Bryan Adams Anthology - still no 'Let Me Take You Dancing'!

[SandraDee]

Yet another compilation & this is supposed to include all his singles from his 25 years in the business but he or the record company still don't want to acknowledge his disco hit from '79. If it was speeded up & remixed to sound more 'disco' as he has previously claimed then why don't they include the original version? He's so in denial. :-?

[DonaldCleveland]

Yet another compilation & this is supposed to include all his singles from his 25 years in the business but he or the record company still don't want to acknowledge his disco hit from '79. If it was speeded up & remixed to sound more 'disco' as he has previously claimed then why don't they include the original version? He's so in denial. :-?

Despite the respect or contractual issues involved, I've said it before and will say it again: ARTISTS INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR OWN COMPILATIONS is the kiss of DEATH.

They are soooooo close to the songs involved (as they should be), that they do not have the perspective to deal with them logically. Thus you will have bonafide hits or just plain GREAT songs left off because "I got divorced when that song was written" or "My agent took all the cash from that 20 years ago" or "I dont like the mix- even though it sold 4 million singles" or "you cant hear the 19th member of the 40 person chorus STOPPED SINGING?" or whatever is the emotional upheaval of the moment.

But at Universal I can almost guarantee that they decided THEMSELVES that the compilation wouldnt be as "pure" with that song on it.
Notice even on the 4 cd Cat Stevens box (to name a similar artist with a similar LACK OF 12" hit on his reissues) there is no "Was Dog a Doughnut".

With the omissions by both artists of those songs how much in sales do you think they lost? I say screw them both.

You dont wanna respect to the disco/dance/black audience whom you COURTED when you were looking for someone to listen to you? F____ YOU...... WITH a 12 inch. Now, omit THAT~!!

[Disco Funk]

The sped up sound of Let Me Take You Dancing is a bit of a turn off for me. What I did was slowed it down by about 5% using Goldwave, and I found that makes Bryan's voice sound normal without slowing down the song too much.

By the way, how many version of this track are there? There are some mixes with that slow bridge sections and others without. I think the 12" remix vocal doesn't have it, but the instrumental on the flip does have it. And I seem to recall the 45 Vocal having that slow bridge.

Disco Funk

[QUINNY]

Yet another compilation & this is supposed to include all his singles from his 25 years in the business but he or the record company still don't want to acknowledge his disco hit from '79. If it was speeded up & remixed to sound more 'disco' as he has previously claimed then why don't they include the original version? He's so in denial. :-?

Despite the respect or contractual issues involved, I've said it before and will say it again: ARTISTS INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR OWN COMPILATIONS is the kiss of DEATH.

They are soooooo close to the songs involved (as they should be), that they do not have the perspective to deal with them logically. Thus you will have bonafide hits or just plain GREAT songs left off because "I got divorced when that song was written" or "My agent took all the cash from that 20 years ago" or "I dont like the mix- even though it sold 4 million singles" or "you cant hear the 19th member of the 40 person chorus STOPPED SINGING?" or whatever is the emotional upheaval of the moment.

But at Universal I can almost guarantee that they decided THEMSELVES that the compilation wouldnt be as "pure" with that song on it.
Notice even on the 4 cd Cat Stevens box (to name a similar artist with a similar LACK OF 12" hit on his reissues) there is no "Was Dog a Doughnut".

With the omissions by both artists of those songs how much in sales do you think they lost? I say screw them both.

You dont wanna respect to the disco/dance/black audience whom you COURTED when you were looking for someone to listen to you? F____ YOU...... WITH a 12 inch. Now, omit THAT~!!

Despite waht you say Donald, artists must have the ultimate veto. If they didn't have it, then NOTHING would be protected from the unscrupulous shisters of this world. If I were Bryan Adams, I'd leave the goddamned track off!!

[eddie]

Artists who have left there label have little leverage over what tracks will be on a compilation and how many of them there will be. When Luther Vandross left Sony, he did not decide to release 10 best of's. Sony did!!!!!
The disco tracks by "rock artists" are eyesoars to the main adult contemporary market. Fans who want the 12inch or something that's cultivated or out of the mainstream will have to later buy it on import or a domestic compilation that includes 20 out of 22 tracks that you already have.
Believe me!!! I have more CDs of many soul artists than albums that artist had originally released. And what's really ashame is that I do not have all the tracks I need.