Tag: US

January 8, 2020

Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cities In Dust (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985

“Cities in Dust” is a song by English rock band Siouxsie & The Banshees from their seventh studio album, Tinderbox (1986). It was released on 18 October 1985 as the album’s lead single. The “Cities in Dust” 12-inch vinyl was the first Banshees’ single release in the United States, on Geffen Records.

“Cities in Dust” peaked at No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart. Although not Siouxsie and the Banshees’ first song to enter the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, it was their first significant success, climbing to No. 17.

Although the song is about a Volcanic eruption it can also interpret to include the aftermath of nuclear war leaving Cities In Dust.

SIDE A:
Cities In Dust (Edit) 4:06
Mixed By – Steve Churchyard

An Execution 3:54
Quaterdrawing Of The Dog 5:34

SIDE B:
Cities In Dust (Extended Eruption Mix) 6:48
Mixed By – Steve Churchyard

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1985	Cities In Dust	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#17

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Geffen Records ‎– 0-20399, Geffen Records ‎– 9 20399-0 A
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Maxi-Single, Allied Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Goth Rock, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Art Direction – Billy Houlston
Engineer – Julian Standen
Producer, Arranged By, Written-By – Siouxsie And The Banshees*

NOTES:
Made in U.S.A.

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EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
DAC/Phono Pre-amp: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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January 6, 2020

Bonzo Goes To Washington – 5 Minutes (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1984

“5 Minutes” is a 1984 single by music act Bonzo Goes To Washington which was a collaboration of musical brainchild P Funkster Bootsy Collins and Talking Heads member Jerry Harrison. The track’s lyrics are credited to “The Gipper,” a reference to Ronald Reagan’s role in “Knute Rockne, All American”. This famed track is based upon a sample of President Reagan’s actual joke pronouncement that he’d “outlaw Russia forever… we begin bombing in five minutes.”

SIDE A:
5 Minutes (C-C-C Club Mix) 5:30

SIDE B:
5 Minutes (R-R-R Radio Mix) 4:07
Edited By [Chopped And Channeled By] – Arthur Russell

5 Minutes (B-B-B Bombing Mix) 3:26
Edited By [Chopped And Channeled By] – Arthur Russell

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Sleeping Bag Records ‎– SLX-13
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Electro

CREDITS:
Artwork By [Cover] – Hugh Brown
Engineer – David Vartanian
Lyrics By, Voice [Sampled] – The Gipper
Music By – William Bootsy Collins*, Jerry Harrison
Producer, Mixed By –Daniel Lazerus, Jerry Harrison

NOTES:
Recorded at D.V. Recording | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jacket Made in Canada

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January 2, 2020

Duran Duran – Burning The Ground (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1989

Originally posted November 5, 2014

“Burning The Ground” is the 20th single by Duran Duran, released in December 1989. It was created as a stand-alone single to promote the compilation album Decade: Greatest Hits but didn’t appear on the album itself. However, its music video was included on the band’s audiovisual compilation Greatest, released in 1999 (VHS) and 2003 (DVD). The song is essentially a megamix of Duran Duran’s history, featuring tidbits of all of the band’s hits of the previous ten years.

Instrumental elements of “Save A Prayer”, “Hungry Like the Wolf”, “Rio”, “The Reflex” and “The Wild Boys”, including the camera flash sound from “Girls on Film”, form the core of the first part of the song, while the “chorus” is built up of alternating chants of “Girls!” (from “Girls on Film”) and “Boys!” (from “The Wild Boys”). The nonsense syllables from several songs, such as the “noh-noh” bits from “Notorious”, the “bop bop bop” from “Skin Trade” and the “tana nana” and the “fle fle fle fle flex” from “The Reflex”, were also incorporated. Elements from “A View To A Kill”, “Notorious”, “I Don’t Want Your Love” and later singles are gradually woven into the mix. Segments of the song are marked by signature phrases taken from other songs: first, “Can you hear me now?” (“Planet Earth”); later, “I tell you, somebody’s fooling around” (“The Reflex”) and “The rhythm is the power” (“I Don’t Want Your Love”). The title derives from a “Hungry Like the Wolf” lyric.

The song also used several sound samples from the film Barbarella, from which the band took their name: “Barbarella?” “Mr. President!” “Your Mission, find Durand Durand!” “Just a minute, I’ll slip something on!”

The remix was created by producer John Jones, with assistance from Dee Long and engineer Chris Potter, in an upstairs room at Olympic Studios in Barnes while Duran Duran was downstairs recording new material for the album Liberty, to be released the following year.

The b-side was another megamix, this one more instrumental in nature, called “Decadance”. The song uses the “why” bits of “The Reflex”, the “no, no” from “Notorious”, “wild” from “The Wild Boys”, the chorus from “All She Wants Is”, the solo from “Save a Prayer” mixed with “Rio”, and a little bit of “Skin Trade”, as well as some of the suggestive screams from “Hungry Like the Wolf”.

The single debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on February 10, 1990. After spending six weeks on the survey “Burning The Ground” peaked at #23. The single also charted in the U.K. #31 and Italy #17.

SIDE A:
Burning The Ground 4:00
Mixed By – Christopher Marc Potter
Other [Created By] – Duran Duran
Producer – John Jones , John Taylor , Nick Rhodes , Simon Le Bon , Sterling Campell*
Samples – Dee Long

SIDE B:
Decadance (Extended Mix) 7:56
Producer, Mixed By – Ben Chapman , Raine Shine

Decadance 3:30
Producer, Mixed By – Ben Chapman , Raine Shine

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1990	Burning The Ground	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#23

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – V-15546
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic, Pop, Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Artwork By [Sleeve Design] – Abrahams Pants

NOTES:
All tracks sampled from the album “DECADE”
B-side produced and mixed at Pacific & Ezee Studios.

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December 31, 2019

Various Artists – The Great 88′ Top Pop CD Medley (Rhythm Stick US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1989

As 2019 comes to a close and we begin a new year I thought it would be fun to post a medley from a great remix service Rhythm Stick. This particular medley closed out the year 1988 and features thirteen plus minutes of some of that year’s biggest dance hits. It is taken from Rhythm Stick 1-1 the services first ever release. The track was mixed by legendary remixer Steve Bourasa who also worked for Hot Tracks, Direct Hit, and Ultimix just to name a few. Steve created this medley using practically every CD Rhyth Stick had in the house according to the releases insert. I hope you enjoy this record as we party into 2020.

Wishing you all a safe and Happy New Year!

SIDE A:
Various – The Great 88′ Top Pop CD Medley 13:10
DJ Mix – Steve Bourasa

Johnny Kemp – Just Got Paid
Pretty Poison – Nightime
Nia Peeples – Trouble
Vanessa Williams – The Right Stuff
Narada* – Divine Emotion
Siedah Garrett – K.I.S.S.I.N.G.
Evelyn “Champagne” King – Hold On To What You’ve Got
Sweet Sensation – Never Let Go
Whitney Houston – Love Will Save The Day
Taylor Dayne – Prove Your Love
Samantha Fox – I Want To Have Some Fun
Inner City – Big Fun
Paula Abdul – (It’s Just) The Way That You Love Me
Sa-Fire – Boy I’ve Been Told
Jellybean – Jingo
Stevie B – Dreamin’ Of Love
Book Of Love – Tubular Bells/Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls
Erasure – Chains Of Love
Sinitta – Cross My Broken Heart
Rick Astley – Together Forever

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Rhythm Stick ‎– RS1-1
Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12″, Compilation, Promo, 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Acid House, House, Soul, Disco, Euro House, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Compilation Producer – Steve Bourasa
Graphics – Jameo Saunders
Management [Director] – Gini Spiersch
Mastered By – George Horn
Typography – He’s Your Type

NOTES:
Mastered @ Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA.
Rhythm Stick was a US promotional-only remix service.

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RESTORATION NOTES:
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