I'm goin' down to Alphabet St.

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Or at least I'd like to, but I can't find the super-rare single edit (which is just over two minutes, if I recall)...can anyone help?

― Erick H (Erick H), Monday, 28 August 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Try Gemm.com?

― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 28 August 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Or perhaps this new site I've heard about called eBay?

Actually, I was hoping someone had the single version. And the aforementioned someone had an altruistic spirit. And an email account.

― Erick H (Erick H), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do you want this?? (One of) My favorite thing(s) about this song is waiting, waiting all the way till the end for the notes of "Glamourous Life" to pipe up triumphantly as the song marches away into the distance..

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got the Ultimate 2-CD, meaning I own it but I haven't played it.

Perhaps they used that version on CD 1, if the song is on there at all?

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the Art Of Noise approach to the single edit, as if someone took the greatest moments of "Sign O' The Times" and grafted them all together. And I wish Ultimate Prince would have used the 2:20 single edit, but they went for the 5:38 de facto "album" version.

― Erick H (Erick H), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the single edit a different mix, or is it something one could edit using software?

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

the single edit was used for the video (which is great - as are most of Prince's videos from this period), if I recall correctly all it does is chop off the end, just before Cat's rap comes in.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

it ends after yeah yeah yeah

― tigertiger (tigertiger), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, use software! I used software to take out 1/3 of the chorus from the first song on Rachel Stevens' latest album, cause I loved the song way too much to put up with it.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haha - exactly!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Since I don't have the software and I don't have access to a file-sharing service, I'll just be blunt: does anyone have an mp3 of the 2:20 single version of Alphabet St. they might be willing to part with?

― Erick H (Erick H), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

― todd (todd), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell me:

* exactly where the song starts to fade

..and I'll rip it, snip it, fade it, and mp3 it
and, uh, find a way to share it that's not YSI.

THE WORLD NEEDS THE SINGLE EDIT.

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

This is assuming there's nothing in the single edit in the first 2 minutes or so that's cut or edited down from the laborious five minute version... ARE YOU SURE? I don't want to produce substandard work here.

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The single edit as such is just the song up to the a cappella "yeah yeah yeah yeaaaaaaaaaaaah" part. And then it ends.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

yup Ned OTM. the cut is really obvious even on the album version (the drums fade back up really abruptly).

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

OK. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't 2:20 as in 2 seconds and 20 frames...

"I'm going dow*END*"

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I'll get on this tonight! (if someone else doesn't do it first.)

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, y'all...we ain't got no tek-now-la-gee like that up here in this part of MI.

― Erick H (Erick H), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no, no, no, NO. NO. NO.
Cat! We NEED you to rap!

(I used to cross-fade from round about "shake your body like a horny pony would" into Shirley & Company's "Shame Shame Shame". GOD that worked.)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link

THE ILXOR COMMISSIONED CUSTOM SINGLE EDIT OF PRINCE'S "ALPHABET ST."

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Saturday, 2 September 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

OOOooooohhhh yeah. That hits the spot.

Thanks for all your technological tomfoolery, too.

― Erick H (Erick H), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

nine years pass...

so I guess this song is about cunnilingus huh

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link

this song is about shaking your body like a horny pony would

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link

I played donut's edit within a couple of hours of waking up to the RIP news.

― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 5 May 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link

ysi?

― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 May 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link

This song is about driving my daddy's Thunderbird

― Davey D, Thursday, 5 May 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link

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