"Only the Lonely" - The Motels
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Topic: "Only the Lonely" - The Motels
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Only the Lonely" - The Motels
Date Posted: 30 July 2008 at 6:22pm
| The actual commercial 45 run time of the Motels' "Only the Lonely" is 3:15. (The stated time on the record label is 3:16. These timings are courtesy of abagon.) The only reason I post this information is because database CD appearances of this song run from 3:10-3:16. |
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Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 15 October 2013 at 6:23pm
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The oldest CD appearance I've heard for this song is Capitol's Motels best-of No Vacancy (1990). The song sounds great here, with excellent dynamic range, nice EQ, no evidence of noise reduction, and seemingly low-generation source tapes. The volume level is a little low, but that's not much of an issue.
All the other CD appearances that I have for this song all use the same analog transfer as No Vacancy, which is neat. In general, all sound excellent, with roughly the same sound quality for all of them. These include:
The one exception: The version on swaitek's 50-CD promo set The A List Disc 14 (1994) uses a different source, has a very thin EQ, and has noise reduction - avoid. I suspect that it's based on a TM Century disc. My recommendation: May as well go for the source, Capitol's No Vacancy (1990), although Living In Oblivion or most of the other discs I listed will sound just fine as well. ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |
Posted By: Bwci Bo
Date Posted: 16 October 2013 at 2:00pm
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Thanks for the detailed breakdown of CD sources for this track, crapfromthepast.
It's no surprise that the A List disc doesn't sound too good if there's a high likelihood it was based on a TM Century disc. We played this track off an early Gold Disc at one of the radio stations I worked for in the early 1990s, and I always thought it sounded terrible. Definitely some evidence of noise reduction present and a shrill, brittle sound overall. |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 19 May 2015 at 6:40pm
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Thanks to Jim for sending me the version from No
Vacancy. I edited the above post to include the No Vacancy info. ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |
Posted By: headstar
Date Posted: 16 August 2020 at 2:04am
It's weird, Audiochecker detects "Only The Lonely" from the "No Vacancy" CD as lossy/MPEG sourced. But the same song from the "Back To The '80s" CD is detected as 100% CDDA/lossless. Did MP3 exist back then? |
crapfromthepast wrote:Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 16 August 2020 at 9:09am
Mp3 did not exist back in 1990. The earliest known instance of an mp3 encoder release was July 7, 1994 and the extension .mp3 did not exist until July 15, 1995. It wasn't until about 1997-1998 when P2P and its popularity skyrocketed. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |