Anyone else find Trader & Heaven Way too long?

[phirnis]

Considering Holland came out in 1973, "Trader" doesn't even qualify as a long track. Come to think of it, that's the year of Tales from Topographic Oceans, when even progressive rock got pompous by its own ridiculous standards. In the early 70s, even when they attempted to fit in with the times the BB never lost their trademark pop senibilities.

[adamghost]

Trader no, Heaven yes.

[Mike's Beard]

Trader could go on forever as far as I'm concerned. The first movement is much better than the second part though IMO.

[punkinhead]

In my opinion, Carl doesn't have too many tunes, so they're fine the way they are...Also, concerning Trader, I always thought the length of the songs of this era were just longer (along with So Tough).

Concerning the live rendition of Trader, I'm really surprised they didn't shorten it or Leaving this Town for the Concert LP, being that they're new songs (versus playing older material)...heck, half way through Leaving this Town, the crowd starts applauding before the last movement.

[kirkmc- banned on the run]

I like the live versions of Trader, SOS, Marcella, Heroes way better than the studio versions too... Let the Wind Blow is fantastic on In Concert-same w/ Caroline No...

[Jason]

Holy sh*t, he has something good to say about a song that the Lovester actually wrote most of the music for, not to mention the lyrics....

[runnersdialzero]

Considering Holland came out in 1973, "Trader" doesn't even qualify as a long track. Come to think of it, that's the year of Tales from Topographic Oceans, when even progressive rock got pompous by its own ridiculous standards. In the early 70s, even when they attempted to fit in with the times the BB never lost their trademark pop senibilities.

The length alone when talking about a song has little to do with it being too long or too short. Some songs are 10 minutes and feel too short, some songs clock in at four minute and would be twice as effective if a minute or two was chopped off.