Re: CHAT: postcodes

Quoting Tristan <kesuari@...>:

> Actually, from what I gathered it's a Long Play. In Ancient History,
> these were a kind of record, but these days they're a kind of CD with
> more songs than singles, but fewer than albums I think. I also
> understand that they don't exist in America; apparently when an
> Australian LP was released in the US, they had to put more songs onto it
> and release it as an album so as not to scare the Americans.
Not so!  I'm fairly certain that I saw a Björk CD like this while
browsing at a Tower Records in Austin.

> So you don't need to be ancient to know what an LP is. And B-sides still
> exist too, although with a less literal definition from that of before.
True, but they are remarkably quaint now.  Just recently, my Georgian
professor, who's retiring, offered me any of his Georgian books and
stuff I wanted.  One of the things I'd wanted was a CD recording of
Paliashvili's Georgian operas "Abesalom da Et'eri" and "Daisi" (if only
to have an opera in Georgian), but he said they were only available
on LP, and even those were no longer being produced (outside Georgian,
anyway).  He said he'd burn me a CD of his own copy, however.

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