From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 00:07
From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 00:07
i've never really paid much attention to this until recently: after just having model 500's mind and body on cd, i finally got it on vinyl today. i already had the be brave/psychosomatic single of vinyl and the be brave remixes single on vinyl, so i didn't need to get be brave and psychosomatic *again* on the vinyl version of the album, but they were on there. the thing was, there's ten tracks on the cd version and ten on the vinyl (including be brave and psychosomatic). the way the vinyl is, there are 2 on side A, 2 on side B, 3 on side C, and 3 on side D. if they had cut the be brave and pscyhosomatic tracks off the vinyl album version, they would have been down to 8 total on the vinyl version and gone 2, 2, 2, and 2. (i'd rather have less tracks per side and more pieces of wax, than a lot of tracks crammed on a side). are there other people that agree that it makes more sense to leave the singles *off* the vinyl versions of albums? i've always been super happy that direct beat and 430 west do this, cos as a dj it makes perfect sense: if you've got the single, you aren't going to be playing the single song off the album, you'd be playing it off the 12" single itself. and if you're doing doubles, you don't want the single on one table and the single off the *album* on the other, it's just a pain in the ass. you want two copies of the same version. either two copies of the single, or, for example when you're doing doubles of a track that either you don't have on 12" single or wasn't released as a 12" single, only then do you *really* want to do doubles with an album. (maybe i'm just being picky? i don't know. if i have an album with a single on it, i don't think "great, i don't need to buiy the single now cos i've got it on the album", i think, "great, i can check out the whole album, but i still have to get the singles on 12"") it makes more sense to put more tracks on the cd version (including the singles, and especially the dj unfriendly things like intros, extros, links,etc). i've never looked at it in a negative way (you can think the label might leave off the singles from the vinyl album to make you buy both, but hell, if you like the band and especially if you're a dj, you're going to buy the single first anyway; when the album comes along and you buy that on vinyl, you don't want the singles again on the album). thoughts? andrew -- Andrew Duke Cognition/In The Mix 1096 Queen St #123 Halifax NS Canada B3H 2R9 TEL 902-422-7132 FAX 902-422-1262 http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition In The Mix show 579:Pole(Kiff SM)/KymSerrano(Spelunk)