This always strikes me as counterpart to Can I Play With Madness. A nice end to the album/story, although perhaps a bit sudden. There were room or one of two more songs in there.
Agreed. The one flaw of this album is that it's too brief. Would've been cool to see them go all out with the concept and do a big double album.This always strikes me as counterpart to Can I Play With Madness. A nice end to the album/story, although perhaps a bit sudden. There were room or one of two more songs in there.
I had no idea that qualified as progsnobbery, but yes, I love the fact they bring that back to end.Love the sudden ending and the prog snob in me gets a ton of excitement over the reprise of the Moonchild intro.
I think this song has shared the same fate as "Flash of the Blade" and to a lesser extent "Judgement Day": they seem to have been voted out of the setlist because there was already a fast song that was better/more efficient (to the band's ears) among the new ones and used as the concert opener (namely "Moonchild", "Aces High" and "Man on the Edge").I remember being extremely shocked at the age of about 8, when I found out that this wasn't a setlist staple.
Not if it was the final song in the concert.Wouldn't the end -which works marvellously well on the album- have fallen flat live?