by Otohiko » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:58 pm
King Crimson have a whole series of these things.
From their first album, the songs themselves are separated into parts with different names - e.g.
-21st Century Schizoid Man (including Mirrors)
-Epitaph (including March for No Reason & Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
-Moonchild (including The Dream & The Illusion)
-The Court of the Crimson King (including The Return of the Fire Witch & The Dance of the Puppets)
Their second album is "framed" by three short tracks - Peace - A Beginning, Peace - A Theme and Peace - An End, and also has
-Pictures of a City (including 42nd and Treadmill)
-In the Wake of Poseidon (including Libra's Theme)
-The Devil's Triangle (including Merday's Horn, Hand of Sceiron, and Garden of Worm)
Their third album even goes beyond that and has a second side which has not only parts in the huge 23-minute song named, but even sub-parts, i.e.
-Lizard (including Prince Rupert Awakes, Bolero: A Peacock's Tale, The Battle of Glass Tears (including Dawn Song, Last Skirmish, Prince Rupert's Lament) and Big Top)
They sort of stopped doing that with the departure of lyricist Peter Sinfield, but on the other hand have since made a lot of "sequels" and thematic continuations, most famously of course Larks' Tongues in Aspic, including
-Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part I (1973)
-Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part II (1973)
-Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part III (1984)
-Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part IV (2000)
There was also supposed to be a Part V in 2000, but the track was renamed FraKctured, which is itself a reference to 1974's Fracture.
I can't really list them, but the King Crimson "fractal" offshoots, the ProjeKcts, have a lot of cross-referencing going on in titles, and in fact the "songs" that they play are improvisations on different themes, and come out rather differently each time.
Their last album, The Power to Believe, also has the title track divided into 4 parts on the album.