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Delvin
Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 10:45AM
Ahhhh, those old vinyl days of EPs. Or maxi-singles, or whatever else they might have been called in any given market. Which ones do you remember most fondly?

For me, the ones that jump to mind (at the moment) are:

New Order - 1981-1982
Let's Active - Afoot
New Musik - Straight Lines
A Certain Ratio - Do the Du

I would include Black Market Clash and Live Under a Blood Red Sky, but each of those included so much music that they qualify as albums, IMO.

Mats' thread about B-sides made me think of this one.

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ratboy
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 11:20AM
Beaster - Sugar

I'm sure I can think of others, but that's the one that immediately comes to mind.

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ratboy
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 11:50AM
Another that comes readily to mind is Steve Kilbey's solo EP Narcosis. The later Narcosis+ LP created with the addition of a few songs is nice too, but it lacks the unity of the original EP.

Continuing with Kilbey, I know the Church had several EPs early in their career like Persia, Remote Luxury and Sing Songs, but I met the contents of these in album form later. I don't have strong opinions on the EPs themselves.
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jothoma
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 11:54AM
The Jam EP was aces!

"Liza Radley"
"Funeral Pyre"
"Disguises"
"Absolute Beginners"
"Tales from a Riverbank"
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Justj0hn
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 12:14PM
Wild Things[The Creatures]
The Thorn[Siouxsie And The Banshees]
Chains Changed[Throwing Muses]
Big Sex[Wolfgang Press]
Safari[The Breeders]
Tony Fletcher Walked On Water[The Chameleons]
Eye Of The Lens[Comsat Angels]
Sunburst And Snowblind/Aikea-Guinea[Cocteau Twins]
Frozen[Curve]
Slow Dust[Belly]
Crawling Mantra[The Lorries]
Split Second Precision[Hawaiian Pups]
Circus Mort debut EP
Never Say Never[Romeo Void]
The Bad Seed[The Birthday Party]
Sequenz[Xmal Deutschland]
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satchmykels
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 12:18PM
eastern dark - long live the new flesh

or was that a mini-lip? hehe


favorite 2007 7 inch ep:

Artist: TOUCHED
Title: Funeral Dress
Format: 7
Label: Black Velvet Fuckere
Country: USA
Price: $4.50

favortie 2007 12 inch ep:

Blank Dogs The First Two Weeks 12" ep (FSR)
$8.99

favorite 2007 cd-ep:

nothing people - 3 days in california with radio birdman
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MrFab
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 12:54PM
"Wall of Voodoo"
Suburban Lawns "Baby"
Black Flag "Nervous Breakdown"
Brirthday Party "Mutiny!"
Beastie Boys "Love American Style"

and of course:

Count Floyd!



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erikalbany
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 12:58PM
Pavement:

"Perfect Sound Forever" EP (10)
"Watery, Domestic" EP
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wade
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 01:15PM
Luna - "Slide"
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rebelwithoutaclue
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 05:52PM
the pretenders- forgot the name but was put out inbetween 1-2 i think.
had cuban slide,talk of the town and a live version of prescious.
u2 under a blood red sky= was almost 35 min long but they called it a ep and priced it as such which alone i find admirable , same goes for one or two clash eps as well.
steve earle n the supersuckers- cool combo and cool idea they had.
steve does one supersucker song and the superuckers cover one earle song and they do a great cover of before you make me run and one other song.
graham parker- xmas cracker- has 4 christmas songs by parker which has the usual great wit of parker. christmas is for mugs tells a story of parker buying a sexual toy and then not being able to get the thing to work and another song called soul christmas tells the story of a x mas party with all the soul stars including otis redding dressed as santa claus.
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nosepail
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 06:39PM
5 classics:

Husker Du - Metal Circus
Gang of Four - Another Day / Another Dollar
Urge Overkill - Stull EP
Dambuilders - Tough Guy Problem
Archers of Loaf versus The Greatest Of All Time

I believe all of these records appeared as 10" EPs and so fit the format.
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mats84
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 06:55PM
"Chronic Town" - why can't I get "Chronic Town" on an expanded / remastered cd with "Murmur"?

Because the world is a cold dark place, that's why.

Oh and "Signals Calls and Marches" of course.......

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breno
Re: Favorite EP?
July 24, 2007 07:17PM
Yeah, getting CHRONIC TOWN bundled with MURMUR would definitely be preferable to getting it with DEAD LETTER OFFICE. But there's enough decent stuff on DEAD LETTER OFFICE that it's not such a bad thing.

I can't remember if "Living in My Limousine" & "White Sound" by Bill Nelson were on an EP or just a 12" single. Seems like there were one or two other songs on it, but I don't feel like looking it up right now. But if it's only a 12" single, go ahead and add "White Sound" to the list of great b-sides.

I seem to be the only person who liked Joe Jackson's THE HARDER THEY COME e.p., but then again, I'd never heard the original song prior to hearing Jackson's version.
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jothoma
Re: Favorite EP?
July 25, 2007 11:14AM
Smithereen's "Beauty and Sadness"

another great EP
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rhettlawrence
Re: Favorite EP?
July 26, 2007 10:23AM
Fishbone EP
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jothoma
Re: Favorite EP?
July 26, 2007 11:17AM
"Long Tall Sally" by the Beatles
"Ready Steady Who" by The Who
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Delvin
Re: Favorite EP?
July 25, 2007 12:11AM
> Yeah, getting CHRONIC TOWN bundled with MURMUR would definitely be
> preferable to getting it with DEAD LETTER OFFICE. But there's enough
> decent stuff on DEAD LETTER OFFICE that it's not such a bad thing.

Personally, I love Dead Letter Office and listen to it as much as any other R.E.M. album. Like Buck says in the liner notes: "This album is not meant to be taken seriously. Listening to it should be like browsing through a junk shop." I enjoy it thoroughly for that quality; the album as a whole always leaves a smile on my face when it finishes playing. (And not because it's over, all you smart-alecks out there.)

I also love the J.J. version of "The Harder They Come." I don't remember which I heard first, Joe's version or Jimmy Cliff's original. That would be a great EP to have re-issued, perhaps bundled with Beat Crazy.
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Aitch
Re: Favorite EP?
July 25, 2007 03:57AM

Green on Red - No Free Lunch

Birthday Party - Mutiny

Safehouse - S/T

Echo and the Bunnymen - Shine So Hard

The Gun Club - Death Party

The Damned - Friday The 13th EP

Outline - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
This will explain the title [www.youtube.com]
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breno
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July 25, 2007 06:07AM
BEAT CRAZY just got reissued a couple of months ago, and doesn't include THE HARDER THEY COME, which does seem like a big missed opportunity.
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Jermoe
Re: Favorite EP?
July 27, 2007 07:38PM
Re. DEAD LETTER OFFICE- I've been on an REM bender the past few weeks, and have come to the profound conclusion that those guys like(d) goofing off. Which is why DEAD LETTER OFFICE- works (for me, at least).

There's a lesson in there somewhere.



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Delvin
Re: Favorite EP?
July 25, 2007 06:47AM
Yeah, I saw the Beat Crazy reissue, and was surprised that it didn't include any bonus material. A&M did better than that, with the reissues of Look Sharp! and I'm the Man.
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diskojoe
Re: Favorite EP?
July 25, 2007 07:22PM
The Kinks Did Ya EP was tighter & better than the subsequent Phobia album.
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Jermoe
Re: Favorite EP?
July 27, 2007 08:35PM
Trip Shakespeare - Volt
Oh OK - Wow
U2 - Wide Awake In America (Under a Blood Red Sky gets all the love, but Wide Awake had 2 new songs that were pretty good, and 2 live tracks that were better)
Big Country - Wonderland
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Jermoe
Re: Favorite EP?
July 28, 2007 12:34PM
Furthermore What is definitely better overall, but Wow is just so amateurish (in good, K Records kind of way) that I find it very endearing.
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Tom_Violence
Re: Favorite EP?
July 26, 2007 09:16AM
The Strokes - The Modern Age
Pavement - Watery, Domestic
GbV - Plantations of Pale Pink
Velvet Crush - The Post-Greatness EP
Urge Overkill - Stull
Blessed Light - For Love and Preservation
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madisdadi
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July 27, 2007 08:59AM
"Bowi" Nick Lowe
"Cost of Living" Clash
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breno
Re: Favorite EP?
July 28, 2007 05:31AM
When it comes to Oh OK, I was always a FURTHERMORE WHAT fan myself.
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