Product Details

• Released on: 2006-11-22
• Running time: 3288 seconds

Customer Reviews

Great band, but zero stars for....
The last track, which contains about five minutes of music and sixteen or so more minutes of noise. Just so people know what I mean by noise, I don't mean noisy music, or experimental music, or ambient music, all of which I can appreciate on their own terms if I am so inclined. By noise I mean noise, as in having no musical properties at all, or virtually none, over and above a single tone undulating endlessly for no reason. There are a few sound effects positioned through-out.

Certain prog-rockers get slammed for the length of their songs or just the wandering, exploratory nature of their music, and they get called pretentious and pompous. In my opinion this twenty-plus minute track deserves to be called pretentious and pompous because one would have to be pretentious and perhaps even a little pompous to think that someone would sit through fifteen minutes of non-musical sound simply because it's included on an album that does contain music. Why do this? Is there a point at all?