OFF: The 20-minuters

[Jon Jarrett]

On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Andrew A. Apold wrote:

> >        Any band who can string a song out for twenty minutes (esp.
> >Brainstorm!) will get a sympathetic hearing from me!
>
> Such open-ended statements.  I suppose you'll get out your
> sympathetic hearings for:
>
> Pink Floyd - "Echoes", 23.31  minutes
> Arlo Guthrie - "Alice's Resteraunt", about 20 minutes,
> M. Python  - "I like traffic lights", about 15 minutes before I shot the thing
>
>
> //// (actually, "Echoes" is my favorite Floyd song, so maybe you have
        something there... they also had "Dogs" and "Atom Heart Mother", both
at about 17 m)

        Alice's Restaurant is brilliant! Not quite in the same way as
Echoes, but still. `I like traffic lights', on the other hand: well, best
not to talk about it really. Even Python had bad patches... just like my
music taste, some might say, but I remain adamant: it's not much on
music, but everyone ought to hear `Alice's Restaurant' at least once.
This has been a proclamation by Jazza...

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