weird Dresden Dolls question...

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OK, so I downloaded some Dresden Dolls songs a few weeks ago and have been really diggin' everything. They're a rare band in that Wifey and I BOTH enjoy them. You have no idea how valuable such a band is.

Anyway, the version of "Girl Anachronism" I downloaded a few weeks back is WAY different that the one that I downloaded from what I thought was the official 'album.' I know they have a live EP or something in addition to the s/t album, but neither of these versions is live (unless i've gone completely insane).

The first version is the better of the two - the vocals are doubled, and she trades off the lines with her self (my favorite parts of the song are when the voices overlap and the one in the 'background' sings "Here I go again!," "Don't get me wet!," and "Make believin!" etc etc) but on this 'album' version, the lead vocals are only single tracked (which is even more confusing because there ARE two vocals tracks when she doubles herself but just not on the verses) and it sounds like she's trying really hard to keep up with herself.

What's the deal?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I've never heard this non-album version you speak of. Sounds cool though. Where did you get it? Can you link to it?
BTW, I have the live CD. It's called "A is For Accident", it's a full length but there's no "Girl Anachronism".

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

how could you call your wife 'Wifey'?

― youn, Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

whydoyoucareifheandshedon't?

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Because she's only a fiancee. So she's only Wife-Y for now.

xpost I got it from soulseek. It's awesome. I really wanna find the source. If you're REALLY interested I'm sure you could just downlaod a few version of it and listen. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.

But the one I'm talking about - with the single tracked vocals and the schoolyard chant in the beginning - that's the official album version?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sorry. please carry on.

― youn, Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yes rog that's the album version

"now the war is over/Mussollini's dead" etc. and then it goes into the song.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No luck finding this alternate GA yet rog, but here's some things that might help me narrow down the search:
Is it the same length as the album version, longer or shorter?
Does the music seem to be a different take or just the vocals?
Does it have the piano noodling in the beginning as well?
Do you by any chance recall the username of the person you got it from on slsk?
Am I right in assuming it would not be tagged as "02-Girl Anachronism" as that's the album versions track number? I take it that there wasn't anything else in the tagging to indicate an alternate take/mix.
Knowing any of this stuff would help, as you can see I'd really like to find it.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it the same length as the album version, longer or shorter?

presumably different, not sure longer or shorter - i wish i had the disc in front of me but it's currently sitting in a box a few states away

Does the music seem to be a different take or just the vocals?

no the music is definitely also different. It's maybe a little slower (but that could just be my ears deceiving me because of the single tracked vocals making the album version seems faster)

Does it have the piano noodling in the beginning as well?

yes - but even IT sounds different, and so does the '1, 2, 3, 4' part

Do you by any chance recall the username of the person you got it from on slsk?

no way

Am I right in assuming it would not be tagged as "02-Girl Anachronism" as that's the album versions track number? I take it that there wasn't anything else in the tagging to indicate an alternate take/mix.

yeah, i just downloaded it looking for the song itself, and i just randomly downloaded one. I'm not the kinda guy who looks for higher bitrates or anything like that, so the first one I saw in bold, I downloaded.

It sucks you can't find it - i wish i knew how to upload things. I'll try searching for it again too, I really wanna hear what you think.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron - there's somebody on slsk with a version that lists it as track 11 (???) and it's 12 seconds longer than the others. It's in que right now. The user name is nothingcool or something like that

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dresden Dolls released an EP before "A is for Accident", with 5 tracks, one of them being "Girl Anachronism". This is the early version you are speaking of, Roger.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 21 August 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah! Right on, Michael, thanks. Aaron and I were goin nuts.

Anyway, this EP version is much better.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for you help rog, I'm gonna try and track it down right now.
Michael, what were the other 4 songs on the EP? I'm guessing this is way OOP?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

THE DRESDEN DOLLS:
5 Song Demo
This is a rough recording of some of the Doll's work to date. It was recorded quickly at Emerson College with the great help of our good friend and engineer Owen Curtin and mastered by Noah Blumenson-Cook.

Tracks:

1. Half Jack
2. Girl Anachronism
3. The Perfect Fit
4. Colorblind
5. Good Day

They used to sell it at their Boston shows and on their website. I don't know if it is still available...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

AARON - I'm sharing it! My slsk name is roger_adultery - go nuts Lemme know when you get it so I can delete it (i don't have any harddrive space, hence the lack of files)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

dude I'm on slsk right now trying to browse your shared files and nothing's come up.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what roger just go ahead and e-mail me the file, that would save us both the trouble. The address below is genuine.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

ok i'll try - stand by

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

its not working - everytime i try to OK the attachment, a runtime error occurs, whatever the hell that means. I'm on slsk right now - also try searching without the _ -

lemme know

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

haha we seem to be in a game of internet tag right now, when I'm on you're off and vice versa. We can try to synchronize our shit again tomorrow. In the meantime I'm-a try and get the rest of that godawful Macho Man Randy Savage album cuz the guy I was getting from finally logged back on...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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