What is the largest number of tunes on one record?

I think this compilation has the largest number of individual tracks (38) out of all the records I own.

Sebadoh, The Freed Weed - 47
Gescom, Minidisc (CD version) - 88

The Residents' Commercial Album to kick off with... That has 40 tracks.

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The Discogs entry for that Gescom album says it has "45 tracks, split over 88 track markers". So it's only 45.

Cassetteboy's 'The Parker Tapes' = 98, but not probably not tunes/'musical' enough

Blueski beat me to it. That the largers number of tracks will probably not be very tuneful.

That is a question of semantics.

xp to tuomas but hey works as an xp to blueski too.

I'm okay with any definition of "tune" the artist himself uses. But it seems like Gescom themselves list only 45 tunes with different names on that album, even if they've put breaks in the middle of them. Anyway, 98 tracks is still the winner so far.

Agathocles' Mince Core History 1985-1990 has 50 distinct songs. It may be the CD with the largest amount of distinct non-silence tracks in my collection.

I have never seen a Seven Minutes of Nausea CD, but crammed over 500 individually-titled bursts of noise in a 7". The guy that typed this into discogs probably went insane.

I guess more interesting question would be, which album has the most tunes that still work as individual tunes according to any conventional definition of the word. I doubt anyone has tried to make such an album with more than 80 tunes.

agoraphobic nosebleed had a mini cd with 99 songs on it

CHOOOOOOOOOOOOON

That Disc album that Lesser, Kid606 and Matmos did had fifty lock grooves on each side, plus seven tracks. Do those grooves count?

Ivor Cutler's "A Wet Handle" has 83 distinct tunes and poems, none of them "bursts of noise" or silence.

You can't get more than 99 tracks on a CD - it's a limitation of the format - but you can index within tracks up to 100 times (0-99, index 0 usually being the pre-gap). So I suppose you could have 9,900 individually-accessible bits of audio on a regular CD; they'd average 0.5s each.

The format limit for MD is 255 tracks.

bedhead's macha loved bedhead - bedhead loved macha had 86 tracks.

That RRR compilation with 500 locked grooves.

Among stuff I personally own, nothing tops The Sound Of North American Frogs and its 90-odd tracks. But it probably doesn't count for a number of reasons.

from my cd/record collection, minutemen's double nickels on the dime and sebadoh's freed weed have the most amount of tunes on single discs

http://www.anti-flag.com/view_image.php?photo_id=256

There are 99 tracks on this Simballrec comp (and it's great, btw)

http://www.discogs.com/release/157641

from the LP format - various artists: miniatures with 51 tracks. almost all of them great.

"agoraphobic nosebleed had a mini cd with 99 songs on it"

this is true. with titles and everything:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_States_of_America

but how come all the rabid anal cunt fans on ilm haven't mentioned their 5643 song ep:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5643_Song_EP

Inca Eyeball were known for having a lot of short songs on their releases. They have a 7" on Fusetron with 39 songs and at least one cd with 99
http://www.amazon.com/Quattros-Symbollos-Inca-Eyeball/dp/tracks/B000024YVK/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

fuck scott seward beat me to anal cunt!!!!!!

mercury rev - yrself is steam (99 tracks,if u can call the last 88 "things" as "tracks")

"Disgrace To The Corpse Of Sid" by Sore Throat has 101 tracks on one vinyl lp. The CD reissue from last year apparently has about 50 bonus tracks too - all on one disc, so I don't know how that fits in with the fact that CDs can't have more than 99 tracks.

double nickels on the dime is the best one i've got.

Bob Drake - The Shunned Country has 52 tracks that are all 'tunes' in a severely brief sense of the word

Based on the Wikipedia description that Anal Cunt album doesn't actually 5643 separate songs though.

"That RRR compilation with 500 locked grooves.

-- Sara Sara Sara"

yeah that is the one i could think of with the most. love that record, a hell of a deejay tool for techno deejays as well as the loops are 133.3333 BPM.

i have that "Short Music For Short People" on wax, too, funny shit.

Jack Mudurian's "Downloading the Repertoire":

http://www.counterpoint-music.com/specialties/jackmudurian.html

An off-the-cuff, 129-song medley--as the CD format can't index all of them, the last 30 songs are plopped onto track 99.

yeah that is the one i could think of with the most. love that record, a hell of a deejay tool for techno deejays as well as the loops are 133.3333 BPM.

The Ringtones comp from Touch.. do ringtones count? CD marker of 99 with 177 different compositions.

http://www.discogs.com/release/342857

"How do you calculate this? I love this record too.

-- Mark Rich@rdson"

that is the speed it takes to make a perfect loop of a drum track according to jeff mills and ron murphy who cut it into one of the X-101 records iirc. so any loop like that will automatically be at that tempo!