****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
This cassette is considered extremely rare and sports mixes not available on CD. These exclusive mixes are available on 12" vinyl, which is just as rare. In all honesty the exclusive mixes are... weird. Even for being club mixes from the 80's they push the envelope of listen-ability. You get four tracks and both sides sport the exact same tracks. Here is the listing along with my comments:Leave It (Remix) - 3:52- It's not much different than the album version. It's just shorter. Think of it as a single mix.Owner of a Lonely Heart (Red and Blue Mix) - 7:23- This is one of those rare tracks. It's a mess. It's has a strong vibe on it similar to Dazz Band's Let it Whip along with various pacing breaks, sample clips (including a popular Art of Noise voice sample), and other distractions put in between normal spots of the song. It's an irritating club mix.Leave It (Hello, Goodbye Mix) - 9:34- This is an extremely long (and the other rare track) that pushes on the old school hip hop beat the song has and throws in tons of other things. This is an instrumental piece with only vocal snippets popping in maybe twice in the entire song. At first I didn't think it was bad what with the classic synthesizers playing new wave style riffs and some of those Art of Noise samples again, but with the length of the track it got old fast. The song never actually goes anywhere.Owner of a Lonely Heart (Album Version) - 4:27- If you have 90125 you have this song. Probably filler to remind people how the song is supposed to sound like after hearing the Red and Blue Mix.Yes this cassette 12" is rare, but it's rare for a reason. If you are a Yes completest don't bother as these remixes sound nothing like Yes. If you are a Trevor Horn completest maybe you will want this to get the deepest, darkest of his early production work. Keep in mind cassettes are notorious for sound quality degradation so be wary of buying used. Better bet is to find the vinyl recordings. Good luck.
