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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: re: CD versions of analog albums
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 08:13:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 08:13:48 1985
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> From:	watdcsu!herbie	(Herb Chong)

> In article <2629@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) writes:
>> I have. The CD of Pat Metheny's "80/81" album is missing (by its own
>> admission) two tracks, "Open" and "Pretty Scattered". What irks me
>> about this is that the CD as is is just under 60 minutes long, so it
>> could have fit either one of those two songs on the CD (though not both)
>> and only be missing one song instead of two.
>
> a CD will hold 75 minutes of music.  record manufacturers are doing
> strange things on their popular music CD releases.

Exactly! Of the two tracks that they left off the CD, one is (if memory
serves) about 6 minutes long, and the other about 14 minutes long, so
either one (but not both) would've fit on the CD. If I wasn't so lazy a
correspondant, I'd write to ECM to ask them what the scoop was.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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