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June 15th, 2006

A day without Boom-Chas @ 01:37 am

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I'm currently hearin: Discotheque (the right version!)

I never understood it until now...

(and yes, before you flame me, I know the two songs have different intros, I just wasn't paying attention at that point)

So I was driving to work today, stopped by a train-crossing, twiddling my thumbs in my car. My iPod is hooked to my radio, I'm on shuffle, and I'm getting a pretty good mix of songs. When along comes Discotheque. I'm boppin' my head, lip-synching probably, the weirdo in the truck next to me just might be giving me looks. When all of a sudden...

... at 4:40 the song starts to fade away. I get no boom-chas!!!

I had landed on the New Mix, from the best of 90-00 collection. I actually yelled at my radio to give me my boom-chas back.

/psycho
 
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From:striped_bouncer
Date:June 15th, 2006 10:16 am (UTC)
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LOL I can utterly understand what you mean, dear ;-) Discotheque without the boom-chas is simply not the real thing :-D
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From:beowulfjones
Date:June 15th, 2006 12:05 pm (UTC)
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Of course, some might argue that it's even better then the re... nevermind...
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From:hbpen
Date:June 17th, 2006 03:19 am (UTC)
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Hahahaha!

And I'll let my icon speak for how I feel about the Boom-chas. ;)
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From:reecord2
Date:June 15th, 2006 12:02 pm (UTC)
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I can't say I was impressed with any of the remixes besides Gone, and I blame it on the fact that a guy named Mike Hedges remixed them; up until then I'd never heard of him amongst the U2 camp.
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From:aloneinthelight
Date:June 18th, 2006 06:23 pm (UTC)
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I believe his name pops up in some of the album liner notes, mayyyybe Pop and i think ATYCLB and HTDAAB, but yeah he doesnt seem to be anybody in the forefront. kinda random.
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From:zoostation
Date:June 15th, 2006 01:30 pm (UTC)
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It's damn near blasphemy to remove boomchas.
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From:canadiens1160
Date:June 15th, 2006 03:12 pm (UTC)
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And unless the tools are sterile you might pick up some Hepitis B as well.
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From:zoostation
Date:June 16th, 2006 02:11 am (UTC)
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Hepatitis Bono.
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From:interiority
Date:June 15th, 2006 06:37 pm (UTC)
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Your icon has mesmerized me and I thank you for that :)
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From:bonoffee
Date:June 15th, 2006 02:52 pm (UTC)
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Yeah that mix sucks. I never listen to it. And I hate the Lemon one, too. (Well, sometimes I don't hate it, but most of the time.) I like the others though, I like the Numb one, there is more B-falsetto and that's always good for me.
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From:ruffian114
Date:June 15th, 2006 03:11 pm (UTC)
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I remember the first time I listened to it, I was actually really enjoying it, and thought it was an improvement over the original, and then we got to the boomchas... AND THEY WEREN'T THERE, i had nightmares about this thats how traumatized i was
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From:camiloj
Date:June 15th, 2006 08:07 pm (UTC)
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LOl thats funny. Speaking of Pop-era music, whats the latest on the supposed re-recording of Pop? Or any new U2 music at all?
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From:rockingthemike
Date:June 16th, 2006 05:05 pm (UTC)
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That's a U2 urban legend; Bono was taken out of context. I'm only paraphrasing, but he had said that Pop as an album was technically unfinished when it was released because the planning of PopMart was too soon. Bono had said that they really needed the time to go back and rework it before release.

It's since been spun that the band wishes to go back and rework it. Likely never going to happen.
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From:__claude__
Date:June 15th, 2006 09:55 pm (UTC)
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I'VE NEVER HEARD THE BOOM-CHAS!!! I feel so deprived.
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From:kashmir87
Date:June 15th, 2006 10:02 pm (UTC)
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The first U2 album I got was the Best of 90-00, and Discothéque was my least favourite song on it. After I heard the original, definitive version, it became clear that it was only because of the bloody New Mix. Boom-chas forever.
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From:canadanne
Date:June 15th, 2006 10:45 pm (UTC)

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*shudders in sympathy*
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From:sapphires13
Date:June 16th, 2006 03:50 pm (UTC)
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**shakes head in sadness** There should be a law to prevent such things from happening.
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