Tag: US 12″ Promo

September 5, 2013

Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning (US 12″ Promo)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1987

Re-Rip Newly Remastered!

Originally I posted this one on June 7, 2010. But for those who may have missed it or if you are a new reader just discovering BTG. I decided to give this one a new rip with my newer Ortofon Super 30 stylus. This 12″ is also being posted in 24 bit flac for the very first time!

“Beds Are Burning” is a 1987 hit single by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, the first track from their album Diesel and Dust. This song was the second from the album to be released as a single, and is among the band’s best-known songs outside Australia.

It reached #1 in the South African charts, #3 in the Netherlands Top 40, #5 in the France Top 50, #6 in the United Kingdom charts, #11 in Ireland, #17 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and in Denmark.

It is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

It is named #95 on VH1′s 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s and #97 by the Triple J Hottest 100 Of All Time in 2009.

In May 2001, Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) celebrated its 75th anniversary by naming the Best Australian Songs of all time, as decided by a 100 strong industry panel. “Beds Are Burning” was declared third behind the Easybeats’ “Friday on My Mind” and Daddy Cool’s “Eagle Rock”

“Beds Are Burning” is a political song about giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi, who were among the very last people to come in from the desert. These ‘last contact’ people began moving from the Gibson Desert to settlements and missions in the 1930s. More were forcibly moved during the 1950s and 1960s to the Papunya settlement. In 1981 they left to return to their own country and established the Kintore community which is nestled in the picturesque Kintore Ranges, surrounded by Mulga and Spinifex country. It is now a thriving little community with a population of about 400. (Kintore and the town of Yuendumu are mentioned by name in the lyrics.)

Midnight Oil performed the song in front of a world audience of billions (including then Prime Minister John Howard) at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The whole band were dressed in black, with the word “sorry” printed conspicuously on their clothes. This was a reference to the Prime Minister’s refusal to apologize, on behalf of the government of Australia, to the Aboriginal Australians for the way they had been treated over the previous 200 years, particularly in relation to native title and the government-sanctioned removal of Aboriginal children of the Stolen Generations from their families.

The remixes contained on this 12″ are only available on this US promo.

SIDE A:
Beds Are Burning (Tamarama Mix) 8:04

SIDE B:
Beds Are Burning (Luongo 7″ Mix) 5:25
Beds Are Burning (Instrumental Ayers Rock Mix) 4:47
Beds Are Burning (Percapella Kangaroo Mix) 4:27

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1988	Beds Are Burning	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#17
1988	Beds Are Burning	U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	#6
1988	Beds Are Burning	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play	#20
1988	Beds Are Burning	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single’s Sales	#45

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Columbia – CAS 1113
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic
Style: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Credits: Engineer – Gary Hellman, Guy Gray
Engineer [Assistant] – John Magnusson
Producer – Midnight Oil, Warne Livesey
Remix, Edited By – John Luongo

NOTES:
Demonstration Not For Sale

Taken From The Columbia LP:
“DIESEL AND DUST”

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Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Pro-Ject Speed Box S
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

September 4, 2013

Kenny Loggins – Footloose (US 12″ Promo)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1984

“Footloose” is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of two singles by Loggins from the 1984 film of the same name. The song spent three weeks at number one, March 31—April 14, 1984 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and was the first of two number-one hits from the motion picture, Footloose. The song was very well received, and is one of the most recognizable songs recorded by Loggins. When the American Film Institute released its AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs, “Footloose” reached the 96th position. The song was covered by country music artist Blake Shelton for the 2011 remake of the 1984 film. The song has also been covered by “Weird Al” Yankovic, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and the Glee cast for the 2013 Glee episode “Girls (and Boys) On Film”.

SIDE A:
Footloose (Album Version) 3:46

SIDE B:
Footloose (Single Version) 3:42

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint (generic)

CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1984	Footloose	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#1
1984	Footloose	U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	#6

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Columbia ‎– AS 1810
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Pop, Rock
Style: Pop, Rock
Credits: Producer – Kenny Loggins, Lee DeCarlo
Written By – K. Loggins*

NOTES:
From The Original Soundtrack Of The Paramount Motion Picture:
“FOOTLOOSE”

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SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

August 30, 2013

Rod Stewart – Passion (US 12″ Promo)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1980

DISCO FRIDAY!

Re-Rip Newly Remastered!

Originally I posted this one on January 11, 2011. But for those who may have missed it or if you are a new reader just discovering BTG. I decided to give this one a new rip with my newer Ortofon Super 30 stylus. This 12″ is also being posted in 24 bit flac for the very first time!

“Passion” was the first single released in 1980 from Rod Stewarts tenth solo studio album ‘Foolish Behaviour”. The single peaked at #17 in the UK while reaching the #5 position on the US Billnoard Hot 100 in November 1980.

SIDE A:
Passion (Long Version) 7:36

SIDE B:
Passion (Short Version) 5:36

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint (company sleeve)

CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1980	Passion	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#5
1980	Passion	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play	#14
1980	Passion	U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	#65

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Warner Bros. Records – PRO-A-921
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Pop, Rock
Style: Pop Rock
Credits: Co-producer – Jeremy Andrew Johns*, Rod Stewart Group, The
Producer – Harry The Hook

NOTES:
From the LP:
“FOOLISH BEHAVIOUR”

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SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

August 28, 2013

Queen – One Vision (US 12″ Promo)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.

“One Vision” is a song written and recorded by British rock band Queen, first released as a single in November 1985 and then included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic. The song was alson included on the soundtrack of the 1986 film Iron Eagle. It was originally conceived by Roger Taylor.

The song has been speculated to be inspired by either the band’s “show-stopping” performance at Live Aid earlier in 1985, or by the life and exploits of Martin Luther King, with the lyrics recounting a man battling and overcoming the odds. In the 2011 BBC documentary, Queen: Days of Our Lives, Taylor stated his lyrics were “sort of half nicked off Martin Luther King’s famous speech.

“One Vision” contains mysterious and distorted beginning vocals (which on the album and extended versions, also appear throughout Roger Taylor’s drum section and in the end), most prominently the vocals retained in the single version.

The most prominent distorted vocals relay new lyrics when played forwards—they say, “God works in mysterious ways… mysterious ways…”. It is clearly shown during the portions of the studio recording session of “One Vision” on both the Magic Years documentary and the DVD Greatest Video Hits II that Freddie Mercury sings the line.

The final line of the song (in the studio, live, and “Blurred Vision” versions, in the album and extended versions the line before the final God works in mysterious ways… Mysterious ways…) is “fried chicken”, although the lyrics say “one vision”. This was the result of trying to come up with the proper wording of the song, and since it was not working, Mercury at some point introduced words that had nothing to do with the song for fun. The “fried chicken” survived, as a humorous note within the deep and inspired contents of the song.

An extensively remixed version of the song, titled “Blurred Vision” appears as the B-side of both the 7″ and 12″ single releases. It is exactly the same version on both formats. This is primarily an extended and completely different (but not in structure) version of Taylor’s drum section from the A-side. However, it retains the original ending, albeit with a longer version of the music from the end of the original’s intro plus an additional non-distorted sound over the final vocals “Vision vision vision vision…” (which are like those in the single version). It also repeats the existing famous distorted vocals, and adds new, less-prominent distorted vocals.

“One Vision” became another hit single for Queen in many countries, usually reaching the Top 40, where it did in the Netherlands (#21), Switzerland (#24), and Germany (#26). It also had very minor chart success on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at #61. It became a big hit in the band’s native UK, peaking at #7 in the singles chart, a strong showing for a rock band at a time when pop music was by far the more dominant genre in Britain. It also made #10 on Australia’s ARIA Chart.

SIDE A:
One Vision (Extended Vision) 6:28

SIDE B:
Blurred Vision 4:40

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1985	One Vision	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#61
1985	One Vision	U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	#19

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records ‎– V-15210
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo, Single
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock, Arena Rock
Credits: Artwork By [Design] – Queen Created By The Artful Dodgers
Engineer – Mack (2)
Photography [Cover] – David Bailey With Thanks To Live Aid
Producer – Mack (2), Queen
Written-By – Queen

NOTES:
From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “Iron Eagle”

Recorded at Musicland, Germany & Maison Rouge, London.

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SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi