Difference between revisions of "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)"

Besides the album receiving new cover art and an overall tune up for the later Atlantic version (as well as iTunes bonus tracks), the differences between particular songs can amount to being anywhere from very minimal to entirely different recordings. On the Atlantic "Taken For A Ride," just before the previous track (“Welcome to Tally Hall”) ends, there is a climactic build up of clanking sounds right up to the start of the next song. In addition, the Vocoder technique being used on Andrew’s voice is much cleaner sounding in the later version, allowing one to more easily understand the lyrics. Pauses of silence are also minutely extended to create more punctuation. “The Bidding” was originally performed at a faster tempo, but the later version is significantly slower to the point that it adds roughly 10 seconds to the overall length. The Atlantic version sounds like a new recording and not simply a slower master of the ’05 release. Lots of balancing changes are dominant in “Banana Man,” the spoken intro sounds different on both releases. Of all the songs however, it appears that “Just Apathy” went through the most changes, as the Atlantic release is entirely different. The brief violin intro from the original is absent and the song starts off with the lyrics instead. Some small instrumental breaks were also omitted for the sake of moving through the beginning more quickly. A noticeable change for “Two Wuv” is that when the words “you dressed up like a bee” are sung, there is a faint buzzing sound to emphasize the joke in the wording. For whatever reason, this was removed from the ’08 release (perhaps considered too silly or obvious). “The Ruler of Everything” (along with its intro “13”) is, at the beginning, slightly lower in pitch than the older release. The lowering of pitch was caused by slightly slowing the song, according to Joe Hawley.  The change was made, possibly to create a more ominous initial impression of the song. The silence and ambient wave sounds at the end are also extended, so that there is a longer wait time before “Hidden in the Sand” starts playing.