If you work it out, tell me what you find

Actually, yes, next Monday I may well buy this:



...because I do love them so, but also because the expensive version of the single has something called u-myx, which supposedly allows the user to remix the track in a basic form. Even if my usual hamfisted attempts to work music software result in it turning into a clashing mess, it may well still be better than the new Radio Mix.

Why do bands - well, labels - commission single mixes? Even if the casual listener can't tell much difference they're bound to not be as lively or immediate as the original, compressed horribly to take up less airtime and making the band look like ass-kissing radio whores as a result. This case is even worse, as whoever mixed it has copied a random piece of the riff onto the start, not even mixing it back into where Barry's vocal comes in on the original properly so it seems to cut off mid-note and completely ruining the subtle build of the guitars as a result. Furthermore the whole drum pattern seems to have been completely changed so it sounds more like a Strokes part in texture - even Dave's vocal has been amplified for no discernable or comfortable sounding reason. Ally that to the horrible new video, which seems to have been created with a Fisher Price My First Video Editing Suite such are the number of supposedly flashy effects, and just the fact they've followed up the big breakthrough hit with their only previous single to breach the top 40 when more than half the album could easily be single material in its own right, and the whole thing's not turned out well for anyone.

Actually, Blur's single reworking of MOR comprehensively outdid the eponymous album version. But that's a full re-recording, I think.