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Re: Time between albums (Re: Any new albums?)

From: delius@ldd.net (del)
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 96 04:42:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Time between albums (Re: Any new albums?)
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In article <199601041952.OAA10504@csa.bu.edu>,
   "Mark A. Semich" <mas@cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>Bryan Dongray writes:
>
>> This assumed that she has levelled off in how long albums take:
>
>This is a *mighty big* assumption.
>
>> 	ALBUM DATE
>> 	|	DURATION BETWEEN (in months)
>> 	|	|
>> 	V	V
>>
>> 	02/78
>> 	         9
>> 	11/78
>> 	        22
>> 	09/80
>> 	        24
>> 	09/82
>> 	        36
>> 	09/85
>> 	        49
>> 	10/89
>> 	        49
>> 	11/93
>
>The time between Her fourth and fifth albums (36 months) is *twice* the  
>time between the first and second albums (9 months).  Similarly, the time  
>between Her latest two albums (49 months) is more than twice the time  
>between Her second and third (22 months) and Her third and fourth (24  
>months).
>
>So not using any mathematical formula at all, but by sheer guessitude, I  
>would estimate that the time between TRS and the next album should  
>follow the same rate of increase, to be somewhere between 64 and 78  
>months.  This would be somewhere between 3/99 to 5/01.  In other words,  
>don't hold your breath :-)

i heard a rumour recently that whe was working on another project...could be 
only a rumour.  if it will be '99 or '01, then i think we have probably seen 
the last of kate albums.