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8.02am
10 April 2011
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I don’t often edit songs that are in my collection. There’s usually no need to, especially with The Beatles. Though one song in particular I have edited. A Day In The Life .
http://soundcloud.com/jack-161…..n-the-life
I really don’t care for that part. Honestly, it’s kind of scary.
I don’t really think it’s too big of a deal to make little edits, what do you guys think?
9.54am
16 February 2011
Offline Awhh, why would you do that? Yes, the part that comes right after “-turn you on” is a bit freaky, but it adds to the ambience, I like it. Of course, if it’s in your best interests and you want to edit songs to suit your tastes ( as long as you don’t spread them around and claim them to be the original version), why not, go for it. Personally I would feel like I was cheating on the Beatles if I did that, but that is just me
11.03am
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1 May 2011
Offline If a fan cuts it down for themselves then fair enough, thats up to them, just dont peddle it off to anothers as something else. I dont get why it would be done tho.
If the record company or a bootleg edits a song down then i’ll get annoyed – give me the full thing. It can be good (Helter Skelter on A3 is done well tho i’d still prefer to have it complete & i’d rather listen to the complete Oh Darling from the Get Back sessions over the incomplete Anthology cut) or bad (Not Guilty which is terribile editing and is never played – the full length track is so so so so much better). Some individual edited together (reconstructed) all the parts of You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) together (cv and A3) and its actually pretty good to hear it that way.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
11.56am
9 May 2012
Offline To be honest I always skip that part, it was revolutionary in those times and all but when I wouldn’t mind having edited version, especially if I tend to listen it in car or via headphones. If I would want to show a song to someone, of course I would always show full version 
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Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
12.50pm
3 May 2012
Offline I wouldn´t do it but I think it´s Ok. (Unless it´s a crucial part of the song, good or bad, in which case you´re just killing it imo).
About bits of songs that we´re not keen on though, the fade-out fade-in of Strawberry Fields Forever . What are those noises at the end? I don´t like them at all. Still, all I do is turn the song off before it gets to that point, I wouldn´t bother editing it out.
Moving along in our God given ways, safety is sat by the fire/Sanctuary from these feverish smiles, left with a mark on the door.
(Passover - I. Curtis)
12.58pm
19 September 2010
Offline You’ve lost your everloving mind for editing that out. That is A Day In The Life right in that section. You’re crazy.
I have no objection to editing songs, but you need to consider what you’re editing much more clearheadedly.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
2.27pm
16 August 2012
Offline It’s like slashing the Mona Lisa to give her a better smile.
E is for 'Ergent'.
7.17pm
3 May 2012
Offline Couldn´t be put in a better way.
Whether you like the song as it is or not, A Day In The Life is a masterpiece so I don´t think it should be edited but each to their own and all that.
Moving along in our God given ways, safety is sat by the fire/Sanctuary from these feverish smiles, left with a mark on the door.
(Passover - I. Curtis)
5.28am
10 April 2011
Offline Alright, the room seems a little divided on this. Some think it’s no big deal (for personal use) other say it’s heresy.
I probably wouldn’t have bothered editing if it didn’t go on for what feels like 30 minuets. Like LJS said, if I didn’t have the edited version I’d probably just skip over it each time. Who knows, maybe I’ll change my mind one day.
I guess I just like to edit songs for fun (for the record, this is the only Beatles song I’ve done this for) to see how seamlessly I can make it (like the transition from “Polythene Pam ” to “She Came Through The Bathroom Window”).
7.08pm
27 February 2011
Offline Although I don’t like editing songs (See Oh! Darling on Anthology 3 ) I have to say you’ve done a brilliant job at it. It transitions seamlessly and the edit point is barely noticeable.
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10.43pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Ok i listened to it eventually and whilst i stand by it being up to fans to do as they wish i dont like that at all. Why anyone would cut out such a crucial part of a piece of work is beyond me. I feel like i should be banging my head against the wall. Im puzzled by such an action, bordering on speechless.
And the edit is clear is day, how anyone cant hear where it jumps is just as strange.
Im going to have to listen to the full song.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
1.01am
9 May 2012
Offline Don’t you mind uploading the whole song with edited part? It will be good for car so I don’t have to lower the sound when that part comes up 
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Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
3.34pm
14 December 2009
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I created my own version of “Psycho” with the shower scene edited out. I really don’t care for that part. Honestly, it’s kind of scary.
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
4.40pm
16 August 2012
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This!
E is for 'Ergent'.
5.19pm
4 December 2010
Offline I have edited my version of I Am The Walrus (the version from Love, actually) so that it transitions smoothly into Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise). I meant to do it with It’s All Too Much , but I Am The Walrus works as well. This is for my album of songs released or written in 1967- I had been using Good Morning Good Morning as the 12th track of 14 just for the transition, but I wanted to use It’s All Too Much instead.
Non-Beatles, but I have also edited Suburban War by Arcade Fire. It’s quite a botched job, but I prefer it to the original.
I told her I didn’t
7.11pm
14 December 2009
Offline Speaking of editing and “It’s All Too Much “, are there any other Beatles songs (aside from the stuff on the Anthologies) that were edited before release?
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
7.22pm
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1 May 2011
Offline There are quite a lot of songs that are edits of different takes or have edit points, to name a few I Call Your Name , She Loves You , Please Please Me . I’ll Cry Instead was an edit of two sections (which explains why there is an extra verse on the US AHDN soundtrack). Dont Pass Me By and Sexy Sadie were both edited before release (the unedited takes are available on bootlegs). You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) was created from 5 separate parts.
Basically there are tons.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
9.59pm
4 December 2010
Offline Obvious one- Strawberry Fields Forever is two completely different takes mixed together.
I told her I didn’t
10.24pm
27 February 2011
Offline meanmistermustard said
Ok i listened to it eventually and whilst i stand by it being up to fans to do as they wish i dont like that at all. Why anyone would cut out such a crucial part of a piece of work is beyond me. I feel like i should be banging my head against the wall. Im puzzled by such an action, bordering on speechless.And the edit is clear is day, how anyone cant hear where it jumps is just as strange.
Im going to have to listen to the full song.
I didn’t mean that I didn’t notice that the orchestra bit was missing, I meant that he made the beginning and end blend so well together that anyone who hadn’t heard the song before wouldn’t know there was an edit.
Personally I think everyone is getting a bit to worked up about this edit. Leave him be. It isn’t like he saying that the orchestral bit is bad or it doesn’t deserve to be there, he just thinks it’s a bit scary. If he wants to edit out the orchestral bit, then let him. It’s his preference, and getting annoyed, or angry by what someone prefers is silly.
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10.38pm
14 December 2009
Offline Thanks for the answers everyone! I should’ve specified I was referring specifically to finished songs with a piece edited right out, rather than things sewn together from different takes.
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
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