Best (vinyl) side-long album tracks

Ricochet Part1

 

Supper's Ready isn't long enough

 

Pete Sinfield came up with the title Karn Evil 9 which was actually derived from the word carnival.

 

Now you are asking for it! (almost in the order I got them and listened to them)

 

- Yes - Close To The Edge

- Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

- Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

- Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Da Vida

- Chicago  - Beginnings (not sure that was the title of it)

- Klaus Schulze ... not even gonna try to list it!

- Cosmic Couriers - Cosmic Joy/Cosmic Joke

- Ash Ra Tempel - 1st

- Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn

- Ash Ra Tempel - New Age of Earth - Side 2

- Can - Tago Mago (Augmn and the other long piece)

- Tangerine Dream - Too many to list

- Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans (4 sides of it too!)

- Pink Floyd - Echoes

- Mike Oldfield - too many to list

- Grobbschnitt - Solar Music Suite

- Magma - Too many to list

- Amon Duul 2 - Yeti

- Amon Duul 2 - Dance of the Lemmings (Side 3 had the MM Memorial Sdtk improv)

- Amon Duul 2 - Phallus Dei

- Can - Future Days - Bel Air

- Soft Machine - Didn't T"Third" have 4 full sides? and some of the other albums also?

- Popol Vuh - Several albums, specially the early ones

- Fripp and Eno - No Pussyfooting

- Golden Earring - Eight Miles High (1st album)

- Focus - Moving Waves - Eruption

- Focus 3 - Several cuts (double LP at the time)

- Genesis - Supper's Ready 

- Ange - Caricatures

- Ange - Ego et Deus

- Nektar - Journey to the Center of the Eye

- Nektar - Remember the Future

- Nektar A Tab in the Ocean

- Alan Stivell - Symphonie Celtique (4 sides too!)

- Aphrodite's Child - 666 - Last Side of the 2nd lp

- Le Orme - Felona e Serona

- Capability Brown - Voice - Circumstances Past Present and Future

- Byzantium - 2nd album - Side 2

- Roy Harper - Not sure if it is Stormcock or which album that has a whole side. White covered album I think.

- Darryl Way/Francis Monkman - Symphony for Violin

- Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (2 LP's - 4 full sides too!)(And I'm told this is now on DVD!!!!! -- guess what I gotta get!)

 

If you take Yes, Genesis, Iron Butterfly, Jethro Tull and Golden Earring off this list, you have an average line up for Space Pirate Radio ... so you can see how extensive and non compromising it was when it came to the commercial extent of the work. This is something that is not appreciated today and worked with in all the progressive music shows out there. Unlike most shows, this one played long cuts and went crazy with them all and then some. The others would normally get played on the more "regular" shows that Guy did on Friday and Saturday nights, for example.

 

Mind you I had these and still have some of these LP's. Will update as I remember more things in here.

 

(Added later)

Todd Rundgren - Wizard Side of the album (can't play that in pieces ... the segways stink if you try to break it up!)

Todd Rundgren - The Icon

-Ommadawn (both parts but part 1 especially)

-Tubular Bells part 2

-Hergest Ridge (both parts but especially part 2)

-Taurus II

-Incantations part 4

-Incantations part 1

King Crimson:

-Lizard

Pink Floyd:

-Echoes

-Atom Heart Mother

Genesis:

-Supper's Ready

Yes:

-Close to the edge

-Gates of delirium

-Revealing Science of god

Harmonium:

-Histoires sans paroles

Renaissance:

-Song of Scheherazade

Jethro Tull:

-Thick As a Brick, part 1

-A Passion Play, part 1

Dream Theater:

-A Change of Seasons