DEAD OR ALIVE - "You Spin Me Round"
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Topic: DEAD OR ALIVE - "You Spin Me Round"
Posted By: abagon
Subject: DEAD OR ALIVE - "You Spin Me Round"
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 11:33pm
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DEAD OR ALIVE - "You Spin Me Round(Like A Record)"
The actual 45 running time is (3:12), the listed time is "3:19" on the record label. (EPIC 34-04894) |
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Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 10:24am
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Although I don't have the original issued album. This song of my stock compilation CD made in Japan is the running time of "3:17". It has the repeat 4 times of "Rock it" at the opening (about 3.62 seconds). But the commercial 45 doesn't have it. If the LP has also "the opening repeat", I think that it's possible to add the descriptions of "45 version and LP version" to the db.
Could anyone verify this tune on the LP? please. |
Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 8:00pm
| My "Youthquake" U.S. vinyl LP does not fit the description mentioned by Abagon. |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:19am
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Dear Pat. Thank you very much. It makes me very glad to know that.
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Posted By: cherbette
Date Posted: 27 July 2010 at 10:00am
| I know this is an old topic...but I was a bit confused by this thread. Is the commercial 7" the same as the U.S. Youthquake LP version or does it differ? |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 27 July 2010 at 9:48pm
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According to the database, they are the same. The LP referred to in the
above post is a Japanese pressing that abagon has, which appears to be different from the US LP. |
Posted By: cherbette
Date Posted: 28 July 2010 at 2:22pm
| @abagon can you provide the Catalog numbers for this LP which contains the alternate version of this track? |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 28 July 2010 at 10:49pm
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Welcome to the board, cherbette.
This alternate version I possess is NOT the vinyl LP. This contains the compilation CD "We are the '80s FM802 Sunday Sunset Studio Original Compilation." Catalog number - "SONY RECORDS SRCS 7735" 16 tracks released in 1995, made in JAPAN. 1. Foot Loose/KENNY LOGGINS 2.Manic Monday/BANGLES 3.Who Can It Ne Now?/MEN AT WORK 4.99 Luftballons/NENA 5.Break My Stride/MATTHEW WILDER 6.Gotta Pull Myself Together/THE NOLANS 7.Talking In Your Sleep/THE ROMANTICS 8.867-5309/Jenny/TOMMY TUTONE 9.Everytime You Go Away/PAUL YOUNG 10.The Warrior/SCANDAL featuring PATTY SMYTH 11.Goody Two Shoes/ADAM ANT 12.You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)/DEAD OR ALIVE 13.Time After Time/CYNDI LAUPER 14.Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)/JOURNEY 15.Overnight Success/TERI DeSARIO 16.Magic/DICK St. NICKLAUS --abagon I corrected the above track listing for typo. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 8:05pm
Sorry, I misread your post! Thank you for clarifying and for posting the track listing of the Japanese compilation. |
abagon wrote:Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 6:54am
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No problem, aaronk. Sorry for the posting that has ambiguous expression by me in 2008.
--abagon |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 7:08am
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The "rocket rocket" intro appeared on the Dead or Alive CD Rip It Up, which was a pseudo-greatest hits collection where the songs were all mixed together. A very good CD, actually, but not if you're trying to hunt down the 45 versions.
I'm pretty sure that's the first place it showed up, but not 100% certain. |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 8:59am
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I found the same version as the Japan compilation CD version which has the "rocket rocket" intro on the youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koVrEpYkjv8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koVrEpYkjv8 This doesn't have a re-mix. I don't know when the "rocket rocket" intro has appeared first. The Japan compilation CD version might be unique to Japan. --abagon |
Posted By: Steve Sharp
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 7:11pm
| I'm pretty sure I have a UK compilation that has that intro. Everything else sounded the same to my ear. I can investigate, if anyone can use that information. |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 31 July 2010 at 9:21am
I want to know it very much. Could you provide that information? thanks. --abagon |
Posted By: Steve Sharp
Date Posted: 01 August 2010 at 11:23am
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http://www.discogs.com/Various-Pop-Wave-Vol-3-Lots-More-Hits -Of-The-80s/release/508095
From Germany. On Disc 2, track 7. I just had a look at it in Audition, and it's 3:16. |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 01 August 2010 at 10:46pm
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Because the Germany CD was released in 1993 earlier than the Japan compilation CD. I could realize that the Japan compilation CD version wasn't unique to Japan. I assume an original European version including the "rocket" intro exists.
--abagon |
Posted By: Steve Sharp
Date Posted: 02 August 2010 at 4:07am
| I've always presumed that that intro was removed for the U.S., while Europe (and Japan, apparently) got that intro, on the LP version. |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 02 August 2010 at 7:28am
| According to allmusic.com, Rip It Up came out in 1987. I still think this is the first instance of the "rocket rocket" intro. |
Posted By: abagon
Date Posted: 02 August 2010 at 11:10pm
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I also browsed Allmusic.com. As my thinking... we will be able to conclude about an origin of the "rocket" intro when we've got the "Rip It Up" CD, the U.K. original single and the U.K. pressing "Youthquake" vinyl LP. Also, the Japan commercial 45 is the same version as the U.S. compilation CD "18 Modern Rock Classics From The 80's" (those don't include the "rocket" intro). Thus I think as well as crapfromthepast report that the "Rip It Up" is the first CD including "rocket" intro. But I can't drop the thinking that U.K. original items might include that intro. I'll report back when I get the above three items in the future. Thank you, Steve Sharp & crapfromthepast.
--abagon |
Posted By: NightAire
Date Posted: 14 May 2017 at 3:55am
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Some (hopefully) interesting chart trivia about this one:
While it was released November 5th 1984, it didn't even enter the Hot 100 until June 1st 1985 (at #88). It entered the top 40 on June 29th, the top 20 on July 27th, and peaked at #11 on August 17th. By September 14th it was out of the top 40 and completely gone by October 5th. ("Lover Come Back To Me" had already started up the charts.) ------------- Gene Savage http://www.BlackLightRadio.com - http://www.BlackLightRadio.com http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage - http://www.facebook.com/TulsaSavage Tulsa, Oklahoma USA |
Posted By: David Pro
Date Posted: 08 September 2020 at 10:24am
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I found the Rip It Up
version of "You Spin Me Round" in YT and it doesn't have the "Rock It" intro. It starts with Pete Burns saying "Watch out here I come". https://youtu.be/Zy9d4GVyw-M This version runs 4:27 and I think it was included on the second volume of the soundtrack to the 1998 film The Wedding Singer. |