The Light (Spock's Beard album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Light
Type = Album
Artist = Spock's Beard


Released = 1995
Recorded = ?
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 55:21
Label = Metal Blade
Producer = Spock's Beard and Neal Morse
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jd1gtq8zmu46 link]
Last album = -
This album = "The Light" (1995)
Next album = "Beware of Darkness" (1996) |

The Light is the 1995 debut release by popular American prog-rock band, Spock's Beard. The album features two different covers—one for its domestic release, and one for its European release.

The album has since been remastered and re-released by Radiant Records.

Track listing

#"The Light" – 15:33
#*I: The Dream
#*II: One Man
#*III: Garden People
#*IV: Looking Straight into the Light
#*V: The Man in the Mountain
#*VI: Senor Valasco's Mystic Voodoo Love Dance
#*VII: The Return of the Horrible Catfish Man
#*VIII: The Dream
#"Go the Way You Go" – 12:03
#"The Water" – 23:07
#*I: Introduction / The Water
#*II: When It All Goes to Hell
#*III: A Thief in the Night
#*IV: FU/I'm Sorry
#*V: The Water (revisited)
#*VI: Runnin' the Race
#*VII: Reach for the Sky
#"On the Edge" – 6:11
#"The Light (Home Demo)" – 15:18 [Special Edition bonus track on 2004 re-release]

Personnel

*Neal Morse - lead vocals, mellotron, Hammond organ, keyboards, acoustic guitar
*Alan Morse - Electric guitar, cello, mellotron, vocals
*Dave Meros - Bass, french horn
*Nick D'Virgilio - drums, percussion, vocals
*Molly Pasutti and Wanda Houston - background vocals on "The Water"

Release details

*1998, USA, Metal Blade ?, Release Date 8 September 1998, CD
*2001, USA, Giant Electric Pea GEPCD1017, Release Date 30 July 2001, CD
*2004, UK, SPV Records SPV08528200, Release Date 22 March 2004, CD
*2004, UK, SPV Records SPV08728208, Release Date 17 May 2004, CD (Cover artwork special edition)