Originally EPs were usually 3 or 4 track 7"s.

When 12" singles came along, they were just called 12" singles, and were designed so that extra tracks or extended versions of tracks could be fitted on, so were almost always what you could call "EPs".

I think of an EP as a 7" single with more than 2 tracks on. A 12" single is a 12" single (that's just my own definition).

A mini album is whatever you think is too short to be an LP.

All the early Pavement EPs you can find on Westing..., like Demolition Plot, Perfect Sound Forever...

the only huggy bear ep I've never heard :(

I can't make up my mind about Polvo. My older sister has Exploded Drawing and she lent it to me (fuck I need to get it back.) If I listen to one or two songs I'm like "this is cool" but listening to the whole album I'm like "meh"

Anything Polvo after Ash got married went downhill, and that one was the worst. I was a huge fan before that.

revive an old thread.

No order and some need more listening:

External Male EP - Miss The Occupier (local Scottish band that I found on a podcast)
Jar of Flies - Alice In Chains
Irony Is A Dead Scene - Dillinger Escape Plan with Patton
Swallows and Sparrows - Fluttr Effect Trio (Local boston band)
Misery Loves Company EP - The Lovemakers
Scene - Rhian Mostyn (I know the session guitarist, online at least)
As Ugly As They Wanna Be - Ugly Kid Joe

I don't think I really have many EP's, I only buy albums.
Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
The Verlaines - 10 O'clock In The Afternoon
The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle
Mayhem - Deathcrush
The Saints - 1,2,3,4!
The Gordons - Future Shock

i would never have thought i would see ugly kid joe being mentioned on here in a serious manner.

I like them for some reason. Might be part of a long grunge/90s alternative/cheese phase i went through for awhile

black flag-nervous breakdown
sonic youth-silver session
sonic youth-tv shit
slayer-hauting the chapel
big black-bulldozer

My Bloody Valentine's Feed Me With Your Kiss and You Made Me Realise but most of all: Sunny Sundae Smile. Four perfect songs!

Joy Division - An ideal for living
Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-é (orginal E.P.)
The Notwist - Lichter E.P.
Radiohead - My iron lung
Radiohead - Paranoid android (the one with Polyethelene and Pearly)

this is too hard.

I almost always prefer EP's to full lengths. Not because I have a short attention span but because I think EP's are usually filled with hits and full lengths usually have filler...

Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown

i think in the 80s that mightve been true, like eps back then could stand as an album on their own and were sometimes equally important as the full lengths (i.e. the big black eps, black flag eps, dischord eps and 7 inches, etc..). now it seems as if eps and 7 inches and such are more looked as either previews or follow ups to the full length (i.e. the deerhunter 'flourescent grey' ep is a perfect example, its more or less the fourth side of 'crytopgrams', when you listen to it after 'cryptograms' it flows into it perfectly).

i actually agree with the nin broken ep. i am by no means a big nin fan but this record was really fucking good. this and the fragile are the only records i still give occasional listens to.

I regret putting Grandaddy's 'Signal to Snow Ratio' EP on my list, fuck that shit.

That being said... 'Watery, Domestic' still holds up, and 'Loser Anthem's' by Matthew Good is a great unknown one to those south of the border... despite the horrendous title... it sounds like bends-era radiohead but a faithful enough recreation with great material that it holds up.

i never thought i'd see ugly kid joe mentioned in this board, and that i wasn't the one who mentioned them.

some of their songs man...i listen to them every once in a while.

I'll have to think about numbers 2-5, but number one is "Glidin' Off" by The Birdmen Of Alkatraz.

Glad I could break the ice