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Poll Question: Is "Change of Seasons" an album?
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    Posted: November 13 2009 at 05:47

Random useless trivia: Is Changes of Seasons an album or an EP?

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(spoilers ahead, don't read the answer if you wanna play fair.)

Official website says it's an EP! Congratulations to the people who voted for the correct answers! (The first and the fifth options are both correct.)  Shame on the people who cheated.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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Octavarium is the 8th album..you work it out.
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An EP is an album.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

An EP is an album.

I don't know how you worked that one out. It clearly isn't.

Thats why they had LP's and EP's...to distringuish them. Surely the word LP was exchaged for the word album while Vinyl was still the format? I'll answer...yes it was.
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I vote only because he takes the time to make a joke using a name of a song and an album... I'm sure he spend the night thinking on the poll... so, great man...!!! you almost got me..!!! Thumbs Up
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ACoS is an EP ... 'nuff said. ;-)
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

An EP is an album.

I don't know how you worked that one out. It clearly isn't.

Thats why they had LP's and EP's...to distringuish them. Surely the word LP was exchaged for the word album while Vinyl was still the format? I'll answer...yes it was.


The EP is a short album but it's an album nonetheless. The opposite of the album is the single, not the EP. Here's Wikipedia:

According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes.[3] Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as EPs, an abbreviation of extended play, "extended" meaning longer than a single but shorter than an LP. The term "mini-album" may also be used.
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

An EP is an album.

I don't know how you worked that one out. It clearly isn't.

Thats why they had LP's and EP's...to distringuish them. Surely the word LP was exchaged for the word album while Vinyl was still the format? I'll answer...yes it was.


The EP is a short album but it's an album nonetheless. The opposite of the album is the single, not the EP. Here's Wikipedia:

According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes.[3] Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as EPs, an abbreviation of extended play, "extended" meaning longer than a single but shorter than an LP. The term "mini-album" may also be used.

DT don't count it as an album, so its up to them.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

An EP is an album.

I don't know how you worked that one out. It clearly isn't.

Thats why they had LP's and EP's...to distringuish them. Surely the word LP was exchaged for the word album while Vinyl was still the format? I'll answer...yes it was.


The EP is a short album but it's an album nonetheless. The opposite of the album is the single, not the EP. Here's Wikipedia:

According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes.[3] Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as EPs, an abbreviation of extended play, "extended" meaning longer than a single but shorter than an LP. The term "mini-album" may also be used.

DT don't count it as an album, so its up to them.
 
And also, more than the half of the album is material recorded live, so it's not by any means a studio album... it's and Extended Played, which means, it's not part of the formal Albums...
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

An EP is an album.

I don't know how you worked that one out. It clearly isn't.

Thats why they had LP's and EP's...to distringuish them. Surely the word LP was exchaged for the word album while Vinyl was still the format? I'll answer...yes it was.


The EP is a short album but it's an album nonetheless. The opposite of the album is the single, not the EP. Here's Wikipedia:

According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes.[3] Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as EPs, an abbreviation of extended play, "extended" meaning longer than a single but shorter than an LP. The term "mini-album" may also be used.

DT don't count it as an album, so its up to them.


I don't agree with them, I can't see it as an EP. It's true though that in time the EP gained a cultural "meaning" (i.e. it should material not to become the subject of a proper "long play" album). 80 minutes of "secondary" material is still an album, even if it's of the "compilation" kind.
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Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

I vote only because he takes the time to make a joke using a name of a song and an album... I'm sure he spend the night thinking on the poll... so, great man...!!! you almost got me..!!! Thumbs Up


Your vote is appreciated. You inspired me to post something meaningful tonight.
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Go paganino! You are my poll hero.
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

An EP is an album.

I don't know how you worked that one out. It clearly isn't.

Thats why they had LP's and EP's...to distringuish them. Surely the word LP was exchaged for the word album while Vinyl was still the format? I'll answer...yes it was.


The EP is a short album but it's an album nonetheless. The opposite of the album is the single, not the EP. Here's Wikipedia:

According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes.[3] Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as EPs, an abbreviation of extended play, "extended" meaning longer than a single but shorter than an LP. The term "mini-album" may also be used.

DT don't count it as an album, so its up to them.


I don't agree with them, I can't see it as an EP. It's true though that in time the EP gained a cultural "meaning" (i.e. it should material not to become the subject of a proper "long play" album). 80 minutes of "secondary" material is still an album, even if it's of the "compilation" kind.
Either way it does not qualify as a Studio Album even by our standards (hence my *sigh*). As Ian says DT can call it whatever they like.
 
Traditionally an EP was a 7" vinyl played at 33rpm or a 7" vinyl at 45rpm with compressed dynamic range to achieve the "Extended" part of the Extended Play name. in the mid 70s when 12" vinyl 45s were popular the BRMB decided that the tracks had to be different songs to qualify as a single for chart purposes (ie not just remixes of the one song), the same went for EPs so singles with more than two tracks became either EPs or extended Singles or maxi Singles.
 
There is no modern equivalent and the term is somewhat outmoded, but it underwent a minor revival in the 90s with indie bands as they were cheaper to record than a whole album, but offered more than just a single - the term mini-album or MCD appears around that time too with EPs like Mayhem's Wolf's Lair Abyss being classed by the record company as an MCD when it was originally released.
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Who are DT?
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Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

Who are DT?
 
Doubting Thomas, of course...
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