Genesis-Supper's Ready
Yes-Siberian Khatru
Genesis-Supper's Ready
Yes-Siberian Khatru
Only two?
You need to up your game.
1. Yes - To Be Over (Relayer)
2. Gong - Fohat Digs Holes in Space (Camembert Electric)
3. Faust - Picnic on a Frozen River (Faust IV)
4. VDGG - Sleepwalkers (Godbluff)
5. Gentle Giant - Funny Ways (Live: Playing the Fool)
6. ELP - Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression (Brain Salad Surgery)
Why do you need only 2? Isn't 6 better?
Hoelderlin - Death-watch-beetle
Hatfield and the North: Shaving Is Boring
King Crimson: Starless
National Health: Binoculars
VdGG: The Sleepwalkers
Yes: Awaken
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
King Crimson- The Court Of The Crimson King
Kansas- Dust In The Wind
Jethro Tull- Bungle In The Jungle
Rush- Mission
Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Camel - One of These Days I'll Get an Early Night
Marillion - Incubus
The first 10 favorites I thought of:
Starless - KC
Dance of the Maya - Mahavishnu
Gumbo Variations - Zappa
Siberian Khatru - Yes
Blood on the Rooftops - Genesis
The Court of the Crimson King - KC
Baker Street Muse - Jethro Tull
The Love in Your Eye / To Catch Me a Brother / Subsultus / Debouchement / Tilbury Kecks - Caravan
Soup - Can
Fohat Digs Holes in Space - Gong
To Be Over
Awaken
Siberian Khatru
Ripples
Supper's Ready
Fracture
Starless
Wish You Were Here
Sheep
Hymn 43
Mister Class And Quality?
Apercu
The Prog Corner
No one's mentioned the track 2, side 2 test yet, so it might be just a European thing.
I first came across it in the 90s, but apparently it's been in use since at least the 70s, according to some of the old heads I know. Quite simply if you liked track 2, side 2, and you thought it was good, then it was safe to buy the album.
Reasoning? Well, lots of people used to test a record to see if it was good or if they liked it using one of the following listening methods:
A) all of side 1
B) track 1 on both sides
C) first & last track on both sides.
AND record companies knew this.
Which was why at some point the old heads started judging albums by track 2, side 2.
At some point however, probably 70s, record companies must have got wise because there is an over representation of great quality in track 2, side 2, especially on prog and hard rock albums.
And some Genesis albums provide a fantastic track 2, side 2
Supper's Ready
Ripples
Blood on the Rooftops
Domino
But with PF it isn't until DSOTM that they turned in a great track 2, side 2, with Us and Them. Their greatest album? Coincidence?
And then they did it again on WYWH, with WYWH.
And guess what they did it again on Animals, with Sheep.
YMMV, but whenever I listen to vinyl (old and new) in secondhand music shops I always ask for track 2, side 2.
UH - Salisbury
Yes - LDR
Yes - Siberian Khatru
Yes - Awaken
The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
Tegoba ("Rigor") by Smak
The Flower Kings - IKEA By Night
Hatfield & The North - Mumps
Genesis - Supper's Ready, After The Ordeal, Dusk, Ripples, Blood On The Rooftops (they often had a strong 2nd song on side 2)
Gentle Giant - No God's A Man, His Last Voyage, Empty City (love those verses, bummer about the chorus), Memories of Old Days
Yes - To Be Over, Siberian Khatru, Awaken
Camel - Airborn
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