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    Posted: December 16 2021 at 14:26
I would like to ask which is your favourite side of your entire collection. The internet came along and gave us all the opportunity to drastically expand our musical landscape, but there is always that one record that we are very fond of because it is physically ours and because we have listened to it countless times.

Well, this question doesn't cover an entire album, but one of its two (or more) sides. The one that we could play on loop for centuries and that we don't want it to end. I think that knowing how to compose an album is knowing how to compose two (or more, again) mini-albums that fit together, and even though the sides share a concept, they always seem different to me.

I'll stick with side 1 of Wish You Were Here

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I'm not sure I understand the question. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers is my favourite piece of music, but I do love side 1 of Pawn Hearts as well.
 

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There is no dark side of my collection really. Matter of fact it's all dark.  Wink
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For me, side two of Triumvirat's Illusions On A Double Dimple album, the "Mister Ten Percent" suite, is my favorite of my rock music collection. It is such a great experience, that I prefer to listen to it by myself, with no distractions whatsoever!
           I also have a big collection of classical music, and my favorite side of that would be the first movement of Anton Bruckner's monumental 9th Symphony, the recording conducted by Oswald Kabasta with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Bruckner? Words cannot properly convey that experience, to be honest.
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Funny you chose that one.. : )

I'm giving it to side #2 of Wish You Were Here. I wasn't around for the vinyl era, so I'm voting for this much loved cassette of mine, the first I bought, and a crucial one for becoming a proghead.

 
I love the bass driven disco-ish, sci-fi'ish vibe of the last parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond by the way.


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A long time ago, I decide to stick to the albums I like, and get rid of the ones I don't, so that's where I stand on this matter. No matter how good a band might be, if I don't like the music, I don't have to get it, and if I get the album for some reason, I certainly will not keep it.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hercules Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2021 at 16:34
The longer I live (and I'm an old fart), the more I realise that there's tons of wonderful music I had never heard.
I had always thought that The Snow Goose by Camel would forever be my favourite album. It probably still is. But I've recently discovered so much more great music: La Tulipe Noire's album Shattered Image, Arena's The Visitor. Not just albums I'd never heard, but bands I'd never heard.
So the best bit of my collection may be an album I acquire in the future. You just have to keep an open mind and keep looking.
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When CDs emerged it subverted the way an album was listened to and was recorded.   No longer was it assumed ~ or sometimes even possible ~ that one would experience a collection of tracks (or sides) in the order an artist intended   It's like we're back in 1961 when single cuts ruled.

Favorite side?   Maybe Tarkus side 1, or TfTO would also be good.





Edited by Atavachron - December 16 2021 at 16:47
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The front. 
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Ommadawn side 1
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{Groan)...one side ay?


It's hard enough to pick one album, let alone one side.

My favorite album is "Magical Mystery Tour" mainly for the second side, which is really a collection of singles gathered together to make the original double EP into an album.

So, I'll have another go and say side two of "Meddle", the magnificent "Echoes".

However since that is just a single track I'll have another go and say side three of "Physical Grafitti, although it could use a good resequencing...

...OK, I'll stop now.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2021 at 17:42
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

The front. 
Really? I would have thought the 'Back Side' ! Wink
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But for real...I'll have to go with side two of ELP's Brain Salad Surgery.
Now, if Tarkus from WBMFTTSTNE was complete on one side it would rule, but the split precludes that.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Now, if Tarkus from WBMFTTSTNE was complete on one side it would rule, but the split precludes that.

I agree that the WBMFTTSTNE take of "Tarkus" rocks all over the studio version and I particularly like the inclusion of the exerpt from "Epitaph".

Would the whole thing fit on a single LP side?

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2021 at 18:31
Meddle: Echoes. Not quite sure whether I can compare this properly to all single sides of the very best albums that I like to hear in full, however no way is this not an outstanding  side.
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Originally posted by Hugh Manatee Hugh Manatee wrote:

My favorite album is "Magical Mystery Tour" mainly for the second side, which is really a collection of singles gathered together to make the original double EP into an album.  So, I'll have another go and say side two of "Meddle", the magnificent "Echoes".

However since that is just a single track I'll have another go and say side three of "Physical Grafitti, although it could use a good resequencing...
...OK, I'll stop now.

Even Seaside has some great moments (that rock jam toward the middle?).  Why they decided to sound like the Grateful Dead on that cut I'll never know, but the totality of content on the record is unsurpassed.


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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Even Seaside has some great moments (that rock jam toward the middle?).  Why they decided to sound like the Grateful Dead on that cut I'll never know, but the totality of content on the record is unsurpassed.

"...Seaside" was actually supposed to be a pastiche of Neil Young apparently.

I really like it and in my opinion it would have worked much better as the opening track on that side.


Edited by Hugh Manatee - December 16 2021 at 18:46
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It was bold for them.   That whole double-set is uniquely special.

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