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    Posted: January 23 2022 at 10:33
What songs do you like that has bookended themes where it starts and ends with a certain melody or theme. Examples include Tarkus, Starless, The Court of the Crimson King, Lady Fantasy, Pink Floyd albums like DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, and The Wall, Visit to Newport Hospital, Thick as a Brick, etc. 

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Oops, looking at albums, not songs. Embarrassed
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Queen's "White Queen (As It Began)" references Shakespeare on this fundamental concept which can be applied to pretty much any art: "so sad her eyes, smiling dark eyes, so sad her eyes, as it began... dear friends goodbye, no tears in my eyes, so sad it ends, as it began." Same melody and arrangement at the beginning and end of the song, Freddie's solo vocal over sparse guitar accompaniment.
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Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, Close to the Edge, etc. Too many to mention.
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

Oops, looking at albums, not songs. Embarrassed
 
I also thought the OP was about albums, not songs, because surely this would be quite common in songs, whereas in albums it would be uncommon, with notable examples such as Pink Floyd - Animals.
 
 
But I do have one song example and one album example that actually contains the song example in addition to having its own bookends.
 
 
The song example:
 
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Nightmare Forever - A Wizard of the Wind
 
 
 
The bookends of the album examples:
 
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Nightmare Forever - Nightmare Theme
 
 
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Nightmare Forever - Nightmare Forever
 
 



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Supper's Ready, to a degree.
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Trick of the tail starts with dance on a volcano and ends with los endos which returns to the dance on a volcano theme (and squonk too..)Smile

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The self-titled first album of Hatfield and the North, which is played as one long track, starts with "The Stubbs Effect" and ends with "The Other Stubbs Effect".






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Stairway to Heaven returns to "and she's buying a..." at the very end.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

The self-titled first album of Hatfield and the North, which is played as one long track, starts with "The Stubbs Effect" and ends with "The Other Stubbs Effect".




I think Hatfield's Mumps suite is also bookended as well. 
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This is really a common phenomenon in prog, since the tracks are often long enough to incorporate multiple themes and explore different areas, and then return to original theme from the start. It's called recapitulation, and is an idea that further links progressive rock to "art music" albeit through the lens and (usually) instrumentation of "popular music."

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Steve Hackett's A Tower Struck Down(?).
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Heart of the Sunrise by Yes starts and ends with the same riff.
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Ain Soph - A Story of Mysterious Forest 
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Originally posted by SuperMetro SuperMetro wrote:

What songs do you like that has bookended themes where it starts and ends with a certain melody or theme. Examples include Tarkus, Starless, The Court of the Crimson King, Lady Fantasy, Pink Floyd albums like DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, and The Wall, Visit to Newport Hospital, Thick as a Brick, etc. 

"Close To The Edge" is the first one I thought of!  I look forward to reading answers, thanks for starting this topic!
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Spock's Beard - The Light
King Crimson - Red
Gentle Giant - Boys In The Band (not counting coin toss in the beginning)
Yes - The Revealing Science of God (begins and ends with the chant)




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Renaissance - At the Harbour


Illusion - Face of Yesterday
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Illusion seems to be a offshoot of Renaissance.
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