59 minutes and 20 minutes would fill up a CD on their own.
Also I hope DT never do the "80 minute single track" thing. *UNLESS* It's one continuous piece of music with selectable mini-sections a la Six Degrees.
Yeah, if they did something like The Whirlwind (in terms of structure, not necessarily genre/style), that could be pretty cool.
An album with two 20+ minute epics + 3 or 4 shorter tracks in between would be really cool and something they haven't really done before.
That could be interesting... Comparing this to Transatlantic, since 2 or 3 of their albums follow this format, I'd also be rather skeptical. It worked really well in Bridge Across Forever, but Kaleidoscope was... not as exciting. Now, I've only listened to Kaleidoscope once, so I will have to listen to it more to form a more solid opinion, but at the same time there wasn't really anything that made me want to return to the album.
Then again, this is Dream Theater we're talking about, they'd make an album like that some level of amazing just like they've done for basically every album they've ever made.