Talk:Mirror in the Bathroom

Old photo
The photo of the 1995 CD single which used to be used to represent the 1980 release could perhaps still be used to represent the 1995 single?--TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 02:46, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Instalment -- On Wikipedia, the learning never stops
Reading "It was also included on two eclectic DJ-mixed albums: Tricky's instalment of the Back to Mine series and the first of Ninja Tune's Solid Steel albums," I thought I'd found a typo. But, I'm mildly dyslexic, so I quickly searched instalment to sanity-check myself, and found Installment vs. Instalment. Here on Wikipedia, the learning never stops!

--E-hadj (talk) 11:51, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

‘First digitally-recorded single in the UK’?
Being into early digital recording, I found this quite odd, as I had never heard this mentioned anywhere else. After research, I have read the forum thread which I assume this information came from and I honestly cannot believe it.

To start with, this was The Beat, a band that probably did not have the resources (money, essentially) to record digitally. This is slightly hard to back up, being such a general statement as it is, but the closest I have come to proof regarding this is that on the original US CD pressing of ‘I Just Can’t Stop It’ (probably from the mid-to-late-Eighties judging by it being pressed in Japan and having a barcode) a SPARS code of AAD is given. I assume that they would not have gone through the trouble of recording two versions of ‘Mirror In The Bathroom’, one on an analogue machine to put on the album and the other on a digital machine to release as a single. Despite this, it could still be possible that that is what happened, so this point is quite loose.

My second point regards Ry Cooder’s album ‘Bop Till You Drop’, which was released in the UK in 1979 and was entirely digitally recorded. The track ‘Little Sister’ from the album was released as a single in various countries, including the UK, in the same year. Therefore, I believe this to be the ‘first digitally-recorded single released in the UK’. There are some problems with this point too though; I was not able to find an exact release date for the release of ‘Little Sister’ in the UK, which could have been simply generalised as 1979 on Discogs. The point about two versions of the song (one analogue, one digital) could also be raised, but this is probably very unlikely as the machine built for the album was custom and probably cost a fortune.

I may be wrong, I may be right. I’d be happy to hear anybody else’s opinion on the matter. TheSturgenator (talk) 09:06, 15 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Your sources are not clear. Can you provide them here? You may want to open another thread for discussion at Talk:Bop till You Drop? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:03, 15 August 2018 (UTC)


 * The link claiming that 'Mirror In The Bathroom' was the first digitally recorded single released in the UK (and that 'I Just Can't Stop It' was the first digitally recorded album released in the UK) is here:


 * http://themeninblack.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17807


 * The US CD release of 'I Just Can't Stop It' showing a SPARS code of AAD can be found here:


 * https://www.discogs.com/The-English-Beat-I-Just-Cant-Stop-It/release/391375


 * I must have overlooked it at the time, but the UK release of the 'Little Sister' single on Discogs actually has a specific date; 21st September 1979. Whilst this does not have any proof for it (I may have to ask the user who added that information for clarification if need be), I have been able to find a 'Product Facts' sheet on www.45cat.com for the German release of the single, giving a date of 14th September 1979. There is also an Australian release on the same website that has a release date of 13th September 1979, so the 21st seems like a legitimate release date. Here is the Discogs page for the UK release:


 * https://www.discogs.com/Ry-Cooder-Little-Sister/release/2097106


 * I could not find a specific release date for 'Bop Till You Drop', the closest being the date given on the Wikipedia page, so asking this on the talk page would be probably be a good idea, yes. However, the copyright date given on the 'first' UK release of the album is 1979, so I do not believe a specific date is really needed. The Discogs pages showing two different UK 'first releases' are here:


 * https://www.discogs.com/Ry-Cooder-Bop-Till-You-Drop/release/7704147
 * https://www.discogs.com/Ry-Cooder-Bop-Till-You-Drop/release/1596461


 * And I think that's about all I have... TheSturgenator (talk) 19:41, 18 August 2018 (UTC)