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what are the best albums you know that are a single track? mostly jazz albums come to mind, and i'm sure there's some kraut rock, but curious what everyone can come up with.

― sonaar luthra (clint), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Ornette Coleman

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

steve reich's music for 12 musicians
the faust tapes
(although both are available in indexed forms)

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Is there anything that cannot be bootmashed with Can's "Augm" ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I would venture to say NNCK has a few tracks. Also, the Globe Unity Orchestra (led by Alexander von Schlippenbach) stuff.

Finally, there are also some sludge-core bands that have put single songs on albums, usually around 40-50 minutes in length.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.subpop.com/minis/0185-2_big.gif

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

That Atari Teenage Riot live album...

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Pharoah--Black Unity
Alexander Schlippenbach Trio: 2x3=5
Coltrane: Ascension (by a technicality--each side of the lp was called Ascension, so it's really two takes of the same)
Cecil Taylor: Tzotzil-Mummers-Tzotzil and Live in Bologna

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Boredoms: "Super Roots 3" - (1995, WB Japan, import only). Subtitled "karaoke of the cosmos," it's a 30-minute instrumental hardcore punk track, which seems to change chords a proportional number of times to a standard 3-minute punk tune (i.e. 5 full minutes hammering "A" followed by 3 minutes on "E", etc). The band's double-drum attack and overall super-human stamina applied to the perverted structure make it simultaneously nerve-jangling and trance-inducing.

― Major Bloodnok (Major Bloodnok), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Jethro Tull has two:

Thick As A Brick
A Passion Play

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Charlemagne Palestine, Strumming Music

― mike powell (mike powell), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Coltrane: Ascension (by a technicality--each side of the lp was called Ascension, so it's really two takes of the same)

Actually I think "Ascension" is a 40-minute piece, but it was recorded twice and different pressings of the LP had different takes. It was only split in to originally for the two halves of viny. So it fits this question perfectly. In the same spirit Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" (though that doesn't seem to be rated particularly highly these days.)

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

"split in two," that is, and "vinyl".

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Orthrelm - OV
Naked City - Leng T'Che
Philip Glass - Music With Changing Parts

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

morton feldman - patterns in a chromatic field

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Fela Kuti duh

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Earth2 has three songs on it, doesn't it?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Vladislav Delay - Anima
Biosphere - Dropsonde (cd version)

― harshaw (jube), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Biosphere - Dropsonde (cd version)

Huh? It has elevent indexted (and quite distinct) tracks.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Can't type today, damn.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Sleep - Dopesmoker

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Probably a good idea.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

The US CD pressing of Boredoms' Soul Discharge on Shimmy Disc has the entirety of the album as one track (which is extremely annoying).

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Same with the original pressing of Lovesexy (believe this was the first CD to do this).

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Boris - Absolutego
Corrupted - El Mundo Frio

― Harpal (harpal), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

The Shimmy 'Soul Discharge' also had a second long 'bonus' track of haphazardly jammed-together tracks from 'Onanie Bomb.' That Kramer sure was/is one lazy bastard. I ponied up for the conventionally tracked "Soul D" import CD for just that reason.

― Major Bloodnok (Major Bloodnok), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

E2-E4

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

LaMonte Young's "Dorian Blues in G" is one 2-hour track. (And "The Well-Tuned Piano" is 5 hours, of course, but I've never heard that one.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

In a similar vein, my copy of Royal Trux's -Twin Infinitives- on CD has four tracks - each is one side of the vinyl double LP. I'm assuming this was a deliberate choice, not laziness. There is several seconds of silence between each song on all four tracks, similar to what you would hear if you were actually playing the vinyl LP.

― James, Monday, 13 March 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

oh and Acid Mothers Temple to thread

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Eno's "Neroli" and "Thursday Afternoon". Since someone already mentioned "Leng Tch'e", seems prudent to mention Fantomas' rip-off of it, "Delerium Cordia", which I believe is only one track long. Mogwai's "My Father, My King" might count, even though it's just an EP. Still about 25 minutes long or some such thing, and the only song on the disc.

― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

The Muttonbirds inestimable 'Angle of Entry' shows up as one track in the CD player. They did subsequently re-press it with the requisite number of track breaks tho'...

― Niall, Monday, 13 March 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

The Mothers "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" ....I think, or was that just one side of the album?

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Daft Punk - Alive 1997

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Ground-Zero's "Consume Red" is a great one. Also, I second/third "Free Jazz".

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Does Gavin Bryars' utterly gorgeous "The Sinking Of The Titanic" count? (I ask because it was paired with another song on its first recording)

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

another album that has individual songs but is issued as one long track is Magical Power Mako's "Music from Heaven." But it isn't annoying-- I actually think it would be much less good if one could skip around.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

i used to have that album, and lost it, and i miss it terribly, trees.

― harshaw (jube), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Huh? It has elevent indexted (and quite distinct) tracks.

the copy i bought from boomkat is only 1 long track... weird.

― harshaw (jube), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Keiji Haino "I Said, This Is The Son Of Nihilism", "Nijiumu"...

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

acid mothers temple - IAO chant from the cosmic inferno

doesnt boris -absolute ego have two tracks on it? the second track is negligible, i guesssssss, but it depends on how picky we're being

and minutemen - double nickels

― buyabiznatch, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

interesting theory re: double nickels. also, probably wrong. but interesting, nonetheless.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

insides - clear skin

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

boris' "absolutego" was supposedly just one track when it first came out in japan. southern lord added "dronevil" when they reissued it. just to be a dork about it.

also:
boris and merzbow "sunbaked snow cave"
terry riley "in c" and "poppy nogood".
psychobaba "tablovedubla"

― jason p. rainbow, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 05:36 (twenty years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000003RFD.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 09:35 (twenty years ago)

insides - clear skin
-- electric sound of jim (and why not) ([email protected]), March 14th, 2006.

Seconded!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

I have the (bootleg?) LP of Chill Out, which breaks between sides 1 and 2. Does the CD version include the break?

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Was one side of Ogdens Nut Gone Flake (or whatever it was called) by the Small Faces a single track?

― andyjack (andyjack), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

TG CD1

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

William Basinski - Garden of Brokenness

― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

The KLF Communications issue of Chill Out is one track on CD. (The Wax Trax version is indexed but also edited down a bit.)

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

This thread will overlap with what is the longest song ever (in minutes)?, if it hasn't already.

All sorts of drone stuff comes to mind. I nominate Jonathan Coleclough's Period. Also a strong second to Anima, Music for 12 Musicians, and the live Poppy Nogood disc.

Are we looking for albums which are quite specifically one long continuous piece, as opposed to an assemblage of interwoven ones? Chill Out is ambiguous in this regard because it plays as a continuous whole, but its various sections are assigned distinct track names. Orange Twin Field Works is likewise a complicated choice because it is simply a post-production collage of Bulgarian field recordings rather than a deliberately "composed" piece.

Although I don't particularly enjoy it, I'll mention Einsturzende Neubauten's "Pelikanol." And someone will eventually bring up the Cure's Carnage Visors.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Does The Orb's Blue Room count?

― Shooz (shooz), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:20 (twenty years ago)

i nominate most releases by francisco lopez.

― ehbenoit, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Thirded for Clear Skin

Also... Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

Does Freak Electrique's Symphony Electrique count?

― Treblekicker, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Harry Pussy 'Ride a Dove'

― gwolfcow, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Pharoah Sanders' "Black Unity"!

Also on the Boredoms front: Super Roots Go!!!!! 55:55.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I'm a fan of "Drink that Fuel Oil" a punk inspired piece by Potter St. and the Bridgers

― Drew "Minister of Disaster P., Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Mike patton put out a single track album as Fantomas. I haven't heard it.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Edge of Sanity's Crimson, which is one of my top 3 metal albums easy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Fred Thordenal's Special Defects' "Sol Niger Within" (indexed tracks)
Edge of Sanity's "Crimson"

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Oops.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

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