I remember Peely playing Temptation for the first time - happy days.
The fact that it was a 33 1/3rpm 7 inch (it was, wasn't it?) wouldn't have helped the sound quality either.
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Why is the original Temptation recording such bad sound quality?
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I can't understand why people say Temptation '87 sounds whimpy or plastic-like. Every time I turn it up to fill my room I'm enthralled all over again.
We should do a survey... which version you heard first.
Of course me it's Substance, hence probably why I prefer that version, it's the one I grew my love for the song to... so it's hard to beat.
I heard the substance version first although i initially hated the song and used to fast forward through the cassette to get to blue monday 
The '82 12" is my favourite version. What everyone's complaining about are the reasons I like it: the tinny guitars, the weird snare drum effect, the rambling arrangement... everything they've done '85 on seems to have the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-break-chorus structure.
It's totally unique, there's nothing else that sounds quite like it.
