What are your favorite EPs?
 

EPs! This is a thread about them! Talk about your favorite extended plays — or even “mini-albums,” who cares? Let’s do it, ok.

OH ALSO, WHAT CONSTITUTES AN EP? LENGTH? PROBABLY LENGTH! BUT WHAT IF IT’S NOT LENGTH? Something to think about.

Some of mine:
Rival Dealer EP by Burial
Pretty Little Lightning Paw by A Silver Mt. Zion
Halfway to a Threeway by Jim O’Rourke
Two Airships/Exploder Falls by Candy Claws
Watery, Domestic by Pavement
The Greatest of All Time by Archers of Loaf
Some Candy Talking by JAMC
M3LL155X by FKA Twigs

And a bunch I’m forgetting.

This totally original thread idea has been brought to you by spite ;)

Goddammit this was an earned (but good-natured ;) ) revenge post against Soup Nazi for stealing posts from me. Can’t even get a reply from the Nazi himself? Pssh. I can’t count on this forum for anything anymore :mad:

Dude. Like, dude. Who comes up with a "favorite EPs" thread. It's a silly idea. :D Also, you completely dodged the flame war we were gonna have about what constitutes an EP. Length? Classic full-lengths by the Stones (and yeah, OK, the bloody Beatles) to the Ramones to No Age clock in at under half an hour. Number of tracks? Plenty of albums have just one (before the CD came along, they had to split it, but it was still one — Ornette's Free Jazz immediately springs to mind). Format? The 10 and 7 inchers are mostly associated with EPs and singles, respectively, but mess with the rpms and baby, you got a stew — I mean an album going. And then there's this new shit I'm told, s.. str... streemeen', which apparently makes everything I just said irrelevant (you fucking kids). So here's my take: an EP is what you say is an EP, but then you own it and have to defend it IN A BATTLE TO THE DEATH.



Fun times! The key to a really good EP is simple, yet of course immensely difficult to achieve: not a wasted minute. An album can still be great if there's a drop in quality on a couple of tracks, but if your EP is just a promotion for a tune and you padded the disc or whatever with bullcrap, get off of my cloud!

Alright, at one point I had a LONG list in my head, but I'm gonna start with a few.

• Spiral Scratch - Buzzcocks
• Chonic Town - R.E.M.
• Strange Weather - Anna Calvi
• Beaster - Sugar (almost 31 minutes...)
• Metal Circus - Hüsker Dü (18:57 vs Everything Falls Apart's 19:22, yet the latter is considered an album - see, I'm tellin' ya!)
• In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country - Boards Of Canada
• Million Miles: Live Recordings 1997-1999 - Bob Dylan
• Kill Yr Idols - Sonic Youth
• Side Three - The Soft Boys
• Untitled ("Yellow EP") - Gang Of Four
• Big Noise From The Jungle - The Tiller Boys
• Dead Flowers - Caitlin Rose
• you made me realise - my bloody valentine

More to come... eventually.

Oh SHIT I won't forget myself if I don't immediately add:

• Stink (aka The Replacements Stink) - The Replacements

I'm familiar with three out of your eight picks. 37.5%... a little lame. :o

Fuck knows

Fuck knows

It's PAW not LAW !! :D


I think I would prefer the other EP they made: The West Will Rise Again
But the Lightning Paw is good too, except that I love the live versions of Microphones In The Trees so much more than the recorded version





I don't want to make a full list right now because I'm hungry and need to go shopping. But as I said in the other thread:
The Breeders' Safari EP. Played it to shreds when it was released.
And a bunch of Mono, and Low EPs, like the Fishtank EP, and I forgot which one has Your Place In Sunset

oh yeah I forgotr about that one :D

I fought the law and the paw won.

• An Ideal For Living - Joy Division
• No Horizon - Wye Oak
• I've Got A Friend Called Emily Ferris - Courtney Barnett
• How To Carve A Carrot Into A Rose - Courtney Barnett
• Demo Hollywood 1977 - Screamers
• Hockets For Two Voices - Meara O'Reilly
• More Like Space - Seefeel (hard to pick just one by them - there's Pure, Impure; Starethrough... and is (Ch-Vox) an EP or what?)
• Blank Generation EP (aka Another World) - Richard Hell
• Don't Die/That's All I Know (Right Now) - Richard Hell + The Voidoids (Part III)/The Neon Boys
• Dim Stars EP - Dim Stars
• Xtras - X
• Health And Efficiency - This Heat
• The Dream Syndicate - The Dream Syndicate
• More Like The Moon - Wilco
• Public Domain, Volume I - Wussy
• Wussy Duo - Wussy Duo
• Rigor Mortis - Wussy
• Getting Better - Wussy
• Extended Play - The Raincoats
• EE Head - Dean Spunt
• Myths 002 - Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood
• Here It Comes Again - Cate Le Bon & Group Listening
• Liberating Guilt And Fear - Empath
• Morbidly Upbeat - Randy Randall
• Myths 004 - Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox
• Datapanik In The Year Zero - Pere Ubu
• Songs For Slim - The Replacements
• Mimeograph - Old 97's (also the Satellite Rides bonus disc, which certainly qualifies as an EP and fuckin' ROCKS!)
• Ut - Ut
• Confidential - Ut
• Live At The Loft And Loew's - Jen Cloher
• When Squirrels Play Chicken - Perfect
• Extra Circus - Hüsker Dü
• Parallelogram - Kurt Vile | Steve Gunn

And I'm NOT done yet. How d'ya like that, SEVERIAN. :cool:

It was a typo chief, I have the thing too

Arrested Development references are always appreciated.
Anyway yeah the idea just came to me. It’s crazy. Also I totally asked about the thing you said I should ask about, no clue what you’re taking about. What “edit” function? Nope it was always there and you missed it because you’re silly.

Anyway this is a blood feud but not really. Cheers

Oh my, why I didn't think of Low's Christmas EP? Possibly my all-time favorite EP, I saw them play it live 6 times :)

Here are some others:
Godspeed You Black Emperor! ‎– Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada E.P.
Joy Division - An Ideal for Living
Sonic Youth - Silver Sessions, SYR1 & SYR2
Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven
don't know if it's actually an EP, it's more of a single perhaps, but the 12" vinyl has a very cool etching on the back
Neil Young- Arc
Low - Transmission EP

Arc is an album! :cool::D

Come on you damn lurkers, name some damn EPs!

So Outta Reach - Kurt Vile
Speed, Sound, Lonely KV - Kurt Vile

My favorite two from 2021 are "Summer Quarter" by Madeline Kenney and "Calming Night Partner" by Land of Talk.