i swear albums averaged 45 minutes for a really long time... at the moment
it felt like it was so you could dub it onto 90min cassettes if you
wante.d...
quoted 37 lines From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>Reply-To: <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] on the ep/album thing...
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:37:41 -0800
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: therealmxyzptlk@comcast.net
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:15:51 +0000
>
> >And, as I'd said earlier - a large chunk of the Morr catalogue as well.
> >It just goes to show how evolving technologies reshape definitions.
> >LPs had time limitations of about 60 minutes before the sound quality
>diminished by
>sqaushing more grooves in.
>
>as i recall i had a YES album that was 30 minutes on one side (it was one
>song!) and that
>sounded really squashed. i think that's a maximum - LPs were more like
>35-45 minutes on
>average. CDs upped the ante to an hour for a regular album, more for super
>self-indulgent
>types and compilations. even with the CD era there have been changes - you
>used to not be
>able to go above 74 minutes, then it started creeping up to 78. of course
>this is only useful
>if it's all good music.
>
>
>d.
>(now playing: tresor never sleeps, a great compilation which lasts 1.1
>hours)
>
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