Oh yeah...Miracle Mile is terrific and a big ol' ditto for the 2CD edition
There is a stupid little thing that always annoys me in Sun Gate, once I started hearing it I couldn't un-hear it and it killed an otherwise great tune for me
Synths in the 80's didn't have a ton of polyphony like the modern digital synths do. I can't recall but the Roland U series and Korg M1 might only be 8 or 16 total voices (keep in mind, they were also multitimbral so 16 voices could get chewed up really fast when using multiple parts at once). For those of us who did full songs in MIDI without audio (this was a few years before DAW systems really became more widespread), we had to oftentimes allocate voices to each part in the synth (for example, a mono bass might only need 1 voice of polyphony but the piano might need 6). If you got too close to the limit, notes would cut off really abruptly.
The piano in the verses on Sun Gate is a Roland U-20 (or another Roland synth using the same sample library set), and it doesn't have quite enough polyphony so you can hear the chords chopping off as it goes along. It's subtle but once I heard it, I totally get distracted and annoyed by it
YA COULDN'T JUST ADD A FEW MORE VOICES, RALF?!?
(super nerd quibble to be clear...and I actually think it's a great song. Did they ever do this one live? I don't THINK so which is kind of a shame...it would've been a great guitar moment for Edgar and a nice live anthem sort of tune).
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