What are your favorite EPs?

Severian · 11.18.2021, 08:50 AM

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

Severian · 11.20.2021, 02:37 PM

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

The Soup Nazi · 11.20.2021, 11:58 PM

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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.

The Soup Nazi · 11.21.2021, 12:12 AM

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

Stink (aka The Replacements Stink) - The Replacements

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Originally Posted by Severian

Rival Dealer EP by Burial
Pretty Little Lightning Law 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

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

Toilet & Bowels · 11.21.2021, 04:51 AM

Fuck knows

Toilet & Bowels · 11.21.2021, 04:51 AM

Fuck knows

_tunic_ · 11.21.2021, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian

Pretty Little Lightning Law by A Silver Mt. Zion

It's PAW not LAW !!

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

_tunic_ · 11.21.2021, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Fuck knows

oh yeah I forgotr about that one

The Soup Nazi · 11.21.2021, 05:27 PM

Signals, Calls, And Marches - Mission Of Burma
"Free E.P." that came with early copies of Wire's 154
No Plan - David Bowie
King Felix - Laurel Halo
Rock Pool - Cate Le Bon
Songs For A Dead Pilot - Low
Msuic - Klara Lewis
Christmas - Low

The Soup Nazi · 11.21.2021, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

It's PAW not LAW !!

I fought the law and the paw won.

The Soup Nazi · 11.22.2021, 12:21 AM

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.

Severian · 11.22.2021, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

It's PAW not LAW !!

It was a typo chief, I have the thing too

Severian · 11.22.2021, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

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.

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

The Soup Nazi · 11.22.2021, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian

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

_tunic_ · 11.25.2021, 01:32 AM

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

The Soup Nazi · 11.25.2021, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

Neil Young- Arc

Arc is an album!

The Soup Nazi · 11.25.2021, 11:57 PM

The Revolution - Television
The Revolution - Retribution Gospel Choir
Losing Feeling - No Age

The Soup Nazi · 11.26.2021, 10:29 PM

Come on you damn lurkers, name some damn EPs!

The Soup Nazi · 11.27.2021, 05:28 PM

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

samuel · 11.29.2021, 09:37 AM

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

11.18.2021, 08:50 AM	#1
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,739	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
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11.20.2021, 02:37 PM	#2
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,739	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
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Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,213	Fuck knows
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The Soup Nazi invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Del Boca Vista Posts: 18,018	Signals, Calls, And Marches - Mission Of Burma "Free E.P." that came with early copies of Wire's 154 No Plan - David Bowie King Felix - Laurel Halo Rock Pool - Cate Le Bon Songs For A Dead Pilot - Low Msuic - Klara Lewis Christmas - Low __________________ GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDI E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA
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The Soup Nazi invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Del Boca Vista Posts: 18,018	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. __________________ GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDI E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA
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_tunic_ invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: I could live in eurHope Posts: 3,881	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 __________________ what comes first, the music or the words?
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The Soup Nazi invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Del Boca Vista Posts: 18,018	The Revolution - Television The Revolution - Retribution Gospel Choir Losing Feeling - No Age __________________ GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDI E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA
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The Soup Nazi invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Del Boca Vista Posts: 18,018	Come on you damn lurkers, name some damn EPs! __________________ GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDI E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA
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11.29.2021, 09:37 AM	#20
samuel the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,173	My favorite two from 2021 are "Summer Quarter" by Madeline Kenney and "Calming Night Partner" by Land of Talk.
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