[progo]

Because we all like Mike and his great albums and works, I thought a little classification and voting would be both appropriate and fun.

Many people feel that a song is long if it's over six minutes or so. Mike has done many long tracks that could be classified as long so I divide those to several smaller groups:

• full length: the work covers the entire album, both sides
• half an album: the work covers one side of the record
• quarter: a 10-15-minute work

I checked Mike's discography and these are what I found:


1. Full length works:
Tubular Bells
Hergest Ridge
Ommadawn
Incantations
Amarok

2. Half an album:
Platinum (Platinum)
Taurus II (Five Miles Out)
Crises (Crises)
The Wind Chimes (Islands)
Music from the Balcony (Heaven's Open)

3. Shorter ones
Taurus I (QE2)
Orabidoo (Five Miles Out)
The Lake (Discovery)
Mont St Michel (Voyager)
First Steps (Light + Shade)

The rest shall be the fourth group; the shorties.

Now the vote. One favourite from each group. Please include some thoughts or memories to them. I didn't put up a poll because this is more a discussion type opinion poll.

My favourites:

• Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge is the close second. TB is just so complete and involving.
• Crises -- all the contestants are very cool and stuff, but the lyrics of Crises make it the best.
• Of these, I used to think The Lake the best but I have to admit I've listened to Orabidoo recently so much and it is quite wonderful.
• Very hard to say but Discovery's Poison Arrows is catchy and a good choice.

 

[progo]

I see people didn't catch this so I renamed the title to a more describing one.

 

[mcmurray]

Music of the Spheres is very nice. Can anyone recommend any classical music that is similar?