jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (I am the electric messiah - the AC/DC God.) (02/01/90)
In article <9001312027.AA21026@m.cs.uiuc.edu> mendel@CS.UIUC.EDU (Michael Mendelson) writes: >I just saw an English Settlement CD (one, not two) which claimed to >have the "entire contents of the double-LP" on it. Were they lying, >or is there a CD which has the whole album on it? (I did not notice >the company or anything else, but I don't think it was an import.) >Wouldn't this be false advertising if as someone pointed out the >domestic release omits a couple of tracks? Well, it WOULD be false advertising except for the fact that they are absolutely unconditionally telling the truth. I have had this CD for well over a year and it does indeed have everything from the 2 record set. It's about 74 minutes long. The original Virgin UK pressing (available here as import) was missing "leisure" and "Down In The Cockpit" but they are both restored on the Geffen (domestic) pressing. There is a mailing list devoted to xtc, by the way. The address to subscribe is chalkhills-request@presto.ig.com. +---------------------- Is there any ESCAPE from NOISE? ----------------------+ | | |\ | jsd@gaffa.mit.edu | "I can say with confidence I know a | | \|on |/rukman | jsd@umass.bitnet | fair bit about LSD." -- Dan Rather | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
petersen@netcom.UUCP (Barbara Petersen) (02/01/90)
In article <9001312027.AA21026@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, mendel@CS.UIUC.EDU (Michael Mendelson) writes: > I just saw an English Settlement CD (one, not two) which claimed to > have the "entire contents of the double-LP" on it. Were they lying, > or is there a CD which has the whole album on it? (I did not notice > the company or anything else, but I don't think it was an import.) > Wouldn't this be false advertising if as someone pointed out the > domestic release omits a couple of tracks? I own "English Settlement" on both CD (single CD, domestic release) and vinyl (double LP, domestic release); they contain the identical tracks (Runaways, Ball and Chain, Senses Working Overtime, Jason and the Argonauts, No Thugs In Our House, Yacht Dance, All Of a Sudden, Melt the Guns, Leisure, It's Nearly Africa, Knuckle Down, Fly On the Wall, Down In the Cockpit, English Roundabout, Snowman). I don't know how this compares to import versions.... --- Barbara Petersen ..{apple, amdahl, claris, tandem}!netcom!petersen petersen@netcom.uucp "I hope and I pray for Hester to win just one more 'A'...."
lee@LIBERTY.CS.UMASS.EDU (Peter Lee) (02/02/90)
root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root): >mendel@CS.UIUC.EDU (Michael Mendelson): >> I just saw an English Settlement CD (one, not two) which claimed to >> have the "entire contents of the double-LP" on it. Were they lying, >> or is there a CD which has the whole album on it? (I did not notice >> the company or anything else, but I don't think it was an import.) >> Wouldn't this be false advertising if as someone pointed out the >> domestic release omits a couple of tracks? > >Most of the XTC discs, when released, included multiple additonal >tracks not available on the LP. I don't think that _English_Settle- >ment was ever a double-LP, even in it's CD release, though. Actually, English Settlement was, in fact, originally a double LP. All UK vinyl pressings are two records, and one US pressing (on Geffen, as I recall) is as well. The UK CD, however, does not contain the complete double album (its missing two tracks, as I recall). The US CD contains the whole thing, as advertised. For once, the US record company got something right! |- Peter E. Lee, Staff Assistant -| | Software Development Lab at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst | | lee@cs.umass.edu or Fuligin@umass.bitnet or (413) 549-6366 | |_ "Putting a Spoke in the Ear of the Unguarded" _|
stewarte@sco.COM (cutting edge is sharp, avoid contact) (02/02/90)
mendel@CS.UIUC.EDU (Michael Mendelson) will no doubt deny ever having said: >I just saw an English Settlement CD (one, not two) which claimed to >have the "entire contents of the double-LP" on it. Were they lying, >or is there a CD which has the whole album on it? (I did not notice >the company or anything else, but I don't think it was an import.) >Wouldn't this be false advertising if as someone pointed out the >domestic release omits a couple of tracks? English Settlement has suffered much abuse, especially considering what a great album it is. The original UK vinyl version was 2 lps; the US (Epic) version was trimmed down to one, by the exclusion of about 5 tracks. Geffen later acquired US rights, and rereleased ES as a double LP. But you knew all that, right? So eventually Virgin UK issued ES in CD form. At the time, the accepted maximum length of a CD was less than it is now, so they had to trim two tracks ("Leisure" and "Down in the Cockpit") to fit it on CD. By the time Geffen finally got around to releasing it on CD, the max length was greater, and there was no excuse to not release the whole thing. So all Geffen CDs of English Settlement are complete. -- Stewart -- "They have no word for 'shake'." -- Tracy Roberts /* uunet!sco!stewarte -or- stewarte@sco.COM -or- Stewart Evans */