The Sugarplastic releasing an entire album exclusively on eight 7" vinyl singles periodically over two years, with a limited run of 300 copies per single: C/D

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7x7x7, the Sugarplastic's current full-length release, is being released seven inches at a time. Seven colored vinyl singles; one single released every three months for two years. There will be only 300 of each single pressed.

I love The Sugarplastic, but no way in hell would I ever consider trying to collect this lot. It's not clever, it's wacky. Dud, dud, dud.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wedding Present did it better. And only took them a year too, and they did two albums.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i have three of them. i don't think i'll ever have the urge to play them more than the one time.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

That good eh?

Resin was a bit hit-and-miss.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll still vouch for their full-length records, but i realize now i'm kinda past the point of being impressed by stuff like that.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

what a fuckheaded thing for a band to do. i will make a point never to let their wretched outpourings within fifty miles of my ears or my house

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Are they trying to prove music is more important than success? Hope not.

Perhaps album #5 will be recorded exclusively on toilet paper and converted to digital, and all the bits will be etched onto Tim Tams and left out in the sun, so if you want to hear it you've got exactly 14 minutes to copy down all the binary code. Wank wank wank.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

in this day and age, making your music MORE difficult to obtain (and ergo less appealing to a potential fan) is suicide.

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The point is... if it's EXCLUSIVELY on eight vinyl singles, it's not an album, is it? It's eight singles. What a bunch of twerps.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

To be fair, it's actually more socially acceptable now thanks to mp3 - Normal people can download it for free, and the insanos can by the collectable 7 inches. Of course if that is really the Sugarplastics' intention they should also dump onto popular mp3 search engines high quality rips and cover art. Of course this is all argued by somebody who has never heard one of their songs.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds like an idea whose time has come (and gone, sometime shortly after 1992).

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

According to their discography page, the whole thing is going to come out on CD, possibly with bonus tracks. I have the feeling that that's unofficial.

― dlp9001, Friday, 18 June 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Well that's all right then. Never mind that they'll be even more irrelevant by 2006.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, anyone reading this who doesn't know the band might want to go download Motorola Rocketship (not that it's their standout track, but it's a great song of theirs 1. only on a comp and a Japanese import 2. also on SLSK). Think XTC.

― dlp9001, Friday, 18 June 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

at least they are admitting that it will come out on cd, instead they could be like my favorite or ariel and release the limited edition eps and then decide to compile them all after their fans have overpaid for the privilege of hearing their lame songs. actually i haven't heard ariel.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

that's aeriel and i don't think they're compiling them

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly it's been downhill for them since booting my brother from the drum throne ; )
Also it's a testament to his egregious control freakiness that Ben would relegate so many fine Kiara Geller compositions (one side of each single) to such a marginal release.

― Brad Laner (Brad Laner), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't the Melvins do something similar with their last full length? Though I believe they also released it at the same time on normal formats.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Moby Grape!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Moby Grape ape!

(sorry, that just occurred to me after I pressed "submit")

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm all for groups releasing singles and then compiling them. Obsessing about the LP as a form is lame, I think. I don't think I've very keen on the rather methodocal way taht Sugarplastic (whoever they are) seem to be going about the process, though.

Super-limited, well-put together editions are an excellent response to a world in which music files are freely shared, as Jedmond notes.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 June 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Records that are hard to find and thus become expensive if you want real copies = k-lame, though, Tim, much as I agree about singles being great (if often too expensive [pound a song on a CD please kthxbye]) and fetishisation of albums being little more than convenience-worship.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes but "wanting real copies" = participation at some level in collector-scum behaviour so you kinda get what you deserve (NB I am collector-scum too, and I like it).

The other thing to remember is that these sort of micro-indie releases very often don't sell in quantities exceeding a few hundred anyway.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, yeah it is collector-scum activity, but also they sound better on real CD through my Cd player rather than through the iPod-mostercable thing. Although not by enough to justify $23 for "Second Language". Hence I still only have it on MP3.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know what "Second Language" is, I imagine it's by one of those glooprock bands you like.

I like having 'proper copies' too, to the point that I don't do the downloading thing, but generally you can get someone to CDr something for you if you ask nicely (and know the right people).

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, it's Disco Inferno innit! "glooprock"!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Yes it is" would have done fine!

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheeky!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian, re: the Melvins - you're thinking aboot that AmRep series of singles (12, 1 / month, I think?) that was compiled onto a pretty snazzy 2-CD set back in '98 (maybe?). They bring a fierce version of the Germs' "Lexicon Devil" to the party.

OK, back to gloop.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Glooprock" has no hits on google so it appears that I made the word up earlier. I'm quite proud of it.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Please list a series of adjectives characterising "glooprock", Tim.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I like having 'proper copies' too, to the point that I don't do the downloading thing, but generally you can get someone to CDr something for you if you ask nicely

Do you not have a CD Writer? I mean, this comment really confuses me...

― ___ (___), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

If we write glooprock enough, will we create a googlewhack?

I guess glooprock would be very muddy, icky...

― ___ (___), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have a pooter at home capable of doing the filesharing thing. Is that what you're asking?

I have a CD recorder as part of my stereo so I'm quite good at giving other people CDRs of records I own.

NICK YOU'RE NOT MY ENGLISH TEACHER! Oceanic, amorphous, dreamlike, see all adjectives ever applied to MBV, glooprock mavens. (I realise the term is mildly misapplied to DI but I was playing, sorry).

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like 1500 words in the nature of performativity in Jamaican 'dancehall' clubs of the period 1975-1979 by Monday, Please Tim.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

On, not In, innit. Although in would be amusing.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Tim - that makes more sense. It was the like copies, don't download, get friends to do CDRs. It confuzzled me, as I took it more as sounding like consciously not downloading or something. I dunno.

I did think MBV would be the Glooprock monarchy.

― ___ (___), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not actually that big an MBV fan, is the ironing.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

xxxxxxpost:
Re: Melvins. They did actually release "Hostile Ambient Takeover" on vinyl as a series of 7"s. One of the b-sides features a genius cover of "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World"

― sexyDancer, Friday, 18 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(Did I miss the part where Brad started posting here, or was that a random google? Someone should tell Kate, her head will explode.)

(I'm still addicted to Bang.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Totally D because I never got on the ball enough to put my order in. C because Brad goes and posts and disses Ben.

― caspar (caspar), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure that the 7x7x7 release will only be available on CD to the folks who actually did the "subscription" thing (and bought all of the 7"s in advance).

I'm one of those folks, but I can't really comment whether or not releasing the "album" this way is interesting, cool, silly or otherwise cause I never really thought about it.

I know the woman who runs the record label doing it, and she's cool. I did an ad for tallboy records that ran in magnet at one point.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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