How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
Signify well, praising the album for being "Caught between Porcupine Tree's psychedelic roots and their song-oriented future, "Signify" is a testament to Porcupine Tree's power as a dark, brooding album with excellent production and a thoroughly progressive heart." The "Dutch Progressive Rock Page" praised the album as well, giving it an equivalent score of 8 out of 10, stating "'Signify' isn't the best Porcupine Tree album out there, and it certainly isn't one of the first recommendations I would make to a 'newbie' wanting to check out the band...This doesn't mean that there's no high quality stuff on the album though.