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What were the biggest records/LPs/Vinyls you could get?

  • 17-04-2007 11:24pm
    #1
    Piste
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    Hi there, this is a bit of an odd question, but seing as I'm a child of the nineties I don't know what I'm talking about :) Basically was the biggest LP/record/vinyl (w/e they were called) 12" or were there bigger?


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
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    Yeah the LPs were 12", pretty sure there weren't any bigger. Other ones were 10" and 7".


  • #3
    445279.ie
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    Ruu wrote:
    Yeah the LPs were 12", pretty sure there weren't any bigger. Other ones were 10" and 7".

    yeah I agree think 12" was the biggest


  • #4
    DublinWriter
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    Way back in 19 dickity six. (we had to say dickity cause the Kaiser had stolen our word for 80), most LP (Long Player) came out in 12-inch formats.

    Double albums (two LPs) were common for longer releases (typically live albums).

    Dance-remixes of songs from popular beat-combos of the era were also issued in 12" form starting from the mid-80's, but played at 45rpm, rather than 33rpm. The most famous of these was the 12" remix of Relax by Frankie Goes To Holywood.

    In the 1970's, people used to eat a lot more grenola, more flares for the first time in human history and did some pretty whacky drugs, so triple albums were rare, but existed. Tales from a Topographic Ocean from Yes being a prime example (the horror, the horror).


  • #5
    Gaspode
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    DublinWriter wrote:
    Tales from a Topographic Ocean from Yes being a prime example (the horror, the horror).

    What?
    whaddyamean horror?
    I love that album. I have a triple live Yes album (Yessongs) somewhere too..:D


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