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- From: asmith@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Two-sided CD's *DO* exist! (was Re: Life after CDs)
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 02:06:07 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.182147.1332@portal.vpharm.com> <27JUL199215011713@rover.uchicago.edu> <1992Jul28.031414.4267@portal.vpharm.com>
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- In article <1992Jul28.031414.4267@portal.vpharm.com> dap@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman) writes:
- >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.
-
- I first heard Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief on a cassette
- which I borrowed from a local library, and I liked it so much that I
- went out and bought the record. When I first played the record, I was
- somewhat disappointed to find that half of the second side appeared to
- have been left out for some reason (of course, there was no mention of
- the unusual track structure on the cover of the album). In fact, I got
- the same outcome on the first three times that I played it. When I
- played it the fourth time, and got, er, something completely different,
- I thought, for a moment, that I was going mad.
-
- I vaguely recall once seeing advertisements on television for a horse
- racing game of some sort. It used the same idea as above to record a
- number of different race calls; the idea was that each time you played
- the record, you got a different outcome. I don't remember any details
- of the game; this must have been around 1975 give or take a couple of
- years.
-
- - Andrew.
-
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