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[blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby humanracer » Wed May 02, 2018 5:40 pm

what's special about the 7" versions of SOS and United Kingdom? Aren't they just the album versions?
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby negative1 » Wed May 02, 2018 7:31 pm

humanracer wrote:what's special about the 7" versions of SOS and United Kingdom? Aren't they just the album versions?


i don't know, they might be edits:
4:48 S.O.S. (7") v
4:53 S.O.S. v, cs, cd, dig

3:13 United Kingdom v, cs, cd, dig
3:19 United Kingdom (7") v

i never really compared them.

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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby omar » Thu May 03, 2018 10:30 pm

The following are still on vinyl to my knowledge

1. Ocean Blue (Pacific Mix)
2. How To Be A Zillionaire (Wall St Mix)
3. How To Be A Zillionaire (Nickel & Dime Mix)
4. The Night You Murdered Love (Radio Edit)
5. Minneapolis (Edit)
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby humanracer » Fri May 04, 2018 2:38 pm

omar wrote:The following are still on vinyl to my knowledge

1. Ocean Blue (Pacific Mix)
2. How To Be A Zillionaire (Wall St Mix)
3. How To Be A Zillionaire (Nickel & Dime Mix)
4. The Night You Murdered Love (Radio Edit)
5. Minneapolis (Edit)


Pacific mix is on Absolutely but not labelled as such.
Wall st mix is on the 1993 "Remix Collection" and a few obscure compilations

Not too bothered about edits, especially radio ones but the following mixes I believe are unreleased:
Mantrap - The Lounge Sequence
How To Be A Billionaire [inst]
How To Be A Millionaire (acapella)
How To Be A Zillionaire (nickel & dime mix)
Be Near Me (ecstasy mix)
Tower Of London (extended version)
The Night You Murdered Love (bonus beats)
One Better World (organ mix)
The Real Thing (frankie knuckles mix)
The Real Thing (bruce forest mix)
The Real Thing (pickering-park mix) [inst]
Love Conquers All (the morales mix)
Say It (the black box instrumental)
Viva Love (brothers in rhythm mix
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby omar » Fri May 04, 2018 9:13 pm

humanracer wrote:
omar wrote:The following are still on vinyl to my knowledge

1. Ocean Blue (Pacific Mix)
2. How To Be A Zillionaire (Wall St Mix)
3. How To Be A Zillionaire (Nickel & Dime Mix)
4. The Night You Murdered Love (Radio Edit)
5. Minneapolis (Edit)


Pacific mix is on Absolutely but not labelled as such.
Wall st mix is on the 1993 "Remix Collection" and a few obscure compilations

Not too bothered about edits, especially radio ones but the following mixes I believe are unreleased:
Mantrap - The Lounge Sequence
How To Be A Billionaire [inst]
How To Be A Millionaire (acapella)


How To Be A Zillionaire (nickel & dime mix)
Be Near Me (ecstasy mix)
Tower Of London (extended version)
The Night You Murdered Love (bonus beats)
One Better World (organ mix)
The Real Thing (frankie knuckles mix)
The Real Thing (bruce forest mix)


The Real Thing (pickering-park mix) [inst]
Love Conquers All (the morales mix)
Say It (the black box instrumental)
Viva Love (brothers in rhythm mix



Perhaps I'm mistaken but isn't the Pacific Mix almost identical to the 7" except that at 2:25 min you hear the woman's voice screaming, whereas on the 7" you don't.
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby humanracer » Sat May 05, 2018 1:19 am

omar wrote:
humanracer wrote:
omar wrote:The following are still on vinyl to my knowledge

1. Ocean Blue (Pacific Mix)
2. How To Be A Zillionaire (Wall St Mix)
3. How To Be A Zillionaire (Nickel & Dime Mix)
4. The Night You Murdered Love (Radio Edit)
5. Minneapolis (Edit)


Pacific mix is on Absolutely but not labelled as such.
Wall st mix is on the 1993 "Remix Collection" and a few obscure compilations

Not too bothered about edits, especially radio ones but the following mixes I believe are unreleased:
Mantrap - The Lounge Sequence
How To Be A Billionaire [inst]
How To Be A Millionaire (acapella)


How To Be A Zillionaire (nickel & dime mix)
Be Near Me (ecstasy mix)
Tower Of London (extended version)
The Night You Murdered Love (bonus beats)
One Better World (organ mix)
The Real Thing (frankie knuckles mix)
The Real Thing (bruce forest mix)


The Real Thing (pickering-park mix) [inst]
Love Conquers All (the morales mix)
Say It (the black box instrumental)
Viva Love (brothers in rhythm mix



Perhaps I'm mistaken but isn't the Pacific Mix almost identical to the 7" except that at 2:25 min you hear the woman's voice screaming, whereas on the 7" you don't.


No in fact I just checked and the Pacific mix has different arrangement too
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby maccafan076 » Sun May 06, 2018 1:30 pm

Great blog on the ABC rarities. I didn't know about most of them. Is there a link to download them together or just separately?
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby negative1 » Mon May 14, 2018 3:33 pm

humanracer wrote:Hi

There is a good book about ABC by Dave Richards. It’s on Amazon but was not able to answer my questions.



i got that book on abc, it might have been good before the internet, its very out of date, and missing
quite a few releases. there's nothing there you cant get from wikipedia, discogs, and fansites.

just wanted to spare anyone else that's thinking about buying it.

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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby elevatorman » Tue May 15, 2018 9:58 am

Jeez. I wish I had noticed this thread and found Negative1's ABC blog a few years ago. Great stuff. Was nice being able to download some of the songs still. Thanks.
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby humanracer » Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:52 pm

Martin says he is thinking about a musical so no plans for rarities on CD : (
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby humanracer » Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:28 pm

negative1 wrote:last year, i made several ABC related music blogs.


this was one that i made for a 2cd remix and
singles compilation:
============================================
http://abcalphabetsoup.wordpress.com/

check it out, there are samples to listen
and download.

[preview] -> _abc__alphabet_soup____v0.7______

[preview]

ok, it’s been a little more than 10 years.

but it’s time to revisit this project,
because now we have all the material
for it.

this is the abc remix 2013 remix project,
and although some tracks have been
released on CD, there are still quite a
few that haven’t been yet.

i’ve done a major reorganization of the
tracks, and figured it made more sense
to put the tracks in order of release
chronologically, rather than by
my personal order.

take a look.
————–
changes – removed skyscraping(alternate mix)
+ added viva love(brothers in rhythm mix)

v=vinyl
cd=cd

[disc1]
format # title
———————————————————————-
v 1 3:35 Tears Are Not Enough (single version)
v 2 5:25 Alphabet Soup (short version)
cd 3 4:15 Man-Trap (the lounge sequence)
cd 4 7:17 The Look Of Love (parts one and two)
cd 5 5:00 The Look of Love (parts three and four)
v 6 4:27 All of my heart (early fade)
v 7 4:48 S.O.S. (7 inch)
v 8 3:19 United Kingdom (7 inch)
v 9 3:31 How To Be A Millionaire (single remix)
v 10 3:41 How To Be A Billionaire [inst]
v 11 3:30 How To Be A Millionaire (acapella)
v 12 5:22 How To Be A Zillionaire (nickel & dime mix)
v 13 4:45 Be Near Me (ecstasy mix)
cd 14 3:36 What’s Your Destination (be near me-inst)
v 15 6:13 Vanity Kills (the mendelsohn mix)
cd 16 5:38 Vanity Kills (u.s.a. remix)
v 17 5:58 Tower Of London (extended version)
——————————————————–
actual : 1:20:36

—————
[disc2]
format # title
——————————————————————-
cd 1 8:53 ABC Megamix
cd 2 3:38 Tower Of London [instrumental]
v 3 4:52 The Night You Murdered Love (bonus beats)
cd 4 5:26 King without a Crown(mendelsohn mix)
v 5 5:00 One Better World (organ mix)
v 6 6:25 One Better World (pickering-park mix)
v 7 7:03 The Real Thing (frankie knuckles mix)
v 8 7:12 The Real Thing (bruce forest mix)
v 9 4:01 The Real Thing (pickering-park mix) [inst]
v 10 6:01 The Greatest Love Of All (mayday mix)
v 11 4:38 Love Conquers All (the morales mix)
v 12 4:36 Love Conquers All (boilerhouse mix)
v 13 5:16 Say It (the black box instrumental)
- 14 8:11 Viva Love (brothers in rhythm mix)
—————————————————-
1:21:24

later
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Is there an error or has The Lounge Sequence been released on CD?
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby humanracer » Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:58 pm

The Pacific Mix of Ocean Blue doesn't have strings from Anne Dudley. The Internet is full of wrong info, keeps referring to it as the single mix. In fact the single mix is more similar to the ATLANTIC mix.
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby moni » Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:52 pm

In June 2014, it was revealed that a dozen early tapes had been discovered of rare remixes and unheard songs from ABC's first three albums. Why the hell aren't they releasing that stuff??
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby eddie » Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:00 am

moni wrote:In June 2014, it was revealed that a dozen early tapes had been discovered of rare remixes and unheard songs from ABC's first three albums. Why the hell aren't they releasing that stuff??


Because there is much, much more money to be made from a 'lexicon of love' musical. Long-term fans are not the target audience of most artists these days. The money is in over-priced ticket sales and if that can drag in a whole new audience who wouldn't, for example, ever attend an abc gig but will sit in a theatre for two hours and listen to people do bad cover versions while shoe-horning them into a 'narrative' so much the better.
Fuck's sake mate how do you manage all those usernames on guitars101 and greasy lake?
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Re: [blog] -> abc rare remixes and singles

Postby humanracer » Sat Aug 04, 2018 6:04 am

Does anyone have this rare instrumental mix of Poison Arrow https://www.discogs.com/ABC-Poison-Arro ... se/6851358

Also someone said there is a instrumental version of Millionaire that is different to Billionaire
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