Issues with my Donna Summer "Bad Girls" LP

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$2 near mint score at the local thrift

Issue 1: Side 1 and 4 are on the same disc, while side 2 and 3 are the same disc? If I want to play the album from begining to end, I must play the first side of disc 1 and change to disc 2 play both sides then return back to disc 1 and play the second disc. Why is this?

Issue 2: Is that Moroder in the gold rim sunglasees and the open trench coat with Summer reaching in with a smile? (top of the right panel of the gatefold)

― lukeeluke (soulex45), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

That's standard issue for multi-disc LPs. Used to be you could stack both discs on your turntable, so when Side 1 was done Side 2 would drop down and play automatically. Then you'd turn both discs over and play Sides 3 and 4 in succession. I think my parents' Messiah had discs containing Sides 1 and 6, 2 and 5, and 3 and 4.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

i see Dr. Phil, thanks for the clarification. And I thought it was some mis-press. Are there contemporary turntables that can pull this off?

― lukeeluke (soulex45), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Dude! I see this as a FEATURE and not an issue.

Side 1 and 4 are the club-friendly sides of the album.. Sides 2 and 3 are the mellower, ballady sides of the album. Sounds like an archaic side assignment/cum useful vinyl convenience to me.

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I have a bunch of old multi-disc sets -- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" comes to mind -- with sides laid out like the Messiah listed above.

>>Are there contemporary turntables that can pull this off?

Most record collectors decided years ago that stacking 'em up so the records grind against each other was probably not the best for the vinyl, hence the switch to single play tables.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Best thread in recent memory.

I would like to have the Bad Girls LP too thanx.

― Has-been Hash Brown (Bimble...), Monday, 5 June 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

When my sprained ankle heals I will go buy that LP, I promise.

― Has-been Hash Brown (Bimble...), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's around $4 used for a nice copy, and you actually get TWO LPs!

*gasp*

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but it would be more exciting if you could get a free stacking record player with purchase.

― Has-been Hash Brown (Bimble...), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

See, if the vinyl mafia hadn't shunned 8-tracks, none of this would be an issue.

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/reel/akai8track1.jpg

― Has-been Hash Brown (Bimble...), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

>>Issue 2: Is that Moroder in the gold rim sunglasees and the open >>trench coat with Summer reaching in with a smile? (top of the >>right panel of the

Issue 3: Is that a chancre on your upper lip?

― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:42 (twenty years ago)

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