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ForestFriend
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Topic: Favorite Bonus Tracks Posted: August 19 2017 at 13:12 |
What are some of your favorite tracks that never made it onto a "proper" album itself, but got tacked onto expanded versions, rereleases, etc? I would include compilation albums like The Elements of King Crimson or Gentle Giant's Under Construction too. Whether it's early versions, single edits, alternate mixes, B-sides, live versions (not counting material from actual live albums), or just songs that never got released. It could be tracks that should have been on the album in the first place, or anything that you find interesting/amusing in any way.
Personally, some of the highlights for me have been: Jethro Tull - The Château d'Hérouville Sessions from the Steve Wilson remix of A Passion Play (also released on Nightcap) Kind of cheating because it's got more than an album's worth of material; it ranges from takes of Skating Away and Only Solitaire that were actually used on Warchild to instrumentals that were never played again. However, I'm a big fan of APP so it's neat to hear some shorter tracks in the same vein, plus early versions of bits like Critique Oblique and the intro. Yes - Turn Of The Century (Rehearsal) from the Rhino release of GFTO This one's pretty interesting to me because they go into Squire's Silently Falling in the middle, and there's even a theme from Howe's Surface Tension. I'm guessing this was a Relayer outtake, but it's neat to see how ideas got paired and developed. King Crimson - A Peacemaking Stint Unrolls from The Elements 2015 Tour Box This is a weird early version of Larks Tongues in Aspic and Lament with the Islands lineup. Has more of a jazzy feel, sounds like it could have been their next Pictures Of A City (which people already accuse of being their 2nd Schizoid Man). Maybe that's why Fripp broke up the band and saved these bits until he could make something completely different. King Crimson - The King Crimson Barbershop from Three Of A Perfect Pair "So settle back to have some fun and tap your foot in twenty-one" Need I say more? |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 19 2017 at 14:19 |
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zachfive
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Posted: August 19 2017 at 14:43 |
Gentle Giant - Heros No More
Yes - Friend of a Friend |
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The.Crimson.King
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 4591 |
Posted: August 19 2017 at 15:03 |
Tull - Sailor (APP box set)
Gentle Giant - City Hermit (from "Totally Out of the Woods") King Crimson - Cadence & Cascade (w/ Greg Lake on vocals from "The Elements") IQ - My Legs (from outtakes album, "The Lost Attic") But my favorite by a mile is: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (hilarious 12 bar blues version from "Live at Detroit 1971" KC Collectors Club release. Before beginning, Fripp says, "This is for our manager David", during which Boz sings, "I'm here and I've been caught with my crimson thing in my hand", and after which Ian Wallace asks the crowd, "Are you satisfied?...Are you baffled?" |
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dr prog
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Posted: August 19 2017 at 16:07 |
Most of tulls bonus tracks make their best 100 songs imo. Several in the top 10 and 20 also
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All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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micky
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Posted: August 19 2017 at 17:22 |
easy vote. Yes - America... so good in fact.. should have put that in that top 5 Yessongs thread.
strangely enough... a shout out to VDGG. You know the group sucks when one of the few things you really do enjoy listening from them is a bonus track. Squid 1/Squid 2/ Octopus Edited by micky - August 19 2017 at 17:23 |
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presdoug
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Posted: August 19 2017 at 19:33 |
Triumvirat's early singles, like Ride In The Night/Sing Me A Song
Timothy/Dancer's Delight They are awesome,to say the least.
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Barbu
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Posted: August 19 2017 at 20:48 |
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Barbu
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Posted: August 19 2017 at 20:51 |
You like Miriodor but dislike VdGG!? Je ne comprends plus rien. |
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micky
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Posted: August 20 2017 at 06:45 |
damn right man... apples and oranges
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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ALotOfBottle
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Posted: August 20 2017 at 07:10 |
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Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: August 20 2017 at 07:14 |
Dirk Mont Campbell - Theme from Star Tek
Klaus Schulze always seems to add long good bonus tracks Pink Floyd - Raving& Drooling & You Got To Be Crazy on Wish You Were Here re-issue, pretty much bought it for these two. Mike Oldfield - QE2 has bonus live versions of Ommadawn & Tubular Bells Part 1 Univers Zero - Heresie - bonus track - Chaos Hermetique
Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - August 20 2017 at 07:16 |
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Ian
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It is getting SO annoying to try to submit any posts to this site with the robot protection check. I have rarely been able to get through the first time--which means all of my verbiage is lost (I've still not gotten used to saving everything to another text-holder before I try to push the "post" button). And it's done it again! I guess PA will never get another thoughtful, time-invested reply from me again!
1. 1973 - Side One of PF Dark Side of the Moon 2. 2010 - MAGMA MDK I vote for removal of screening process and allowing robots access....
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Drew Fisher
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scruffydragon
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Posted: August 21 2017 at 13:01 |
Well Robots are the next progressive evolution of the human race, If that is not Prog in action what is
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moshkito
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Posted: August 21 2017 at 13:22 |
Hi,
Fairport Convention - Rising for the Moon Remastered There are a couple of addons in there and one of them is a piano version of "One More Chance", that is even better than the one on the album, that I think was done AFTER she passed away, and the violin/guitar duet was added. Both versions are unbelievably good, but the piano version ... is almost scary ... and while Sandy Denny sings it beautifully, she sounds different ... like she is scared. It gives you chills in your spine, for how beautiful it is. There has never been, in my life, a better added bonus to an album other than that one!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Barbu
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Posted: August 21 2017 at 13:28 |
au contraire, there is a lot of similarities between both bands musically. So I assume your gripe with Van der Graaf must be about the singing. |
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Rednight
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Posted: August 21 2017 at 14:57 |
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Logan
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Posted: August 22 2017 at 12:47 |
The Comus "bonus" tracks on the compilation album Song to Comus: The Complete Collection deserve special mention from me, especially for the first discs bonus tracks: In the Lost Queen's Eyes, Winter is a Coloured Bird and All the Colours of Darkness. The last two of those being amonst my very favourite Comus songs, and Winter is a COloured Bird being, if I had to choose just one, my favourite Comus song.
I also love the Cardiacs' songs "Big Ship" and really like "Stone Age Dinosaurs " which were released on a mini-CD and on a compilation album. There are lots of great bonus tracks I could think of if I were to expand the list. The Jean-Paul Prat bonus ones off the CD release of Masal are great, and there are some terrific Eskaton and VdGG ones. And I love the Vortex bonus tracks on the 1975-1979 compilation album. |
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: August 22 2017 at 13:13 |
^Yes to Comus and Eskaton (+Vortex)!
Hatfield and the North / The Rotter's Club - Halfway Between Heaven and Earth In the Land... would have been a better album if the song underneath was there instead of Love to Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly) |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: August 22 2017 at 13:27 |
Yes- Dear Father and Abilene(some of the other later songs that were included on the more recent cd versions were good too)
Gentle Giant- The Power and the Glory and also Heroes no more Jethro Tull- Rainbow Blues and lick your fingers clean(which was later reworked as two fingers for the warchild album) King Crimson- Groon Genesis - It's yourself, happy the man, twilight alehouse, submarine Hatfield and the North- Let's eat real soon Pink Floyd- some good ones on the relics and works albums like embryo Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - August 22 2017 at 13:32 |
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