Progarchives.com has always (since 2002) relied on banners ads to cover web hosting fees and all. Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
Joined: February 08 2005
Location: Hants, England
Status: Offline
Points: 727
Topic: "Energetic" instrumental sections Posted: March 17 2016 at 18:33
- guitar solo on Crossing the Line from the Go! project (I think it's Pat Thrall) - second part of Spunk Rock by Man on All's Well That Ends Well - instrumental parts of the Moontan album by Golden Earring (with the US
track listing that includes Big Tree, Blue Sea) - closing passage of Fighting Windmills by Golden Earring from the Contraband album - instrumental parts of Live by Golden Earring, this time with two guitarists - second half of Ginastera's Toccata by ELP, with the spacey drum synths - second quarter of Karn Evil 9 by ELP with the steel drums - guitar part of The Item is the Totem by Wigwam - Rick Wakeman's organ solo on the Close to the Edge title track - where Steve Hackett's guitar part comes in on The Musical Box by Genesis on the Nursery Cryme album - closing part of Sheep on Pink Floyd's Animals album - funky bass part of Echoes by Pink Floyd from Meddle - punchy piano solo on the live versions of Cannnball by Supertramp - Lunar Sea, an instrumental on Moonmadness by Camel
- Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear (Instrumental) and Starbird by Manfred Mann's Earth Band from The Roaring Silence - Salmon Song by Steve Hillage - Sky High by Manfred Mann's Earth Band from The Good Earth. I sometimes wonder what happened to Colin Pattendon? - end of 4 Phil by Baker Gurvitz Army from the first album. It fades too quickly - the part of Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin) used as the title theme for Weekend World
Joined: September 30 2006
Location: Pearland
Status: Offline
Points: 64665
Posted: February 20 2016 at 19:55
RoeDent wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! Currently giving UK's Carrying No Cross a go. This is awesome! Instrumental break is crazy! Reminds me of the instrumental movements of ELP's Tarkus.
I had a feeling it would hit the spot.
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
Joined: February 01 2011
Location: Michigan
Status: Offline
Points: 12788
Posted: February 20 2016 at 15:45
The eight minute-long recapitulation at the end of Thick as a Brick is phenomenal (from 35:30 or so on), particularly when the strings kick in (and David Palmer's orchestral arrangements were always Tull's secret weapon). Barlow's drums and Evan's keys are great.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
Joined: September 08 2009
Location: Wales
Status: Offline
Points: 850
Posted: February 20 2016 at 14:51
Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! Currently giving UK's Carrying No Cross a go. This is awesome! Instrumental break is crazy! Reminds me of the instrumental movements of ELP's Tarkus.
Joined: April 12 2013
Location: Michigan
Status: Offline
Points: 470
Posted: February 17 2016 at 20:33
No one’s mentioned The Cinema
Show!The “Seconds Out” version
especially, with the Collins/Bruford drum battle royal.
ELP had several: the last
sections of The Three Fates and Tank, and the middle section of Trilogy.
The second part of You by Tony
Banks, contrasting with the slow song portion.
The concluding section of For
Richard by Caravan.
Caravan—All Sorts of
Unmentionable Things, the last section of Dabsong Conshirtoe, which crossfades
into a reprise of The Show of Our Lives.
Colosseum—Valentyne Suite.The opening section especially, but it builds
and releases energy a couple more times before it’s done.
Greenslade—Joie de Vivre.The last section with the organ/violin duet.
Esperanto—The Rape, with its
tense, panicky, continually-glancing-over-your-shoulder coda.
Flash—Lifetime.
Gentle Giant—So Sincere, the
live version from Playing the Fool, with its thundering percussive
extravaganza.
Happy the Man—Labyrinth.Or the solo rerecording by Kit Watkins.Another that speeds and slows nicely.
Hoelderlin—Phasing.Starts out slow and builds gradually, making
for excellent driving music.
It Bites—You’ll Never Go to
Heaven, with Dunnery’s intense solo at the end.
Lucifer’s Friend—the middle
section of Spanish Galleon.
Santana—Flame-Sky.Another that starts slow and builds and
builds.
Pat Metheny Group—The Roots of
Coincidence.One of my favorites of his.
Anthony Phillips—The Geese and
the Ghost.The closing section, where he
sounds like he’s trying to wear his fingers down to the bone on his 12-string.
Refugee—Credo.For a 3-piece, they could really do the
“intense” thing.
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia—Utopia Theme.There are 2 or 3 parts that really bust out.
Van Der Graaf Generator—Scorched
Earth.The first time I heard it I thought
the end was one of the most intense things ever.
Come to think of it, several of
these were in the Extended Coda thread I started a while ago.
And how about some tracks in
which the whole thing proceeds at a constant or near-constant fast pace:
Love Sculpture—Sabre Dance.Both the album version and single version
(two different recordings) are about the wildest things ever recorded, and
that’s no exaggeration.
Focus—Harem Scarem
Weather Report—Nubian Sundance
Jeff Beck—Scatterbrain
Jean-Luc Ponty—Enigmatic Ocean.
PFM—Celebration (live version)
Edited by AreYouHuman - February 18 2016 at 22:31
Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.
Joined: October 02 2005
Location: .
Status: Offline
Points: 46828
Posted: February 15 2016 at 07:39
tsk tsk.. the greatest of all
Balletto di Bronzo - Introduzione
the keys solo into the guitar solo.. with the climatic orgasm of that mellotron. I feel the need to fire up a Winston every time it finishes. As good as sex...
nothing tops that for pure energy and musical violence...
Edited by micky - February 15 2016 at 07:40
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
Joined: November 04 2013
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 356
Posted: February 14 2016 at 23:58
Another Arena example is the instrumental section of Sirens off their second album (7:00-11:00).
Mike Oldield's got quite a few. The Sailor's Hornpipe closing Tubular Bells Part 2. The stormy section with multi-layered electric guitars of Hergest Ridge Part 2. The endings of Ommadawn Part 1 and Part 2 (excluding the Horse Song). There's also the exuberant Northumbrian bagpipe and electric guitar duet on QE2 Finale.
The Heart of the Sunrise has a short energetic introductory passage that is reprised a few times times. There's also the intense jam in the beginning of Close to the Edge, and the one right after Wakeman's church organ section.
I know Deep Purple is hard rock, but I found many of their songs quite proggy. Some intense instrumental breaks are the guitar solo and fantastic falling bomb ending on Child in Time, the organ and guitar solos on Highway Star, and the relentless Paice (bad pun, I know) of the largely instrumental Hard Lovin' Man.
Uriah Heep's Look at Yourself is an energetic song has several instrumental breaks.
I guess it's stating the obvious, but we can't forget 21st Century Schizoid Man.
Joined: April 12 2013
Location: Michigan
Status: Offline
Points: 470
Posted: February 13 2016 at 23:56
Curved Air—Piece of Mind.The Latin-influenced next-to-last section chugs
right along for an unfortunately brief time before giving way to an understated
slow section that concludes the piece.
U.K.—The Only Thing She Needs,
from the same LP as Carrying No Cross, is equally propulsive.
Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
This page was generated in 0.195 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.