I have to admit both of these are great songs; and I thank Mike for posting them, but I've always thought that the sound quality of these songs were a little poor in my opinion (even for your average demo; but I've heard much better and worse). I assume the quality of these is mostly due to the songs being dubbed (on cassettes) many times over the years. Last year I did a quick cleanup to these files to
try to write the lyrics out for the site. Since these files were posted I felt I should go back and clean them up a little more than I originally had. Maybe I could make some more out of the lyrics and that they'd sound better to you and possibly enjoy them more; I dunno.
Another note I want to point out is that I've had 2 different versions of Forever and a Day (the one Mike posted and a slower one)... at least they were different versions/takes until I was editing them a little more carefully. Comparing the two I think they are the same version. The one posted is a little sped up; I don't think they're different takes (the waveform is almost exactly the same when the fast one is slowed to the other).
The one Mike posted (which seemed to be the most common version circulated even before posted) seems to have an FFT applied to it keeping the pitch the same so Dave's vocals don't sound like The Chipmunks. Upon another listen it doesn't sound like his usual voice (especially Dan's) in certain spots (at least to me) maybe because of this possibly being added to the file; making the slower one almost 10 seconds longer.
The slower clip had a lot (albeit fewer) errors; but less (skipping issues, pops/clicks, channel issues) then the other one to make me think the slower one is the original one. I could be totally wrong about this but its just my opinion. Whichever version it is, its a great outtake.
I've cleaned up all 3 files to the best of my ability without making them have a super loss of quality. The first one may sound a lot more altered from removing a lot of the heavy bass and treble (which some may prefer), but the normalizing the volume had some effect on it.
Anyways I've put them all up on the audio page; let me know which version of
Forever and a Day sounds like the original (or if you think they're 2 different takes); or if they sound any clearer.
Okay, enough rambling and making myself sound like a
...
Visit the
audio page to download the files.
Upon request I've added 2 miscellaneous files to the audio page and added my AL TV clip in case that ends up being removed from YouTube as well.
