Like I said I love long songs and I was made up when I saw the length of the songs on the album. The problem is though they can get pretty repetitive if they just go verse, chorus, verse, chorus for 8 min. There's a Dream Theater song called Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence which lasts for 38min but never gets boring as it goes through so many changes in that time.

It's not unheard of for me to buy an album and hate it, then years later re-buy it just to make sure it was crap and then end up loving it. Maybe that will happen again here. I guess there must be something about it for you to defend it like that!