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Re: ?'s on Disc 2/30 YEARS MAX R&B



"Tuppence" is two pence...
"Thruppence" is three pence...

(in Ireland anyway) - so I guess it could be either....

JC


>From: "Scott Schrade" <schrade@akrobiz.com>
>To: "THE WHO" <TheWho@igtc.com>
>Subject: Re: ?'s on Disc 2/30 YEARS MAX R&B
>Date: Mon, 22 Nov 99 20:03:04 PST
>
> > Continuing with my relistening of 30 YEARS MAXIMUM R&B, and still more
> > questions:
> >
> > 1.  This is actually a comment.  I don't like some of the remixing of
> > the Who's material ("Music Must Change" with a new guitar solo?!), but I
> > gotta say that "Armenia City In The Sky" was a HUGE improvement, IMHO.
> > The original mix dragged, but the remix is a lot tighter and just seems
> > to rock more.  I don't know why; I don't think they sped it up any.
> > Whatever they did, I'm glad, because I never liked the song before I
> > heard it on this compilation.
>
>I guess I wasn't too upset with any of the remixing on the box set.  
>Nothing really
>pissed me off.  How about that flute at the end of "Join Together?"  That 
>sur-
>prised me !  The electric guitar track in "Sister Disco" is boosted quite a 
>bit, too.
>
>I have to say I've always loved "Armenia City In the Sky."  Muddily mixed 
>or
>crisply mixed, I can take it either way.  I know what you mean, though; how
>you can start to like a WHO song after many years of indifference.  I used 
>to
>like about three songs on WHO BY NUMBERS.  Now I think the whole album/CD
>is brilliant !!
>
> > 2.  Lyric Questions:  "Call Me Lightning" (actually from Disc 1)--Is it
> > "Dum dum dum doo-ray" or "Don't, don't, don't do it" or something else?
> > Sounds more like the former.
>
>I think it's "Dum dum dum doo-ray."  Not real words.
>
> >      "Magic Bus"--"Tuppence and sixpence each day/Just to drive to my
> > bay-bay"?  That's the closest I can get to what Rog is singing in that
> > line.  It's the only thing I can think of that makes any sense. <g>
>
>Isn't it "Thrupence?"  British brethren, help us out !!
>
> > 3.  Apropos of nothing...Why did the Who leave out the final verse of
> > "Fortune Teller"?  I always liked it.  Like the Stones' version, too,
> > BTW, but the Who's rocks harder.
>
>My friend, Curtis, who's a big Stones fan, says the Stone's version rocks 
>much
>harder, & that it's The WHO's version that's the weaker of the two !!  Is 
>he biased?
>I've yet to hear the Stone's version.
>
> > Thanks for listening!
> >
> > --Carolyn
> > "Gonna show you why they call me lightning"
>
>Thanks for commenting/asking !!!  Fun stuff, huh?
>
>"Imagine a past that you wish you had lived,
>  Full of heroes & villains & fools."
>
>
>- SCHRADE in Akron
>
>

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