33 to 45, the best albums sped up
 

So right now I'm listening to Dinosaur's Where You Been at 45rpm and I'm surprised how brilliant/hilarious it is. Maybe it is Mascis' moany vocals turned to a squirrel casanova? Or maybe his falsetto parts taken to the next level? Maybe guitar hooks noodlier than intended?

If you still have 45", one fun thing to do is play them at 33", making sure the record isn't properly centered on the turntable, without ruining the diamond though. Record it on a tape. Then play that tape with your finger on the wind up button.
Made wonders on U2 Pride when I was in my late teens.
But my brother banged on the wall as I wanted to record the result - he never liked music.

Dino sounds better faster you say? I'll have to calculate the percentage for the ratio 33:45 and edit my mp3s...

Paranoid Time by The Minutemen on 33rpm sounds cool. The music is at a regular tempo but Boon sounds like Louis Armstrong.

Oops, I accidentally stretched it the first time.

I had to increase the pitch to 136% and reduce the speed to 73.3%

It sounds alright except for Mascis.

The first time my friend listened to Melt Banana was on a vinyl record and he thought the speed was wrong on it. But anyway, I've been listening to bands like this for years by speeding em up with winamp or adobe audition and stuff. Hilarious. It's best to take really long slow doomy songs and speed them up. Slowing stuff down usually doesn't sound very good though it occassionally is brilliant and Satanic sounding.

But are there any particular albums that are interesting? I wish I had Loveless to try that out.

Loveless just sounds like a mess sped up.

Try Slint's Spiderland sped up.

Or Codeine sped up. That would be interesting.

I got Gay Beast's Disrobics album without ever hearing them before, and listened to the whole thing on 45 by accident the first time. I thought it was totally awesome. It sounded like AIDS Wolf meets Ruins meets Melt Banana. Then I played it normally. It still sounded good, but that's one album that really works on 45.

I use the built in Nullsoft Signal Processing studio in Winamp to turn the speed up or down a notch on various songs. A lot of things sound a lot more commercial when you speed them up just a bit! My friend even told me some old albums, like The Doors, were intentionally sped up in the studio to sound like that. It makes kinda slow songs poppier.

I think AIDS Wolf is a lot more terrifying slowed down. And the lyrics are slightly more discernable! Not to mention you can hear what's going on with the instruments better, and there's a lot going on. The rythms are insane. I don't think Melt Banana works that well slowed down though.

Spazz sounds pretty cool slowed down. Even slowed down all the way to HALF SPEED, they're still FAST.
Charles Bronson doesn't hold up as well slow. But sped up is hilarious and awesome!

Some of Nirvana's songs are hilarious and awesome when somewhat sped up. They become an all-female punk rock band with appropriate lyrics and even more angst.

Certain Darkthrone songs are awesome sped up. Especially slower ones. In the Shadow of the Horns... Paragon Belial... The Dance Of Eternal Shadows... Neptune Towers... The Beast... are a few examples. The speed makes it pretty punky, and since it's a black metal voice, the chipmunk effect isn't *too* noticable. Any guitar solos go from slow ones to Slayer solos. I love it.

I just remembered one time when, driving through a curvy stretch of road in Arkansas, coming across a radiostation dedicated to female country artists. Obviously it was some little station in the mountains, and it had been automated for the night (about 3am), because nobody had noticed that the tape speed had been messed with. All of the songs were playing super fast; so fast, even, that every song sounded like chipmunks playing punk rock! It was intense!

Big Black sounds pretty good slowed down.

Hahahaha that's hilarious!

I prefer a few 45s on 33. Victorialand by the Cocteau Twins works quite well as an even more ambient record that way. However, the ultimate is the 45 of "One Way Or Another" by Blondie on 33. It totally kicks ass, sounding like a completely possessed fucked-up dude stalking some helpless girl to beautiful sleezey guitar. Seriously, it's worth buying the 45 just to hear it.

THIS IS THE BEST ONE

If you have the 33RPM version of Burnin Up by Ciconne Youth, play it at 45 and see how much it fucking rocks.!!!! watts voice is so deep that when it is on 45 it does not sound like a chipmunk helium voice! try it!!!

(I am very sad to say that I thought it was a 45 for the longest time, maybe 2 years before I REALIZZED ONE DAy when I "accidentally" played it on 33 and it hit me! does stupid shit ever happen like this to anyone else?P)

aphex twins on e.p. sounds great both on 33 or 45. also try the full length glider by mbv on 33 rpm.....
also melt banana album on 78 rpm is a bit spasticated!

The opening track on Can's Ege Bamyasi sounds like a great armchair breakbeat track when played on 45.

billy joels piano man is excellent played sideways.....

I always used to have trouble working out which speed to play DHR 12"s if they didn't put the speed on the records.

33 to 45. Strange... coincidence.