Strange song listing...

Why would a cd, ONE cd list their songs as SIDE 1 and SIDE 2 ? Maybe they only intended to release it on cassette ?

When CDs first came out, this was not unusual.  People still thought of an album with two sides from the old LP and cassette formats.

If it was something released on vinyl, they would often just use the same album art for both the vinyl record and the cd.  It it was a cd only maybe it was just meant to be nostalgic.

Quite interesting... indeed

True reason: Well, you see what happened was....

trogdawn wrote:

Autistic license.

FIXED that for you. 

 

Yes, I know LPs had side one and side two.

Detritus, eh? Yep, it was released on cassette.  Not sure about vinyl though.  But they probably just copied the listing from the cassette as-is.

Question about tapes… The time limit per side was usually accepted as 45 minutes (x2 = 90 per tape). However, most albums were about 40 minutes long, give or take, due to the limitations of vinyl, so tapes were pressed with Side A and Side B, each side as long as the vinyl side, so about 20 minutes. But (and this is what the question actually is ) did bands ever do double albums where they put one full 40-minute album on each side? I know people who taped from vinyl often did that - my dad, for instance, has several home-recorded tapes with one vinyl album on each side.

Seemed a lot of cassette releases back in the day were custom made. Short albums simply had less tape. However, there were some tapes I remember getting to the end of side one and waiting forever for it to get to the end to auto-reverse to side 2. I'd end up FFWing all the silence to get to side 2.

Another thing I experienced in my mega collection of tapes back in the day was an entire album's content on both sides. ie Songs 1 thru 10 were all on side 1, then flip to side 2 and the same 10 songs were on side 2. Had a few like that.

Andre, have you looked at Brent's tapes for sale ? I've been buying from Brent for years now, and I noticed he has a ton of tapes -GOOD titles too - for a mere 2 bucks each. Check him out... and please tell him Jim Willis sent you 
http://brentschristianrockmetal.com/

Thanks for the link, but my mother would never let me buy tapes online… only either buy tapes for cheap in thrift/pawn shops, or receive them for free (plus shipping).

Driven wrote:

Question about tapes… The time limit per side was usually accepted as 45 minutes (x2 = 90 per tape). However, most albums were about 40 minutes long, give or take, due to the limitations of vinyl, so tapes were pressed with Side A and Side B, each side as long as the vinyl side, so about 20 minutes. But (and this is what the question actually is ) did bands ever do double albums where they put one full 40-minute album on each side? I know people who taped from vinyl often did that - my dad, for instance, has several home-recorded tapes with one vinyl album on each side.

not sure, I think vinyl is limited to around 23 minutes on each side. I have several double LP's and have gotten most of them to fit on an 80 minute CD. The most recent vinyl rip I made was Rare Earth In Concert and it JUST fit on the disc with about 30 seconds of free space left. I know one side has a 24 minute version of "Get Ready". And Led Zep's Song Remains The Same has a 26 minute version of "Dazed and Confused" on side 2 of the album.

I remember putting one of those newfangled CDs on my turntable. I dropped the needle on it and I'll I hear was scratchy noise. No music at all and I'm like gee willikers I don't understand what all the hoopla is over these compact discs.

Livna wrote:

I remember putting one of those newfangled CDs on my turntable. I dropped the needle on it and I'll I hear was scratchy noise. No music at all and I'm like gee willikers I don't understand what all the hoopla is over these compact discs.