E P’s (Extended Play) Discs - Nominate Your Favorites - Here!!

Below is the Wiki Definition, but you know them as more than a double side single, but smaller than a full Album.

They have enjoyed massive resurgence this century, specially with all the indie and alternative bands in abundance.

History shows artists from way before the Beatles did this:

My nomination, for now are two, the obvious:
Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles.

The under recognized: Twisting By the Pool by Dire Straits.
This will keep you cool!





Your choices????


Extended play

Extended-play vinyl record
An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.[1][2][3] Contemporary EPs generally contain a minimum of three tracks and maximum of six tracks,[4] and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album.[3] An EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and LP,[5] but it is now applied to mid-length CDsand downloads as well.

 

Cocteau Twins
Aikea-Guinea-1984
Loves Easy Tears, 1986

 

My favorite EP's:

1. GARY FARR & THE T-BONES - Dem Bones
2. THE BEATLES - Long Tall Sally
3. THE MERSEYBEATS - On Stage
4. THE UNDERTONES - Teenage Kicks
5. THE BIG THREE - At The Cavern
6. THE WHO - Ready Steady Who
7. THE ROLLING STONES - Got Live If You Want It!
8. BUZZCOCKS - Spiral Scratch
9. BABYSHAMBLES - The Blinding EP
10. DOWNLINERS SECT - The Sect Sing Sick Songs

 

Front 242
Endless Riddance, 1983
No Comment, 1984
Politics of Pressure, 1985

 

Cold Cave-You & Me & Infinity, 2018

 

This from Pink Floyd

 

Men Without Hats-Folk of The 80's-1980

 

Kwyet Kinks is easily one of the best, but I also love the “The Rolling Stones” EP - every cover on it is gold in my opinion, especially the top tier cover of You Better Move On.

 

Bongos-Numbers with Wings-1983

 

I have ton's of great one's Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby etc..
Too many to list, so 'ill end with a recent favorite
Nightjacket-Eternal Phase, 2015

 

Five by Five (The Rolling Stones EP

Five by Five is the second EP by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1964. Captured during a prolific spurt of recording activity at Chess Studios in Chicago that June, Five By Five was released that August in the UK shortly after their debut album, The Rolling Stones, had appeared. The title of Five by Five is a play on words—five tracks recorded by the five members of the band

 

Madness - Work Rest & Play
Specials - Too Much Too Young

 

The Clash - Cost Of Living EP.

 

Big County's Wonderland EP

 

"Poguetry in Motion" by the Pogues is, despite its stupid title, my favourite EP.

 

Play It Cool by Billy Fury

 

Minutemen-Buzz or howl under the influence

 

Every band had a killer EP in the golden age of Thrash!

Top 10 Thrash EPs – Green and Black Music

 

The $5.98 EP- Garage Days Re-revisited - Metallica

Blew - Nirvana

Nervous and Weird - Everclear

Miscellaneous Debris - Primus

Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains

Aglio e Olio - Beastie Boys

Opiate - Tool

Attack of the Killer B's - Anthrax

Hidden Treasures - Megadeth

Hormoaning - Nirvana

Back to Skull - They Might Be Giants

 

Jailhouse Rock By Elvis Presley
Twist And Shout By The Beatles
When In France By Cliff Richard

 

This EP was released in Germany a year before the LP of the same title was released





Got Live If You Want It! (EP)
Got Live If You Want It! (capitalized got LIVE if you want it! on the cover) is the final official EP by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1965. The band's first live recording to be released, it was captured during selected dates at Liverpool and Manchester during their British tour in March that year. The EP was released in Germany in 196x with the order number DX2370 in a special "Füllschrift" cutting format. It contains the following titles: Page 1: Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, Pain In My Heart and Page 2: I'm Moving On, I'm Alright.

 

Gonna throw in:

Slayer - Haunting the Chapel
Kreator - Flag of Hate
Brutal Truth - Kill Trend Suicide

 

R.E.M.'s Chronic Town is fantastic, although I wish they had used the roaring Eponymous take of "Gardening At Night", rather than the wimpy one that they did (it's still good, though).

The Church had three - or maybe four, depending if you count the double-7" "Too Fast For You"/"Tear It All Away" as an EP or a double-single. Persia is my favorite overall.

Tommy Keene's Places That Are Gone is a good one. If it had just consisted of "Places That Are Gone" and "Baby Face", followed by 20 minutes of ducks quacking, I still would have nominated it here! (Fortunately, we still get four more songs in addition to those!)