The LOUNGE Fly Mix Appreciation

[kennerado]

Who here loves this more than the album version?

I love it simply because it has some alternate lyrics like "A man will rise, a man will fall but its never too late to accept his call".

Also the long intro and horn sounds, really cool!

Thoughts?

 

[Aardvark747]

Yeah I enjoy it. The intro and change of lyrics always sound fresh and new whenever I play it.

 

[Leebonoman96]

Yeah it is cool, no match to the album cut, but i like the change of lyrics too. Should have been on the best of 1990 - 2000 b-sides.

 

[Aardvark747]

Yeah it is cool, no match to the album cut, but i like the change of lyrics too. Should have been on the best of 1990 - 2000 b-sides.

God, so should many things. I hate thinking about that disc. What a sheer waste

 

[An Cat Gav]

No way as good as the album version, but still unbelievably good.

 

[cdirani]

Just love this track! Is one of my favourites b-sides. I've got it on my mp3 player and always have fun listening.

 

[edgeplaytheblue]

i prefer the video clip version .. .very cool intro
but i ripped this one myself from the DVD

 

[Muldfeld]

I remember I bought "The Fly" single just for this because it was at the start of "The Fly" video, but I was very disappointed. The beginning has some interesting stuff and then it pretty much degenerates into a version that's too much like the album version, if I remember. Still, I regret selling my copy to some ungrateful phony in undergrad, who never paid me the $5 he promised, acted shocked when I asked for $5 (having paid $10 in the store), and then didn't pay the new agreed price of $3. He was pretty well off, too.

The album version is automatically better to me; this one lacks cohesion.

 

[digitize]

Lounge Fly is awesome. The whole single is cool; Alex Descends is amazing, too.

 

[LarryMullenFan]

It's no secret that I left you, and still I don't know why.

Great version, love the solo. Sounds more violent than on the album.

 

[Ellay]

Bloody great version, great lyrics, Shame the bloke they wrote it for, hated it lol.

 

[SpaceBoy]

As others have mentioned, the lyrical changes are awesome and make it an interesting listening experience. I love the prominence of the shrieking guitar part that comes in over the solo. It's very, very low in the mix on the album version. This, the soundtrack mix of UTEOTW and the single mix of WGRYWH are all great alternate versions of the album cuts.

 

[blm]

Hey, where could i get this, is it on the zoo DVD? I'd love the video clip, but the audio would be fine.

i'll leave my email just in case... or let me know where. thanks much!

ultraviolet1221@gmail.com

 

[LemonMelon]

I it. Brings the Funk and still saves some of the original song.

 

[MadDaisy]

It's no secret that I left you, and still I don't know why.

This is my favourite line

Lounge Fly mix

 

[U2girl]

 

[LarryMullenFan]

As others have mentioned, the lyrical changes are awesome and make it an interesting listening experience. I love the prominence of the shrieking guitar part that comes in over the solo. It's very, very low in the mix on the album version. This, the soundtrack mix of UTEOTW and the single mix of WGRYWH are all great alternate versions of the album cuts.

The soundtrack version of UTEOTW... I don't know that version, you don't happen to have it? I'm really curious as it is one of my favourite songs!

 

[greenlight7-11]

Bloody great version, great lyrics, Shame the bloke they wrote it for, hated it lol.

Who's that?

The soundtrack version of UTEOTW... I don't know that version, you don't happen to have it? I'm really curious as it is one of my favourite songs!

The difference from the album version is very marginal, but it's an interesting listen.

 

[AndrewCowley]

Gimme the Hollywood Remix of Desire any day.

 

[Scorpionac]

Gimme the Hollywood Remix of Desire any day.

Ha ha, and you can keep it, too. Much better on ZooTV without all those corny samples.

 

[AndrewCowley]

Ha ha, and you can keep it, too. Much better on ZooTV without all those corny samples.

It is the most frigging annoying thing ever... in hollywood tonight...

 

[kennerado]

voodoo economics

 

[LarryMullenFan]

Who's that?


The difference from the album version is very marginal, but it's an interesting listen.

yeah, well... I'd love to give it a listen but I don't have and can't find it anywhere. You think you could send it to me?

 

[greenlight7-11]

yeah, well... I'd love to give it a listen but I don't have and can't find it anywhere. You think you could send it to me?

I've only listened to it, I don't actually have it. Sorry.

 

[digitize]

Bloody great version, great lyrics, Shame the bloke they wrote it for, hated it lol.

That was Alex Descends, wasn't it? Both are awesome, though.

 

[kennerado]

err no, Alex Descends is about Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

 

[SpaceBoy]

Regarding the soundtrack version of UTEOTW...

The differences are definitely there if you listen hard enough. It's easier when you've heard both versions a bazillion times back to back

Here are most of the differences as I've heard them:

-No weird vocal sample at beginning
-Starts with someone (Larry or Edge?) saying "Okay.", Larry counts in song, song kicks off with full drum kit instead of just the bongos
-Guitar noises from 0:04-0:21 not present on album version
-A kind of ringing, shimmery guitar part that comes in with the "chorus" sections of the song is much more present here than on the album
-Edge's main guitar track, barring the solo, has a kind of sweeping phaser effect on it throughout the whole song, as opposed to the album version where it sounds fully submerged in that effect only at 2:33-2:42 and 3:34-3:49
-Edges solo is mixed differently and lacks the atmospheric overdubs at the beginning, also some more sounds in the background here not on album version(very subtle)
-The guitar is mixed differently at the climax of the song. Some of the additional guitar layers featured here on the album version are absent.
-No "la la la etc." at the end of the song