Octane_(album)

Octane
Octane
Studio album by Spock's Beard
Released	January 25, 2005
Recorded	2004
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	55:49
Label	InsideOut
Producer	Spock's Beard
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<i>Octane</i> (album)

Octane (album)

2005 studio album by Spock's Beard

Octane is the eighth studio album by American progressive rock band Spock's Beard, released on 25 January 2005. The first seven tracks form a complete piece of work, "A Flash Before My Eyes", that tells the story of a man involved in a car accident who relives his memories in the moments following the crash.^[1]

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A special edition release contained a second disc which contained five new tracks, outtakes from "A Flash Before My Eyes" and a video documenting the making of the album.^[2]

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Ling, Dave (February 2005). "Spock's Beard 'Octane'". Classic Rock. Vol. 76. London, UK: Future Publishing Ltd. p. 91.

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Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
Classic Rock	^[4]
Rock Hard	^[5]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Ballet of the Impact" I. "Prelude to the Past" II. "The Ultimate Quiet" III. "A Blizzard of My Memories"	Dave Meros, John Boegehold	5:34
2.	"I Wouldn't Let It Go"	Alan Morse, Boegehold	4:53
3.	"Surfing Down the Avalanche"	Nick D'Virgilio, Meros, Boegehold	3:43
4.	"She Is Everything" I. "Strange What You Remember" II. "Words of Forever"	Meros, Boegehold	6:46
5.	"Climbing Up That Hill"	Meros, Boegehold	3:31
6.	"Letting Go"	Ryo Okumoto	1:52
7.	"Of the Beauty of It All I. "If I Could Paint a Picture" II. "Into the Great Unknowable"	Meros, Boegehold	4:53
8.	"NWC"	D'Virgilio	4:16
9.	"There Was a Time"	Morse, Boegehold	4:58
10.	"The Planet's Hum"	D'Virgilio, Morse, Stan Ausmus	4:42
11.	"Watching the Tide"	D'Virgilio	5:07
12.	"As Long as We Ride"	D'Virgilio, Morse, Boegehold	5:34
Total length:			55:49

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"When She's Gone"	D'Virgilio, Meros, Boegehold	5:41
2.	"Follow Me to Sleep"	D'Virgilio, Boegehold	5:39
3.	"Game Face"	D'Virgilio, Okumoto	4:10
4.	"Broken Promise Land"	Morse, Boegehold	4:45
5.	"Listening to the Sky"	Okumoto	3:08
6.	"Someday I'll Be Found" (String quartet, Flash #2)		1:04
7.	"I Was Never Lost" (Background vocals, Flash #2)		1:09
8.	"Paint Me a Picture" (Pipe organ outtake from Flash)		1:29
9.	"The Formulation of Octane" (Video)

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