tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281735.post112416938462367458..comments2021-11-20T21:01:04.389+11:00Comments on Wireless Cranium: London CallingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03538905483110518568noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281735.post-1125637110366058362005-09-02T14:58:00.000+10:002005-09-02T14:58:00.000+10:00Love the Milhouse pic!At the risk of cross-pollina...Love the Milhouse pic!<BR/><BR/>At the risk of cross-pollination of posts, did you pick up the Oasis CD at lunchtime? If you like that, I can recommend lots of other stuff!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03538905483110518568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281735.post-1125626342386646272005-09-02T11:59:00.000+10:002005-09-02T11:59:00.000+10:00But if the CD was called Groove Cramming, wouldn't...But if the CD was called <I>Groove Cramming</I>, wouldn't it be 80 minutes?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03538905483110518568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281735.post-1125618282008669842005-09-02T09:44:00.000+10:002005-09-02T09:44:00.000+10:00I looked at the back of my copy of Get Happy!! thi...I looked at the back of my copy of <I>Get Happy!!</I> this morning, and you are correct, the technique was not referred to as compression.<BR/><BR/>Nick Lowe (the producer who wrote the note) explained that while there were 10 tracks per side, <I>groove cramming</I> was not employed as a technique as the vinyl reached the end of the side.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't that term sound like something Disco Stu does before his finals?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03538905483110518568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281735.post-1125576304172361752005-09-01T22:05:00.000+10:002005-09-01T22:05:00.000+10:00You completely lost me in that 3rd paragraph Chise...You completely lost me in that 3rd paragraph Chisel! I don't think I have much to say except "I'll take your word for it" :-)<BR/><BR/>But please, keep the replies coming! There's a huge backlog of postings on this blog ready for your dissection and analysis :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03538905483110518568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281735.post-1125387948724555172005-08-30T17:45:00.000+10:002005-08-30T17:45:00.000+10:00Okay, I should have put a little footnote at the e...Okay, I should have put a little footnote at the end of this post.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for picking out the flaw in my "all killer no filler" statement, Chisel.<BR/><BR/>The lame truth is that I wrote this review ages ago and just "imported" it into my blog to make it look like I was writing new stuff. Had I written it now, I surely would have crapped on about how double albums back in the vinyl era are (generally) single albums now.<BR/><BR/>However there are some exceptions to this rule. The Clash released triple LP (!) <I>Sandinista</I> as the follow-up to <I>London Calling</I>. On CD it has become a double album.<BR/><BR/>George Harrison's classic <I>All things must pass</I> album was also a triple album on vinyl, and a double album on CD.<BR/><BR/>Bob Dylan's infamous <I>Live 1966</I> album was a double bootleg and is now a double CD :-)<BR/><BR/>Miles Davis' influential <I>Bitches brew</I>, at 93 minutes, is still a double CD (just as it was on vinyl).<BR/><BR/>And one of the ones I did mention, <I>The Beatles</I> (a.k.a. The White Album) was a double LP and is ALSO a double CD. At 93 minutes it missed out on making a single disc.<BR/><BR/>And now some other interesting notables...<BR/><BR/>Captain Beefheart's classic album <I>Trout mask replica</I> was released in 1969 as a double LP, and it <I>just</I> makes the cut of a single CD (at 78:51). From memory, CDs evolved from 74 minutes to 80 minutes, so had this album been released on CD prior to this evolution, it would have been a double CD. Freaky, hey?<BR/><BR/>Wilco's double CD album <I>Being there</I>, at 76:57, didn't need to be a double CD album. It would have easily fit on a single disc but they chose to release it as a double album.<BR/><BR/>Another interesting tidbit: when Elvis Costello released his single LP <I>Get happy!!</I> in 1980, the record company were concerned that because the album had 20 tracks on it (10 per side), consumers might think there was some serious compression going on at the end of each side which would affect sound quality. So they put a warning sticker on the album stating that no such compression was occurring. There was really nothing to be concerned about, since the album was under 50 minutes and the average song length was 2 minutes and 23 seconds.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03538905483110518568noreply@blogger.com