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Post by retrodaddy on Mar 27, 2021 18:05:37 GMT -5
Prolly not in 'Most butchered' territory, but the edit of Rock Me Amadeus in this week's 1986 show was not appreciated by this listener.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 27, 2021 20:46:25 GMT -5
Prolly not in 'Most butchered' territory, but the edit of Rock Me Amadeus in this week's 1986 show was not appreciated by this listener. They did the same with Gordon Lightfoot! They chopped the 3:51 Circle 7" down to 2:10! There has to be a law against that! |
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 27, 2021 22:47:03 GMT -5
Prolly not in 'Most butchered' territory, but the edit of Rock Me Amadeus in this week's 1986 show was not appreciated by this listener. They did the same with Gordon Lightfoot! They chopped the 3:51 Circle 7" down to 2:10! There has to be a law against that! Absolutely! Call it the WINCES Act -- Weird, Irrelevant Nitpicking about Countdown Edits of Songs. Or the OMG Act -- Overwrought, Mindless Garbage. Wait -- so you actually sat there and timed the Lightfoot song? Wow. That's sad. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 28, 2021 19:46:40 GMT -5
Maybe not quite as bad as some, but Elt's Nikita always felt short changed. This week they chopped at least :30 off of the already significantly shortened 45.
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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 28, 2021 20:04:32 GMT -5
Dance Dance Dance by Chic--roughly 2 minutes! Just finished the last sentence and a 2 minute version of Dust In The Wind. Maybe if Casey hadn't told the story of the crash through the saloon--it could have had a longer play?
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 28, 2021 20:30:29 GMT -5
Dance Dance Dance by Chic--roughly 2 minutes! Just finished the last sentence and a 2 minute version of Dust In The Wind. Maybe if Casey hadn't told the story of the crash through the saloon--it could have had a longer play? My guess is Casey felt these kinda stories were what made AT40 AT40 which is why they continued even if it meant increasing the number of song edits. |
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 29, 2021 6:07:03 GMT -5
Dance Dance Dance by Chic--roughly 2 minutes! Just finished the last sentence and a 2 minute version of Dust In The Wind. Maybe if Casey hadn't told the story of the crash through the saloon--it could have had a longer play? My guess is Casey felt these kinda stories were what made AT40 AT40 which is why they continued even if it meant increasing the number of song edits. Remember Dan Ingram's Top 40 Satillite Survey in the 1980's that was a 3 hour countdown? Dan didn't tell stories behind the artists much! |
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Post by Hervard on Mar 29, 2021 9:35:16 GMT -5
My guess is Casey felt these kinda stories were what made AT40 AT40 which is why they continued even if it meant increasing the number of song edits. Remember Dan Ingram's Top 40 Satillite Survey in the 1980's that was a 3 hour countdown? Dan didn't tell stories behind the artists much! Yeah - I remember, during the last six or so months of the show, they also got rid of Dan joking around with Melvin The Computer (the one who was most known for the electronic chart position mentions), along with the "word of the day". Even with this, there was still need to edit down songs (usually by fading them out early). |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 31, 2021 16:02:37 GMT -5
One week, Casey mentioned the harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder, and that was the part that was cut out instead of the second verse. I assume that this was Premiere's doing. I'll have to check my originals on that. But this appears likely to be Premiere edits. I'll report back. Forgot about this one. Casey mentions this in its debut week (11/19/1983), and the song isn't edited. So it was Premiere. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 11, 2021 17:43:06 GMT -5
This entire 1977 show was just slaughtered. They played, what, a minute of Rich Girl and 90 seconds of Silvetti? And I don't know why, I don't recall any of the 40 being particularly long songs. There was no Meatloaf in this countdown.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 11, 2021 20:32:14 GMT -5
This entire 1977 show was just slaughtered. They played, what, a minute of Rich Girl and 90 seconds of Silvetti? And I don't know why, I don't recall any of the 40 being particularly long songs. There was no Meatloaf in this countdown. "Hotel California", maybe? And if they had to cut so many songs down then maybe they didn't need to include an extra ("At Seventeen", which Premiere moved to optional status). By now someone at AT40 or ABC/Watermark must have been thinking, "hmmm, wonder if maybe we should expand the show to four hours someday, to let the songs play out more and stick in more extras and interesting stories?" I didn't listen to the B show specifically this week, but of the songs included "Sam", "The Things We Do For Love", "I Like Dreamin", "Night Moves", and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" are among those that seem to have been frequently cut down in this period. Though I did hear a SXM show a few weeks ago that included "Sam" in its entirety. |
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Post by Hervard on Apr 12, 2021 9:10:39 GMT -5
This entire 1977 show was just slaughtered. They played, what, a minute of Rich Girl and 90 seconds of Silvetti? And I don't know why, I don't recall any of the 40 being particularly long songs. There was no Meatloaf in this countdown. Yeah, they cut the chorus of "Rich Girl" in half, to avoid the line with the b-word in it, and didn't they fade it out early, as well? Truly, a four-hour show was called for, several years before it finally became a reality. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 12, 2021 16:35:36 GMT -5
This 1978 show is full of butcher shop favorites:
Love Is Like Oxygen
Fantasy
This Time I'm In It For Love
Thunder Island
Love Is Thicker Than Water
Dust In the Wind
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Post by trekkielo on Apr 12, 2021 18:33:15 GMT -5
This 1978 show is full of butcher shop favorites: Love Is Like Oxygen Fantasy This Time I'm In It For Love Thunder Island Love Is Thicker Than Water Dust In the Wind Sweet Talkin' Woman |
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Post by matt on Apr 13, 2021 18:20:04 GMT -5
"Dirty Laundry" -- went to edit the full version into the 1/29/83 show from a couple months ago and had to listen to about a half-dozen shows before finally finding one that played the song in full (which turned out to be 12/11/82). All the other ones to which I listened had the second verse and the first guitar solo (the Joe Walsh solo) chopped. Not sure if any of those were original AT40 edits or if all were Premiere's handywork?
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