Short-ish iconic studio albums 70s

I've thought about this for a while. The obvious limitations of vinyl clearly kept most albums below 45 minutes (good job when I used one side of a C90 cassette to record them from my mates (one for the oldies! 😆)

However, some bands just scraped over the 30 minute mark at times. I think the classic rock album Rainbow Rising clicked in at just over 33 minutes - but it was concentrated quality, even if getting up every quarter of an hour to turn over the record, set the needle, get the duster out etc. was a pain in the **** that the vinyl crew of today seem to forget! 😆

It is rare that bands trying to fill up an hour, or even more, on an album, don't find themselves having to use filler (good material, but maybe not quite top notch).

Try this out - take any of your favourite modern (post vinyl) albums and see how many good ones become truly special when you restrict them to only around 40 minutes, and discard the odd track or two. I think it shows that sometimes less is more!

In fifties and begin of sixties LP:s were 30 minutes or less. To me mostly 25-45 minutes albums have always been just fine, of course there are great double LP:s too (for example so much last days talked Trout). But really already in the nineties I paid attention the quality of albums weakened (not every of course) and I think one reason was you can put all the songs in the CD:s you have recorded. Before you just have to leave out "loose" songs just for the limitation of LP:s.

Quality, not quantity.