In these days of CDs we lose track of the way albums used to be put together. You could have favourite sides as well as favourite LPs. Each side had to be put together as an entity, almost self-contained.
Is there a better side of an LP than the first side of Don Quixote?
Starting with the Don as a fascinating and mystical opener, you have a classic run of tracks each of which is a model of its type, which have seldom been bettered in modern popular music. Chistian Island has to be the ultimate relaxing summer theme, Alberta Bound is sure to get your foot tapping, Looking at the Rain-THE slow love-lost song, Ordinary Man unselfconsciously autobiographical, finishing with Brave Mountaineers-a hymn to childhood.
What do you think, is there a better side?
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Hi derry day in the month of May
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