Some Renaissance Songs - Progressive Rock Music Forum

SUCH a hard poll for me. I had to go with Mother Russia because of that middle section that is the purest example of musical beauty for me. But I think that Day of the Dreamer, A Song for All Seasons, and Midas Man are all absolutely superb and the others are all at least very good, even Jeckyll and Hyde.

ps - Black Flame is also superb

Thank God, Cold is Being was not included, so I voted for Mother Russia.
But it is a difficult Poll anyway. Many great songs!

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All great songs. I have been listening to Renaissance for 40 years now. My vote went to Running Hard, which defines their sound more than any of the others.

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

The Vultures

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

Argo2112 wrote:

I kept the epics out of this one (Ashes are Burning & Scheherazade) just to keep it fair.

Those two last longer but prog doesn't get much more epic than Mother Russia.

I tried to find a reason not to vote for the latter epic as I like the rest of the songs (except Ocean Gypsy is just a tad too much on the musical-sounding side to my tastes - would be from one of the better musicals ever made though) and love Vultures, Prologue + Running Hard. But my honest vote has got to be for the wondrous epic already comfortably ahead of the rest.

-A personal favorite not in any of the four Renaissance-polls is Touching Once (Is So Hard To Keep)... and seemingly one of the few that considers their first and only sidelong Song of Scheherazade not all that successful as a whole.

Mother Russia

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the Vultures Fly High above me sometimes so I picked that.

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Poll Question: Which of these do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Prologue	3	[7.89%]
Carpet of the Sun	0	[0.00%]
Day of the Dreamer	4	[10.53%]
Mother Russia	15	[39.47%]
The Vultures Fly High	2	[5.26%]
A Song for All Seasons	3	[7.89%]
Running Hard	5	[13.16%]
Ocean Gypsy	6	[15.79%]
Midas Man	0	[0.00%]
Jekyll & Hyde	0	[0.00%]
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