Single prog LP with side-long first track...... - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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

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

zoviet wrote:

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

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.

right, tks!!! will check em out

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

"Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen)

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.

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).

Tales from Topographic Oceans?

That's all side-length tracks. LOL

Lizard-King Crimson

Hemispheres-Rush

MY IDOLS

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.

Edited by Zombywoof - October 18 2011 at 07:24

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