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Buyer Rating: 94.7% positive (19 ratings)

Whipping Boy - Twinkle - 03-Feb-09 04:54 PM
As much as I love this song (and I truly DO love the original album version of this song—so austere, grand, sweeping, bitter and melancholic. The right balance of angsty intensity and sappy melodramatic confessional), this version really doesnt do it justice. Due to the fact that it had to fit the radio broadcasting format, it has been truncated to a shorter length than the album version. This was done by actually chopping out a few vocal lines and going more quickly into the chorus. I feel that this treatment rushes the song too much, doesnt allow it to breathe and build properly on the lift into the huge refrain. Its almost like when you watch a preview for a movie, and it uses a song you love, but with the songs parts cut-n-pasted together in an incorrect order (to fit the visual events happening onscreen) that your ears find jarring and wrong.

Blur - Bang / She's So High (The "MindWarp Mutations" Remixes) - 03-Oct-08 03:23 PM
Blur notoriously hated this release; their US record company had the songs remixed without the bands approval and released the 12" as a promo just as the band was touring the US for the very first time. (This is paraphrased from the official Blur biography, "3862 Days".) However, its a fairly enjoyable, solid enough representation of middle-of-the-road remixes from that era — slightly ravey with some Shamen samples and a bit of deep house tossed in. The remix of "Shes So High" is really the selling point on this, it keeps much of the flavor of the original while adding some heavy, trippy drums and moany voices.

Ride - Cosmic Carnival - 18-Sep-08 01:58 AM
Unbelievably briliant, especially the two "End of the Universe" songs (the original and the Loz Colbert dub version). Also the spacy Andy Bell remix of "I Dont Know Where It Comes From", the Portishead remix of "Moonlight Medicine" and the horn-filled, Small Faces-esque "Lets Get Lost". Honestly, the only unnecessary thing on here is the single version of "I Dont Know Where It Comes From", which is a sadly truncated radio edit with that Rolling Stones-ish childrens-choir bit at the end lopped off. Everything else on this Japan-only compilation is totally rare and absolutely awesome. Ride fans take notice!