― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
How come only alternative bands seem to make EPs? Hip-hop and dance artists, for example, don't often seem to use the term, whereas some alt.bands are really ostentatious about, oh, this is an EP not a single. (Mind you the double twelve-inch pack seems not to have caught on in indie).
― Tom, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
My other favourite EP was a cassingle EP made up of four then-recent Abba singles - Super Trouper, Lay All Your Love On Me, The Winner Takes It All and One Of Us. I guess they put it out to test the nascent cassingle market - my Dad bought it anyway, and I played it endlessly when I was 9 or so. Heavenly.
Ned is right about the MBV EPs - a compilation CD of those would be better than any of their albums.
That first Blackalicious thing is probably my favourite EP, as it happens.
The EP is also quite a popular format in UK hip-hop.
Just a thought.
Tim
― Tim, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― keith, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― jel, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
The whole EP/single distinction is pretty stupid, and seems depend on whether or not is says 'EP' on the cover of the 12" version. I suppose you could say 3 songs = single with bonus track and 4 songs = EP, no matter what the band tell you.
I mean EP once meant something tangible, back in 7" only days. Was Buzzcock's 'Spriral Scratch' the start of the second wave of EPs? Blame them. Except hang on, that was on 7". OK, what was the first 12" that called itself an EP? Blame whoever that was.
n.
― Nick, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
EPs are indeed stupid.
― Otis Wheeler, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
The only thing dumber than the EP is the cassingle.
― Kris, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
All these are what I consider artistic high-points of the respective careers of said bands.
― Sterling Clover, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
DI gets plugged here every other week so I felt I should be the one to do it this week. It was the first thing I'd ever heard from them, a random find in the used racks for 50 cents, and I love it.
― Ian White, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tim, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― larmey, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mac., Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― alex thomson, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Built to Spill/Caustic Resin
Uh... Zero?
Um... Watery, Domestic for sure... Major Leagues
Er... JSBX -- Rocketship
This is hard.
― JM, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
r.e.m. -- _chronic town_: their best work. bill berry never got so original and lively again, peter buck so intricate. "carnival of sorts" is a high-water mark in 80s pop music or any pop music.
_kill yr idols_ was an inspired choice. the implied threats of _confusion is sex_ take shape. the live version of "shaking hell" is the most violent frightening rock music ever.
and yes, of course, _you made me realise_/_feed me with your kiss_/_tremolo_ are very special.
― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kim, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Respect!
― R.Hatcher, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― jel, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― ff, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick Greenfield, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally C, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Inukko, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jake Becker, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dave M., Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick N, Tuesday, 6 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jan P., Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aaron A, Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 24 December 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Saturday, 24 December 2005 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I've always felt that 12" EPs should be classified as something else entirely. 'Cause they're not exactly "extended", are they?
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen C (ihope), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 24 December 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― lapsys, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Harrison Barr (Petar), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Aphex Twin - OnUnderworld - Pearl's Girl
― scnnr drkly, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― scnnr drkly, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― D. Bachyrycz, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Harrison Barr (Petar), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
and
Cabaret Voltaire--Three Mantras
left off my list above.
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sam Engel (Sam E.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link
1. Whatever's Cool With Me - Dinosaur Jr2. Pikul - Silversun Pickups
― Ryan Alexander, Monday, 22 May 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link
mission of burma - signals, calls and marches
not the best, but personal faves:ted leo/pharmacists - treble in troubledeerhoof - green cosmos
― Emily B (Emily B), Monday, 22 May 2006 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Monday, 22 May 2006 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Danny boy, Monday, 22 May 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link
R.E.M. - Chronic TownThe Replacements - StinkBlackalicious - A2GMBV - TremeloCurve - BlindfoldedAphex Twin - Come To DaddyGuided By Voices - Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet, etc.
Jeff Buckley gets nixed because the Expanded Version is so ridiculously superior.
Add:
Soul Asylum - Clam Dip & Other DelightsFiery Furnaces - The Fiery Furnaces EP
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link