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Its because of time limitations on vinyl. Basically, bass waves take up alot of space, so for a record to have strong bass, and get that wonderful warm sound, it needs to be less than twenty minutes per side. A little bit more is okay, but once you get to around twenty five minutes on a side, there is a huge difference in both the volume and bass response.

 

For instance, I have Neil Young's Weld on vinyl, which is a two hour double vinyl record. It is about half as loud as any normal length LP I have, and extremely tinny sounding. I've also noticed that it makes all the dust and dirt show up much more than usual.

 

So what wilco is doing is making 4 shorter sides for SBS, instead of two long ones that dont have any bass.

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rockinrob:

Thanks for the 'splaination. I never new these things (then again, I don't do vinyl these days). I can think of a few albums from my youth that could have benefitted from being stretched into a double.

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I think it should be a whole pile of 12 inch 45 RPM singles for optimal sound..... :mellow

Hell yeah. Let's get back to the days when it was obvious why they were called "albums."

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with skybluesky clocking in at just over 51 minutes that will be less than 13 minutes per side. instead of a double album the band should make it a one and a half album and leave side four blank. :thumbup

spongebob

 

agreed. and they should carve cool designs into side four.

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with skybluesky clocking in at just over 51 minutes that will be less than 13 minutes per side. instead of a double album the band should make it a one and a half album and leave side four blank. :thumbup

spongebob

Or you can buy the vinyl version of Low's Things we lost in the fire, which is exactly like that.

 

LouieB

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which others?

 

LouieB

 

Bonnie "Prince" Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music

 

Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic

 

The I have a few more that are just one sided. I think I have another 3 sided album but I can't think of it right now. I'll have to look when i get home.

 

EDIT: got home and found that other 3 sided LP which is Flaming Lips - Telepathic Surgery.

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with skybluesky clocking in at just over 51 minutes that will be less than 13 minutes per side. instead of a double album the band should make it a one and a half album and leave side four blank. :thumbup

spongebob

 

I vote we get Johnny Lackey to design the art for side 4. :thumbup

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