Re: (TV) Cheesemaking

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 10:41 PM +0100 5/13/04, Keith Allison wrote:
> Nah, albums are supposed to be about 45 minutes, max. Just because a CD
> holds 70 minutes or more, doesn't mean you have to fill it.

Back when I regularly made tapes for the car, album/CD lengths 
greater than 45 minutes irritated me greatly, unless they were double 
albums.  It's less of a visceral problem now with car CD players.

> Most albums I've bought on CD could easily lose 20 minutes or so, don't
> you think?

Actually, I'd say this is true.  Now that my home CD player has 
finally bit the dust (looking for a good deal on ebay now), I'm doing 
most of the listening from the PowerBook.  I've ripped a number of 
CDs to .mp3 for listening when I'm working remotely, and I do find 
myself cutting out songs from a lot of CDs.  (In the case of 
Stereolab's _Cobra and Phases_, this amounted to keeping every 
odd-numbered song after the first couple, and also cutting the 
annoying coda of another.)

There's a certain keeping-the-vinyl-alive branch of indie rock that 
seems to clock albums in at 30 to 40 minutes, and that's a good thing 
indeed.   On the other hand, Glenn Branca's symphonies, La Monte 
Young's _The Second Dream of the High-Tension Step-Down Transformer_, 
and Charlemagne Palestine's _Schlingen Blangen_ have (for my money) 
made good use of the extra space, and it's great not to get a 
mid-piece interruption.
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/   |   http://onezeromusic.com/
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