CD Singles - Comments by Neil Forbes

CD Singles - Comments by Neil Forbes

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 27th Dec 2014		CD Single Helen Love - It's My Club (2007)	You know what I'm getting at, don't you, R.C.? The technology's changed so new terms need to be applied. The only term from the vinyl era that can still apply now is "album" - a collection of songs by one artist or group, or by various artists/groups. The term "single" or EP(extended play) really only applies to vinyl. More so for EP because that referred to a 45rpm disc with two tracks(sometimes 3 if an extra track could be squeezed in) per side. With a CD having an 80-minute playing time, the EP term is rendered obsolete, as is the term "long-playing(LP)". When I do my own CDs, depending on the length of track, I can sometimes squeeze in a bit over 30 tracks.
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		CD Single Helen Love - It's My Club (2007)	I do wish they would NOT call these things "singles"! The term simply does not fit. A single has one track on one side and another on the opposite side, but when placed on a turntable, only the upward-facing side is accessible for the pick-up to "read"(play), whereas these things have sometimes three, sometimes four or five "tracks" hat are all accessible to be read by the laser beam. Yes, you only play one at a time, but that's not the point. The point is that all the content is accessible at once where on a 45rpm "true" single, one side is up for play while the other is face-down against the felt turntable mat. It would be better to call these "CD samplers" because they contain a few tracks from a current or forthcoming album.... Hmmm, album, there's a term that can fit both vinyl LP and CD media, as it refers to "a collection of tracks".