Good morning all you Maddies, Well here I am stuck in Aberdeen working on a presentation when I really should be in Camden awaiting Adele's premiere showing of the Drip Fed Fred video. However, I have had my own piece of very good fortune up here by getting my hands on an advance copy of one of the CD singles of Drip Fed Fred. How excited was I when unpacking it???;-) So here's the round up. Track 1. Drip Fed Fred (The Conspiracy Mix) (4min13s) - Well we've all heard bits and pieces of this now. Lots of extra percussion to beef it up a bit. Has all the lyrics intact from the album version. The only edit is the removal of the final instrumental bit (and fantastic Barson piano-playing) to give a longer sing-along chorus of "We want Freddie...." to the fadeout. Class! Track 2. Elysium (3min55s) - Exactly as it is on the album, ie. completely brilliant! Track 3. We Want Freddie (3min40s) - This would appear to be the original demo version of the DFF with Lee doing all the vocal parts (to the original lyrics). This is even more bizarre than the version we all know and love. It's a bit slower and has that eastern sounding Barson organ in it. It also has lots of scratchy vinyl noises through it. Lee actually *sings* the Ian Dury parts rather than the spoken manner Mr Dury delivers it in. I prefer them to record new tracks as B-sides but this is odd and different enough (and also a good production) to make it worhtwhile having on CD. The cover is a slightly crumpled "We Want Freddie For Our Leader" poster plastered on a wall full of other crumpled blue posters. It's a great picture which I'll have scanned in a matter of minutes. So if anyone wants to see it send me an e-mail (offlist). One disappointing thing (for me) is that the front cover makes no mention of "Elysium", giving the impression that it is simply a B-side rather than a AA-side, which is criminal if you ask me. I always thought DFF would get all the attention and it was a waste of a classic to put "Elysium" on the single but it's even more of a waste if it doesn't get listed as a AA-side. Hopefully CD2 will have an "Elysium" front cover to balance things up. Cheers for now, Peter **************************************************** Dr. Peter T. Gardner Rowett Research Institute Bucksburn Tel: 01224 - 712 751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB Fax: 01224 - 716 629 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************** - ______________________________________________________________ Visit the Total Madness Mailing List website for: latest news, madmeet info, list charter, games, and more ... http://members.xoom.com/totalmadmail/ Contact the TMML Moderators at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the message body put: unsubscribe total-madness
