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SgtPepper67
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 17:23 | |
I totally agree about those Who albums. I also think some Wings stuff is quite proggy like Venus and Mars/Rockshow or Band on the run.
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cynthiasmallet
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 17:31 | |
The Doors-Light My Fire
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Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat?
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micky
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 17:36 | |
Rundgren is under eval for Xover... |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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jimmy_row
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 23:31 | |
Oh, and it's nice to see Elton John come up...Funeral/Love Lies Bleedin is stunning compared to what Elton was usually doing at the time and begs the question - what else was he capable of? A bit of trivia, the synth on that track was played by David Hentschel, who would go on to produce for Genesis not long after...and as to the mellotron on Grey Seal, it was actually Elton himself playing it, not Rick Wakeman iirc, and there's also some tron featured on This Song Has No Title and more clearly, his top 40 hits Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me and Daniel (I'd always assumed those were 'real' flutes).
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mrcozdude
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 23:38 | |
Whats the difference between Tommy and the movie soundtrack i own the album and film and it's to much endurance to watch the movie again to find out lol I'm guess its the actors singing?
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zicIy
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 03:17 | |
1)1969 - "Tommy" as an original album by The Who (Track Records)
2) 1972 - "Tommy (The Who)" the album performed by LSO Chamber Choir & Guest Soloists (A&M Records)
3) 1975 - Polydor Records issued "Tommy" the movie soundtrack, performed by The Who and various musicians as Tony Newman, Chris Stainton, Nicky Hopkins, Alan Ross, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Elton John.....etc. btw, Pete Townshend play ARP Synthesizer and keyboards (as some of guitars as well).
EDIT: imho, some songs ( for example, "Amazing Journey", "Sparks", or "Cousin Kevin") from the movie soundtrack are better than on original album, and 100% Prog.
Edited by zicIy - October 21 2007 at 03:40 |
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SgtPepper67
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 19:47 | |
Totally off topic, but I always liked Sally Simpson more on the movie soundtrack version than the original.
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Arbiter
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 20:01 | |
There is a ton of prog-like sections and riffs in the early "SMiLE" tapes that Brian Wilson created in 1966 - some show up in the final version released in 2004. Had he not broken down mentally he would have been a prog pioneer. To many of his advisors & friends were so against his move from ultra-pop to his so-called 'pet-sounds' he couldn't handle the presssure. A real pity.
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The Doctor
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 20:30 | |
Some of my favorite prog moments in classic rock are:
David Bowie's Cygnet Committee - a very vocal oriented song, so not a lot of room over the 9 1/2 minutes for a lot of instrumental fireworks (think Battle of Epping Forest) but enough interesting changes and some great lyrics make it a very proggy 9 1/2 moments. While on the topic of Bowie, he also had some very nice symphonic sounding arrangements to songs like Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud, Life on Mars? and of course there were his ambient electronic excursions in the Berlin trilogy.
Blue Oyster Cult's album Imaginos - Their proggiest and heaviest effort.
Many of Queen's early albums had a lot of proggy moments - All of Queen II, most of Queen, The Prophet's Song, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc.
Some Fleetwood Mac stuff like Future Games, Woman of 1000 Years, some of the stuff off of Tusk and their last album Say You Will, as well as the Lindsay Buckingham solo album Go Insane.
For some reason the Eagles' song The Last Resort always struck me as kind of proggy.
The Talking Heads had an 80's Crimson feel to them without the instrumental noodling, before the 80's version of Crimson ever existed. Maybe because Belew played with them early on.
And a lot of early 80's new wave had a lot in common with Roxy Music.
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Dean
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 20:44 | |
Mansun's first album is also quite proggy in it's own right, Attack of the Grey Lantern has some symphonic moments in complex, non-standard song structures and may or may not be a concept album. The tracks certainly form a story of sorts, with various characters cropping up in different songs. Reviews of Grey Lantern compared it to Queensryche, Floyd and the Beatles. It is certainly several levels of complexity above typical brit-pop long before OK Computer and Absolution.
The follow-up, Six, is described on Wiki as "The album was a suite of connected song segments, ranging from the musically intricate to the plain weird". This review from 1998 gives some indication of Six's prog credentials: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/keith.dumble/hopper/mansun_six.html
The only down side is that Epic re-ordered the tracks on the American release of both albums (not a wise move on concept albums ) - if you can, get hold of the UK releases. Edited by darqdean - October 21 2007 at 20:45 |
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zicIy
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 22:22 | |
i agree, i prefer that version of Sally Simpson, with Eric Clapton on guitar. Eyesight to The Blind the soundtrack version too - great track!
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zicIy
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 23:07 | |
Pete Townshend´s songs (from his solo albums): "Content", "O´Parvardigar" ( from Who Came First album), "Street In The City" ( Rough Mix album with Ronnie Lane), "And I Moved" (Empty Glass album). also, his "Lifehouse Chronicles", 6 CDs set, should be mentioned.
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zicIy
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 23:21 | |
George Harrison´s albums as Wonderwall, Electronic Sounds, and All Things Must Past.
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 23:23 | |
George did do some great solo work |
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salmacis
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Posted: October 22 2007 at 08:54 | |
I heard about this album first in a Classic Rock article with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree picking his 20 favourite British albums. This one cropped up and I was suitably intrigued by his description of it (and the fact the legendary Tom Baker is on it too!).
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