45worlds Forum - View Single Post - Thoughts on the 12 inch single format

28th Feb 2014, 9:28 AM
	TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points	Yes. I think it was just a way of exploiting the market. Same thing happens today with CDs. You get the standard one, the one with two extra tracks, another one with an embedded DVD and so on. It's just a method of raining down product onto fans. I do remember the 12-inch single in the 80s. It seemed like every single by a given artist came out in a 12-inch version as well. There was usually no artistic justification for lengthening every track by repetition and juggling the parts about. You could argue it if it were just done on the odd single - say, "Thriller" - but it was almost mandatory. As said above, the fidelity on a 12-inch press should be better than the 7-inch one, but again, I don't think that was the reason for it. The format was just a way of milking the public.

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