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[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude, I was there. I lived it. Step off.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Bruh I'm looking over at my shelf of CD's from the time.

But let's look at the best selling albums that came out in 1999, the year referenced in the meme.

  1. Backstreet Boys - Millennium - 12 tracks
  2. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time - 11 tracks (or more, depending on the version)
  3. Santana - Supernatural - 13 tracks
  4. Celine Dion - All the Way... A Decade of Song - 16 tracks (kind of weird as it's a compilation)
  5. Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin - 14 Tracks
  6. Blink-182 - Enema of the State - 12 tracks
  7. RHCP - Calofornication - 15 tracks
  8. Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera - 12 tracks (I think? I'm only finding re-releases that include more bonus tracks now)
  9. Creed - Human Clay - 11 tracks
  10. Dido - No Angel - 12 tracks

Maybe back in the day you mistakenly bought singles instead of albums?

[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Hey that was the soundtrack to high school. I downloaded half of them on dialup, via Napster/Gnutella/whatever.

#7 is one of the only ones you'll hear to this day.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jar_of_Flies I rest my case you condescending asshat.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As an EP that wouldn't have been $20 lol.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As if you would even know.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You're just mad you got ripped off 25 years ago lol

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mostly THAT was EPs. Some of the best albums are EPs, but they're short.

Rose for the Dead EP, was my favorite one. 6 songs.

NIN Broken was 8 songs.

A lot of punk albums have plenty of songs, but they're so short some of them have terrible play times. OpIvy Energy (the first bootleg I ever had) is only about 35 minutes long and the whole thing mostly fit on one side of a (small) cassette tape.

I could probably find more, but that's just off the top of my head.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that kind of the point of EP's though? They're ~half the length and should be cheaper to compensate for that.

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

"should be"

Of the above, I only remember Rose for The Dead... costing easily as much as an LP.