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Originally Posted by tore
I feel this way about ELP's Tarkus. Side A with the title track, brilliant stuff! Side B .. not so much. At best, side B is good but not very much so. At worst it is atrocious.
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Forgive me for quoting myself, from the ELP thread in the Prog section
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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
Speaking of Tarkus, I consider that a one side-one track album. Side two was totally tacked on to avoid putting out an album with a blank side two and/or breaking the title track in half. There's no earthly reason to turn that record over, and once I arrived at that conclusion after the first play (of side two) I never did again. I consider all the songs after the title track to be completely irrelevant to the album to such a degree that reading through this thread just now was the first time I'd even thought of them for decades.
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