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 > > > __ Burning Rome : SENSELESS CD on Mindfield Records MindCD03 Cathartium 14 > > Distributed by Dutch East India Trading, Com Four, and Carrot Top < > < http://www.xnet.com/~mkolmar/BurningRome > < MP3 & RealAudio tracks > > >