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 Post subject: Re: The Compact Laserdisc Album series of laserdiscs
PostPosted: 18 Aug 2015, 06:14 
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So, to anyone who owns the Chicago 17 "Laserdisc Album"...does it contain the original LP edition of the album, or the later CD edition of the album which presented changes to a few songs (I'm going from memory, but the first "chorus" of Please Hold On was replaced with an entirely different section, Prima Donna was a different mix, and there might be other changes which I'm not recalling off-hand)? It isn't my favorite Chicago album (which is why I haven't bought the remastered edition, which apparently does restore those songs to the versions on the original release), but if it has the original version of the album as presented on LP along with the video clips, it might be neat to pick it up in that format.
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 Post subject: Re: The Compact Laserdisc Album series of laserdiscs
PostPosted: 22 Sep 2016, 18:37 
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I just got a promo t-shirt for this format from a former Pioneer dealer:


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 Post subject: Re: The Compact Laserdisc Album series of laserdiscs
PostPosted: 23 Sep 2016, 12:15 
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These look cool and that tee is even cooler. I need it all.
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 Post subject: Re: The Compact Laserdisc Album series of laserdiscs
PostPosted: 29 Jan 2025, 17:47 
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laserdisc_fan wrote:


They might have been released twice, first manufactured by Pioneer Japan, then Pioneer USA.

=> Created a Compact Laserdisc Audio/Video collection for the occasion

Perusing for the A-Ha one, it came first without obi stripe and UPC/barcode, then with obi and/or UPC/barcode and updated disc labels for "Side Two".

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 Post subject: Re: The Compact Laserdisc Album series of laserdiscs
PostPosted: 30 Jan 2025, 05:32 
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Until now when I saw this resurrected topic come up, I had completely forgot about these discs. I remember being amused or surprised by the name of this sub-format, "Compact Laser Disc". That term (as opposed to just "compact disc") was widely used by radio stations in the 1984-or-so period when they played specific songs from CDs rather than from vinyl records or tapes.

It surprised me that so few of them were ever released, but it is such an odd combination of content: Fewer videos than the eight-inch music discs, and a full CD's worth of audio but on a disc that can only be played on a Laser Disc player. When these came out, I already had a CD player in my car, so that would have killed their appeal to me, I know. (In my case, the whole incentive to modify my car's factory stereo for audio input from the Sony portable CD player was to -not- have to make tape copies of music that I bought.)

Timing might have also been issues for the sub-format's failure: None of the releases were of "new" music, so the real fans already had CDs or records of them (but without videos, of course). The one I came closest to buying is "Chicago 17". But, the two videos from that album I really wanted are not on it, only two others.
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