This record plays backwards?

Wojciech Rajski-Beethoven Symphony No 9-180 Gram Vinyl Record|Acoustic Sounds »

According to the webpage, the 4th movement of the 2LP set plays inside out. Do you guys find this king of ingenious considering the most energetic parts of the performance are at the end? It would eliminate IGD for the big finale and inferior fidelity to the beginning. What are your thoughts?

 

Got to ask... How do most people even go about playing a record that's cut in reverse?!

 

This is not the only record that does that:

Cool! Tacet revive the 'inside out' LP, and use Ravel's Bolero..

 

I have a record that does that. The last track (the one on the outermost of the record) has a locked groove to keep the tonearm from sliding off the side. It's fun and possibly sounds better. I have no hatred of gimmicks.

 

Put the needle on the innermost groove.

 

Jack White most famously did this on Lazaretto. The only other inside-out records I know of are "Checkpoint Charlie" on Rhino (Flo & Eddie doing a Kraftwerk sendup) and a label promo called "Counter-Revolutions in Rock" (Epic, I think?) in the late 70s.

 

Sounds like it doesn't really play backwards, it just drives on the wrong side of the road.

 

Must be a UK pressing.

 

I think some early discs played from the inside outwards, but I've never heard of this being used on modern discs.

It would reverse "end of side distortion!!"

 

But a modern example was just given 3 posts before yours.

 

The Jack White vinyl is a pain in the ass because of this. I only play the flac files now.

 

I personally own a small handful of records that play from the inside out. A few of the early Detroit Techno 12"singles were pressed this way.

It made it really cool to watch but it made it a GIANT pain to DJ with them!!!

I'd have to look back through my DJ crates to find specific titles, but I know for sure one of them was Kevin Saunderson's "Inside Out." Ha.

 

Woody McBride's Balance on Drop Bass! Loved that album.
URL: https://www.discogs.com/Woody-McBride-Balance/release/2622

 

Silly gimmick... put more effort into the music, mixing and mastering.

 

It won't play on a linear turntable. (At least I think it won't)

 

So you are not describing a record that "plays backwards", rather the record plays normally, but from the label towards the outside instead of from the outside towards the label.

 

I would listen to a record that plays backwards... once.

 

it's not really backwards it's inside out

 

this thread has my head spinning but I'm not sure if it's going in the right direction

 

Not really the same thing, but "Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief" had two different tracks on Side 2. It all depended on where you dropped the needle at the start. You got two different 15 minute programmes. It drove me crazy until I figured it out.

 

One thing for sure, I have no problem with listening to records upside down. (But then I'm a B-side kind of guy.)

 

We've discussed records that play inside out before...See this thread:

Red Hot Chili Peppers 7" vinyl joke gone too far »

 

This guy wins pedant of the day for sure.