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- From: dap@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman)
- Subject: Re: Two-sided CD's *DO* exist! (was Re: Life after CDs)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.031414.4267@portal.vpharm.com>
- Organization: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul27.182147.1332@portal.vpharm.com> <27JUL199215011713@rover.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:14:14 GMT
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- In article <27JUL199215011713@rover.uchicago.edu> frank@rover.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Jul27.182147.1332@portal.vpharm.com>, dap@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman) writes...
- >>This isn't the first time Polygram has taken an offbeat road to promote
- >>their artists. Around 1980, they issued a couple of promo-only samplers
- >>(vinyl LP's) that played from the inside-out (more recently, Capitol took
- >>the same route and issued a 12" EP by the group School of Fish that played
- >>from the inside out).
- >
- > Anybody remember who the group was that came out with a 3-sided LP?
- > I remember the technology, but can't remember who did it.
- >
- > Side one was normal, other side contained 2 parallel spiral tracks.
- > Depending on just where you sat the needle, you got two different
- > tunes.
-
- As someone else already noted, that album was by Monty Python: "Matching
- Tie and Handkerchief." Note that this only applied to original pressings
- of the album. When Arista reissued the album in the '80's, the mysterious
- "3rd side" disappeared.
-
- More intersting than the Monty Python album may have been a promo only
- 12" single issue by Polygram Records (again!) in the early '80's. Titled
- "Russian Roulette," it contained several tracks from the then-current
- album by the group Rush, each on a separate parallel spiral track. Depending
- on where you dropped the needle, you'd hear a different song...
-
- dap
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