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Sources

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  • "The excellent sleeve of a Saturn V, spacemen floating in a world's eye above Death Valley was as good an indication as any to its contents." - Record Collector

Durations

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I don't recall who came up with the duration estimates for the tracks. It was either someone on the KLF mailing list in the early '90s, or a private contributor to Lazlo Nibble's discography, maybe Lazlo himself. In any case, those durations were copied over to Discogs, and then to this Wikipedia article. No one ever checked them out, I guess, because when I attempted to use them in a hand-generated cue sheet for a rip of my copy of the CD, I found that tracks weren't starting in the right places at all.

I then went to a bit of trouble to craft a cue sheet with better start points for each track, using both trial-and-error and visual examination with a wave editor. If you add them up, the result is 38:20 instead of the 38:22 duration in the disc's table of contents. That's because I used shntool to trim digital silence (zeroes) from both ends of the original audio before doing this, so the durations don't include that non-musical content. When I was done, I found that the original estimates of the durations for 5 of the first 6 tracks were off by amounts ranging from 10 to 23 seconds!

I've gone ahead and adjusted the durations in this article to correspond with my cue sheet, and I added a note that they're still just unofficial approximations. —mjb (talk) 06:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Title

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Shouldn't this be called Space (Space album)? AllMusic note that this is the only release by Space, and "J. Cauty" only gets the obligatory credit in tiny writing on the record label.--kingboyk (talk) 22:45, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

or Space (eponymous album)? --kingboyk (talk) 23:24, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]