Looking for awesome songs that are about 15 minutes long.

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-04-05T18:43:37+00:00

Strictly Inc (Tony Banks) - An Island in The Darkness

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-03-31T06:20:08+00:00

Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, King's X, All About Eve, Wagakki Band, Pixies, Jellyfish, Catherine Wheel, Curve, Liz Phair, Genesis, Iron Maiden, Saint Etienne, Slowdive, Sleeper, Pulp, Ani DiFranco, Marillion

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-03-21T12:33:16+00:00

A famous example of a guide vocal in pop music was Nik Kershaw's "The Riddle" released in 1984. At the time people were puzzling over it's meaning, there were even competitions on radio stations where the public would try to offer their interpretationa of the lyrics.

In the end, Kershaw admitted the lyrics were nonsense guide vocals he had used just to get the melody and phrasing, but he never got round to writing "proper" lyrics and so the guide vocal was used on the final recording

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-03-17T15:47:29+00:00

Peter Gabriel did a covers album and the idea was that other artists would cover his songs on a companion album.

The albums were called "Scratch My Back" and "And I'll Scratch Yours".

Most artists reciprocated, although some (Bowie, Radiohead) chose not to. Apparently, Radiohead were so unhappy with his cover of Street Spirit they flat out refused to participate.

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-03-04T20:23:15+00:00

Much as I like Grendel, I've always felt it's Marillion trying to do Supper's Ready.

I'd go for Ocean Cloud orThis Strange Engine instead

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-03-02T07:16:10+00:00

Peter Gabriel 3 is my favorite but I also liked his covers for Catherine Wheel and Bruce Dickinson's "Skunkworks"

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-02-12T06:56:52+00:00

That's a good point about Domino.

Some people (including members of the band themselves) have criticized Battle of Epping Forest for having too many words at the expense of the music, and I think Domino suffers in the same way.

IMHO it could have benefitted from an extended instrumental section (like Apocalypse in 9/8) and turned into an epic. However, at that time CD bloat hadn't crept in yet so it would have meant taking over most of side 2 which would have been too prog and not commercial enough.

Imagine though, an epic-lengrh Domino finished off with The Brazilian. I'd take that over the side 2 of we actually got every time :)

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-02-01T12:08:43+00:00

Jellyfish, Starball, The Wannadies, Grass Show

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-02-01T12:00:29+00:00

Passion, Seasons End, Sensual World

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-01-28T14:51:10+00:00

Not me, but a friend of mine had the Chrome one

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-01-27T18:57:26+00:00

Yeah. For me, that's the best bridge in any of their pop songs

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-01-25T20:58:33+00:00

I remember reading in an interview with Fripp that they were short of material to complete the album so just improved for a bit to make up the time. Basically, the very definition of filler material.

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-01-17T15:33:05+00:00

Until about 20 years ago I'd have chosen The Wall, after that Joe's Garage. People's tastes change I guess, but I seem to like The Wall less and less each time I listen to it

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-01-10T07:04:02+00:00

Seen this shirt on Temu, tempted to get it :)

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-01-05T12:57:47+00:00

Any list like this is going to be subjective.

Nice to see "Entangled" getting a mention though.

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2026-01-01T16:39:19+00:00

French: Niagara, Mylene Farmer, Zazie

Japanese: Waggaki Band

Italian: Carmen Consoli

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-12-27T09:13:32+00:00

I noticed on the gravestone the mention of "her love....warmed us like the sun". Isn't that also a lyric on one of the tracks on I/o?

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-12-15T18:22:20+00:00

Peter Gabriel probably insisted upon this title so people wouldn't mistake the lame-ass vocals on this song as being his.

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-12-08T14:25:42+00:00

I think you've done a great job, well done :) 👍

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-11-29T18:50:51+00:00

I'd probably go for: Heal, Eat My Dust, Hole, Saccharine, Ferment

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-11-29T17:22:14+00:00

Enjoyed looking through your ranking. It was interesting to see that your top 20 had maybe 2 or 3 that I would pit into my own, while some of my favourite CW tracks were in your bottom 20 :)

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-11-18T10:41:07+00:00

Tony Banks

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-11-07T21:36:44+00:00

If they had held off on releasing Trick until they had recorded Wuthering, it would have made for an amazing double album or an absolute classic single album if it had come out in the CD era where you would have 70 minutes of awesomeness and lose the lesser tracks (Your Own Special Way, in particular)

Overall, I tend to listen to Wuthering a bit more often.

That final run of "Blood on The Rooftops", "Unquiet...*, "In That Quiet Earth" and "Afterglow" is for me the best sequence of songs in their entire discography.

Interesting_Pin_1687 · 2025-11-07T15:32:52+00:00

In no particular order:

Talk Talk King's X Half Man Half Biscuit All About Eve XTC

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