A wrong time running?!
Posted: 25 Aug 2006, 12:08
Hello everybody!
Lately I’ve found that on the first six Cd’s of ‘Blue guitars’ the running time of the songs put in the tracklist is exactly correct, but on the cd’s from 7 to 11 all the tracks indeed last less longer than it is written in the album! So that, some songs seem to be shortened or reduced, other ones seem to me running a bit faster than they probably should.
For example, the running time for ‘Lampiou’ , mentioned in the book, is 5.46, the real time running is 5.40, and Chris’s brilliant final solo feels like being unreasonably reduced, the ending accords are too quiet, unhearable! I really miss them! The same it seems when listening to ‘Till the Morning Sun Shines on My Love and Me’ (5.30 instead of 5.39), ‘Bajan Blue’ (4.30/4.57!!!), ‘Come Change My World’ (4.02/4.15), ‘Clarkson Blues’ (4.56/5.09) and so on. The ending of this songs is unexpectingly fast and strange in my opinion.
The mistaking in time is different for each and every of the songs, not systematical.. Sometimes the time written is right (‘Too Far from Home’, 7.28).
I can’t guess why it is so. Maybe, the sound producers (I don’t think it was Chris himself) made some compositions shorter or faster than in original versions because it seemed to be better (I do suppose it isn’t!), but why they did it only on the last five albums?!!
Did anybody catch the same? Give your versions please!
Best regards,
&ru.
Lately I’ve found that on the first six Cd’s of ‘Blue guitars’ the running time of the songs put in the tracklist is exactly correct, but on the cd’s from 7 to 11 all the tracks indeed last less longer than it is written in the album! So that, some songs seem to be shortened or reduced, other ones seem to me running a bit faster than they probably should.
For example, the running time for ‘Lampiou’ , mentioned in the book, is 5.46, the real time running is 5.40, and Chris’s brilliant final solo feels like being unreasonably reduced, the ending accords are too quiet, unhearable! I really miss them! The same it seems when listening to ‘Till the Morning Sun Shines on My Love and Me’ (5.30 instead of 5.39), ‘Bajan Blue’ (4.30/4.57!!!), ‘Come Change My World’ (4.02/4.15), ‘Clarkson Blues’ (4.56/5.09) and so on. The ending of this songs is unexpectingly fast and strange in my opinion.
The mistaking in time is different for each and every of the songs, not systematical.. Sometimes the time written is right (‘Too Far from Home’, 7.28).
I can’t guess why it is so. Maybe, the sound producers (I don’t think it was Chris himself) made some compositions shorter or faster than in original versions because it seemed to be better (I do suppose it isn’t!), but why they did it only on the last five albums?!!
Did anybody catch the same? Give your versions please!
Best regards,
&ru.