Take your Friday afternoon and read Howard Salmon’s outstanding essay on Days of Future Passed, specifically how he stitches its most iconic song back into the fabric of the album so your hear it fresh and hear its true emotional weather. A sample:

“Days of Future Passed reaches instead for recurrence properly heard. The day takes. Night returns some portion of what was taken, altered and intensified. Morning begins again anyway. There is no sentimental fantasy that emotional honesty has solved the structural problem of repeated days”