Comments | glenniebun: "I think it gave us hope, that there can always be new beginnings...even for people like us."

glenniebun

"I think it gave us hope, that there can always be new beginnings...even for people like us."

Sep 30, 2007 04:51

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swashbuckler332 February 7 2009, 20:04:15 UTC

My copy of the album was a promo I got when I worked at Tower Records about a month before the CD was released. I noticed that the Requiem is different on that disc versus its appearance on The Best of Babylon 5; did Franke return to his preferred percussion version for the compilation, or is there yet another, third version of the Requiem floating around out there?

glenniebun February 7 2009, 22:56:43 UTC

The only versions I've heard are, to be clear, the one on The Best of Babylon 5 and the one I used in this mix. I assume the one I used is the same one you have on that promo (is that right?) and that that's the track that was used in the first American printing of Volume 1 at JMS' request. I believe future printings of that disc carried the same version that's on The Best of B5; I haven't read a specific explanation for it, but Franke simply preferring that version over the other one is as good a reason as any.

swashbuckler332 February 9 2009, 01:59:06 UTC

Yes, we used the same version of the Requiem for the Line. I was actually rather... um... unimpressed by the version on The Best of Babylon 5. Honestly, I found those prog rock parts to be kind of annoying (and it has the worst cross-fades I've ever heard to "Sheridan and Father" ruling it out for inclusion on my mix anyway).

glenniebun February 9 2009, 04:32:12 UTC

I was actually rather... um... unimpressed by the version on The Best of Babylon 5.

I know what you mean. I'm sure part of it for me is the bias which can come from hearing one version first, many times, before hearing the other, but the whole thing just too damned slow, with a disadvantageous instrumental arrangement that really sucks the life out of the piece.

And yes, a lot of the cross-fades on The Best of Babylon 5 are gods-awful. I wonder if it was a hastily-put-together effort just to have something featuring music from the Sierra game to be bundled with the other software, but even then there wasn't a clear need to connect the tracks in the first place.