Re: (idm) CD lengths (was Matador)

From Alan R. Lucas
Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 03:35

the first "idm" CD i bought was the orb's orbvs terrarvm, and when it came
up as 79+ minutes, i was like "wow... more bang for the buck!" and then i
got afx's "i care", which is less than 70, and although not disappointed
(at all... far better than orbvs in my opine), i was like "hmmm... how
come not 70+?"

i remember the debate about the rdj album. at first i thought it sucked
that it was so short, but now i'm glad i have the UK version, because i
don't like hearing the boy/girl ep right after. even at 33 minutes, it's a
very complete album. hell, what about bochum welt's "module 2". what's
that? 28 minutes or something, i think. but based on two ep's i've heard
from him, i'm happy to lay out $26 to get the japanese version (w/desktop
robotics). i can't wait to hear it.

as for the TLS album, i think the length is great. it's complete. i've
actually found myself starting to roll my eyes when i see something that's
over 70 minutes. like plug's drum 'n bass for papa. i just can not get
into it. too long. and the tracks are too long. tooooo much activity. i
like albums that are really active to either be shorter or have a lot of
songs of shorter length.

a good example of this:

mu-ziq's urmur bile trax 8 tracks, 67 minutes. boring.
mu-ziq's lunatic harness 13 tracks, 71 minutes. great album.

i'm done thinking for now.

alan!

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Mark Kolmar wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> 
> > [....] after all it is only 45 min long..
> 
> I'm curious if many listmembers consider a 45 minute album too short by
> definition, or if 35-45 minutes can be just the right length sometimes.
> 
> It used to be that 45 minutes was pretty long for an album. Some CDs
> overstay their welcome IMO. What do you think?
> 
> I remember the fuss over the RDJ album, though as I remember that one is
> more like 30 minutes (not including "Boy/Girl").
> 
> --Mark
> 
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