Single prog LP with side-long first track......
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Topic: Single prog LP with side-long first track......
Posted By: zoviet
Subject: Single prog LP with side-long first track......
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 06:38
oh the joy of endless permutations.......i seriously love single albums in which the FIRST track takes up a whole side and the rest of the tracks are shorter pieces. It's like a major statement of intent which really sets the tone n' vibe of the album. Any other recomms based on the following examples/personal favs below? Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Yes - Relayer Kraftwerk - Autobahn Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Wichita Falls, So Falls Wichita Falls |
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 07:33
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Manuel Gotching: Inventions for electric Guitar is the first to come to mind but for sure, ther's a few ones
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Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 07:58
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gehehehe
nerdo here sez its Pluralis on side b that takes up the whole side. well, we can also have a list where the sidelong track is the LAST one hahah also one more i just recalled: Tangerine Dream - Atem 
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 08:13
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zoviet wrote:Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 11:13
Did you forget Close to the Edge? Also: Rush - 2112 Rush - Hemispheres Univers Zero - Heresie Maybe: IQ - Tales from the Lush Attic I'm guessing the 20 minute "The Last Human Gateway" might have been followed by the 2:35 "Through The Corridors" on the original side 1, but I don't know for sure. A couple more recent ones with long first tracks, though not necessarily "side long" since I don't know how they appear on vinyl... Sky Architect - Excavations of the Mind ("Deep Chasm" [19:08]) Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Deaden the Fields ("Landmarks" [17:40]) Interesting that most side-longs seem to be reserved for side-two. Frank ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 13:07
Without any doubt, most of schulze albums  just try......
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Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 14:14
| right, tks!!! will check em out |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 16:19
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Triumvirat-Mediterranean Tales Eloy-Inside |
Posted By: tupan
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 12:21
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Majestic - Labyrinth: the first and eponymous song is 31 minutes long! And it's free for download: http://www.majesticsongs.com/blog/?page_id=730" rel="nofollow - http://www.majesticsongs.com/blog/?page_id=730 ------------- "Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen) |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 14:33
Looks like its down to me to mention Tarkus then
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 16:15
| I might be wrong-haven't had the disk in years only the cd-but I think Nektar's A Tab in the Ocean does. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 17:05
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 18:44
| I would say Atom Heart Mother and Meddle too... though the last one has the side long track as the last track, not the first, but in the end I feel it has a similar statement of intent as the albums with the side long track as the first one. Wish you were here may come close to this description... well, at least the intent was to have a side long song as the first song (shine on), but it ended being just a bit too long to fit on one side, and so they split it up and put half of it in the begining and half on the end. Another close one may even be Animals, for Dogs is almost the whole first half (with a very short song as sort of an intro). |
Posted By: A Smart Kid
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 20:32
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Lizard and Pawn Hearts. Last tracks are one side, but like Dellinger said it is pretty much the same thing.
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 20:41
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Tales from Topographic Oceans? That's all side-length tracks. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 06:44
Thanks for the confirmation. Have loved this album from first time I heard it.
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Posted By: criticdrummer94
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 06:58
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Lizard-King Crimson Hemispheres-Rush -------------  
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Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 07:11
However, its a double album! Does "Thick as a Brick" count? ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 07:15
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Also, don't forget "Waka/Jawaka" "Just Another Band From LA", and "Studio Tan" by Frank Zappa.
I don't know if "Apostrophe (')" counts, but I've always thought of the "Yellow Snow Suite" to be a sidelong epic. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 16:17
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Mike Oldfield has made a couple of good albums that fit this formula
Platinum
Crises
And also Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 19 2011 at 15:50
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Unless someone else has mentioned it:
PULSAR - The Strands OF The Future http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1126 Even though I've got it here right now on my I-pod, I can't recall if that first side long track is all instrumental? I'm going to give it a listen again right now!
I do remember it doesn't have the greatest recording quality/production, but it still has a very dark spacey sound. It's a Mellotron loaded beast too :) also TRIUMVARIT - Illusions On A Double Dimple http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1684 Two side long pieces, bit of a favourite of mine, even if it is dismissed a little as an ELP clone. |
Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: October 20 2011 at 04:27
| woohoo!! more stuff to check out and empty the wallet for hahaha |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: October 20 2011 at 06:10
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Rush - 2112 ELP - Tarkus Kraftwerk - Autobahn were obvious but already mentioned so hard to think now of any off hand. i think Focus had one as did Magma. ------------- 
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 20 2011 at 15:22
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Hey AtomicCrimsonRush!
Ah, a fellow Australia! No chance you're in Melbourne?! Oh, I LOVE Rush's `2112'!! I play it at work quite a lot, one of my co-workers said `Man, that chick has a really annoying voice!' lol!
As for Magma, cound be `Kohntarkosz' (or however you spell it), though I know some CD's list the two-part title track first, while if I remember my vinyl has it split over the start of side one, and the end of side two? So not sure if that counts?! :) Focus, if I remember, had both `Moving Waves' and `Hamburger Concerto' that had side long pieces, but pretty sure they were on the second side? 
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: October 21 2011 at 05:10
Focus 3 has the 19 minute Anonymous II (Part One) starting the third side. If you look at it as 2 separate discs I guess it can be included. Oh, and welcome to the site from a fellow Melbournian! ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: fuyuakiworld
Date Posted: December 11 2011 at 10:07
| Yes, but I really wish they all weren't if they had condenced all of the tracks into 10 minutes (aprox) each, then it would be a good album, because, like rick wakeman said, all of the sections were bled to death. |