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28th Jul 2015, 9:37 PM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 251 Points	zabadak wrote: Agreed - there are also, of course, several examples of 12" singles with one side playing at 33.3, which do not an album make! Of course not, an album is a collection of songs or photographs, stamps, butterflies, baseball cards, belly button lint, scabs or whatever else you collect in albums. And, there were LOADS of 33 rpm 7" singles made, some with more than one song per side, but those were E.P.'s, not albums. The first Joe Jackson album and a Turtles best of collection were both released on a set of 45's (I'm pretty sure a Paul McCartney album was, too!), but they're still albums. Speed doesn't have much to do with the designation of the format. Back in the `40's and `50's there were LOTS of album sets sold on 45's, just as they were on sets of 78's in the previous few decades. In the early `80''s, Big Country did a soundtrack album for a movie called, "Restless Natives", but, they released it in two parts on two consecutive 12" singles at the speed of 45 rpm. It actually IS 2 parts of an album, but it's still a 12" single. Moby Grape loaded a 78 rpm track on their second album, but it was still part of an album. BUT (and this is a BIG but!), as the site is based around 78's, shouldn't it also include ANY 78's that have been made regardless of the material they were pressed into or the methods used to play them?