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Arctic Monkeys - (15% faster from start) Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Full Album - speeded up

Sadly this has been zapped due to copyright, so try here instead

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Star Trek Voyager - Opening credits (15% faster tempo from start) - speeded up

Star Trek Voyager was another long-running sci-fi series that ran from 1995 to 2001. The CGI opening sequence was considered very fancy for the time, winning an Emmy, although the reflection on the planet rings looks very odd: more, much more, about this here.

I've always disliked this introduction sequence's music, but Dr Mrs 15 Percent Faster is of the opinion that it's actually quite good; it's just too slow to excite the viewer for the space action to come. She says:

"The steady pace, while unexciting, is appropriate for depicting a very long journey that, apart from the odd deviation, is basically a straight line at constant velocity. Compare this to TNG, where they're always zipping around all over the place at a moment's notice, or for that matter, DS9, which doesn't move at all (as depicted in its dull and harmonically static music). The melodic and harmonic aspects of the Voyager music also manage to convey a nice combination of stately vessel proudly powering through space (albeit not very quickly), pathos of being a long way from home (the II minor), hope and determination (the leap upward in the melody), and a bit of spacey delta quadrant weirdness (the key shift in the middle section)."

Enjoy at 15% faster tempo, original is here for comparison.

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Portishead - Sour Times (15% faster from start) - speeded up

This incredible 1994 debut album from the Bristol-based outfit dropped like a bomb, at a time when I was either listening to passable indie guitar bands or ambient electronic noodlers. It had a vastly more sophisticated and detailed production, and managed to sound incredibly modern and classic at the same time.

Having said that, I do believe this track sounds better #15percentfaster, original is here for comparison: https://youtu.be/g7gutsi1uT4

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Arctic Monkeys - (15% faster from start) Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Full Album - speeded up

It's always a bitter-sweet moment, when a formerly young and energetic band plunges over the precipice into playing their instruments "properly", the tempo drops, albums have "concepts" and everything becomes very serious. This is when #MatureArtistSlowdown has arrived.

Members of Arctic Monkeys are just 32, but "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino" is their sixth album, after a worrying five year hiatus. Warning signs abound: it was composed in LA, it's mostly an Alex Turner solo record, it trundles, it has overt 60s influences.

However, once I sped the tracks up by 15%, using advanced technology, the album is a very enjoyable and interesting listen. Here is the whole album #15percentfaster for your listening pleasure.

Original is here for comparison.

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Elton John -  Circle of Life (15% faster tempo from start) - speeded up

Original song is here for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt4G4NVgp_4

In these difficult lockdown times, I've been listening to a few classic albums for the first time, like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John; having grown up with Elton producing plodding material like this, often with deafening snare drums, it's a revelation to go back to the energy levels and upbeat tempo of his youth.

At 47, Elton had severe #matureartistslowdown , along with having a tendency to err into club-singing. This song from The Lion King is not bad but much improved by being #15percentfaster.

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Angel Olsen -  Spring (15% faster from start) - speeded up

Original song is here for comparison, with an awesome added video by YouTuber 송사라

This is a great song from highly talented songwriter Angel Olsen's fourth album, All Mirrors. Despite her youthful years, this album shows a few touches of #matureartistslowdown, with lush string arrangements and a much more measured tempo generally. Enjoy at correct tempo #15percentfaster

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Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive (15% faster from start) - speeded up

JBJ unleashed this monster in 1986, with a very moody B&W promo to accompany this VERY EMOTIONAL song, wittering about such nonsense as being a cowboy riding a steel horse.

Kudos to him though, for rocking a hairy chest and spangly jacket/bandana/huge barnett combo.

It's a good tune, but is clearly superior 15 Percent Faster

Original is here for comparison: https://youtu.be/Py6U3XMy-AM