#173

New single.

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#174

Soundsā€¦ a bit limp.

#175

Iā€™m not sure if itā€™s my hearing or speakers, but it sounds like itā€™s fading out for about 50% of the track.

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#176

Not sure about that one. Sounds a bit like Pet Shop Boys, but not as good.

#177

the intro and verse part sounds a lot like viva la vida by Coldplay

#178

Oh lovely - I was looking for it a few weeks ago but could only find that more recent comp with the 7ā€ versions.

#179

As great as Substance is, what were they thinking putting that version of Confusion on it.

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#180

Makes me think this would be what a new Electronic single would sound like.
Agree that the sound level seems to drop towards the end of the song.

#181

I like it. Nice simple pop. Radio 2 will probably play it to death :smiley:

#182

The edit at 7 seconds when the ā€˜bandā€™ comes in sounds really odd. Nearly sounds like itā€™s not been properly mixed or mastered

#183

Barneyā€™s vocal on the original is appalling so I can see why they would want to rerecorded it but in the spirit of Substance documenting the 12" versions of their singles I think they should have just left it (they also rerecorded Temptation didnā€™t they?)

#184

Thereā€™s a limited edition 12" of the single on the Mute Bank website, released in November.

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#185

Itā€™s better than Restless.

They seem to not even bothered trying to put a Hooky style bassline on it - I wonder if Bernard thinks they donā€™t need to now, or if it was part of the settlement the band made with Hooky to not impersonate him?

#186

It was always Hooky who made a case for his signature bassline. According to his autobiography, around 1987 he would leave Barney and Stephen Hague in the studio at night and come back int he morning and all his bass parts would have been redone on keyboards. So heā€™d kick up a fuss and theyā€™d be reinstated.

#187

Hmm - Iā€™d also read (doubt it was Bernardā€™s autobiography, butā€¦) Hooky wouldnā€™t write a bassline as such, just improvise over what Bernard had written, and those improvisations then had to be wrestled / produced into something usable.

Itā€™s probably six of one, half a dozen of the other

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#188

Yeah, very inferior version too. On the other hand Iā€™ve always preferred the '94 versions of True Faith/1963 - more bite to the arrangements

#189

Itā€™s always that Perfecto 7" mix that they play live these days from the 94 re-release

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#190

Restless is the best thing theyā€™ve done in the last 15 years - especially the extended version (imo)

#191

Yeah, depends on who you read, I guess. Whether Hooky wrote the hooks or just played to fit in with what was already down Iā€™m not sure, but he definitely seemed to think Hague (with Bernie in support) was trying to remove him from tracks altogether.

#192

Yeah love that intro, gives it a different kind of vibe. Love the snare intro too though!