Finaero wrote:
Sounds like a studio version of the CiC album version, thus pretty good. And MF2 wasn't even on the list of the "freshly retouched tracks" for this compilation. Very nce surprise.
Compared to the 1982 version
- it's shorter (verse repetitions are missing and parts of the chorus, but they were traded for the full solo, so... who cares)
- it has an additional crash cymbal here and there
- one of the bass leads is missing (during the solo part)
- there seems to be an additional "pluck" sequence, very quiet and similar to the MF2 single version
So great to finally have a studio version of the full solo from 1982.
And yeah, it's odd that it was not on that "freshly retouched" list. That gives us two options, either
1. the list was just missing this one track (MF2) and is otherwise complete
or
2. the list was just a summary of tracks that had their length altered compared to the album version (note that this new MF2 length is more or less the same as the 1981 MF album version) and there are lots of other gems on that compilation
