same version we are discussing is simply the "7" Version". |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 06 April 2026 at 9:53pm
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For what it's worth, the "Club Edit" from track 2 of the US promo CD single EMI USA DPRO 4445 is a differently EQ'd digital clone of the "7 Inch Version" from track 1 of the Swedish CD single EMI 1363412. The tail of the fade is about 2 beats shorter on the USA disc, but the odds are pretty minimal that you'll find the Swedish CD single in circulation. (I have owned exactly one Swedish single over the years, and am glad that I finally got to use it for this post!) ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |