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- From: Timothy.J.Young@dartmouth.edu (Timothy J. Young)
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- Subject: Song Length (was Re: Digital vs. Analog)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:12:54 GMT
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- In article <1k29qdINNmfk@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- KAMCHAR@ibm.cl.msu.edu writes:
-
- > CD-itis: Listening to a song that should have ended two minutes ago
- > except that the band forgot about the art of ending a song. Why, you ask?
- > Simple: they had the need to fill up 65+ minutes on a CD and instead of
- > putting in another song (AKA filler), they extend the end of a song beyond
- > anything remotely tolerable. One of the problems of Presto! is this.
- > An empty sound behind the music. This Rush has begun to handle well with
- > RTB, and hopefully the next release will be better on this.
-
- I don't know about that last part. For example, I know "Bravado" is not
- that long, but when I listen to it, it seems to last forever because
- it's so repetitive. The same is true of "Ghost of a Chance", and it
- nearly ruins the song. Thank God this did not happen to "Dreamline".
- You had the same problem with "Presto", with, IMHO, the main
- offenders being "Warpaint" and "Available Light". Fortuantely "The
- Pass" and "Superconducter" were spared.
- I'm hopeful for their next release. My advice is to Rush is when they
- get ready to release their new album and it doesn't take up enough CD
- space is simply add an instrumental (these usually turn out well). If
- they had done this for Presto, they wouldn't have needed to drag out
- "Warpaint" or even put "Scars" on the album.
-
-
- -Tim Young, Dartmouth College, Class of '96
- The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of Dartmouth
- College, its students, or anyone else.
- "Not everyone can carry the weight of the world..."- R.E.M.
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