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Direct Link To This Post Topic: Best Steve Hackett songs?
    Posted: February 24 2015 at 03:33
Rank up or down his songs you like/dislike!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2015 at 06:43
For such an eclectic composer one could make such a bunch of different lists of "best songs" from him that would fit for any taste. Anyway, here just some of my loved ones:
 
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=97460&KW=HACKETT
 


 




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 08:23
Like an Arrow in a clear lead so far, quite surprising to be honest. Good song though. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 14:49
Voted for just songs I like which are mostly the obvious ones plus Wind ,Sand and Stars and Rebecca. Surprised though that some tracks like Clocks are struggling and also why don't people like The Air Conditioned Nightmare??!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 15:07
Ace of Wands never ceases to amaze me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 15:10
A Tower Struck Down. Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 15:33
No Circus of Becoming  at the list Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2015 at 16:09
The whole Voyage of the Acolyte is excellent....beyond that I have mixed feelings about most of his songs.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 01:59
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

No Circus of Becoming  at the list Cry
 
the whole of that album is brilliant imo
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 11:23
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Voted for just songs I like which are mostly the obvious ones plus Wind ,Sand and Stars and Rebecca. Surprised though that some tracks like Clocks are struggling and also why don't people like The Air Conditioned Nightmare??!

Two of my least favourite SH tracks. They grate live. 

Tower struck down and Circus of Becoming now listed!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2015 at 20:14
I voted thumbs up on:
The Steppes
Shadow of the Hierophant
Like an Arrow
Rebecca
Ace of Wands
Sierra Quemada
Hammer in the Sand
Valley of the Kings
Wind, Sand and Stars
Howl
India Rubber Man
Two Faces of Cairo
The Serpentine Song
Ballad of the Decomposing Man
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A bunch of others too, but I accidentally closed the window. Hope it took my votes. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to log in or anything.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2015 at 05:44
I think some lists allow you to rank when logged out but some don't. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2015 at 19:08
To be honest, no surprise for me with regards to the 'Best Songs' list, I already knew I am the only one here who have especial love for the Hackett's classical albums and have them as favourites, especially A Midsummer Night's Dream and Metamorpheus. The latter got a definitive place number 12 in the 'Best Albums' list, but this though might be surprising only here.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 02:15
^ the one he did with his brother John is also excellent ( Sketches Of Satie) . Do you have that one Rick?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 02:58
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

(...) and also why don't people like The Air Conditioned Nightmare??!
Probably 'cause it comes from de facto a bullsh*t album with a jacket a la Love Beach ?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 16:12
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

(...) and also why don't people like The Air Conditioned Nightmare??!
Probably 'cause it comes from de facto a bullsh*t album with a jacket a la Love Beach ?
 
A lot of people seem to like CanarioWink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 19:57
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ the one he did with his brother John is also excellent ( Sketches Of Satie) . Do you have that one Rick?
 
No, unfortunately I don't have it, right on it's very beautiful. I sometimes listened to it on Youtube and UOL, my faves really are Gymnopedie No 1, 2 and 3, and Pieces Froides No.1 (Danse de travers II). Erik Satie was a great composer indeed, I'd like to listen to the recordings of these compositions played by him on piano, they must be indeed stunning. He was one of the main precursors (if not the main precursor) of minimalism, and afterwards serialism, both developed and oftenly found in the modern and contemporanean classical music. But to be honest I'm not such a fan of this music specifically, it can't have a great appeal on me unfortunately, perhaps the reason why I don't put Sketches Of Satie in the same league as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Metamorpheus.
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 19:59
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

(...) and also why don't people like The Air Conditioned Nightmare??!
Probably 'cause it comes from de facto a bullsh*t album with a jacket a la Love Beach ?
 
A lot of people seem to like CanarioWink
 
Agreed Tongue 


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