Ritual de lo Habitual

I saw the show I mentioned upthread, the one that's in the Cabinet of Curiosities box. Primus and the Pixies opened up.

never listened to RDLA on vinyl, how did they manage to cram 33 minutes of music on the b side?

Same way they managed with Get Up With It, I guess.

I guess this explains it:

http://www.themasterdiskrecord.com/2014/06/deciding-long-make-side-vinyl-record/

Yeah, long sides tend to be cut at a lower level and with a lot of bass rolled off. It's a huge reason why you see a lot of limited edition double vinyl albums cut at 45rpm these days - it's a sound quality thing.

Or in other words, if the album lasts an hour, it makes sense from a sound quality perspective to cut four sides of vinyl at 15 mins per side at 45rpm than two sides of vinyl at 30 minutes per side at 33&1/3rpm. You can make the grooves deeper and wider at 45rpm for better bass response. A lot of albums had a tendency to place the quieter songs at the end of sides because there was less cutting room - the further the needle spirals towards the end of the record, the less room there is to cut.

Gary Numan's Dance album is a good example of a well cut long album - it's almost half an hour on both sides of the original vinyl, but it's been cut at just the right level to allow all of the music to fit on both sides without being too quiet... sure, you have to turn up the volume a touch when you listen to it, but it still sounds good.

JIMMY PAGE: "So we were thinking 'The Rain Song' or the title track could be the first single for MTV. Maybe 'The Ocean' if –"

ATLANTIC EXEC: "First single is going to be 'The Crunge'. In fact, it's going to be the only song you guys are ever going to be known for. I guarantee it."

(Also, I'm well-aware I fucked that "joke" up slightly in the set-up.)

lol. The Crunge and Hey Hey What Can I Do.

I like how its widely accepted/an open secret that this band is pointless w out eric avery

E. Avery is the Cliff Burton of Jane's.

Both got thrown under the bus.

*rimshot*

*bass solo*

Love this album a lot more now than I did when it came out. Now her paints are dry. I wonder if they came along today whether or not they would have a drummer.