great short albums (1 Viewer)

[palace]

following on from the vinyl "albums are too long these days" thread below, best modern day albums of 30 minutes or less...

...erm, i should have thought this through...

...howabout:
deerhoof - reveille
palace music - viva last blues
brakes - give blood... was pretty good too

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

slayer - reign in blood - 28 mins
us maple - sang phat editor - about 31 minutes
pissed jeans - shallow - only cos i can't stop listenign to it

 

[nEiLo]

kraftwerk - computer love - just over 30mins

 

[Jim Daniels]

Got M Ward's Duets for Guitars the other day, after ages waiting for an Amazon delivery. Its beautiful, with 16 tracks coming in at 20 something mins....

 

[Richie]

Pink Moon - 28 mins

 

[Jill Hives]

Exploding Hearts -- Guitar Romantic.

 

[BC]

whitehouse - asceticists

 

[ICUH8N]

Decoy Owl Motherfuckers - ORLY/YARLY/NOTRLY - 4'33"

 

[Unknown Convict]

noxagt - turning it down since 2001 & s/t
thermals - more parts per million

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Pixies - Come On Pilgrim. Not more than 20 mins.

Has eight songs
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Sold for album price.
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Featured in the indie album charts.
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Named as one of the greatest debut albums in this month's Uncut.

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makes it an album. Not an EP or anything else. Do EP charts exist? No they don't. They come under 'singles'.

The Fall - Slates. 6 tracks. Amazing.

 

[windings]

Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster - Horse of the Dog
fuckin brilliant!.|..|.|..|.|..|

2nd album by same - complete shite
!bog!bog!bog

 

[Pantone247]

The Fall - Slates. 6 tracks. Amazing.

right on

Shame About Ray comes in around 30 mins

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music is 30 mins, note Stereolab at 30mins, amazing... Stereolab, Cobra and Phases, 80 mins... pretty shitty...

 

[JohnnyRaz]

right on

Shame About Ray comes in around 30 mins

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music is 30 mins, note Stereolab at 30mins, amazing... Stereolab, Cobra and Phases, 80 mins... pretty shitty...

pj harvey- is this desire; pretty darn short

 

[Anthony]

both Mound albums.

 

[Osama Van Halen]

VAN HALEN
VAN HALEN II
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST
FAIR WARNING
DIVER DOWN
1984
RAINBOW RISING
WEEZER BLUE
PINKERTON
WEEZER GREEN
MALADROIT
MAKE BELIEVE


ALL CLOCK IN AROUND THE HALF HOUR MARK... DOES THE JOB FOR ME

FUNK RAP N SOUL ALL STRETCH OUT THE MINUTES... NO COMPLAINTS.

ISAAC HAYES' "BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX" IS 18MINS... THROW PURSUIT OF THE PIMP MOBILE IN AND THAT'D BE ANOTHER CLASSIC.


ALBUMQUANNDO!!!

 

[ronan]

Goat by The Jesus Lizard.
Gone Glimmering by Chavez.

Both an unbelievable way to spend 30 minutes .|..|

 

[buck]

Vic Chesnutts album 'Little' ...... i love this album ...its around 32 mins....
Bee thousand by GBV .......obvious one i guess........

Lets get ready to crumble by The russian futurists is ferry short.....

Freestyle fellowship.....shockadoom

 

[St. Fechin]

Almost all Felt albums come in at 30 mins or under. I love Felt I do.

 

[Nate Champion]

'Hissing prigs in couture' - brainiac
'berserker lp - scratch acid
Any of those first four jawdropping jesus lizard records

codeine's barely real. classify it as an album. class.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Charles Bronson-youth attack roughly 11 minutes
Circle Jerks-group sex roughly 13 minutes.
Pretty much all early 80's hardcore records would be in this list.