double-LP topology

yeah, i love that. esp if the listener has no idea the record's concentric, so it's like 'uh' when the song changes

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.

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.

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.

there's a dropdead record like that! xp
and i've seen a few singles that have two tracks per side, one panned right & one panned left.

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

as a teen i fell asleep more than once with that xpressway groove running. used to freak me out.

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

Is it me misremembering or did each side of Double Nickels finish in a locked groove?

you remembered correctly!

hooray my brain!

i have a dead c EP that plays backwards on clear vinyl; no locked or parallel grooves though :(

I want a liquid disc!!!!!

"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.

as a teen i fell asleep more than once with that xpressway groove running. used to freak me out.

― 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."

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.

sounds like u oughta revirginize that bitch

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also four of them voted B???

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