Best movement of Tarkus

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   I recently bought ELP's Tarkus, without really looking into it first.  I didn't look at the back of the case, I just popped it in my discman and was amazed.  I was on a bus with my school band at the time, and after the first song was over, we were getting close to our destination, so I put my discman away and looked at the case.  I then discovered that the sing I had just listened to was twenty-one minutes long.  I'm no stranger to the epics, being a huge fan of Yes and Genesis, as well as ELP, though at the time I had only heard Brain Salad Surgery and Pictures, both of which I loved.  The length of the song surprised me though, because it had seemed to pass in about five minutes.  The epics usually seem a little more prolonged to me, because they are saying more than the nonsensical Tarkus suite, but I like this quality.  I realized that the energy of the song is consistant throughout, and that the arythmic or atonal bits which I usually love so much are absent in this composition.  This however, helps to sustain the listener through each individual minute, daring you to become bored.  Therefore, it is very difficult to choose a favorite moment.  I think, though, that my vote would go to Mass for Emerson's "speaking organ" solo.  What are your thoughts?

Poll Question: Eruption
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Stones of Years	8	[34.78%]
Iconoclast	1	[4.35%]
Mass	3	[13.04%]
Manticore	3	[13.04%]
Battlefield	6	[26.09%]
Aquatarkus	2	[8.70%]
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