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Topic: 35 minutes length
Posted By: paganinio
Subject: 35 minutes length
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:08
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==List of Classic Era Prog Albums That Are 35 Minutes in Length== I was laughing when listening to Moving Pictures, thinking "lame album, only 35 minutes long". Then I realized it was 5 minutes longer than that. Not much longer but enough to remove the "lame" tag for me. Then I remembered it was actually 2112 that was 35 minutes long. But then I checked, it was actually close to 39 minutes. Now I'm confused. I really do remember a classic era prog album with the laughable length of 35 minutes. I just can't remember which one. Care to solve the puzzle for me? ------------- 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:12
You actually check length of albums to grade them? ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:15
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I fink there are a bunch of GG albums that are short as balls ------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:17
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Longer than 45 minutes = filler In non-electronic prog music at least. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:17
I don't listen for length (though when looking into a new band, I buy for length, if at all possible  ). I care more about the quality of the music on the album than the quantity.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:21
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LOL, you're corrupted by the post-modern age. Any album that exceedes the 50 minutes length is just crap, solid fact, you can check wikipedia.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:23
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paganinio wrote:Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:24
Your post took less than 35 seconds to read. Therefore it is lame. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:42
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You people are just jealous cos you don't find enjoyment in the new 70
minutes+ masterpieces that came out in the last ten years. I do. They
enrich my life in a way you'll never get to experience.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:45
...Likewise concerning 35 minute album.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:49
That's what...she said? ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:49
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I enjoy plenty of very long albums. I don't require the length to enjoy an album, though. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 21:51
------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 22:22
| In all types of music i love length, it is not essential, but i like it |
Posted By: MoodyRush
Date Posted: January 18 2012 at 22:33
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Per un Amico is under 35 minutes and every bit a masterpiece. Length doesn't matter as long as the quality of the music is. Quality>Quantity as they say. ------------- Follow me down to the valley below. Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul. -Lazarus |
Posted By: Canterzeuhl
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 00:45
| Length means nothing if you don't know how to use it. |
Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 01:26
| Nico's "The Marble Index" was kept down to 30 minutes due to a concern that listeners might kill themselves. Nowadays it comes as an expanded 2 CD set with alternate versions and extra songs. At least someone is taking action against the population problem. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 03:06
 I'm still alive! Lucky me. |
Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 03:38
X 2 ------------- You must be joking.....Take a running jump...... |
Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 04:57
WHO'S THAT UNDER THE BRIDGE?? Oh and can't you just listen to two 35min albums in a row? If you print of an album cover and glue it onto the top of the second album you can make it look like you're listening to the same album. True story. I now can't listen to Marillion - Misplaced Childhood without it being followed immediately by The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis. They are both half of the same album don't you know?
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 06:17
What a load of sh*t. You really think an album is lame due to the fact it's less than 50 minutes or how ever the f**k you grade them? That's really stupid. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 06:39
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I think Greenslade albums are short. Check out Time and Tide, I think it is about 30 mins...I thinki I remember a letter of compalint about it in the press. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 06:43
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I usually find myself disappointed at short albums. I sorted by size and scanned the titles around that length and it's not always the case.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 06:50
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Put it this way, I never say, and don't think I ever have said "this album is too short." ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 06:57
I think I may have done. You wait a year or more for an album and 30 minutes is a bit cheap. i would probably have said the album was a bit short rather bthan too short. Although Van halen albums usede to around the 30 minmark and never complaIne so,,,, ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 07:02
It's easier to make a long album short than a short album long. Snip snip. 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 07:20
THIS! ------------- 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 07:24
I am going to sort my albums in order of running time - OK first cab off the rank is Transatlantic's "More Never Is Enough" which clocks in at a whopping 190 minutes. Of brilliant prog!
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 10:30
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Of corny w**k, more like Worst case scenario, if an album is "too short" I listen to it twice |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 10:33
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^ It isn't as much w**k as Magma tho.... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 11:00
| ture, but if you have to masturbate all over a drum kit may as well be the best at it |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 11:18
But Vander isn't the best at anything. Sorry I don't want to do this. Unlike you I don't want to put any band down by sl*g.ing the members. You win. I just can't get into your type of trolling.
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Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 11:45
| Truth be told one of the characteristics that got me into the prog was the song and album lengths. I mean 10 min. songs are just cool, however many can suffer from filler. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 19 2012 at 12:05
 My thought was, if someone can listen to it for 30 minutes and not kill themselves, couldn't they go another 5-10 minutes? ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: January 20 2012 at 01:24
"Neu! 2" where they ran out of money half way through and resorted to playing tracks at half speed, double speed, sticking fingers in tape machines etc.
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