It fits exactly on one side of a C90

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Spin off from "My Arse Aches". Are there any albums which fit exactly on one side of a C90 - ie 45 minutes long. Actually, I know there is one, The Bends by Radiohead.

And does this make you suspicious?

― Pete, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"diesel and dust" by Misnight Oil does. also, "stop making sense" the old version not the reissued version.

― katie, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ooooops, Midnight Oil, natch. doesn't make me suspicious, why when i was young i was astonished that not all records fit on one side of a tape!

― katie, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doesn't the yellow album by B&S (Fold Yer Hands Child ect) fit exactly on one side of a tape? I might be making this one up. But I'm suspicious of that album in general. It smells of honky fish.

― Sarah, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oddly enough, I notice an awful lot of albums clocking in at 47 or 48 minutes. I also notice the sudden cessation of production of C100 blank tapes. Surely not a coincidence.

Amnesiac clocks in at just over 43 but Kid A is just over 49; largely due to long gap at end of last track with 20-second ambient doodle. Added together comes to a total of 92/93 minutes, so you can't A/B it on a C90.

Coincidence or capitalism?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm suspicious of 'An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music' by Spacemen 3.

― Peter Miller, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As you have every right to be.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wierdly, the pause mid-jam at the end of 'I am the Resurrection', at the end of 'The Stone Roses' - hits practically dead on the 45th minute of the album. A signal to home tapers?

― Will, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm suspicious of C90s in general these days. Yay burners!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most C90s are actually 47 minutes a side (Maxell XLIIs, definitely).

I believe the Fall's Hex Enduction Hour is exactly an hour long, if you happen to have a 120-minute tape (yes, those are a little longer too).

― Douglas, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tapes schmapes.

― Ronan, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Servotron: Entertainment Program for Humans (Second Variety), would fit perfectly on one dide of a C60. On the other side I would put Henry's Dress "Bust 'em Green" and still have room to spare! Yay!

― jel, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pete is WRONG. i remember trying to fit the bends on one side of a C90 years ago and it just doesn't. popping it in the cd player shows that is in fact 48:39 long.

so, what kind of superlong C90s are you using, pete??

― toby, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gary Clail/Tackhead's "End of the Century Party" CD is exactly 60 minutes long. Not 60:01. Not 59:59. 60:00. Hmmm.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely this was meant to be played on a C-60, not a C-120, the thinness of whose tape guarantees many headaches, Daniel-san.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but that would imply that the two halves of the album are both 30 mins long, Tracer, which i imagine is unlikely...

The tompaulin album is only 40 mins long (just right for sticking slender on after it :)). I must say i think all debut albums should be under 45mins, how else are ppl going to hear yr stuff without enthusiastic fans taping it for mates.

― CarsmileSteve, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A few years ago I would have been able to offer all sorts of contributions to this thread but now I'm all about minidiscs. I'll just offer this: frustrated by the cost of C100s and the 47 minutes and something length of the Velvet Underground & Nico I decided to take the unprecedented move of editing an indvidual track. I pressed pause for about 30 seconds of 'European Son' and I still find it impossible to spot the edit.

― N., Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i've only edited tracks twice to fit a comp cd. one was just cutting the end off "to here knows when" (as it mixes into next track), then more radically i cut a minute out of the middle of "1,2, ... , 10 barbie dolls" (Pizz 5) and it's beat perfect. yay me.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

TBWTAS also fits exactly on one side of a tape, as I recall. International Velvet comes up as exactly 45:00 when you put it in a CD player.

― Graham, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The key point here is, as pointed out above, C90's aren't actually ninety minutes to start off with. If you then factor in a slight variation in tape deck speeds + a slight variation in my vinyl turntable speed you will see that I could easy fit the Bends on.

― Pete, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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It fits exactly on one side of a C90 - suspicion