Rubáiyát

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Release Date: 1991

Label: Elektra

Spine:
Elektra's 40th Anniversary

Back cover:
For promotional use only. Not for sale.
Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc. [Warner logo]
A Time Warner Company
This compilation ℗ & © 1991 Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.

CD face:
For promotional use only. Not for sale.
A Warner Communications Company [Warner logo]
This compilation ℗ 1991 Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc.
Made in U.S.A.

Inner panels:
Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc., [Warner logo]
A Time Warner Company
This compilation ℗ & © 1991 Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.
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Track 1 Sources: Hello I Love You and the additional hits: Light My Fire , Love Her Madly,Touch Me, Roadhouse Blues,The End, People Are Strange, Waiting For The Sun, Love Me Two Times, Five To One, L.A. Woman, When The Music's Over, Break On Through, Strange Days
From The Best Of The Doors (Elektra #60345) and The Cure "Hello I Love You" from Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary (Elektra #60940)
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Track 2 Sources: "Net" from Plunderphonic (1989, out of print). "Net" is a survey of portions of tracks from the Metallica And Justice For All (Elektra #60812), and the Metallica version of "Stone Cold Crazy" from Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary (Elektra #60940)
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Track 3 Source: "Anonymous Proposition" from Tim Buckley Lorca (Elektra #74074)
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Track 4 Sources: "You're So Vain" from Carly Simon No Secrets (Elektra #75049) and Faster Pussycat "You're So Vain" from Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary (Elektra #60940)
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Track 5 Source: various tracks from MC5 Kick Out The Jams (Elektra #74042)
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All sources have been faithfully transferred from commercially available compact discs and phonograph records, or from digital dubs of the stereo master tapes. No use has been made of multitrack source tapes, studio outtakes, or of any material that isn't or hasn't been made commercially available.
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Thanks: Bob Hurwitz, Bob Krasnow, David Bither, Lenny Kaye, JoAnn Kaeding, Albert Lee, Carla Capretto, Valerie Vickers, Elektra Entertainment. Also, Holly Small, Christopher Butterfield, John Zorn, Mendelson Joe and Clive Allen.
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Rejektrix:
Additional tracks were planned for potential inclusion in this package. Listeners may wish to try some of these recipes in the privacy of their own home entertainment systems:
1. A minute long abridgement, reduced to minimal redundancy, of Paul Butterfield's Born In Chicago slowed down from the equivalent of 45 RPM to 33⅓ RPM (an option no longer readily available to listeners in this age of CD's) resulting in a blacker sound of a more leisurely tempo; while at the same time the sense of the song rushes by.
2. Two mixes, both combining the Television and the Kronos String Quartet versions of Marquee Moon, one of which sounds like Television with strings, while the other is more along the lines of Kronos with rock band.
3. Field recordings of The New Seekers singing I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing in various locales and situations including over the public address system at a Major League Baseball game and for the mostly Japanese passersby at the Osaka World's Fair; on a blaster in an aviary and in a canyon; a passing version through a 600 watt automotive system.
4. A melismatic and choralzied tracking of Joni Mitchell singing Both Sides Now using the stylistic models of The Beach Boys' Heroes & Villains (Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks) and Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
5. Elimination of the snare drum from a few verses of Jackson Browne's These Days in preparation for grafting with the 10,000 Maniacs cover. This sort of simulations of a remix, in this case achieved by the precise editing of the beat, could be more easily effected if songs were released in multitrack, interactive versions. A 4, 6 or 8 track mix-programmable K7 or CD player would opportune multiple choices, for instance vocal-eliminated instrumental versions, extending the preferences a listener can apply using traditional balance and tone controls.
6. Suggested duets inspired by Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary:
Teddy Pendergrass & Bread
Ernie Isley & The Cars
The two very similar versions of Seven & Seven Is by Billy Bragg & Love
John Zorn and The Stooges
Love Wars between The Womacks & The Beautiful South
Play them anyway you like!

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