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Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
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    Posted: March 17 2018 at 11:01
Some transitory tracks under two minutes that instantly came to mind. Which do you think works best either as a standalone track or in the context of the album?

I've played the Focus, Jethro Tull  and Gong ones the most but I'd have to pick between "Another Green World", "Aigrette" and "Cariocinesi" if looking at tracks playing a more important role on their respective albums. Hatfield & the North for today.
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Horizons.
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Acquiring the Taste.  I love this little view into the musical mind of one of the masters of counterpoint, Kerry Minnear.  I love those 70's synth only albums from Tomita, Wendy Carlos, Morton Subotnik, etc and this piece shows what happens when you lock Kerry in a room with a Moog.  
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Cheap Day Return is my favourite in Aqualung, although that album really hasn´t got any bad tracks.
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Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

Horizons.


Second that. Nice classically influenced Steve Hackett piece.
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Has to be Fugue by ELP. Always consider it an integral part of The Endless Enigma, but if it's being treated as an interlude, then fair enough. A lovely piano piece by Keith Emerson. I played it on the evening when I heard of Keith's passing, and I honestly had tears in my eyes as I heard it (what a soft bugger I am!)

Horizons is rather special too! Always expect to hear "Walking across the sitting room...." immediately after it!
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Tull has so many excellent ultra-short tunes, I don't know which I'd pick. Take for instance....
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Points: 12654 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2018 at 17:33
Originally posted by SquonkHunter SquonkHunter wrote:

Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

Horizons.


Second that. Nice classically influenced Steve Hackett piece.

Sure, but that's perhaps it's because the song is a direct lift from Bach. Can't go wrong adapting Johann.
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Mr. Hackett’s Horizons.
Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Don't the Moody Blues have a lot of these short little interlude things? Not sure what else to call them.
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So many great little songs on this one. Anthony Phillips, Camel, Genesis, Caravan, Etc. Love them all, but I'll have to vote for Jethro Tull. I love Cheap Day Return.
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Arco Iris gets my vote here, but I do also enjoy Acquiring The Taste.
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Horizons > Acquiring the Taste > Cheap Day Return
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Points: 19942 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2018 at 06:54
Originally posted by Squonk19 Squonk19 wrote:

Has to be Fugue by ELP. 
 
I agree, although both my CD copies of the album have Fugue starting in the wrong place.
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Between Genesis and Tull.......or Hatfield and KC.....or.....


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oh definitely Introduzione... now that should have been expanded and explored...  I love the playfulness of that riff and especially that thundering 'tron.  PFM could pack more badassery in a minute than groups like Genesis could do in a whole album
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