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Other record companies are watching the experiment, but some are skeptical. Says Dennis Fine, vice president of Arista Records: "I collected 45s, and I would hate to see flip sides disappear." To aficionados like Fine, a one-sided single would be as disconcerting as an economy version of Cracker Jack with no prize inside...
...Reed: Rock and Roll Diary, 1967-1980 (Arista, 2 LPs). The full span and impact of a seminal career. Not quite a diary; more like rock notes from underground...
Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Arista). The Pythons tear through assorted comedy sketches and raise their voices in songs of innocence and experience. Titles include Never Be Rude to an Arab, All Things Dull and Ugly, Farewell to John Denver and Sit on My Face. Ideal for Christmas caroling or breaking the lease...
...Reed: Growing Up in Public (Arista). Wherever Lydon and all other assorted punks, new wavers and no wavers may have come from, no matter where they are all headed, Lou Reed has already been there. Public Image owes a debt to the saber-toothed experiments of Reed's late '60s band, the Velvet Underground, and Reed still remains several furlongs ahead of anyone in laying down jagged fragments of autobiography that cut like pieces of a shattered mirror. Growing Up in Public is a collection of primal assaults and tentative love songs that all together are like...
...couple of years ago, though, the Kinks signed with Arista and decided to regain some popularity and sales. The double-album rock operas stopped flowing from Ray Davies' pen, and instead out popped instant, catchy, and only slightly pre-digested album sides of five marketable songs...