I've never heard any of the 'Blue Monday' vinyl pressings with the missing beat(s) (my 12" is the same as the 'Substance' version), but there were 7 beats missing from the versions on 'Blue Monday 95', 'International', and the first version of 'Singles'. A very strange mistake, meaning the first beat of the track in these erroneous versions is actually the 4th and final beat of the second bar of the song.

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So that means those pressings start with the 8x 16th note fast bass beats then?

I'm sure it must be the Nelson Mandela effect, but we used to listen to the Blue Monday 12" obsessively circa 1985/86 when we were round at a mates playing on his BBC Micro and I always remembered the distinct bass drum intro has having SIX single beats before the double-time beats. Like it was burned into my brain

Hence it was always confusing when I heard later digital versions that didn't have all the beats. However - it now transpires that there were only ever TWO single beats at the start and I'm losing my mind

AAAAARGH! Don't do this to me man! (heads to discogs to look for mid-80s pressings)

None of the pressings have extra beats. Some have one (or more missing). The version on 'Substance' is the musically correct version, with two beats before the 16th note beats. That's the version that starts on the first beat of the first 4/4 bar, as they play it live.

Edited by user 21 November 2023 12:40:08(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Those versions are actually almost two bars shorter, having 7 beats missing from the start, meaning the first beat is actually the 4th and final beat of the second bar of the song.

and here are the remastered 12 inches, front and back.






i never had the original UK true faith remix 12 inch,

i'm surprised they put 1963 on there again, instead of remix or something else.

i saw the australian one with the paradise remix, so of course i got that with
the limited money i had. i didn't get the UK true faith original either, because
i got the US 12 inch with the same cover. however it had the remixes on it,
and not the 12 inch versions.


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Edited by user 22 November 2023 17:09:19(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Just verified the above with the 'Blue Monday 95' version of this. Here's where the following sections start;

First synth line starts fading in

• 'Substance' version: 0:15
  
• 95 version: 0:11
  

Bassline and full drums start

• 'Substance' version: 0:30
  
• 95 version: 0:27
  

Hooky's bass guitar starts

• 'Substance' version: 1:17
  
• 95 version: 1:14
  

So the versions that appear to have extra beats at the start, are actually shorter at the start, missing earlier beats.