happy cycling version 2 or 3?

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:46 pm

http://afxlive.watmm.com/boardsofcanada ... nknown.mp3

sounds different than the cd versions. discuss. this is awesome, been craving a new BoC tune that i hadnt yet heard.

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:33 pm

sounds like just someone messing around with it. where did you get it anyway?

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:41 pm

watmm, but i dont think its been messed with, its like some elements have been accentuated and others have been taken away. check their important forum threads in boards of canada.

zander two · Post by **zander two** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:38 pm

I believe this is the version from the Peel Session broadcast. There was thread about this but it's buried deep in the forum somewhere. Yes it is different from the standard version, most notably the ending. Interestingly enough, as noted in the aforementioned thread, there's a page somewhere on the BBC site that calls this track "Happy Cycling (as changed from Bad Day)."

niknak · Post by **niknak** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:39 pm

Yeah i can confirm that. Here's the thread where it came up first time.

http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1135

I was surprised at the time that it wasn't more of a big deal here on twoism. After all the version on the Peel Session EP is just the album version, and here the original broadcast version turned up and was quite a bit different. I thought it was quite a discovery. And of course posed the question why the MHTRTC version is on the EP and not this one. Were they unsatisfied with this version? Or was it just a cock up in mastering?

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:33 am

niknak wrote:Yeah i can confirm that. Here's the thread where it came up first time.

http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1135

I was surprised at the time that it wasn't more of a big deal here on twoism. After all the version on the Peel Session EP is just the album version, and here the original broadcast version turned up and was quite a bit different. I thought it was quite a discovery. And of course posed the question why the MHTRTC version is on the EP and not this one. Were they unsatisfied with this version? Or was it just a cock up in mastering?

i would say a deffo cock up in mastering.

monochrome · Post by **monochrome** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:15 am

does anyone have a link to the whole broadcast? All the yousendit links in the original thread have expired. and were the links to this happy cycling the same in that old thread as the one on watmm?

audiotrack · Post by **audiotrack** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:34 am

The CD version track length is 7:56

Does anyone have the track length of this version..?

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:12 am

audiotrack wrote:The CD version track length is 7:56

Does anyone have the track length of this version..?

7.56.

i am not convinced!! its the same track, just went wrong when first played. Hence, why it was never played on air.

thats just my opinion.

sevenism · Post by **sevenism** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:22 am

boardsofdublin wrote:
audiotrack wrote:The CD version track length is 7:56

Does anyone have the track length of this version..?
7.56.

i am not convinced!! its the same track, just went wrong when first played. Hence, why it was never played on air.

thats just my opinion.

The version I've got is 6:51. It's the same file as posted on watmm. It doesn't sound too different to me either though.

The Other · Post by **The Other** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:18 pm

i still like the 7:56 version better...

hills west · Post by **hills west** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:17 pm

oh awesome, the first version of this song..ive been looking for this since i lost it back in like 02...where did you find it?