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Alchimicus View Drop Down

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Posted: September 02 2017 at 13:02

Heart of the Sunrise, and... Welcome to the Machine.

I like green and magick.

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Posted: September 02 2017 at 18:48

I think changed is maybe a bit much - I'd throw into the ring as things that have had a big impact

Me and My Woman - Roy Harper
Les Porches Du Notre Dame - Maneige

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Posted: September 04 2017 at 03:23

• Karn Evil 9
• Illusions On A Double Dimple

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 05:16

YES - "Yours is no Disgrace"

King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 15:43

Close to the Edge
Supper's Ready

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 15:55

"Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Bennie and the Jets"

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 15:59

Balletto di Bronzo - Introduzione

Osanna - Animale Senza Respiro

oh yeah... now those completely changed my life... some of you can figure out or know just how much. Heart

The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 22:53

Heart of the Sunrise

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Posted: September 19 2017 at 14:51

1. The Flight of Cassandra - Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Amazon MP3 exclusive, look it up, it's arguably their best and proggiest song)

This led my mom to introduce me to...

2. Close to the Edge - Yes

I've never looked back since!!!

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Posted: September 19 2017 at 16:00

1. Vangelis - Pulstar

2. Tangerine Dream - Kiew Mission

The topic heading asks for tracks (so I supplied them), but it was really the two albums (Albedo 0.39, Exit) these tracks come from, that totally transformed my ears/head/heart/life.

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Posted: September 20 2017 at 13:15

The ultimate life changers

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Posted: September 20 2017 at 13:34

Chula Vista wrote:

Close to the Edge
Supper's Ready

Took my tunes!

It is beginning to amaze me how many people of how many ages across what is now so much time choose these musics. If I didn't know any better, and I don't, I'd say I smell a faint whiff of, dare I say it?

Immortality.

'Course I could be wrong. It's happened before, and it'll happen again.

Warm regards,
Frank

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Posted: September 20 2017 at 13:36

Yes - The Revealing Science of God

The Flower Kings - For Those About To Drown

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Posted: October 21 2017 at 19:07

meeting of the spirits - Mahavishnu Orchestra

Fountain of Salmacus - Genesis

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Posted: October 21 2017 at 20:55

Yes- Gates of Delirium

I have to think about the other one. I guess I will go with (drum roll here)....................

Genesis- Supper's Ready

A few runners up would be:

Heart of the Sunrise

Larks tongues in aspic (part one)

The Revealing Science of God

Cinema Show

Firth of Fifth

Close to the Edge

To be honest I'm not sure any really changed my life but some of them certainly got me more interested in prog.

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Posted: October 21 2017 at 20:58

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm not really sure. I'll say these two though:

Gates of Delirium

Supper's Ready

Hah! I guess my taste and perspective hasn't changed much in the past two or three months. I suppose those had the biggest influence on me but in general Yes, Genesis and KC were the first bands I really got into that I knew were prog followed closely by Rush, Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues. I had one ELP album around the time I was still pretty new to prog but for some reason didn't get more into them until a bit later.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 21 2017 at 20:59

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Posted: October 22 2017 at 08:24

Hi,

None, and all of them.

Music has been around me, and I around it, from day one, and even my dad was known to write poetry to famous pieces of music, and was published in quite a few languages. It was no surprise to hear something playing loud and eventually you caught on to it, and its feeling.

Popular and Rock music, eventually added to it, a style and feeling that is controlled and not allowed to flourish in classical music, with emotion being tied up in knots left and right, and only being clear in highs and lows on the register in arias, for example, which rock music blew apart, but the classical music folks, today, still can not get out of their old ways, and embrace the new things, and incorporate them.

As a fine example, listen to the orchestra version of 200 Motels, and specially the whole choir piece in the end, to get an incredible idea how one can turn what appeared to be a mess hall in the film, all of a sudden explodes as incredible composition and performance, that few of us are able to sit through. On top of it, it was almost like ... the choir doing the things they ever wanted to do in pieces of music that were not half as well written or as good as this one! Fun stuff!

For me, it was always an evolution, regardless of what we call it, and try hard to separate it from its source and inner father/mother!

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Posted: October 23 2017 at 11:05

I have two songs that are almost polar opposites.

Wish You Were Here and Octavarium

It's probably debatable how prog it is, but the first song from a prog band i heard was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. We were going to learn to play Wish You Were Here on guitar (not the solos) at school. I instantly fell in love with that song, which led me to check out more of Pink Floyd and gave me a first taste of prog.

A couple of years later I was on the lookout for long songs specifically. I had always naturally gravitated towards the longer songs by every band i had listened to previously (Iron Maiden, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Iced Earth etc.) When I discovered Octavarium I knew I had found something special. A 24 minute journey with both rock and metal parts and a crescendo unlike anything I've heard before or since. This was when i realized prog was "my" music.

Edited by thosava - October 23 2017 at 11:06

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Posted: October 23 2017 at 14:24

thosava wrote:

I have two songs that are almost polar opposites.

Wish You Were Here and Octavarium

Two great songs. I always thought that the opening to Octavarium was an homage to WYWH. When my 3 year old daughter, who was being forcibly indoctrinated with her father's musical tastes on daily journeys along the M4 to nursery (crime?), piped up that it sounded like "the pink one", I felt it had been reliably confirmed...

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Posted: October 23 2017 at 16:20

The Musical Box by Genesis - played the album Nursery Cryme non-stop on Christmas Day in the early 70s in the room with the old stereo and read the lyrics and perused the artwork till it was etched into my mind forever!

Space Truckin' by Deep Purple - the extended Made in Japan version. Had to listen to it in the dark to get the full effect as Blackmore, Lord and Paice transported me into interstellar space! Always loved it when the stunned Japanese audience realised, after a pause, when the journey was over!

Honourable mentions for the All the Worlds a Stage's versions of 2112 and By-Tor and the Snow Dog by Rush which started a life-long love of the band, cemented by Xanadu and Hemispheres Side 1 a little later!

Edited by Squonk19 - October 23 2017 at 16:21

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