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sadloserkid
14/11/2006, 11:16 AM
This came up in converstion last night and stumped the lot of us... any help out there?

Extra player? Edge player was suggested too..
Sheridan
14/11/2006, 11:18 AM
Extended Play, I think.
sadloserkid
14/11/2006, 11:23 AM
Extended Play, I think.

Danke Sheridan.
Peadar
14/11/2006, 11:23 AM
Fairly certain it's Extended Play or else someone has been lying to me all these years.
LP obviously stands for Long Play.
sadloserkid
14/11/2006, 11:29 AM
Fairly certain it's Extended Play or else someone has been lying to me all these years.
LP obviously stands for Long Play.

Yeah we managed LP fairly easily. Bizarrely quite a few people got stumped on DVD... made me think I needed some new friends briefly! :p
WeAreRovers
14/11/2006, 11:54 AM
Jaysus SLK how young are you? Sheridan is correct it's Extended Play. Originally 7" EPs were played at 33rpm, hence the extended play.

When I was a kid the two that used to get me were B/W and C/W ie. Madness' new single One Step Beyond C/W Mistakes. Took me a long time to figure out they stood for Couple With and Backed With. Tells you more about my dimness than anything else though.....

KOH
Dr.Nightdub
14/11/2006, 12:34 PM
Originally 7" EPs were played at 33rpm, hence the extended play.

Then they brought out 12" singles that were played at 45rpm.

Thus in this golden age, you had 7"s that played at 45rpm, 7" EPs that played at 33rpm, 12"s that played at 45rpm and LPs that played at 33rpm. A few brave souls even released 10" EPs (The Clash - "Black Market Clash" being one of them) but I can't for the life of me remember what speed they played at.

Then they brought out CDs and DJs stopped having to think any more.

Then DJs stopped being capable of thought and the way was clear for Norman Cook (who, in fairness, had made contributions to some mighty 7" singles) to become Fatboy Slim and take over the world. Superstar DJs indeed. :rolleyes:
Schumi
14/11/2006, 1:01 PM
Ancient members of my family tell me of 12" singles that were played at 78rpm too.
WeAreRovers
14/11/2006, 1:39 PM
Doc - I had a feeling you'd be on this thread sooner or later. ;)

KOH
Drumcondra Red
14/11/2006, 1:44 PM
EP is Extended Play and DVD is Digital Versatile Disc
sadloserkid
14/11/2006, 5:01 PM
Jaysus SLK how young are you?

A babyish 25. It all started for me with Michael Jackson's 'Bad' on cassette... :o And if you think that's bad I should tell you that my second purchase was about as far removed as can be from 'Candy Apple Grey', shocking stuff, even for an 8 year old! :D
BohsPartisan
15/11/2006, 11:38 AM
Ancient members of my family tell me of 12" singles that were played at 78rpm too.

My Dad used to have a load of old 78's but they all got broke one way or another. Shame.
Dr.Nightdub
15/11/2006, 7:09 PM
I should tell you that my second purchase was about as far removed as can be from 'Candy Apple Grey'

Pity, you'd have been better off. That and "New Day Rising" should be required listening for anyone still under the illusion that Nirvana ever had an original thought in their lives.
onceahoop
15/11/2006, 7:14 PM
EP'S were singles that had two songs on the one side rather than the conventional single, if that makes sense.
sadloserkid
16/11/2006, 12:38 PM
Pity, you'd have been better off. That and "New Day Rising" should be required listening for anyone still under the illusion that Nirvana ever had an original thought in their lives.

I know, I know, all those wasted years. About the only good thing to have come out of time in university was a love for all things Bob Mould that has persevered to this day.
WeAreRovers
16/11/2006, 1:45 PM
I know, I know, all those wasted years. About the only good thing to have come out of time in university was a love for all things Bob Mould that has persevered to this day.

Ooer missus. ;)

Speaking of Nirvana never having an original thought, Husker Du, Pixies and the Replacements, all influenced them. Kris Novawhatsit once claimed than none of them had ever heard the Replacements. :rolleyes:

Nevermind is still a bona fide classic though.

KOH
Soper
16/11/2006, 1:50 PM
Pity, you'd have been better off. That and "New Day Rising" should be required listening for anyone still under the illusion that Nirvana ever had an original thought in their lives.
Zen Arcade is awesome too though:)
sadloserkid
16/11/2006, 8:33 PM
Zen Arcade is awesome too though:)

Ditto for Bob's solo album last year. And indeed pretty much anything Sugar ever did. Hell even some of Grant Hart's solo stuff wasn't bad!


Ooer missus.

Speaking of Nirvana never having an original thought, Husker Du, Pixies and the Replacements, all influenced them. Kris Novawhatsit once claimed than none of them had ever heard the Replacements.

Nevermind is still a bona fide classic though.

Oh yeah, I kinda hadn't seen exactly what I was implying there! :o

And ah The Replacements, another amazing band. Paul Westerburg still writes great stuff too.

And Nevermind is a bona fida classic for sure but nobody will ever convince me that anything else in the Nirvana file is anything more than decent.
WeAreRovers
17/11/2006, 10:43 AM
Hell even some of Grant Hart's solo stuff wasn't bad!


Grant Hart's first solo album Intolerance is brilliant. Might be hard to find these days - it's from 1988 or 89 I think and was on SST.

KOH
sadloserkid
17/11/2006, 11:54 AM
Grant Hart's first solo album Intolerance is brilliant. Might be hard to find these days - it's from 1988 or 89 I think and was on SST.

KOH

I'm sure I know a Rovers fan who could make me a copy if I can't track one down! ;)
WeAreRovers
17/11/2006, 12:13 PM
I'm sure I know a Rovers fan who could make me a copy if I can't track one down! ;)

No problem...if I can track down my own copy. My brother has taken custody of most of my collection. He lives in deepest Cabra and I rarely venture that deep into Bohs territory.

KOH
noby
17/11/2006, 12:37 PM
And Nevermind is a bona fida classic for sure but nobody will ever convince me that anything else in the Nirvana file is anything more than decent.

Bleach, while maybe not a better album, is, I think, more than decent. To me it is closer to a 'grunge' album than Nevermind.
'Nevermind' reminds me of 'Never mind the ********' in that respect, a good album, held up to represent the defining album of their genres, but the major label production values kind of take some of the edge off it.

They didn't do much to interest me after Nevermind.
Soper
17/11/2006, 2:27 PM
My favourite Nirvana album is In Utero.

However, Sonic Youth > Nirvana:)
sadloserkid
17/11/2006, 4:59 PM
All jokes aside out of the four supposed grunge heavyweights I'd put Nirvana bottom of pile behind Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

Grunge was a nonsense term anyway, it had more to do with image than sound much like emo today.
holidaysong
17/11/2006, 7:43 PM
Pearl Jam all the way. Seen them twice during the summer - they still got it!
declan hide
18/11/2006, 8:46 AM
Ooer missus. ;)
Kris Novawhatsit once claimed than none of them had ever heard the Replacements. :rolleyes:


well you ca ask him in person if you like. hes playing bass for Flipper now and theyre due in dublin to support Melvins soon.
sonofstan
18/11/2006, 8:41 PM
No problem...if I can track down my own copy. My brother has taken custody of most of my collection. He lives in deepest Cabra and I rarely venture that deep into Bohs territory.

KOH

You hid the trauma well when you lived in the shadow of Dalymount all those years ago...