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Dugster	UTMW Commonwealth Games version	Lead	[-]
Faith Healer Columbus Posts: 981 (10/07/2009 04:09) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Remove this ad Does anyone have a copy of UTMW released on the 06 Commonwealth Games CD (this one http://homepage.mac.com/fipster/church/compilations/2006-comm-games-opening.html) that they'd be willing to share? Just realised this glaring omission from my collection!
chrome3D		#1	[-]
Posts: 5335 (10/07/2009 05:46) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have some sort of video of it, which means that I have a MP3 of it soon. Do you want it ripped from the actual CD? He drums impatient fingers on the chrome and on the leather
Dugster		#2	[-]
Faith Healer Columbus Posts: 981 (10/07/2009 06:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think I have the video of it somewhere too but I think the cd contained a studio version if I'm not mistaken (which I may be).
eyestothesky	UTMW Commonwealth Games version	#3	[-]
Glow Worm Posts: 96 (10/12/2009 14:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hi all, I ripped the audio from the video way back when. I really had hoped to strip out the voiceover, but I couldn't do it without ruining the flow of the intro and the ending. In the end, I've grown to like the narration - it reminds me just how big an event this really was! http://rapidshare.com/files/292198687/Under_The_Milky_Way.mp3 Greg
chrome3D		#4	[-]
Posts: 5335 (10/16/2009 04:17) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have now listened the live Commonwealth version over and over and it´s really grandiose and, well, incredible in many ways. The introduction is cool: - Here is The Church and their classic song Under The Milky Way ! and then it starts almost normally but the big orchestra adds some swanky touches shere and there. Raise the curtain in Melbourne, Steve sings, it sends a totally different vibe than usually with that little change. The big touches are added here and there and it´s like Heyday orchestrations X4. It´s really lavish and sounds friggin expensive. At 3.00 there is a nice fairy dust part and the big choir really makes it go to another dimension at 4:30. paa paa pap paa...gradually the song loses it´s form and it´s just totally spacy Church from another dimension. The best is saved to last. The narrator says (and this is so surreal from audio only): At the end the spiral pathway to stars is laid... The boy- a final moment of magic to come... A confusing dream - lets face it, they usually are ( ) - is over His friend, THE DUCK, is real - to him! (that ending is just pure blockbuster dadaism!) Get it. It´s priceless stuff! He drums impatient fingers on the chrome and on the leather Last Edited By: chrome3D 10/16/2009 04:21. Edited 1 times.
fantasticandy		#5	[-]
Perfect Child Posts: 231 (10/16/2009 11:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad been grooving to this since they did it............would love to hear a whole album of this stuff!
Dugster		#6	[-]
Faith Healer Columbus Posts: 981 (10/16/2009 13:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks for that Greg. That sounds really good actually complete with Barry Davies' commentary! Does anyone know if this is actually the same recording as on the CD - I assume it would have no Barry at least on the CD but is it a live recording or a studio effort on the disc?
Dugster		#7	[-]
Faith Healer Columbus Posts: 981 (10/16/2009 13:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	After a bit of digging it does seem to be a live recording on the CD. http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2006/Jun06/cwgames06.html
eyestothesky		#8	[-]
Glow Worm Posts: 96 (10/18/2009 15:01) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Glad you're all enjoying it! I could live without the choral bits at the end, but the orchestration really is gorgeous - understated, creative and perfectly suited and in service to the song - it makes an already magical song all that much more so. I especially love all the tinkly/chimey/xylophony sounds and the swelling horns that come in after the solo. One only wishes that the band and the orchestrator could get together on a new song or two. The Church has used orchestration throughout their career, but Happy Hunting Ground is the only piece that comes to mind that's close to being as effective as the Commonwealth Games' arrangement of UTMW.
escheresque		#9	[-]
Pantechnicon Posts: 188 (11/11/2009 05:30) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know anything about the CD, but I have heard a demo version of the arrangement that was recorded I think during rehearsals. It could be that version which has ended up on the CD. I'm gonna download that mp3 (thanks Greg) and compare them.
escheresque		#10	[-]
Pantechnicon Posts: 188 (11/12/2009 04:55) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad Dugster, did you realise there's an mp3 of it up on the discography page you linked from? It's definitely a different version to the live one Greg put up. Last Edited By: escheresque 11/12/2009 05:02. Edited 2 times.

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