What happened to songs getting extended mixes/12" versions?It used to be that a song was released and sometimes you'd get a '7"' radio version that was around 3-4m long, and an extended '12"' version that was ~6-10m long. So if you enjoyed the short version, you could get more of that same goodness from the extended cut - that notably didn't sound ANY different from the original in terms of instrumentation.You'd get extended mixes of all sorts of songs from niche releases to mainstream pop. This seems to have been a thing for most of the '70s-'90s, but some time around the late '90s or early '00s, they started being phased out in favour of having shitty "remixes" instead.Note the difference - an old "extended version" was generally just a rearrangement of the original multitracks, retaining 99% of the same instrumentation and thus usually being enjoyable if you liked the short "radio" mix. Nowadays, you get 5 shitty "remixes" from different people that maybe keep the vocals but add their own earrape instrumentation on top of it, and sound COMPLETELY different from the original.What exactly is the fucking point? If I like a song, I want more of that song - not something completely different that makes my ears bleed.What happened to cause this decline?
>>128496941haha OP i love froggo xD
>>128496941It was related to vinyl only mixes. From the 90s onwards, there were mostly single mixes and album mixes, but no special 7'' / 12'' mixes. Those 7'' / 12'' mixes tried to make a difference between the existing formats by using the space you could get from larger formats (12 inches). With CDs going to shit in the 10s, artists now just make their songs with the single mix in mind, so you don't really see differences in the songs anymore besides "clean / dirty" mixes in some pop and rap songs. I personally preferred the vinyl era for a lot of things, including making singles collectable. Even from the 90s onwards, buying CD singles seemed completely pointless except if you wanted a single mix (which was 90% of the time identical or worse to the album mix).
