I’m reminded of the episode of The Simpsons, where Bart switches the traditional hymn to “In the Garden of Eden” by I. Ron Butterfly. The organist eventually collapses, people are holding up lighters, and Homer says, “Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?”
Good times.
Oooooh, good point. 
My Sharona had a longer, cooler guitar solo on the album than on the single.
I only recently discovered that the Guess Who’s American Woman starts off with a bluesy acoustic bit, though that’t not entirely instrumental.
Heh. One of my friends had the perfect line-up for getting the most airtime out of the dollar you’d put in to the CD-jukebox at the bar. Four songs would get you over an hour of music (jamming it up for others who put their dollar in afterwards) if you played your cards right.
Jungleland has some nice instrumental parts; it’s not played so often because it’s long but I think when they do play it they play the whole thing.
But a great one just came on my iTunes… Elton John’s “Tonight”, especially the Australian concert version.
And of course “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”, although the radio stations never seem to cut that one, and rightfully so.
I wanted to say this one!
I think the short version is on several “Greatest Hits”-type collections. But I don’t think it’s just the instrumental parts they cut out, I think a few of my favourite verses are missing too. Does it have “So! Come on ye childhood heroes!..” or “In the clear white circles of morning wonder…”?
I wonder if there was ever a radio version of A Passion Play where they edited out the story of the hare who lost his spectacles. That would be a shame. Heh.
Anyway, probably better suited for a Jethro Tull message board.
One thing that’s great about CD’s is not having to flip the sides for albums like this.
Dire Straits “Money For Nothing”
A good one just came up on my iPod: “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” by Chicago. I’d never heard the piano intro until I got this MP3!
MrSquishy, IIRC an edit of A Passion Play was released as a single and peaked at #80 I think. I can’t recall which portion of the “song” was used, perhaps someone else knows?
Here we go: http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Jethro_Tull/A_Passion_Play_Edit_No._8_Lyrics/21085.htm
Now that I’ve see that, I seem to recall having this edit on some compilation or other. I think it just had kind of an ugly fade-in, fade-out around it.
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Wee Bairn, are you a fan of The Broons? Just curious if that’s where you got your username.
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There were actually two singles from A Passion Play released in the USA: “Edit 8” was the “Colours I’ve none…” section, with “Edit 9” on the B-side (“Flee the icy Lucifer”). After this, Chrysalis issued “Edit 10,” the last section of the LP, backed with “Edit 6,” better known as “The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.” There was also an LP released to radio stations with the entire album divided up into the ten “edits.”
Thick as a Brick was also issued to radio stations in a banded version, but it was not even the entire album–side two was significantly shortened.
Someone was talking about songs edited for albums.
“So Far Away”, “Money For Nothing”, “Your Latest Trick”, and “Why Worry” were all edited for the LP version of “Brothers in Arms” (Or you could say they had extended versions on the CD)
Talking Heads’ **Stop Making Sense ** has several cuts that are just slightly extended on the CD compared to the LP; just a few more bars of instrumental, or one extra refrain. It’s as if they had to make cuts to squeeze all the songs onto the LP, but they were able to put things back when it came out on CD.
(I’d been listening to the LP for years before getting the CD version…which caused some definite WTF? moments.)
Nope. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the live version. The one I have is identical to the single at the beginning and end, with the additional instrumental part in the middle. It has the violin solo, and a lot more.
I’m going to move my rare stuff from cassette to mp3 soon - when I do I’ll time it.
I have a lot of stuff from rare tape nights that have since come out on box sets, and just as much that I’ve never seen anyplace else. They would never be able to get away with it these days.
The Modest Mouse cover album I mentioned earlier is called “Tiny Cities” and it’s by Sun Kil Moon [sic].
And those who love long instrumental sections would probably dig King Crimson’s (some argue, progressive rock’s) first album “In the Court of the Crimson King”. I believe it’s almost 45 minutes long with five tracks. The instrumental play is amazing, too!