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They are not "music videos". They are "short promotional films". Then there are "music home videos" which are something entirely different. Those consisted of "musicals", concerts, compilations of "short promotional films", documentaries (um, of popular recording artists), and then various hybrids of all of these things. Not all long plays had companion releases of "music home videos" to them and neither did all recording artists. There was no (nor should there be) set standard for how all of that worked. They came in all formats of mainly Beta video tape, VHS video tape, laser discs, v.c.d.s, c.d.v.s, d.v.d, and blu-ray. (As well as commercially failed formats such as d.v.d.-audio, blu-ray audio, and divx (hmmm, I think divx, oh it doesn't matter does it?).
"Music home videos" were basically embraced about 1982 when the home video market started to make significant inroads as a commercialized product. They existed before MTV which started in August of 1981 going back as far as 1978. Some of the earliest releases were concerts by Tina Turner, Alice Cooper, and MAYBE Black Sabbath and AC/DC though those two have not been confirmed yet for sure.
QUEEN were probably the first to have a compilation of their "short promotional films" released on "music home video". On top of that most artists only had an average of four "short promotional films" on a "music home video". QUEEN had FOURTEEN on "Greatest Flix" released in the tail end of 1981. That was available on Beta video tape AND laser disc (!) at the time and was a companion to the compilation of their biggest hits entitled "Greatest Hits" (who'da thunk?!). There was also a companion picture book sold separately to those two compilations entitled "Greatest Pix".
The significance of all of this is that not only is it important to be able to identify things in life but in the music industry as well of which they failed and continue to do profoundly and miserably for all sorts of reasons. One being apathy. There other was potentially intent because it can work out by having the public not being informed of what they are buying so it is often a grab bag. Grab 'em by the bag!
Sorry. To this day I refer to Dr. Brian May as to what an "e.p." ("extended play" single) is. It is identified by its running length and NOT by how many songs are on it. Twenty minutes or less is an "e.p.". Over twenty minutes it is a "long play". What is the point and significance? I suppose it depends on if you want to know what you are buying for one but the recording artists ought to know and care. Almost every recordings artist that has put an "e.p." out this side of the turn of the century have called "l.p.s" that they have released as "e.p.s". Meaning they have releases that far exceed the running time of twenty minutes but were/have been identified as "e.p.s". They often are forty minutes long but because the perception is there are "only" seven or even eight songs that means they fall short of being an "l.p.". They are simply shooting themselves in the foot as the perception is that these releases of theirs are something different than an "l.p." based of of quantity. Are they implying that they lack quality because of this? Then of course there is the issue of why calling a release longer than twenty minutes an "l.p." as opposed to an "album" or "record". Again the term "l.p." identifies it more accurately than the other words. But one word is easier to remember than two. Just as two words are easier to remember than three concerning "music video" as opposed to a "short promotional film".
On a side note "short promotional films" existed throughout the whole of the twentieth century. Neither QUEEN or The Beatles did them first. A couple of decades ago MTV had a quick news segment about how in the early part of the twentieth century in N.Y. there were small players at certain markets one could put some change into and watch play when they put their eyes up to it to look within as they listened to the music. Then there were juke boxes of "short promotional films" called Scopitones going back the mid 1960's found in Eastern Europe. Those would play on a screen on its front part that you did not have to look in to. You can see an example of this in the "short promotional film" by David Bowie for his song "Blue Jean" entitled "Jazzin' For Blue Jean" released in 1984 both on "music home video" (as a stand alone release) and on television. As a matter of fact when you watched that on his compilation released in 2002 on d.v.d. of his "short promotional films" on the "music home video" entitled "Best Of Bowie" you could click properly on the remote at the right time and it would reveal an Easter Egg. Remember those on d.v.d.s? The feature would then play an alternative "short promotional film" for the song marked for, by, and as being a shorter "short promotional film" than the other it was laid within. Though just for clarification purposes it should be noted it was an entirely different performance an not something truncated or sampled from "Jazzin' For Blue Jean".
You are welcome. This information was and is virtually no where to be found at least concerning one source. Again, that goes back to the music industry being somewhere between apathetic in terms of what they are selling and not being straightforward with identifying their products on purpose. Wada boom, wada bang.
"Music home videos" were basically embraced about 1982 when the home video market started to make significant inroads as a commercialized product. They existed before MTV which started in August of 1981 going back as far as 1978. Some of the earliest releases were concerts by Tina Turner, Alice Cooper, and MAYBE Black Sabbath and AC/DC though those two have not been confirmed yet for sure.
QUEEN were probably the first to have a compilation of their "short promotional films" released on "music home video". On top of that most artists only had an average of four "short promotional films" on a "music home video". QUEEN had FOURTEEN on "Greatest Flix" released in the tail end of 1981. That was available on Beta video tape AND laser disc (!) at the time and was a companion to the compilation of their biggest hits entitled "Greatest Hits" (who'da thunk?!). There was also a companion picture book sold separately to those two compilations entitled "Greatest Pix".
The significance of all of this is that not only is it important to be able to identify things in life but in the music industry as well of which they failed and continue to do profoundly and miserably for all sorts of reasons. One being apathy. There other was potentially intent because it can work out by having the public not being informed of what they are buying so it is often a grab bag. Grab 'em by the bag!
Sorry. To this day I refer to Dr. Brian May as to what an "e.p." ("extended play" single) is. It is identified by its running length and NOT by how many songs are on it. Twenty minutes or less is an "e.p.". Over twenty minutes it is a "long play". What is the point and significance? I suppose it depends on if you want to know what you are buying for one but the recording artists ought to know and care. Almost every recordings artist that has put an "e.p." out this side of the turn of the century have called "l.p.s" that they have released as "e.p.s". Meaning they have releases that far exceed the running time of twenty minutes but were/have been identified as "e.p.s". They often are forty minutes long but because the perception is there are "only" seven or even eight songs that means they fall short of being an "l.p.". They are simply shooting themselves in the foot as the perception is that these releases of theirs are something different than an "l.p." based of of quantity. Are they implying that they lack quality because of this? Then of course there is the issue of why calling a release longer than twenty minutes an "l.p." as opposed to an "album" or "record". Again the term "l.p." identifies it more accurately than the other words. But one word is easier to remember than two. Just as two words are easier to remember than three concerning "music video" as opposed to a "short promotional film".On a side note "short promotional films" existed throughout the whole of the twentieth century. Neither QUEEN or The Beatles did them first. A couple of decades ago MTV had a quick news segment about how in the early part of the twentieth century in N.Y. there were small players at certain markets one could put some change into and watch play when they put their eyes up to it to look within as they listened to the music. Then there were juke boxes of "short promotional films" called Scopitones going back the mid 1960's found in Eastern Europe. Those would play on a screen on its front part that you did not have to look in to. You can see an example of this in the "short promotional film" by David Bowie for his song "Blue Jean" entitled "Jazzin' For Blue Jean" released in 1984 both on "music home video" (as a stand alone release) and on television. As a matter of fact when you watched that on his compilation released in 2002 on d.v.d. of his "short promotional films" on the "music home video" entitled "Best Of Bowie" you could click properly on the remote at the right time and it would reveal an Easter Egg. Remember those on d.v.d.s? The feature would then play an alternative "short promotional film" for the song marked for, by, and as being a shorter "short promotional film" than the other it was laid within. Though just for clarification purposes it should be noted it was an entirely different performance an not something truncated or sampled from "Jazzin' For Blue Jean".
You are welcome. This information was and is virtually no where to be found at least concerning one source. Again, that goes back to the music industry being somewhere between apathetic in terms of what they are selling and not being straightforward with identifying their products on purpose. Wada boom, wada bang.
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