it was for people that had those automatic record changers. so you could cue up sides 1 & 2 as two separate records. then you'd have to get up and cue up 3 & 4. 1 trip up from the couch as opposed to 3.
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
aha!
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah for some reason that really pissed me off - seemed to be upsetting the natural order of things, so quite naturally voted: side one b/w side two; side three b/w side four
― Bill E, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i was at a record store tonight and i saw a copy of that sand album i like from the 70's. (not the krautrock sand). anyway, it's a double album with only two sides. and two blank sides. i almost bought it cuz it was so cheap just to give to someone who hasn't heard it, but the cover was pretty beat. i love that thing. (um, each album has a side of music and then the b-side is blank. in case i wasn't clear...)
― scott seward, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
this sand album. with the famous sandy sandwich cover:
http://jhendrix110.tripod.com/images/Sand.jpg
everyone on the vinyl board should own this album!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
shit, i can't find a good picture. on barnaby records.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
found one
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20091028/380172427903.jpg
i like the sand record!!
― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
does it have two blank sides so people could cue it up on automatic record changer and listen to the whole thing?
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Did they do a similar thing with triple albums? 1 b/w 6, 2 b/w 5, 3 b/w 4... that kind of thing? Cos that would have killed me.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, Woodstock is like that. I've played the Side 1/6 disc way more than the others.
― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
like, flipping over a record is such a drag, man
― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
All that and Joe Cocker, now that's just brutal.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
1/3, 2/4 works ok for 2 turntables + mixer setup also... you can nicely crossfade to the next 'side' w/out stopping the music for any flipping haha
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:52 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
i guess the ram dass LOVE SERVE REMEMBER box is the extreme example in my collection, where it goes 1/12, 2/11, 3/10, 4/9, 5/8, and 6/7. that one isnt bad, though, cause the sufi choir LP is on sides 6/7, which is considerate.
― 69, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Tons of opera vinyl indulges in that first option crapola.
I can't think of any albums that fit the third option. Examples?
but yeah, second option forever (name of new Pavement reunion disc)!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I had one LP from the "Bangladesh" 3LP set. Side 1 = Ravi Shankar, Side 6 = Bob Dylan.
Just so's you know.
(fwiw, "All things must pass" was never like that)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Second option by a mile obv.
Though then there's the Rock City Angels (and Graham Parker Parkerilla I think?) option, where you just put a 12-inch remix of one of the tracks on side four.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Weirdest 3-side topology in my collection though is this M "Pop Muzik" 12-inch where there's just one disc, but one side theoretically has two different "sides" on it, since there are two separate grooves and which song plays depends on where you put the needle down. (How common is that? Don't think I've ever seen it, otherwise.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Sonic Youth have done the concentric grooves thing too, not sure what on.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records#Parallel_grooves
Earliest one was 1901!
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
(1901 the year not the Phoenix song btw)
Man, the Han-O-Disc Liquid Disc on that page is amazing.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got the De La Soul 12" that does that
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
the parallel grooves, that is
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Presumably if the needle skips, it could just totally switch tracks?
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
100% single?
― woof, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I was thinking Sonic Youth too, but then I realized what I was thinking of was this old Lee Ranaldo solo EP on SST where each track was a locked groove that made it play forever if you wanted it to (used to own a copy, got rid of it decades ago though):
http://www.amazon.com/Here-Infinity-Lee-Ranaldo/dp/B000000M1S
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Here_to_Infinity
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
xhuxk I've got that concentric version of Pop Musik! The cover claims it's the first ever double-grooved single but Wikipedia says otherwise. In the same article they say:
The Summer 1980 issue of Mad Magazine Super Special included a one-sided sound sheet (see "flexidisc" above), playable on a standard turntable. It had eight interlaced grooves, each track having the same introduction song but a different ending.
What a rad idea.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i love that. esp if the listener has no idea the record's concentric, so it's like 'uh' when the song changes
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i had that mad magazine flexi! that's what i was gonna post about actually. i loved that when i was a kid. thought it was the coolest thing on earth.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
last weird record i bought was probably the super furry animals record (rings around the world) that had one side that played backwards. you put your needle at the end of the record.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
there was a orchid/ jerome's dream split skull shaped record that did that. one band's side played the normal way, the other's played backwards on the same side.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a dropdead record like that! xpand i've seen a few singles that have two tracks per side, one panned right & one panned left.
― Joint Custody (ian), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
xp i pulled out that Lee Renaldo record last week - short noise tracks with lockgrooves at the end, side 2 has a Savage Pencil engraving in the middle that makes your needle bounce around. and the EVOL LP has a lockgroove at the end of Expressway to Yr Skull. I want to say the Master Dik EP has some vinyl shenanigans too...
just remembered this cool spoken word double-LP: Burroughs, Giorno and Laurie Anderson each take a side, then Side 4 has them on three concentric grooves so which one you hear is chosen by the needle drop.
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/money.jpg
― a man, a plan, a canal...PANAMA! (herb albert), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
as a teen i fell asleep more than once with that xpressway groove running. used to freak me out.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
this Rescue 1 "Movie Viewers" record does it. when i mentioned it before, all you guys were hating on it (i think it's annoying), but now you're all fans?!
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/02/rescue-1otto-von-ruggins-robert-crash.html
― jaxon, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it me misremembering or did each side of Double Nickels finish in a locked groove?
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
you remembered correctly!
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
hooray my brain!
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a dead c EP that plays backwards on clear vinyl; no locked or parallel grooves though :(
― 69, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I want a liquid disc!!!!!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
"Mum and Dad" had a track on "Modern music for motorcycles" about a daredevil bike rider (most of their songs were, but wait), one version he clears the buses to cheers and applause, the other one he crashes and is dashed to hospital but dies (the heart monitor beeps finally)..
The only problem (see that M one above) is if one of the songs is shorter than the other. "M Factor" ends to 2 mins of silent grooves, as "Pop Musik" is much longer.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 March 2010 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i used to leave the pavement DVD and the once upon a time in the west DVDs on for hours in my college apartment just to hear the menuscreen music on "lock-groove."
― 69, Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Scratching plays hell with concentric groove records - that 100% Sonic Youth one, in tasteful bright orange, used to alternate rapidly and unlistenably (but but somehow not always perceptibly) between Genetic Kiss and Hendrix Narco. Result, one very angry teenager. I'd probably try and see it as a sound experiment now, but at the time I really liked Genetic Kiss.
― 'virgin' should be 'wizard' (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like u oughta revirginize that bitch
― 69, Friday, 12 March 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
26 people read this board??
also four of them voted B???
― 69, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
voted w/ majority but it must be said that if a double LP were released today in the hated format it could be a bold choice, even be aesthetically appropriate for certain gatefold repeat offenders
― Snop Snitchin, Monday, 15 March 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link