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So does The Trooper by Iron Maiden

Quite like playing all of Margin Walker at 33rpm instead of 45.

The first time I played Frigid Stars by Codeine I had it at 45rpm and it sounded just like regular indie rock!

i played it at a clubnight on 33 by accident and it sounded mint

and accidentally played at 33. It was great, all swirly, dirgy shoegazy mess but with more low end and the vocals sounded really druggy and slurred. Then I realised, bumped it up to 45, and really didn't like it.

Most really really great songs sound good at both speeds.

A classic example is Windowlicker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF6nVVA3xj8

Obviously if the song is vocal led doesn't always work!

Seeing as their records (well their older ones anyway) are generally over £50 on ebay, I have never had the pleasure.

We listened to it loads, it was amazing. Then we realised it was meant to be played at 45rpm, not 33rpm. At normal speed it's a bit meh.

http://33not45.tumblr.com/post/332760922/roy-orbison-i-drove-all-night
http://33not45.tumblr.com/post/812917727

my personal favourite
http://33not45.tumblr.com/post/361656904/michael-mcdonald-sweet-freedom-as-heard-on

it's best when you take someone who already has a 'rich' voice and slow it down.

SHARN YOUR LIGHT ON ME

It's a massively underrated gem from last year.

The first half is an odd mix of Flaming Lips, drum'n'bass and better chillwave (Washed Out/Boy Friend/Sleep?Over, idk)
The second half is the same tracks as the first, but kind of chopped and screwed.

It's a really simple concept that works far, far better than it has any right to.

http://open.spotify.com/album/2H4w9rig7GGCuOhHVOwM9l

Didn't realise the first couple of times I played it it was at the wrong speed; tried it at the right speed then decided I preferred it the first way I'd been listening to it.

completely amazing

The video on that channel of the same thing with Ego by Burial, Four Tet, and Thom Yorke is pretty great as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KoxD_NFtZo

Just tried to find it online but I can't - anyway at 45rpm it was bobbins. At 33rpm and then slowed done some more on his decks it sounded amazing!

If any of you have it, it is the funkiest most awesome thing slowed down.

I might have to start trying this out with more records.

definitely works better sans the vocals though. Owner Of A Lonely Heart intro sounds beastly!

played at 45rpm is bloody amazing, though Neil sounds slightly more chipmunky than usual.

Back in the early '70s Paul Greiner, known as a tastemaker radio DJ in Detroit, played McCartney's "Oh Woman Oh Why" at 33. Probably played an lp on the turntable just before & never switched speeds. Anyway, he played it all the way like that, never said a thing, & I've played it like that whenever the situation arose.

'Everytime' by Britney Spears, backwards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqEjZfwT4_0

ignore the lyrics someone has attached to the video

I can't listen to it at real speed anymore, it's just disappointing.

I always used to play this at 33 and it sounds lovely and dirge like. I never realised it was Silent Running already slowed down

It sounded really doomy and awesome.

Not slowed down, technically... but the effect is placed on the vocals. So good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VMykMSSJg8

Sounds like the theme music for a bad guy wrestler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YIjte73IPg

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my favourite bit of Slowner Of A Lonely Heart is the slowed down synth orchetral flourish thing.

The Osmonds rhythm section sounds as lumbering as the Black Sabbath one slowed down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDr0q74GmMU

https://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower

innerzone orchestra bug in the bassbin got played at 45rpm, supposedly. sounds better than the correct slow version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WAouZc19vk