Off The Wall (1979)

09 July 2022

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Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 — The “hit.” Nothing special here. This version lacks the 9-second extended instrumental intro of the single version. It has the same ending as the single version — a fade out towards the end of David Gilmour’s guitar solo.

Goodbye Blue Sky — The acoustic guitar intro is clean for about the first 9 seconds and lacks the bird tweeting and other pastoral sound effects at the beginning of the track. On the album/CD version, sound effects of birds and bomber fleets could be heard until the synths kicked in. The outro here is a wash. On this LP, the song fades out completely at the same spot in the music where we would have heard the first notes of “Empty Spaces” on the CD.

Young Lust — The track starts with the same the pickup beat and goes straight into the vocal as the album/CD release. It clocks in at 3m 25s on this release. Basically, it has the same running time as the original LP version but the pick-up note at the beginning lacks the tiny bit of crossover sound from “Empty Spaces”. The outro is clean, lacking the dialog of phone call back home on top of the music. It also lacks the Roger Waters scream during the guitar solo that appears only in the rare 7? single version.

One Of My Turns — A clean version of the track with nothing obscuring the beginning or the the end. The opening synth was unobscured and had a faster attack that faded in quicker. The first 6 seconds of the track was clean and lacked the dial tone sound effects of the album version. At the end of the track, the echo and reverb of Roger Waters’ vocal “Why are you running away…?” sustained for about 3 seconds longer than the album version.

Hey You — No different than the album version. Roger Waters’ echoing vocal of “…we fall, we fall, we fall….” fades out just before the opening sound effects would have started on the album version of “Nobody Home”.

Nobody Home — No different than the album version.

Comfortably Numb — No different than the album version but the grooves were cut a little deeper giving the track a better sound here.

Run Like Hell — This extended studio version of “Run Like Hell” has a clean opening and cold fade without crowd noises. This version has a longer intro, restoring an additional 4 bars which completed the full 8-bar intro. It also has a longer outro with the full guitar refrain repeating twice (instead of once) for the full 16 bars. All in all, this version restored about 19 seconds that were cut from the track. This track is one of the gems on this EP.

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