RE: Sinister: when is a single not a single?
The Duke, in one of his more impetuous moments, wrote...
oh goodness, i can remember when they said that the max was five and that anything more than five was an album. i think back then the groove farm complained. personally i'll only be happy when they limit it to ONE song. now THAT'S POP!
Off the top of my head (sorry for any glaring omissions): It Happens (Primal Scream) Mike The Bike (The Claim) Rachel (Emily) The Fall (McCarthy) Lipstick (The Buzzcocks) My Number Nine (Coax) Rachel Clean (Hellfire Sermons) Celtic (Hurrah!) Not one but two blasts of perfection, each one meaning everything for...ooh, minutes. Now _that_ is P!O!P!. Wouldn't you say? Cheerio Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Duke, in one of his more impetuous moments, wrote...
oh goodness, i can remember when they said that the max was five and that anything more than five was an album. i think back then the groove farm complained. personally i'll only be happy when they limit it to ONE song. now THAT'S POP!
the tubby man then listed a series of great besides and went on to add:
Not one but two blasts of perfection, each one meaning everything for...ooh, minutes. Now _that_ is P!O!P!. Wouldn't you say?
and of course he was right. i was of course being a little tongue in cheek with my post, both about the solitary song and the reference to the groove farm, who, frankly, were fun for, oooh, five minutes at least and i liked the corelation between that and mansun, who have been something rather less than fun for far too bloody long imho. i think Pop records should be two sided slabs of 7" vinyl... using the cd format negates the thrill of flipping the disc over and playing the 'b-side'. it just becomes 'track 2', which is a great deal less interesting. but if we must have cd singles, i am seduced by the idea of one song mini-cds, selling for the price of a 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? the duke, who has moved on from the peloton and is now delving back through his Magnetic Fields records and going, 'aw...'. PS: just out of interest, how many crushes per day is the average? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
duke of harringay wrote:
than fun for far too bloody long imho. i think Pop records should be two sided slabs of 7" vinyl... using the cd format negates the thrill of flipping the disc over and playing the 'b-side'. it just becomes 'track 2', which is a great deal less interesting.
Yes, that's agreed. I had a conversation with my grandfather yesterday about how listening to a record was so much more enjoyable because of the process which you must go through (i.e. sliding the record out of its sleeve, placing the platter upon the turntable, brushing off the dust (if you have a record brush. If you don't, you should), lifting the tonearm and placing it onto the record. However, I am somewhat less enthusiastic about LPs, as they're very large and if you broke one you stand to lose a lot more songs that if you break a single. Somehow having a feeble form of recorded music is less threatening when it only contains a couple of songs. However, every time I listen to my copy of Emma's House (the perfect argument for why singles should contain four songs) I cringe and worry about all the little grooves deteriorating. That's why I'm going to get a CD-R soon =) But for everyday vinyl, yeah, 45s are super fab.
but if we must have cd singles, i am seduced by the idea of one song mini-cds, selling for the price of a 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.
PS: just out of interest, how many crushes per day is the average?
When school is in session I can average a good 5-8 a day ;) Of course here in my hometown I rarely even see someone my age who is of the opposite sex. /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick - mick@indiepop.com - ICQ#5056758 \ / Sandcastle Records - sandcastlerecords@indiepop.com | | Sandcastle Homepage - http://indiepop.com/sandcastle/ | | | | "Everyone has their own cup of tea. | | Some just happen to like a lot of sugar in it!" | | - Me! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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