Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/19/87)
Really-From: J. Peter Alfke <alfke@csvax.caltech.edu>
Well, like I said I would, I bought it. This CD, by the way, has some
weird weird formatting information on it -- some of the tracks are
labelled entirely as lead-in "grooves", which on my player at least
display the next track number with a negative time counting up to zero.
I.e.: track 11 ("Halloween") is the lead-in to track 12, prefaced by a
zero-length track 11. The "real" track 12 is a weird little thing that
I assume is either on the album or some single -- it was definitely
recorded off a record, begins with Pink Floyd's "Get Your Filthy Hands
Off of My Desert", and ends with the needle being scraped all across
the grooves.
Incidentally, if I select track 11 and then push Play, my player just
sits there and doesn't play anything. Congrats to someone or other for
figuring out how to really mind-fuck a CD player.
Have the others with this CD noticed this? I'm sure it can't just be
glitches on my disc.
Oh yeah, the music. I don't immediately like it as much as EVOL, but
I'll play it some more and let it grow on me. The first four or five
tracks are pretty good, I'll admit.
By the way: any place that charges more than $17.50 or so for the usual
import CD's is ripping you off. At Poo Bah in Pasadena, that's the price
ceiling on everything I've ever seen apart from a few Midnight Oil discs
(Aussie imports, I presume) that went for $20.99. I've been to some other
stores that regularly charge upwards of $20 for all imports. Hmph.
--Peter Alfke
alfke@csvax.caltech.edu
"Support the power of Women. Use the power of Man.
Support the flower of Woman. Use the word: FUCK.
The word is love."Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (01/19/87)
Really-From: seismo!potomac!jsl (John Labovitz) > This CD, by the way, has some > weird weird formatting information on it -- some of the tracks are > labelled entirely as lead-in "grooves", which on my player at least > display the next track number with a negative time counting up to zero. > I.e.: track 11 ("Halloween") is the lead-in to track 12, prefaced by a > zero-length track 11... > Incidentally, if I select track 11 and then push Play, my player just > sits there and doesn't play anything. Yup. Mine does this too. Wicinski and I were real confused for a while, trying to figure out if it was the CD player that was screwed up or the CD. Has anyone had trouble with Eno's "Before and After Science"? My copy plays on a Sharp CD player, but not on my Sony D-7. Strange. jsl