Thanks. If it matches, 99 per cent bound to be that one, cos that was when the gigs were unique. As I said, l assumed the bootlegger had used an official recording, so that grotesquely-titled and -packaged Like A Girl was the obvious choice.
I don't have access to the Remix boot so I can't offer any more info, but I'd be interested in what you find.
Come to think (that's my brain in reverse), I had four SRs, all different and semi-improv'd:
Still
BBC Radio 1
Demos, Out-takes and Rarities (always assumed it was Like A Girl cos they tended to be official but rare sources e g. Discreet Campaigns or Record Mirror. Surprised the bootlegger took the trouble to dig out a live track due to its rarity value. The only other glaring omission from these was Theme, so I confused it with Homage)
Oz's Live and Dangerous Mix, which obviously wasn't a mix but the compiler's label, presumably so it'd tie in with the others on a 'Remix' CD

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Yeah, that's what I thought. So it's weird that the Demos, Outtakes and Rarities did that cos the others were 'under-released' i.e. Record Mirror, Discreet Campaigns etc.
Cheers for checking that out. I wanted to try my copy of 'The Remix' but the channel's in the way.

Cool. Sorry to repeat myself (actually I'm not. Some people molest goats) but I remember buying that at a record fair in Cambridge in 1995. I 'needed' it for Paradise, Ruined, BM and Sister Ray. Ruined must be by the bootlegger to con buyers.
I'd just cum back from my year out (think Erasmus without the fucking) and had a lot of money by my standards so I had a lot of fun tracking down what I'd missed e.g. the 1963 12". Then I actually heard it and it wasn't fun at all. Does Lioncock have a single sec of NO? In fact, the glut of remixes alongside these solo projects that were doing FA was one of the reasons my passion faded. Until Rest Of, I could recite the entire back catalogue and, sadly, did.
I think it was round here that I read Aphex Twin were commissioned to do a mix and just handed over the last thing they'd been working on.

Yeah, I've never cum close to the level of passion I had in the early 90s. There are whole albums I can't comment on - Super Highgays and Freebass - and a ton of mixes I haven't even heard. By Get Ready I had very little interest and bought it more out of curiosity than anything else. O enjoyed it but felt there was a dip in the second half. I got interested again around Wanking For the Sirens' Call, partly cos it was the internet explosion so it was fun to find info, partly cos I was under a lot of stress and I needed a hobby. But God, I'll never go back to the obsessiveness of my youth.

I believe that was a Lemonheads 'remix', not NO.
And on a point of up-my-arse pedantry, Aphex Twin is singular.

Yep.
London probably guessed that they weren't going to get any further new material out of the band and wanted to maximise their return.

I guess the lack of impetus of the band to produce new stuff was tempered with the fact that London had acquired the band's very enviable back catalogue, and could milk this for all its worth.

So, first off they release four singles off the (IMO patchy) 'new' LP. Remixed these to death, spreading the various mixes over multiple formats, including two CDs per single (except Regret).

Then, after fully exhausting 'Republic', they moved onto the back catalogue:
Studio LP reissues, Best Of, Rest Of, True Faith-94, 1963-95, Blue Monday-95, International etc.

Oh, and Joy Division reissues - studio LPs, Permanent, Love Will Tear Us Apart-95 etc.

I bet they made a shed load of money. Both London and the band.
Probably paid for Bernard's yacht.



I know we've all discussed this at length, but this really was a definite low in the band's history.

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it might have been a low for you.
but i loved electronica, and a lot of those fit in.

great for collectors too.

the blue monday 95 mixes, had some great ones, like from hardfloor.

i was glad to see them revisit the classics, while not much else was going on.

but republic was a lowpoint for albums, for me though.

later
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Agreed.



Yep. To be fair, I quite liked the Blue Monday-95 mixes too
OK, so nothing was going to beat the original classic and The Beach (possibly the band's best remix?), but there was much to enjoy in the remixes. Especially the Hardfloor ones.

On a similar note, the Confusion remixes from 2002 were even better. I really like those.

Apart from those two exceptions (plus maybe one or two others), I was not fussed by the post-Factory remixes, which all seemed like a massive cash-grab.

Why do they have to have totally different music? BM was a "track" rather than a song in the first place (according to Bernard). Removing all of the "track" and just keeping the vocals doesn't necessaily make a good remix.
The Hardfloor remix of BM was the best remix to come out of that period, precisely because it kept the original track largely intact but added a tough acid/techno kick to it.
I was a fan of Jam & Spoon's Tripomatic Fairytale stuff, but if you think Jam & Spoon did better remixes of BM than Hardfloor, well you're just wrong!

PS Totally agree that the best remixes stay faithful to the originals but add oomph: World Perfecto, Spooky Stadium, ITYS on Lost Sirens. The worst are too different (A van Hardon's BLT) or too similar (TF 7"). I wouldn't say Hardfloor is worse - I Just felt it was too close to the original to warrant inclusion, while Manuela offered something 'new'. The point of my collection was to strip past all the off-shoots and get to the actual songs.
No one gives a fuck.

Well, yeah. I couldn't see the point in filling a side with Shep Craplyboned's five BLTs (I'm including the video version) when they're all similar and like the original but not as good. It was fairly plain sailing till Repubblica, which threw up:
Regret 7" and Fire Island
Ruined LP, K-Klarse, Ambient, Dance Anal Groove
Vicious Circle NO
World Perfecto, Brothers in Jism, K-Klass
Spooky Stadium, Minimix, the first one on the second CD!
Ev Ev NOStory
2nd side as it is (mainly crap)
The 94-5 period only gave the three I mentioned
After Raise the Pisser, it all fell apart cos I was living outside the UK and there was very little Net. Plus I just couldn't be arsed any more.
Razzle was awesome. Really honest: here's a vagina so knock one out. My personal favourite was 'Welcome to another awesome issue. We know it's awesome, we haven't seen the editor's hands above the desk for three weeks... Coming next month? Buy Razzle and make sure.' I genuinely think that Playboy is more misogynistic cos it tells you it's respectable to lust after a woman you have no interest in. Dodgy.
And this year's award for deviating furthest goes to...

That's pretty amusing. And the sort of thing I'd have done if I ran a porno empire.





'Deviation' is definitely the word to use here.

Bringing the conversation back down to Earth and replacing unnecessary talk of actual porn with a discussion on discographical porn, technically there are 7 Shep Pettibone versions of 'Bizarre Love Triangle' - 8 including the video version you mentioned, all of which I own:

• 12"
• 7"
• Dub 12"
• Dub 7"
• Canadian "Remixed & Edited" 7"
• Qwest 7" Edit
• Extended Edit
• Video Edit

Pointless? Yes? Collectable? Very. Versions I've mostly listened to? 12" and 7" of course!