Double Album in 1966: 71 minutes and 40 seconds
Single Album in 2001: 72 minutes and 50 seconds
Both are classics. This is rare. Most artists don't have an album as good as either one of these in their entire career, yet just about everybody today is putting out double albums. At least by vinyl standards.
Vinyl records had limits. Rules. Formats you had to stick to. Roughly 22 1/2 minutes per side. Rarely would you find a record over 50 minutes. The extra songs were used as b-sides, or they found their way into the band's vault. And I doubt most bands were forward thinking enough to envision the 5 CD box set.
The Ramones first album was 28 minutes and 53 seconds. Nobody called it an ep. The Fiery Furnaces put out an ep last year which was 40 minutes and 54 minutes long. Its title? EP.
Now, with 80 minute CDs artists can pretty much fill up the thing. Maybe they want to take a stab at a reggae song. Or the drummer wants a chance to write. Or they want to play jam band on a track or two. Many band arguments are probably solved by maxing out CDs.
We're constantly being told that we increasingly work longer hours and have less leisure time. So maybe it's good that you don't have to flip over the cd like you did a record. It saves a little time.
But do we really have the attention span for 70+ minutes of music on a single CD? I'm pretty into My Morning Jacket, but I end up buying their new albums before I've fully digested the older ones. They're just too long. And don't even get me started on The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie or that new Red Hot Chili Peppers double CD? 2 hours of music with people as grating as Billy Corgan and Anthony Keidus? That's equal to almost four records in vinyl terms. Fuck. Even Bob Dylan couldn't pull that off.
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How fitting that you talk about how we have less time for things and Megan shows up and saves us all. We can get our degrees in uneder 2 weeks! I smell a Prentiss scheme waiting to happen.
this from the guy who wondered if i listed to my ipod on the tractor all the day?
you are correct todd, but!
but long cds make road trips easier. except those times that you get pissed off at the band and have to take the cd out halfway through anyways.
Movies are long as well. I remember in the 80s a good movie was an hour and a half. Back to Future for instance. Great movie. Under two hours. Now it seems every movie that premeires is over three hours. It's so annoying.
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