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

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)

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

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.

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.

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
-1

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??