oakey
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Post by oakey on Feb 18, 2015 15:55:29 GMT -5
I also dislike Drug, either version. Difficult to imagine that a dispute over the mix of this very mediocre song almost caused John to quit the band at the time.
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Post by missing on Feb 18, 2015 16:27:09 GMT -5
I think the question we're all ignoring is this: is the "original" Drug better or worse than the Big Thing 12" remix? Honestly, I think that is the worst song of all time by the band. Just soooooo awful.
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Post by blaahh on Feb 18, 2015 18:13:51 GMT -5
Drug is of its time, its a clumsy attempt at house but far from the worst ever, the big thing remix also falls into that category for me. Surely Venice Drowning, To Whom It May Concern and Bedroom Toys are at the bottom of Dante's Inferno!
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Post by medazzaboy1997 on Feb 19, 2015 11:23:27 GMT -5
I vote for the remix.
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Post by More Play Time on Feb 21, 2015 16:51:35 GMT -5
Drug is a good song, of course not the best thing on the album. I think Nicks funk mix is better than the rock version Andy and JT were working on, but thats just my taste. I've had the 12" remix in my head all week. Not a bad mix, and I like the piano.
(edit: yes, the live version is one of my fav tracks ever..see below)
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Post by autodidact97 on Feb 21, 2015 19:54:24 GMT -5
if I have to listen to this song "Drug" .... I rather hear the live version which is a bit better and upbeat.
The whole BIG THING Album just seemed boring with dry drums, heck LAND and PALOMINO had low volume structures but damn they were sweet as hell.
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Post by madoldlu on Feb 25, 2015 11:29:18 GMT -5
I don't dislike Drug, but I did think it was funny how John spoke of loving the original version and regretted giving in to releasing the other version on the record, and then finally listening to his preferred version and finding the differences to be not that vast at all!
I don't love side 1 of the album. I feel the production is kinda wimpy. I think it was the style of drum sounds at the time that made drums sound weak and tinny. I particularly hated how they sounded on the main track Big Thing, where the drums should have been heavy, reverberating cannon blasts (to go with the idea of a "big thing") and instead sound like pencils on a bucket. And I find Too Late Marlene a little bland as well, and really hate the insipid drum sound in that one too. I do like IDWYL (and yes, maybe the single version edges out the album version for me too), and ASWI (although I tend to forget how good a song it is until I stumble across it again). But once DYBIS starts, I love it pretty much all the way through. I LOVE Palomino, and I LOVE I Believe/All I Need to Know (probably my favorite of that album even though it wasn't actually on it).
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Post by More Play Time on Feb 26, 2015 9:05:12 GMT -5
"Pencils in a bucket" - I couldn't agree more! When I head Powerstation's Some Like it Hot, with those amazing Tony Thompson drums, and I head 'Big' Thing, there is just no excuse for it. I can also hear Andys guitar ripping streaks of hard rock throughout the track; and although you can hear a few cranks in the NoCymb album version, it still sounds weak compared to Powerstation. The 7" remix of Big Thing went the other way and made an elastic funk-house record. I prefer the 12" version of the remix, but its still not amazing compared to the best they could have done; but again I love the piano in the 12" remix - like the Drug 12" remix. I like this '88 House period, and I had all the 12" singles and versions of course - very collectable at the time. Not something we get much now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 13:00:01 GMT -5
Just played the original version and its made my ears go funny..
Regards Cousin Dougal
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