I don’t know where it originated, but the radio stations in my region growing up (Balto-'70s/'80s) had an edited version which combined both.
The Moody Blues’ To Our Children’s Children’s Children (1969) probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when talking classic albums, but it was platinum in Canada, gold in the US, and got up to #2 in England, so it did pretty well.
I haven’t listened to music very much since the 90’s, so my opinion on music since then is uninformed, but I’ve always thought TOCCC was right up there with Dark Side of the Moon the best concept album ever. All the songs are good, and together they make a coherent story.
But I also think that at least two of them, Gypsy and Floating, could easily have been released as singles. I like Out and In even better in the context of the album, but it’s not as stand-alone as the other two.
The resemblance is plain to hear.* Which reminds me.
They accused Johannes Brahms that the theme of the final movement of his first symphony sounded just like Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Brahms’s retort was: “Any ass can hear that!”
*Dylan and Beatles had already been dueling songs for years. Speaking of Blonde on Blonde: “Fourth Time Around” was a sort of parody of “Norwegian Wood.”
Not a sort of, but a plain for all to see parody which was even funnier than the original. The role of a piece of gum alone is worth the price of admission.
Thanks for the wonderful Brahms quote, Johanna.
Here’s John Lennon in 1968, on Dylan’s “4th Time Around”:
“I didn’t like it. I was very paranoid. I just didn’t like what I felt I was feeling. I thought it was an out-and-out skit, but it wasn’t. It was great. I mean, he wasn’t playing any tricks on me.”
(from Steve Turner’s new book Beatles ‘66.)
Not that new — published in 2016.
How about “The Card Cheat” on “London Calling”?
If you’ve ever wondered what late 70’s punk would sound like if produced by Phil Spector, wonder no longer and enjoy.
Not sure how old or classic to get. Strolling through the collection on my computer…
“Homeless” - Paul Simon’s Graceland
“Sad Song” - Joe Jacksoon’s Night and Day
“Cowboys and Indians” - Blood Sweat & Tears 4
“Dry County” - The B-52s Cosmic Thing
“Venus as a Boy” - Björk Debut
“Mountain o’ Things” - Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman
“In the Stone” - Earth Wind & Fire I Am
“Dreaming of 4000” - Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day
“The Late September Dogs” - Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge
“Summertime Rolls” - Jane’s Addiction Nothing’s Shocking
“Today” - Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
“You’re My Home” - Billy Joel Piano Man
“The Rain Song” - Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
“Silence and I” - The Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky
“Rolling Home” - Peter Paul & Mary Album 1700
“Was It All Worth It” - Queen The Miracle (<- I believe this was the first time we really saw Mercury facing his mortality in a song.)
“Witch Hunt (part III of Fear)” - Rush Moving Pictures
“Charlie Freak” - Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
“Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” - U2 Achtung Baby
“Our Song” - Yes 90125
Oh, I thought of another. I Remember You from Revenge by the Eurhythmics. You always hear Missionary Man, but the entire rest of the album is pretty solid. When she sings the title phrase of that one song, it gives me a good chill.
Alice Cooper - Blue Turk from School’s Out. An eclectic lounge-jazz curve ball that would be a wonderful music piece from anyone’s catalog.
I love that song too.
Also from that same side of the vinyl album, and with no airplay to speak of, “We Have Heaven”. I tend to think of them as a unified track though, since Heaven flows right into South Side.
Oh, and another from Tull’s Aqualung – Wind Up
Genesis with Peter Gabriel and/or Steve Hackett is one of my top 3 bands, ATOTT is a top 10 album for me, and you sir (or madam) are the first in four decades to agree with me on the beauty of Mad Man Moon. After Firth of Fifth my favourite Genesis track, and definitely one of my top 5 songs of all time.
Mother Goose
Yes, I consider We Have Heaven to just be the intro to South Side of the Sky. Tell the moondog, tell the March Hare!
I think “Locomotive (Complicity)” from Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion II is absurdly good although since it clocks in at just under nine minutes I can see why it wasn’t a radio hit.
Add me to the list; Mad Man Moon is one of my favorite Genesis songs of all time.
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And, there’s something about the sound of Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering that stand out in a really great way . . . maybe the most beautiful of Genesis’ albums? There’s just a dream-like cloak over both albums.
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Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Also, Come to me on the same album.
See post #6. 
As for “Wind Up,” I recently heard a version with the extra snippet of a verse at the very end, and I thought I was losing my mind. Turns out only some pressings of the LP (including the one I’d grown up with and had heard hundreds of times) omitted this. “My” version ends with the words “…harmonize these lines,” ending on a wistful chord. The other version sounds absolutely bizarre to me.
On Guns 'n Roses, Appetite for Destruction:
I have always thought that Think About You and My Michelle were great songs. My Michelle is a “typical” GNR song (with a dirty nasty riff that i’ve always loved), but Think About You is your classic mid-tempo deep-cut, that I’ve just always loved for some reason.