Diversion. A few of my favourite things. Guests on the classic BBC radio show Desert Island Discs are allowed to choose eight records. I know it's only a hypothetical game, but it's not called "your eight top tracks". So why don't guests choose longer tracks to maximise enjoyment? My epic list here.
1. Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Possibly Jim Steinman's best known song, but as already noted here, I could have taken almost any of his works.
2. Grendel - Marillion
Not just because it is 18 minutes of the finest interplay between keyboard and guitar ever recorded, but an interesting story too, the first great epic of English literature told from the perspective of the beast rather than the traditional hero.
3. Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden
Obviously fine poetry, but also the epitome of the new wave of British heavy metal.
4. Kowtow - Pendragon
I first heard it live at the Marquee Club back in the days when I went to gigs. Astounding.
5. The Future Just Aint What it Used to Be - Pandora's Box
Another Jim Steinman composition, but this time the rock opera equivalent of a soulful ballad.
I'll stop here. So that still leaves three songs for another time.
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