David Bowie

[frankie teardrop]

i'd be curious to hear some of those edits. i've never found much place for radio edits of songs (see 'heroes' for example, whose majesty is compromised by shaving 2 minutes off it, even if it *is* sung in german). however, pushing ahead of the dame is swearing by the shorter versions of never let me down tracks, and i see a lot on your playlists, so i'm curious about it.

i also just discovered a 12'' extended mix of 'beauty and the beast'-- granted, it's two minutes longer and it's hard to pick out what exacly changed aside from the length. nothing special, but bizarre and cool!

[botley]

I was able to find most of them by downloading FLAC rips of the original CD singles, but there are some that are harder to locate in lossless form; what I did then was pull up the music video on YouTube and matched the edits to my longer FLAC version. It takes a bit of time but it's great to be able to fit a whole extra track (like "I'm Deranged") on the CD without sacrificing sound quality.

That short edit I made for "Heaven's in Here" cuts almost a full two minutes, but it doesn't remove any lyrics (which the single edit of "Heroes" does, unforgivably) — just Reeves Gabrels' interminable wanky guitar pyro. The music video uses the full version, so I just had to guess what parts they removed on the actual single.