RE: ICSFM mixSun Dec 7 12:14:22 PST 1997

[Walters Mark <WaltersM@LILHD.LOGICA.COM>]

>
>From: Jukka Salo <k20963@kyyppari.hkkk.fi>
>Subject: ICSFM mix
>Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:19:48 +0300 (EETDST)
>
>Forwarded message:
>>
>>     Also, I was listening to an album I have called 'The Singles', which
>has a
>>     blue cover and early photos of the band...Anyway, the mix of ICSFM is
>>     totally different from any I've ever heard. The bass is literally
>booming on
>>     that track. Has anyone else ever heard this mix? Where is it 
originally
>from?
[...]
>
>I think that mix also appears on 'Direct Hits', the compilation
>released in the UK in 1968. And it sounds just like the so called BBC
>version, discussed a while ago. It MUST have been remixed by Entwistle
>:')

I checked this [lot] out last night.  For reference I'll call the 'standard' 
version the stereo mix that which appeared on MBBB (assuming that's the same 
between UK and US versions...)

UK - single (mono) - Much more prominent bass, but its level in the mix is 
lowered after the introduction, although it still remains present.  Pete's 
opening crash also feels much stronger/harsher too. (Same as US single?)
UK - Sell Out (mono/stereo) - can't discern any major difference between 
this and combining the MBBB stereo version (other than the way a stereo mix 
always sounds different when doing this)
BBC - session - bass more prominent than (even) the single mix.  It starts 
high in the mix and remains high.  Perhaps JE mixed this for the Beeb 
(remembering how he apparently turned up the bass level for the final verse 
when mixing Substitute - a feature which JE says has been 'lost' on all 
issues except the original single).  Pete's opening guitar 'crash' is not as 
loud as single.
UK - Direct hits (mono/enhanced stereo) - Remixed, and sounds rather weak 
IMHO.  The track starts with Rotosound Strings at "Hold..." (ie omitting the 
drum intro).  Notable difference between this and MBBB is that the vocal 
kind fades out at the end of the first phrase ("...here's a  surprise".). 
 The German "Best of" with identical track listing to Direct Hits also 
features this mix.
And then there's the normal remixes on TKAA and MaxRnR.

MCW