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>>Passion Play (Jethro Tull) -- Another album that's only ONE song. Sheesh,
>>that Ian Anderson guy loves his long songs... I had to buy two
>>versions of the CD since the first one had a break in the middle
>>where the original album had to be turned over. My new CD just
>>has one 42 minute track. Cool!
>
>Actualy the album has 3 tracks: "Passion Play" (about 15-20 min.), "The
>Story Of The Hare Who Has Lost His Spectacles" (the funny fairy tale) and
>"End", which is the conclusion of "Passion Play". You're probably refering
>to Thick As A Brick, which indeed was splitted on the vynil version.
>
Well, there may be other versions of the CD out there, but my
version of the Passion Play CD has only a single 42 minute track. The
original release of the CD had two tracks which preserved the artificial
break that the album had in the middle of the Hare story.
You're right of course about the "song" really being split into
two halves by the "intermission" (ie. the Story of the Hare...). The
whole album was presented as a kind of play, with the booklet looking
like a playbill, listing the members of the band as actors and so on.
It's all tongue-in-cheek.
My version of Thick as a Brick still preserves the artificial
break in the middle where the first album side ended. I'd like to find
a version where there wasn't a gap at that point. Having the whole
thing as a single track is a bit of a pain though, if you ever want to
find a particular section. I guess it would be nice to have separate
tracks which ran together without a gap so the two sides flowed more
smoothly.
Steve
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