80s hits where the 7" version is superior to the 12" version

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Monsoon - Ever so Lonely (they try, and fail, to expand on this)
Talk Talk - Life What You Make It (dance element, ie the "Human League's Human" style drumming, is taken away completely)
Steve Arrington - Feel So Real (lasts forever, and contains sudden, patchy inserts of "nothing")
Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin Goin On But the Rent (7" has funkier bassline)

What others??

― JTS, Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

David Bowie - Let's Dance (it's shorter).

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ultravox: Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

In fact, most

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just thought of another: Yazoo - Only You

The "euphoric" synth-piano really starts to grate after about 5 minutes.....

― JTS, Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

OOPS. That should have been "Don't Go"

― JTS, Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes the 12-inch is just redundant. They don't add anything, and this is just not the case with 80s music, but one hit that comes to mind is "Electric Avenue" from Eddy Grant. My stepfather bought the 12-inch and played it every day, a few times in a row. He was a teacher and he'd come home after school and play it, which was cool at first but then annoying after a while.

― Sara Sherr, Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, my choice, "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" certainly adds something. In this case, it adds roughly 3-4 minutes of the bass playing the same note over and over over the same beat at the start of the song before the song starts properly.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Cocteau Twins - "Sugar Hiccup" and "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops"

― Let's keep the afterbirth and throw Ian Riese-Moraine away! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost all of them

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

All of them apart from Everything Counts by Depeche Mode and all the Soft Cell singles.

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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