From clockwise Sent Mon, Nov 24th 1997, 00:51
I believe the time limits are so as to be able to chart them (what gets charted as a single, what as an album, etc). Unless you CARE on which chart your release is going to appear, i imagine you can do whatever you like (the Tosca "Fuck Dub" 'single' is actually longer than most full-length albums....and more enjoyable, but thats a whole other story). clockwise np: Portishead "Humming" (live from the Roseland Ballroom, NYC show). At 09:46 PM 11/23/97 +0200, you wrote: >(from previous mail) > >> > Actually, it's 40 minutes. The Orb track was 39:58 [...] > >Wonder how many versions of Blue Room there are? I've got it here >(at 14.58) on Orb Live 93. > >But what I really would love to know is WHY there are limitations as >regards running time? Surely it limits creativity and, erm 'artistic >integrity' to be thus bound by time? Isn't there also a 4- track >limit to EP's which causes so many "hidden tracks" that are on the CD >but simply not listed on the sleeve? > >Who makes these rulings? What is the point? Who scores? > >I >* > >"Incomplete without surface noise" > - Autechre > >