but if we must have cd singles, i am seduced by the idea of one song mini-cds, selling for the price of a
(from duke, then mick... ) packet
of crips, or chips for our transatlantic cousins. then for all the great songs that timbo listed, we could just have more little mini-cd thingies, couldn't we? Now how cute would that be?
As with anything cute, it's already being done in Japan. When I was in Japantown in San Francisco (a wonderful place, you should all go there at some point in time) in one of the stores they were selling said CD singles. Of course, they weren't very cheap, really, but nothing there was =) However, can you listen to those in a normal stereo without an adapter? Yeah, a little packet with two of those WOULD be really neat, instead of a big clonky LP-length CD. * hmmm, what are you referring to? 3" cd singles? this reminds me of several cool tiny 3" cd singles. the nicest being the dayglo orange checkbook sized plastic package that contains two little wonderful orange 3" cds by the fall ( jerusalem is the song, from the kuriouis oranj lp ). i think that was the first UK 3" cd single, and certainly the first multi-pack, in any case. oher nice tiny cds are the primitvies 'crash' ( i think it had just the one track, so there you go! very compact), the jesus and may chain put out both 'blues from a gun' and 'head on' as 3" cds ( as well as 'sidewalking' but it came in a regular cd single case, not a nice little package ), and the sundays had 'can't be sure'. also, quite a few SST ( minutemen, husker du, and das damen jump to my mind) singles were originally released on 3" cds, before being re-issued in the much more popular regular size, as were some oldies, such as a bunch of beatles singles - in fact, someone had a whole website dedicated to the 3" format. i think pizzicato 5 have released a whole slew of them, also. and, the ultimate use of tiny cds are the 12 cd 'pills' for spiritualized "ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space". The 12 album tracks are on 12 individual 3" cds, in a foil-sealed palstic package, like pills in a blister pack. er, but none of these ever sold too cheaply... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------