Hope you all had a great Christmas, but for me it's time to head back to work, as it were, and fill up the last few days of the year with whatever updates I can. "Bitesize" won't be reopening till January, and there may indeed be something a little --- well,
completely different on the horizon. More about that in due course. For now though, it's full steam ahead here to the end of the year.
There are a few more 2012 albums to be reviewed, (well there are loads, but of the ones I wanted to review specially I still have a few left) but with only now four days left I won't be getting them all done, so watch later for the list of those I intend to post.
Until then, what better way to relax after big Christmas dinners and many Christmas drinks than with a selection of songs you only have to change about once every twenty minutes or so? Yes, it's our final round for this year of
As we all know, if there's a go-to genre for epic songs, it's progressive rock. And so we're heading back in that direction to check out five super-long prog rock compositions, some of which you may know, some of which you may not, but all of which kick in around the twenty minute mark.
Starting off with one from an album we recently reviewed in the Prog Rock Album Club, this is Spock's Beard, with a track that, though broken into sections, runs in total for 23 minutes 10 seconds. From their debut, “The light”, this is “The water”.
Just short of that by eleven seconds, this is the title track to Big Big Train's album, “The underfall yard”. Watch for a feature on this band soon.
The great epic “Milliontown”, from Frost*, coming in with a running time of 26 minutes 37 seconds!
Classic AND epic, this is Yes, from the seminal “Close to the edge” album, with the title track from same, running a very respectable 18 minutes 43 seconds.
And with a tenuous link to Yes, this is Mystery, a band from Canada whose vocalist, Benoit David, went on to replace Jon Anderson. This is from their album “One among the living”, and it's called “Through different eyes”, coming in at 22 minutes and 35 seconds.