The Petra Zone

OK...can anyone riddle me this?

Why is the song "Parting Thought" found at the END of the FIRST side of Petra's self-titled recording instead of at the end of Side 2.

Does anyone else find this odd?

Yeah, I thought it was kinda odd considering the name....

Exactly...

If they should call it anything, it should be something like...Semi-Parting Thought or something along those lines.

But that's just ME!

RockOn wrote:OK...can anyone riddle me this?

Why is the song "Parting Thought" found at the END of the FIRST side of Petra's self-titled recording instead of at the end of Side 2.

Does anyone else find this odd?

"Petra" is a bit weird, because the order is totally different on the CD. I'm curious if anyone here has the vinyl, cassette, and CD versions available for comparison...

--Josh

I have the cassette and the cd, and both have the same song order. I've seen the album on Ebay before. I'm pretty sure that "I'm Not Ashamed" would be the closer on the album as well, just by the way they end the song.

I am wondering if the band originally intended it to be set to be at the end and the manager or higher power overruled the band at the end.

Just speculating or thinking out loud.

I have the vinyl, and the sides are reversed from what you all have on your CDs and cassettes (which I have as well!) "Parting Thought" is indeed the last song on side 2 on the vinyl.

No clue why the song order is different between the formats, but you will find that the song order is also changed between formats on "Come And Join Us"...

This has become quite a mystery.

Somebody get me Angela Landsbury!

Well, I called her and it went a little something like this....

ME: "Angela?"

ANGELA LANSBURY: "That's Mrs. Lansbury to you--and how did you get this number?!"

ME: "Never mind that, I need a mystery solved."

ANGELA LANSBURY: "Like I told Entertainment Tonight, 'Once I turn 79, my mystery solving days are over.'"

ME: "Stop whining. I need to know who screwed up the tracklist on Petra's eponymous debut album."

ANGELA LANSBURY: "Jon, I've been wondering that for fifty years."

ME: "We all have. Any leads?"

ANGELA LANSBURY: "I don't know, but the A-Team started investigating Myrrh records for massive corruption...they might know something."

ME: "I'll call them. Thanks for your time, Angie."

ANGELA LANSBURY: "Don't go anywhere, I'm lonely I want to talk...."

ME: "Sorry...your....break....ing up..."

Dial tone.

So, I'm waiting for a call back from Mad Dog Murdock on what he knows...thats where we're at.

My Cassette and CD are totally different.

Even a song is named different "back sliding blues" & "backslidin' blues"

My CD order is:

Walkin' in the light
Mountain and Valleys
Lucas McGraw
Wake up
Backslidin Blues
Get back to the Bible
Gonna fly away
I'm not ashamed
Storm comin'
Parting Thought

My Cassette is:

Program 1

Wake up
Get back to the Bible
Gonna fly away
Storm comin'
Parting thought

Program 2

Walking in the light
Mountains and valleys
Lucas McGraw
Back sliding blues
I'm not ashamed

http://www.kapcom.com.au/petra/rare.php here is a pic of the cassette

And so the MADNESS continues...

and speaking of madness...Jonathan...

your conversation with AL was quite entertaining! Send her my love please.

What about Revival?

I'm all for Revival!

Two thumbs up.

All joking aside...

my CD has a couple of the songs in reverse order. I can't think of them right off hand because I don't have it in front of me. I believe one of the reverse-order songs was Prodigal Son.