Re: Selling England

[donley@milton.u.washington.edu (Erik D. Olson)]

In article <9005012139.AA08492@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes:
>Really-From: Michael Mendelson <mendel@cs.uiuc.edu>
>
>This is indirectly related to Kate (although the connection should
>be obvious).  On the Genesis album SEbtP, a friend of mine has
>pointed out that the original sequence (LP), 1245/763 differs from
>the CD sequence 1234567.  Two questions and a conjecture:

I can see some of the logic behind this...
"3" = Firth of Fifth, a 9 minute progressive-type song
"7" = Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty, 12 minute progressive-type song
"6" = After the Ordeal, a rather mellow 4 minute song that breaks up
      the space between two of the long songs.

If your conjecture is right, namely that it equalizes the time on
both sides, then the reversing of 6 and 7 makes sense as well.  HOWEVER
cut 7 is DEFINITELY the last cut on the album because it has a reprise of
cut 1, so it seems weird why they'd put Firth of Fifth AFTER the big finale.

  Erik

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