I miss CD Singles

Veddernarian

I miss the cool artwork
I miss the B-sides
I miss the geographical variations (like the Australian I am mine vs. USA) and collecting them
I miss the hype that surrounds their release
I just miss them
There is a certain excitement that surrounds the release of a physical single. Reminds me of old times. What was it? Save you/Other Side? Was that the last one? I remember planning a detour on the way to my son's practice, to Tower Records (RIP) and getting Save You/Other side. Admiring the cool artwork, enjoying Other Side. It was cool. I miss that.

Now, these digital releases are like a fart getting lost in a hurricane. Nobody even talks about them anymore. It's sad.

kenny olav

If this were Facebook, I would "like" this.

spat

amen! i remember immersing myself in the nothing as it seems/insignificance single way back... good times

DiRtYyELLoWoCeAn

They still have digital artwork for cd's you buy online but it sure isn't the same! Nothing beats having a cd in your hand!

demetrios

I misssed the CD singles too! After coming home from school hearing the latest new Pearl Jam single on the radio I would drop by my local Sam The Record Man store & flip out to find out what new song was that b-side. The majority of the singles were all Made in Austria.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

I also miss those. I used to go into my local indie shop and scour to find them. Sadly, a guy I know who works in the industry says that their company is gearing up for the complete of the physical cd to all-digital in 2 years time.

Which makes the current resurgence of the vinyl fascination all the more interesting. In 20 years are bands going to start releasing limited pressings on cd, because of a nostalgiac need for the format?

verceman

Remember those CD singles that were smaller, and fit within the little tray within the tray in the CD player?

DiRtYyELLoWoCeAn

verceman wrote:

Remember those CD singles that were smaller, and fit within the little tray within the tray in the CD player?

Yeah they were called a 5" single single!

verceman

Anyone miss cassingles?

Veddernarian

verceman wrote:

Remember those CD singles that were smaller, and fit within the little tray within the tray in the CD player?

I miss them all.

I remember hearing about the Australian 4-song I am mine single. Just at that time, I was in the Virgin Records Megastore (RIP) in Burbank, Ca, and I was meandering in the imports section and to my disbelief, there it was!

I'm not sure many people lnow this but the version of Undone on the Australian I am mine 4-song single is a different version than what is on Lost Dogs. The 1st guitar solo, on the Australian version, is a punchy, up beat solo using the same fuzzy effect as the 2nd solo, whereas the 1st solo on Lost Dogs sounds more like an outtake from Wishlist.

doompony

verceman wrote:

Anyone miss cassingles?

heheh... i have the immortality cassingle.

mookeywrench

only problem with singles is that they were 3.99 when the album was 12.99

I could never bring myself to pay that much

theserialthrilla

am i missing the point here...but all of the songs released off the album as single have been on cd?

mookeywrench

theserialthrilla wrote:

am i missing the point here...but all of the songs released off the album as single have been on cd?

before the release of RVM and Lost Dogs, you were SOL if you wanted hardcopies of b-sides. I had to wait 7 years before I could download Yellow Ledbetter off of napster.

Before, I would have to come across it on the radio and try to record it onto a cassette tape and hope the DJ didn't talk over the songs intro.

theserialthrilla

ok i get you..so its not i miss cds its i miss extra tracks really then

TT8270

No Code/Yield b-sides (on cd singles): Leatherman, U, B&R&Y, Deadman
Bought them all
And yes, I do feel your pain :(

EDIT: wrong titles

Veddernarian

theserialthrilla wrote:

ok i get you..so its not i miss cds its i miss extra tracks really then

The artwork too. I thought Save you/Other side, for example was really cool. Our buddy, the Stickman, came on the cover of Alive, and Wash accompanied as a B-side.

Phil100981

Yea since the Save You single we haven't had any B-sides unless you count Lost Dogs, which you all know is basically a great collection of most of Pearl Jams B-sides. But I am guessing they have more B-sides that Pearl Jam is either saving for another Lost Dogs type release or maybe they feel that the tracks they have could be worthy of a new album which would be kick ass. I mean backspacer came out last year and even though I just got to see Pearl Jam in Hartford and Boston, I would love some new Pearl Jam tunes to jam out to. Maybe a small little 7 song LP like Alice in Chains did with Jar of Flies. Just from the prevoius post in this thread it seems like everyone is in need of a fix for some new Pearl Jam tracks. I know I am!!!!

Corey Lynn

I was just thinking about this today when I heard Dirty Frank...the CD singles are where I heard Footsteps and Wash and Dirty Frank..I would get them at a coffee shop (which is out of business now) and they were the greatest things in the world. It would be an exciting day when I would get a new one. Oh how I wish I could hear some of the songs for the first time again..I was in awwww...I still am.

Phil100981

Hey we just might get a couple of new songs IF Pearl Jam finds the time to put out their so called "Christmas Single" although seeing that its already close to June maybe we will get another double release this coming XMAS or whenever they feel like releasing it. But whenever it that it finally comes out we will all be very happy for some new Pearl Jam that is if they dont decide to throw down live tracks from the backspacer tour on it.

Veddernarian

Phil100981 wrote:

Yea since the Save You single we haven't had any B-sides unless you count Lost Dogs, which you all know is basically a great collection of most of Pearl Jams B-sides. But I am guessing they have more B-sides that Pearl Jam is either saving for another Lost Dogs type release or maybe they feel that the tracks they have could be worthy of a new album which would be kick ass. I mean backspacer came out last year and even though I just got to see Pearl Jam in Hartford and Boston, I would love some new Pearl Jam tunes to jam out to. Maybe a small little 7 song LP like Alice in Chains did with Jar of Flies. Just from the prevoius post in this thread it seems like everyone is in need of a fix for some new Pearl Jam tracks. I know I am!!!!

Or even a Merkinball type of thing with just 2 songs. But I like your idea even better. Holiday singles are great but they're more of a hodge-podge as opposed to album type songs. Being live cuts, or covers, or having holoday themes for the most part. They're fun in s different way.

Lost In Ohio

I have a 7" version of whatever is on white vinyl. Alas, I do not have the 7" orange version. I think there was another single released off Backspacer onto 7" vinyl.

Zod

I still collect them.. but there's no bsides. I got promo copies of the three singles from Avocado and I bought the two singles from Backspacer. First one domestic, the 2nd one from the UK.

But the complete loss of b-sides is depressing, as alot of PJ's best music were bsides.

Evensteven

TT8270 wrote:

No Code b-sides 1996-97 (on cd singles): Leatherman, U, Deadman
Bought them all
And yes, I do feel your pain :(

leatherman and U were from yield.
No code had black,red,yellow and deadman. You could find them at cicuit city for some reason.

I totally miss the cd single days.

2-feign-reluctance

Got em' all up to Riot Act.

Cradles Broken Glass

Veddernarian wrote:

I miss the cool artwork
I miss the B-sides
I miss the geographical variations (like the Australian I am mine vs. USA) and collecting them
I miss the hype that surrounds their release
I just miss them
There is a certain excitement that surrounds the release of a physical single. Reminds me of old times. What was it? Save you/Other Side? Was that the last one? I remember planning a detour on the way to my son's practice, to Tower Records (RIP) and getting Save You/Other side. Admiring the cool artwork, enjoying Other Side. It was cool. I miss that.

Now, these digital releases are like a fart getting lost in a hurricane. Nobody even talks about them anymore. It's sad.

Me too. I have a ton from back in the 90s.

Duncs

"LIKE"

I miss it all....the artwork, the music, the songs that casual PJ fans just don't know about.

I want them back...

Writingjunkie

Agreed.

I loved the glory days of Singles and B-sides.

I just listened to the Evenflow Bside version of Dirty Frank tonight at work... Just so damn good.

For me the art work was amazing, I love having physical copies of the songs that I value (which also explains my love of vinyl), and I always enjoyed sitting a friend down who followed music and playing a mind blowing B-side that they had obviously never heard and enjoying their reaction.

I miss singles.

TT8270

Evensteven wrote:

TT8270 wrote:

No Code b-sides 1996-97 (on cd singles): Leatherman, U, Deadman
Bought them all
And yes, I do feel your pain :(

leatherman and U were from yield.
No code had black,red,yellow and deadman.

True. Just edited my post. Thanks!

RiotZact

Writingjunkie wrote:

Agreed.

I just listened to the Evenflow Bside version of Dirty Frank tonight at work... Just so damn good.

Something else is that, although it is awesome, the versions of the songs on lost dogs are sometimes different, dirty frank is the best example, theres no growling or laughter in the begining, he dosn't do random wails in the middle of the bridge, and most importantly he dosn't cook you just to see the look on your face at the end.

demetrios

Zod wrote:

I still collect them.. but there's no bsides. I got promo copies of the three singles from Avocado and I bought the two singles from Backspacer. First one domestic, the 2nd one from the UK.

But the complete loss of b-sides is depressing, as alot of PJ's best music were bsides.

Exactly! It's sad that the CD singles the past few year's now don't have any new songs added. 2 songs that we have already heard that came from the studio record. It might be a live version from a given show at times. But where's that b-side song? A song that nobody has heard of? That song that goes along with the 'new single' release? That song that was cut from the record? I've read dozens of online pages & stories of the band member's interview where they said they wrote dozens of songs for the record & only a few made the cut. Who's planning the CD singles? If your hit single is hitting the airwaves, add one of those bonus tracks that never made the cut on it. The next hit radio single you want to release, why not add another new song that was in the works on that record. Last 2 singles pretty much took the cake. 2 singles, 4 songs that were released on the Backspacer album. No edit version, no unplugged version, no extended version. Just the same studio song that's on the record.