splinter7
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
No. "Once Upon A Time" is extended. I can't remember which other song is different. I'll have to listen to it again later on today but I think it's either "Ghost Dancing" or "Oh Jungleland". I know the original album so well from playing it so much.
As far as NEW GOLD DREAM, a lot of the songs sound different to me because this is what can happen when you mix to more than two channels. Though, I do know of the extra bonus track at the end, "In Every Heaven".
There was both a SACD & DVD-A release of New Gold Dream. The 2003 SACD release was a stereo only transfer of the original mix.
The 2005 DVD-A for New Gold Dream is a complete remix of the album with a 5.1 mix (with the exception of "Promised You a Miracle" & "Colours Fly and "Catherine Wheel" - Lost Multis) & and a downmixed 2.0 stereo version. All the tracks except "Colours" and "Promised" run longer on the DVD-A than on the original release. "In every Heaven" was supposed to be on the original release but was miss-marked on the masters.
Once Upon a Time was released in similar fashion. A 2.0 SACD in 2003 & DVD-A Remix in 2005. All the cuts on the DVD-A have different run times than the original mix but unlike DVD-A version of New Gold Dream two of them are actually shorter than the originals. "Once Upon a Time" is only about 30 seconds longer than its stereo ancestor. Most of the songs are only different by a handful of seconds and it would seem a stretch to call any of them extended. However, they are all indeed mixed slightly different than the '80's releases.
Bob Clearmountain was co-producer of the album coincidentally but both DVD-A discs were mixed by a Roland Prent.
I do not feel that the 2.0 remixes are that much different than the original 2.0 mixes. Now the 5.1 mixes do seem to shake things up a bit in that things are less buried.
Additionally, there was a The Best of Simple Minds SACD release in 2002 - sadly in 2.0
