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Originally Posted by Severian
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  |
Dude. Like, dude.
Who comes up with a "favorite EPs" thread. It's a silly idea. 
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.