CD Gripes!

This is one of my favourite gripes Snow Dog. It just goes to show that record companies don't know their own product. For instance, which idiot cut the cough off the end of "In my time of dying" on Physical Graffiti?

I'm doing this from memory but I believe "Olias Of Sunhillow" has the last few tracks lumped together as one.

Rush is a strange example (I thought Hemispheres was all one track on vinyl, but I bow to your superior knowledge). When I bought my first CD player many years ago, it had an index button. The only CD I could ever use it on was 2112. The first side was all one track, but if you pressed the index button, it would jump to the next section. Quite useful if there are bits of 2112 you don't like.

Edited by chopper

The cough is back!! Hooray, I might have to go and buy it again now.

My copy of Hemispheres is also in the attic. I've remembered another thing about this track. On the vinyl the vocals on the ending acoustic guitar bit start off split on each side of the stereo and gradually merge into one as Geddy sings the last line "single, perfect sphere". Great effect, but it seems to have disappeared almost entirely on my CD version.

What I miss is the run out track on an LP, which provided continuous looping, until the styllus was lifted off the disc, e.g.

(an album we discussed recently) Kevin Ayers' Whatevershebringswesing, had the sound of water falling over the wheel of a water mill - quite hypnotic. James Gang 's Yer Album had the instruction: Turn Me Over at the end of side 1 and Play Me Again at the end of side 2 - which I guess  repeated enough times would get the dopeheads  eventually acting on it. Indeed Sgt Pepper had a runout, which repeated only a few times was enough to move you out of your seat.

What is the CD answer to this: the hidden track. Not so hidden when the liner notes tell you have X tracks and your CD player tells you have X+1 tracks OR the liner notes tell you the last track is (for instance)  4 minutes long but the CD player says 20.............

One thing I miss is the chance of another of the joke LPs, of the sort Python released as (i think) Contractual Obligations Album, which had 3 track starts on one side. So it was almost impossible to find a particular sketch part way through the side, because the styllus would be placed  on the wrong groove.

As far as I remember. there were two tracks on one side and one on the other!

Snow Dog wrote: chopper wrote: This is one of my favourite gripes Snow Dog. It just goes to show that record companies don't know their own product. For instance, which idiot cut the cough off the end of "In my time of dying" on Physical Graffiti? I'm doing this from memory but I believe "Olias Of Sunhillow" has the last few tracks lumped together as one. Rush is a strange example (I thought Hemispheres was all one track on vinyl, but I bow to your superior knowledge). When I bought my first CD player many years ago, it had an index button. The only CD I could ever use it on was 2112. The first side was all one track, but if you pressed the index button, it would jump to the next section. Quite useful if there are bits of 2112 you don't like. Chopper, on the remastered Physical Graffiti the cough has been returned! As for Hemisphere, I'm sure that if you look at the album you can see the seperate tracks. You have cast doubt on this though so I'll go to me attic and check it out!

Ok, been to the attic and checked it out. There are definintely seperate tracks on Side 1 of hemispheres! What suprised me though is that Tarkus is one unbroken track! My Cd has sepearate tracks, although I know that some issues have them as one!