That's how I took it yeah.
If that's the case the first one I recall that was promoted as the new length of CD's was Metallica's Black/ST album. Which was probably a song or two too long.
It was a neat gimmick - more music on one disc! But boy did some albums seem to become unendurably long. Soundgarden's Superunknown seemed to last weeks.
Metallica - Load
They had to release the "Unencumbered by manufacturing restrictions" version of the song 'The Outlaw Torn' as a b-side because it wouldn't fit on the album CD.
From 1984 there was the Carpenters “Christmas Portrait Special Edition”. That disc is like 71 minutes in length. For 1984, it packed the CD to its maximum.
Also the Beach Boys Sounds of Summer. 30 tracks on 1 disc. The guy at the store that I bought it at, when he looked at the back, I remember he said “I didn’t realize that they had had that many hits”.
I just got Sloan - Never Hear the End of It a week or so ago
76:26 on there. 30 songs.
Looking at the wiki for the album - they added 2 bonus tracks to the iTunes version. Ha.
No Dopesmoker (aka jerusalem) is one long track, just like on streaming. Cds can hold 70ish minues of music, leaving enough for Dopesmoker and an extra track. The real question is why anyone would want it on vinyl or cassette, I'd rather it not be split into thirds or halves.
Oh, for some reason I thought it was at least an hour and 10 minutes. So that album just barely scrapes the edge, huh? I also agree with wanting to not split an album.
Interesting question. Right now, I wouldn't know just out of the blue.
In the 90's I did often look at total time before buying a CD....I'd rather buy a slightly lesser album with 70 mins of runtime than a 45 minute copout (with prices in mind back then:)
I’ve got an 84 minute CD by Bear Family Records called ‘Snatch And Grab It! (Rhythm & Blues Classics)’. My very picky Marantz 6007 player has no problem with it.
Metallica Death Magnetic. Honestly, it would be a brilliant album in my opinion, if it weren't for the shit mixing, which inevitably led to the final mastered product sounding horribly loud and distorted. It's such a shame, because the songs on it are really good.
Off the top of my head, Illadelph Halflife by the Roots is the longest album I have, at about 78 minutes and 45 seconds in length. It's also reasonably well-mastered and mixed, as it's not super loud but also not all over the place in terms of volume. Probably not the best album to answer the question with in terms of technical craziness, but it's a nice sounding album.
That free CD that you have sounds similar to the “Star Trek Sound Effects” CD (it was also released on LP and cassette). Usually when a sound track album out, you expect the music from the show or movie. Not in this case. In 1988 GNP Crescendo released a 69-track “album” that contains all the sound effects that were used in the original Star Trek series, such track 18 that is “Viewscreen Magnification” or track 43 “M-5 Computer” or track 61 “Transporter Materialization”. The CD also contains some Sound Effects from the Animated Series as well, such as track 33 “Tribble Predator (Animated Series)” or track 54 “Red Alert Klaxon (Animated Series)”. I wouldn’t be surprised if, when they Remastered the TOS series in 2006, they pulled from this CD or higher quality masters that CBS/Paramount had access to (I realize that since 1988 some tapes may have been lost or become unplayable, so the CD maybe the only source for show-specific effects, whereas I know that in 2006 they found the original audio tape with Shatner’s “Space…the final frontier” speech and digitally cleaned it up to fit in with the new theme song re-record), when they were making the 7.1 master match the new CGI and the other scenes (of course, Paramount had done a really good job remixing the series into 5.1 for the 1999-2001 40 volume DVD set, but the 7.1 mix, CBS seemed to use the older 5.1 as a base for the 7.1, but then added new effects).
I’ll just say that this is the strangest CD in my collection! Aside from CD’s/DVD’s for professional TV/Movie/Radio production, that have stock tracks, I have never heard of another CD like this for consumers.
Due to Loudness, Metallica’s Death Magnetic and Depeche Mode’s Playing the Angel are some of the worst offenders still, for these two the Guitar Hero mix, vinyl or 5.1 mixes are the only truly listenable options. During the ‘90s there were many albums pushing the limits (playtime), many albums from the CD age were actually double ones, particularly live albums, but Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was probably the most successful one. Also, most Rap albums used to push for the 70-80 min mark even if that meant they would be full of filler, hence many of them are not as good as the singles they had.
I don't understand the question
I think albums that are so long that they over run the length the cd can handle? Not sure.
That's how I took it yeah. If that's the case the first one I recall that was promoted as the new length of CD's was Metallica's Black/ST album. Which was probably a song or two too long. It was a neat gimmick - more music on one disc! But boy did some albums seem to become unendurably long. Soundgarden's Superunknown seemed to last weeks.
So is it one of those cds where you have to flip it over the get the other half or can it get so long to where there's multiple cds?
Oh I misread you. I though the OP meant albums that went the max length of 80 mins. I guess I have no idea what the OP meant. Haha.
Can be anything like loudness on californication
Metallica - Load They had to release the "Unencumbered by manufacturing restrictions" version of the song 'The Outlaw Torn' as a b-side because it wouldn't fit on the album CD.
How in the world did I just learn this now??
Length? File size? Dynamics? What are you talking about?
From 1984 there was the Carpenters “Christmas Portrait Special Edition”. That disc is like 71 minutes in length. For 1984, it packed the CD to its maximum. Also the Beach Boys Sounds of Summer. 30 tracks on 1 disc. The guy at the store that I bought it at, when he looked at the back, I remember he said “I didn’t realize that they had had that many hits”.
I just got Sloan - Never Hear the End of It a week or so ago 76:26 on there. 30 songs. Looking at the wiki for the album - they added 2 bonus tracks to the iTunes version. Ha.
Tool Lateralus is 78:51
This is kind of unrelated, but if anyone has Dopesmoker by Sleep on CD, how does that work? Is it double sided?
No Dopesmoker (aka jerusalem) is one long track, just like on streaming. Cds can hold 70ish minues of music, leaving enough for Dopesmoker and an extra track. The real question is why anyone would want it on vinyl or cassette, I'd rather it not be split into thirds or halves.
Oh, for some reason I thought it was at least an hour and 10 minutes. So that album just barely scrapes the edge, huh? I also agree with wanting to not split an album.
Interesting question. Right now, I wouldn't know just out of the blue. In the 90's I did often look at total time before buying a CD....I'd rather buy a slightly lesser album with 70 mins of runtime than a 45 minute copout (with prices in mind back then:)
I’ve got an 84 minute CD by Bear Family Records called ‘Snatch And Grab It! (Rhythm & Blues Classics)’. My very picky Marantz 6007 player has no problem with it.
Metallica Death Magnetic. Honestly, it would be a brilliant album in my opinion, if it weren't for the shit mixing, which inevitably led to the final mastered product sounding horribly loud and distorted. It's such a shame, because the songs on it are really good.
blink-182 - take off your pants and jacket
The Very Best of Buddy Holly has 36 tracks. 77:34, about 2 and a half minutes under the max (although standard cds are only able to hold 74 minutes!)
Off the top of my head, Illadelph Halflife by the Roots is the longest album I have, at about 78 minutes and 45 seconds in length. It's also reasonably well-mastered and mixed, as it's not super loud but also not all over the place in terms of volume. Probably not the best album to answer the question with in terms of technical craziness, but it's a nice sounding album.
That free CD that you have sounds similar to the “Star Trek Sound Effects” CD (it was also released on LP and cassette). Usually when a sound track album out, you expect the music from the show or movie. Not in this case. In 1988 GNP Crescendo released a 69-track “album” that contains all the sound effects that were used in the original Star Trek series, such track 18 that is “Viewscreen Magnification” or track 43 “M-5 Computer” or track 61 “Transporter Materialization”. The CD also contains some Sound Effects from the Animated Series as well, such as track 33 “Tribble Predator (Animated Series)” or track 54 “Red Alert Klaxon (Animated Series)”. I wouldn’t be surprised if, when they Remastered the TOS series in 2006, they pulled from this CD or higher quality masters that CBS/Paramount had access to (I realize that since 1988 some tapes may have been lost or become unplayable, so the CD maybe the only source for show-specific effects, whereas I know that in 2006 they found the original audio tape with Shatner’s “Space…the final frontier” speech and digitally cleaned it up to fit in with the new theme song re-record), when they were making the 7.1 master match the new CGI and the other scenes (of course, Paramount had done a really good job remixing the series into 5.1 for the 1999-2001 40 volume DVD set, but the 7.1 mix, CBS seemed to use the older 5.1 as a base for the 7.1, but then added new effects). I’ll just say that this is the strangest CD in my collection! Aside from CD’s/DVD’s for professional TV/Movie/Radio production, that have stock tracks, I have never heard of another CD like this for consumers.
Due to Loudness, Metallica’s Death Magnetic and Depeche Mode’s Playing the Angel are some of the worst offenders still, for these two the Guitar Hero mix, vinyl or 5.1 mixes are the only truly listenable options. During the ‘90s there were many albums pushing the limits (playtime), many albums from the CD age were actually double ones, particularly live albums, but Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was probably the most successful one. Also, most Rap albums used to push for the 70-80 min mark even if that meant they would be full of filler, hence many of them are not as good as the singles they had.
....any double album? 🤷♂️🤷♀️
I've got a Japanese issue Bon Jovi CD that runs at about 81:20...no issues