I think there is a full version of West End Girls we haven't listened yet with the production Stephen Hague. There is a file on the DVD of "Smash" that gives us a file about it.
Nickname wrote: Sun 03 Mar 2024, 5:46 pm
I think there is a full version of West End Girls we haven't listened yet with the production Stephen Hague. There is a file on the DVD of "Smash" that gives us a file about it.
This has been discussed before, and it's most likely a unique instrumental edit created for the Blu-ray menus from the multi-tracks used to create the live versions. However, I've often wondered if there's a "full length" version we've never heard that is the version on 'Please', but including the extra version only heard on the 12" and 10" mixes - so the same in structure as the live version on 'Performance'. I would imagine if this version exists, it would have been on the 'Please' Further Listening bonus disc though, so guess the extra verse remains unique to the 12" and 10" mixes.
Let make some clarification in this chaotic world of the ZYX-West End girls version.
This one form the youtube video you posted, known by fans as "original 7" version" only appeared on the original "Power records" Canadian 7" of West End Girls, and it´s NOT the same as the 7" mix included on the original European releases of the single.
Nickname wrote: Sun 03 Mar 2024, 5:46 pm
I think there is a full version of West End Girls we haven't listened yet with the production Stephen Hague. There is a file on the DVD of "Smash" that gives us a file about it.
Nickname wrote: Sun 03 Mar 2024, 5:46 pm
I think there is a full version of West End Girls we haven't listened yet with the production Stephen Hague. There is a file on the DVD of "Smash" that gives us a file about it.
This has been discussed before, and it's most likely a unique instrumental edit created for the Blu-ray menus from the multi-tracks used to create the live versions. However, I've often wondered if there's a "full length" version we've never heard that is the version on 'Please', but including the extra version only heard on the 12" and 10" mixes - so the same in structure as the live version on 'Performance'. I would imagine if this version exists, it would have been on the 'Please' Further Listening bonus disc though, so guess the extra verse remains unique to the 12" and 10" mixes.
A longer mix of the "album version" do exist, as we can hear here, where they choosed to go on with the live singing for nearly 45 second more than when it fades on the album. Maybe there is even more lenght on the original backing track!
Nickname wrote: Sun 03 Mar 2024, 5:46 pm
I think there is a full version of West End Girls we haven't listened yet with the production Stephen Hague. There is a file on the DVD of "Smash" that gives us a file about it.
This has been discussed before, and it's most likely a unique instrumental edit created for the Blu-ray menus from the multi-tracks used to create the live versions. However, I've often wondered if there's a "full length" version we've never heard that is the version on 'Please', but including the extra version only heard on the 12" and 10" mixes - so the same in structure as the live version on 'Performance'. I would imagine if this version exists, it would have been on the 'Please' Further Listening bonus disc though, so guess the extra verse remains unique to the 12" and 10" mixes.
A longer mix of the "album version" do exist, as we can hear here, where they choosed to go on with the live singing for nearly 45 second more than when it fades on the album. Maybe there is even more lenght on the original backing track!
Interesting to hear that - thanks for the link. Really odd Neil included the "Stalin" lines in this version (as late as 1986). Also interesting to here the extra verse from the 10"/12", but at the end of the track, rather than after the instrumental break. This doesn't, however, mean a studio version of the longer album version exists (with or without the extra verse): the backing track they're using here, is a stripped back version of the album mix, missing the backing vocals and with a much longer ending - shame the performance ends before the music stops.
Anyone got a link to the 1986 MTV Awards performance - I couldn't find it on YouTube?
Geographer wrote: Mon 04 Mar 2024, 12:27 pm
Don't waste your time on this search. The version of the West End girls you need has never been released on CD or digitally.
So the 40th anniversary would be perfect to publish West End Girls [original 7" version] on CD or digitally for the very first time!
