[Jandek] Put My Dream On This Planet as a vinyl release

[Simon Greenwood]

Indeed, a spoken word record can have pretty low bandwidth, which would 
translate into a long 33rpm disk. BBC transcription disks used to fit an 
hour on a side.

s/

Paul Condon wrote:
> You can fit up to around 30 minutes on one side of an LP though once
> you go over about 20 mins sound quality can begin to suffer. With
> something quiet and with little in the way of dynamics like Put My
> Dream On This Planet it wouldn't be a problem fitting 28:43 on one
> side. It's all academic though really, as I doubt there'd be much
> demand for such a release. It'd be nice to see albums like Glad to Get
> Away or I Threw You Away on vinyl though.
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Chris
> Robinson<hardeveningsuburb at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Releasing Put My Dream On This Planet in the vinyl format wouldn't be
>> impossible, but it would be problematic.  Take into consideration the
>> duration of the entire work: 52 minutes and 15 seconds.  It's too long to be
>> given release as a single LP.  Making things even more complicated is the
>> duration of the tracks themselves.  "I Need Your Life" comes in at 28:43,
>> making it impossible to fit on a single record side.  You'd have to split it
>> up into two parts.  Where that split would occur is something to consider.
>>
>> Were this record to be released on vinyl, we'd definitely be looking at a
>> double LP.  Here's what I envision:
>>
>> "I Need Your Life" would have to be split in two and make up the first LP
>> (sides A. & B.).
>>
>> You could do one of two things with "It's Your House."  You could either put
>> it all on side C. and let the shortest track, "I Went Outside" have the
>> entirety of side D. to itself (which would be pretty cool, in my opinion).
>>
>> A. "I Need Your Life" (Part I)
>>
>> B. "I Need Your LIfe" (Part II)
>>
>> C. "It's Your House"
>>
>> D. "I Went Outside"
>>
>> Or you could split "It's Your House" into two parts and wind up with a final
>> track listing that looked something like this:
>>
>> A. "I Need Your Life" (Part I)
>>
>> B. "I Need Your Life" (Part II)
>>
>> C. "It's Your House" (Part I)
>>
>> D. "It's Your House" (Part II)
>>      "I Went Outside"
>>
>> I can't decide which is the better option.
>>
>> Anyway, it could be done, but it would definitely have to be done in the
>> double LP format.  I'd totally buy it, but it would take a lot of work and
>> I'm not sure that Corwood would consent to having single compositions split
>> up over multiple sides of wax.
>>
>> -Chris
>>
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