The release of V also produced a CD single, this time promoting the track "All on a Sunday". The track itself was re-recorded in 2001 and is slightly different from the album track. Also on the single is an unreleased song called "The Truth", and the music video for "All on a Sunday".
This album is available as a limited edition as well, which contains a 32-page booklet that includes an interview with the band and a personal fact-sheet on all the band members, as well as a multimedia track showing the band in the studio.
The Great Nothing is the longest song written to date for the band and is autobiographical for Morse who wrote the song from the perspective of being a struggling musician, which is what led him to starting Spock's Beard in the first place. Morse said, “‘The Great Nothing’ I think I actually wrote in ‘97 and we didn’t record it until ’99, and V didn’t come out until maybe 2000. I wrote from the perspective of a depressed musician being revived by music again.”[2]
Critical reception
In 2017, Prog Sphere named V as the best Spock's Beard album in the discography.[3]
In 2018, Classic Rock History named At the End of the Day and The Great Nothing in the top 10 essential Spock's Beard songs at #5 and #2.[4]
Track listing
All songs written by Neal Morse except where noted.
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