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Post by julesd68 on Nov 16, 2015 19:37:44 GMT
I was driving down from Manchester a couple of weeks ago and was listening to Sara Cox’s ‘Sounds of the 80’s’ on the radio; a very entertaining show for those of us with lots of youthful memories from this era.
She played an ‘extended mix’ of Cry Wolf by A-ha, and this reminded me how much I used to love 12” singles in the 80’s and 90’s. There’s something special about making a song longer, but doing it in an interesting and creative way. This gave rise to the art of the re-mix and superstar producers like Jellybean Benitez and David Morales etc etc
I’ve recently starting buying old 12” singles again - I just love putting them on the deck, you don’t get any filler, just one brilliant song and sound quality wise they invariably sound amazing and give your system a real work-out.
This is the A-ha tune that got me thinking about all this again - anyone else enjoy a good 12 incher??
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Post by MartinT on Nov 17, 2015 6:54:50 GMT
I love a good 12" single like Chris Rea's Road to Hell or Yello's The Race. Brilliant dynamic sound.
What I like considerably less is when some no-name 'DJ' takes a good song and applies a senseless dance beat to it. I have a 12" of some useless twat mauling Peter Gabriel with inappropriate bass beats and then having the gall to allow his name to be published. 'Tokes' something?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 18:33:48 GMT
My entire vinyl collection is made up of 12" singles they sound so superior to LP's so much so an LP will never ever see my TT again.
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 17, 2015 18:37:41 GMT
I don't own all that many, but one of my favourites is this one played very loud.
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 18, 2015 23:30:50 GMT
Do you remember when IOU by Freeez came out back in 1983?
That was pretty much state of the art back then, punters used to go mad for the 12" and all the stereo fx in it ... Love all the BMX bikes and body poppin' in the vid!
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 19, 2015 15:44:01 GMT
12" I love
Prophetic Four - as dub assasins
Rema Rema - Wheel in the roses
ImpLOG - Holland Tunnel Dive
Underworld - Dark and Long
Was not was - Tell me that I'm dreaming
Kevin Harrison - Views of the Rhine
DOSE / Mark E Smith - Plug myself in
The fat, total sound of a 12" takes some beating
Only problem is how soon I have to go back to the deck
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2015 21:50:47 GMT
Do you remember when IOU by Freeez came out back in 1983? That was pretty much state of the art back then, punters used to go mad for the 12" and all the stereo fx in it ... Love all the BMX bikes and body poppin' in the vid! Yeh we sold loads of those in the shop i remember the Grey sleeve with typo all over it.. It was out the same time the Street Sounds Electro LP' came out www.streetsounds.co/Electro.htm |
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 20, 2015 22:20:31 GMT
I actually have a near mint StreetSounds electro box set ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 21:11:12 GMT
I think we got the Electro 5 release before the shop closed down..
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Post by native on Nov 22, 2015 16:36:23 GMT
I'm slightly obsessed with buying 12" singles from the 80s.
Some absolute gems of extended mixes, for me captured best by New Order and Pet Shop Boys.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 17:20:12 GMT
Ive said for yonks that 12" singles will give you the very best SQ on vinyl.. Hope ive contributed heavily into making people see this
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 22, 2015 18:28:08 GMT
I'm slightly obsessed with buying 12" singles from the 80s. Some absolute gems of extended mixes, for me captured best by New Order and Pet Shop Boys. Yep, I have the same obsession! I've just ordered 'I'm not scared' by 7th Wonder with Patsy Kensit on vocals. Do you know it? Another superb Pet shop Boys production... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 19:22:39 GMT
O jules i couldnt be arse to be buying just one 12" singles, i buy no less than a dozen at a time
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 22, 2015 20:21:26 GMT
Me too - I buy a few bits and pieces from the seller and he's keeping that and a few others for me ...
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Post by native on Nov 23, 2015 18:37:35 GMT
I'm slightly obsessed with buying 12" singles from the 80s. Some absolute gems of extended mixes, for me captured best by New Order and Pet Shop Boys. Yep, I have the same obsession! I've just ordered 'I'm not scared' by 7th Wonder with Patsy Kensit on vocals. Do you know it? Another superb Pet shop Boys production... Yes, I have 'I'm Not Scared' somewhere. I also have some of the Dusty Springfield and Liza Minnelli 12" singles that they produced. |
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Post by The Brookmeister on Nov 24, 2015 20:00:38 GMT
I was driving down from Manchester a couple of weeks ago and was listening to Sara Cox’s ‘Sounds of the 80’s’ on the radio; a very entertaining show for those of us with lots of youthful memories from this era. She played an ‘extended mix’ of Cry Wolf by A-ha, and this reminded me how much I used to love 12” singles in the 80’s and 90’s. There’s something special about making a song longer, but doing it in an interesting and creative way. This gave rise to the art of the re-mix and superstar producers like Jellybean Benitez and David Morales etc etc I’ve recently starting buying old 12” singles again - I just love putting them on the deck, you don’t get any filler, just one brilliant song and sound quality wise they invariably sound amazing and give your system a real work-out. This is the A-ha tune that got me thinking about all this again - anyone else enjoy a good 12 incher?? I have about 2000+ 12" singles from my DJ'ing days. I am cleaning a few at a time currently and to me the sound quality cannot be beaten as you hinted at. There are too many good ones to mention but 1980's funk, soul and house did it for me. |
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Post by The Brookmeister on Nov 24, 2015 20:02:36 GMT
O jules i couldnt be arse to be buying just one 12" singles, i buy no less than a dozen at a time Quite right too, there are 1000's for sale at my local record shop vinyl tap, I usually just go round picking titles at random, some I have never heard of, for 50p-£1 each even if they are crap I can chuck them away knowing I have not wasted too much coin! |
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 24, 2015 20:33:47 GMT
That reminds me I've still got rather a large 80's soul and funk vinyl collection gathering dust at mum's home ...
Lots of classic 12"s - I'm going to take a look when I go to visit this weekend.
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Post by The Brookmeister on Nov 24, 2015 22:33:23 GMT
That reminds me I've still got rather a large 80's soul and funk vinyl collection gathering dust at mum's home ... Lots of classic 12"s - I'm going to take a look when I go to visit this weekend. Oooo sounds interesting, if you want rid of any I will buy them off you |
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 25, 2015 0:16:50 GMT
That reminds me I've still got rather a large 80's soul and funk vinyl collection gathering dust at mum's home ... Lots of classic 12"s - I'm going to take a look when I go to visit this weekend. Oooo sounds interesting, if you want rid of any I will buy them off you I feel a bit nostalgic about them as you do, but I've probably forgotten a lot of what's there - will try and do a list ... |
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