My 47th annual Thanksgiving One-Song Side Show

I'll be waking up dark and early tomorrow morning (Thanksgiving 2015) for my 47th annual One-Song Side Show. It all started 47 Thanksgivings ago with Arlo Guthrie's side-long Thanksgiving-themed "Alice's Restaurant." Over the years, I have collected over 150 side-long epics and that's all I listen to every Thanksgiving. There's just an atmosphere about it. I usually get in about 20 of them in one Thanksgiving Day. As I posted last year, my rather arbitrary rules are:
1. It must fill up one entire album side, no more and no less. Bob Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (11:19) qualifies because it's on an album side to itself. Mountain's "Dream Sequence" (24:27) is disqualified because there's a 3:53 live version of "Mississippi Queen" squeezed onto the same tightly cut side with it. Thick as a Brick and Tubular Bells are disqualified because they each fill 2 sides. It's OK to listen to them on CD,downloads, or Youtube as long as they at one time filled one whole album side (on vinyl or cassette).
2. Multi-layered suites with individually titled movements qualify as long as the whole suite has one collective title as well. Focus' "Hamburger Concerto" and Neil Diamond's "The African Trilogy" qualify for the 1-Song Side Show, but Side 2 of Abbey Road does not (no collective title).
3. They must be album side length. 12-inch singles don't count.
Please feel free to list (or post) some of your favorite side-long epics. I'll post this year's One-Song Side Show list on Friday.

 

Only ones I can think of....

* In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
* Echoes
* Atom Heart Mother
* Autobahn
* Side 1 of 'Electric Cafe' (which was intended to be one giant song called 'Techno Pop' but later split up into three)
* Paul Jabara's "Disco Wedding/Honeymoon/Divorce" suite (if you're feeling brave!)
* Love To Love You Baby
* Try Me (I Know We Can Make It)
* MacArthur Park (Donna's version, obviously)

 

"Billy The Mountain" - Frank Zappa

 

A Treatise On Cosmic Fire
Dark Star
Pharoah's Dance
Bitches Brew
Right Off
Yesternow

 

Neat thing to do! Do jazz records count?

 

"Change Your Mind" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse takes up a full side of Sleeps with Angels.
"Song of Scheherazade" by Renaissance, from Scheherazade and Other Stories.
"Close to the Edge" by Yes

 

How about either "Crises" or "Taurus II" by Mike Oldfield? They're not album-long tracks that are split between two sides like Tubular Bells or Hergest Ridge, they're just regular side long pieces.

 

Anything from Yes' "Tales from Topographic Oceans".
Or
Anything from Lou Reed's " Metal Machine Music"

 

All 4 sides of Tales From Topographic Oceans by Yes

 

From Live At Fillmore East by Allman Bros:

Whipping Post
You Don't Love Me

 

Get Ready - Rare Earth

 

Steve Miller
Macho City

 

ELP - Tarkus

 

Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

 

Bob Dylan - "Highlands"
(Bonus points for a section in a restaurant.)

 

Revelation - Love

 

Cool! I have all of these except for the Paul Jabara one. I need to seek that one out.

 

Classic! This one has graced the 1-Song Side Show more than once over the years.

 

All great! All have been part of the "show" more than once over the years.

 

Absolutely!

 

I have "Close to the Edge" and the live version of "Scheherazade." I don't have Sleeps with Angels. Yet.

 

I have "Taurus II." I need to seek out "Crises." Didn't know about that one. Thanks.

 

How cosmic! It is now 5:30 Thanksgiving morning and I'm listening to all of Tales From Topographic Oceans. I'm now in the middle of "The Revealing Science of God" with 3 more sides to go.

 

Yes! Listening to all of it now! (5:32 A.M.)

 

"Halleluwah" and "Aumgn" - Can