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Version of "Spending My Time" ?
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sweepi said on January 23, 2003 18:18:
Just the other day, as turning on the radio, I heard this (at least to me) curious version of “Spending My Time”... I didn’t catch it from the start, rather nearing the end, so I can’t give details about the beginning. Yet, the bit I got to hear, something on it was sounding funny (= different). The drum-beats seemed to sound heavier... More powerful... Like echoing almost... (Or was I hearing things!?) Plus: just before the end, before the line “Spending my time / I can’t live without your love”, Marie shouts this Per-alike “aaaow!”! I was like “huh?”, which version of “Spending My Time” is that one?! Anyone who knows?...
sweepi said on January 23, 2003 18:45:
Hmm... Thanx roxtexanet! No chance to notice that other detail you mention tho’... I really only caught the ending of the song as it was playing already when I turned the radio on... :(
coyboyusa said on January 23, 2003 18:59:
i still cant get over how in the video its not a clock but the display of the thing u use to weigh vegetables
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 24, 2003 03:20:
Sweepi, which radio station did you hear this on? Which country/location?
I quite enjoy the AC Mix of “Spending My Time.” I’ve only managed to find a fair quality version of it though. I love the “aaoww!” part from Marie though! Also, I don’t understand why the “hoping that you *is* missing me too” part was even kept!
Anybody have any information on the recording of the AC Mix for “Spending My Time”? Perhaps it was the initial vocal that was recorded and that’s why we hear the *is*?
tevensso (moderator) said on January 24, 2003 08:16:
It’s probably the first version, Per sings IS in the demo as well. They probably punched in ARE, or the whole sentence, in the recording when discovered. Strange that they left the AC unchanged...
sweepi said on January 25, 2003 00:02:
@ Mfan28179-Jason: Portugal. On RFM ( http://www.rfm.pt ). This is a national radio station, broadcasting to the whole country, one of the biggest and most popular, meaning most heard, and actually quite Roxette friendly too. :) Most likely every day they play Roxette. I myself don’t actually listen so much to the radio, but, when so, and when to this station, sooner or later Roxette pops up for certain. :)
But then, back to this version of SMT they played the other day, the AC mix as so it is called, hmmm... Rather curious to come to find these being played here, being them an US promo issue (only?), isn’t it?... I mean, first it was LTYH, also the AC mix curiously (the “saxophone version” as you guys were calling it, which btw yesterday I heard again), now SMT... Funny huh?... I already even e-mailed both of the radios playing each of these songs, asking where they have them from, which record, but, no reply has arrived yet... We’ll see...
BTW now I got curious on somehting else: what does “AC” stand for?... :P (Mfan28179-Jason, I recall you saying the other day, in that thread on the LTYH “saxophone version”: “...got airplay on AC stations back in 1989...”. You mean AC refers/referred to some chain of radio stations, there in the US, is that it?...)
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 25, 2003 04:45:
Yep, Adult Contemporary it is. I just find it quite funny that EMI America even found the need to remix these songs for AC format. I think that the songs in their original forms already work well for the format. In any case, it’s nice to have different mixes. It’s also interesting to hear that the U.S. AC mixes of these songs are getting airplay in other countries too.
Ferdan said on January 25, 2003 07:28:
I think it is sick to reformat a song for certain ears.... well, actually those ears are sick
i_jera said on January 25, 2003 09:55:
Adult Contemporary??!! hmff...? really?!
(or this was a joke? sorry, sometimes I don’t seem to understand the ordinary things...)
coyboyusa said on January 25, 2003 18:00:
adl;ut contemporary is for the peoepl who r in like their mid 40’s who are afraid of rock music lol or anything upbeat...the ac version of flaf and almost unreal r so horrible
sweepi said on January 26, 2003 15:56:
About AC, so I see... So it’s a specific “style” of radio stations aiming to a specific audience, (rather than what I was initially thinking), I see... (Not that I actually see that much of a difference between that AC mix of SMT and its normal version, making the latest “less appropriate” for such target audience, but anyways. :P ) But still on the song itself, the AC mix of SMT, and as well of the other songs for which by then those AC mixes were made, so were them an exclusive promo release for the US, in the case for AC radios, was that it? Coz that leads me to wonder how they got to get here... Hmmm... :P (Were these mixes only available on those US promos?)
eBay said on January 24, 2005 15:56:
I don’t get the whole thing with AC Versions of a sing either. Well maybe for a rock kinda song. But why have an AC Mix of a ballad?? Take Almost Unreal for instance, it is quite difficult to hear the differences of the AC Mix to the normal single mix...
AURYTE said on January 25, 2005 06:31:
I’m getting jealous that Lithuanian radio stations play only the usual stuff...
roxtexanet said on January 23, 2003 18:27:
Yup, it’s the AC mix from the US promo CD single... notice that Marie sings, “hoping that you *is* missing me too” in there, instead of “are” ?