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Mushroom Sword
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Topic: Favorite Subtleties in Prog Posted: November 15 2010 at 18:57 |
What's one of your favorite extremely subtle or unimportant moments to prog? It could be choirs in songs, a guitarist copying on the guitar the notes that the vocalist is hitting, or a shirt worn by a musician while playing live, anything.
For me it's small little sound effects, like: Wish you Were Here by PF at 1:13 David Gilmour slides down the neck. Comfortable Numb by PF - at 2:51 Waters speaks about injecting him and in the background you hear a "ding" Easy Money by KC- at 1:23 he says, "tell a winner from a snake" in the background someone hisses.
What about you?
Edited by Mushroom Sword - March 20 2011 at 12:49
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topographicbroadways
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Posted: November 15 2010 at 19:10 |
the way the mellotron is layered multiple times in KC in the wake of poseidon i find to be proggasmic
some of the weird whispers added by syd barrett to the vocals on piper at the gates of dawn especially in pow r toc h are also very nice
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Posted: November 15 2010 at 19:24 |
every "wind" sound in Agalloch's songs are epic for me.
the different keyboard sound during the instrumental section of Octavarium (Dream Theater)
there are many, but I dont find them quite "subtle"; in fact, they contribute a lot to each song.
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Posted: November 15 2010 at 19:54 |
A couple that really make Crime of the Century work for me. The dark, distant, droning hum of the main theme of the title track sung behind the opening harmonica on School The cuckoo at the end of Asylum
The maniac screaming distantly in the crowd "LOUDER!!!", on Yessongs between Siberian Khatru and Heart of the Sunrise. Its only subtle because its in the background.
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RIREINC
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Posted: November 15 2010 at 20:51 |
"If you hear this whispering you're dying..." or something like that in "The Great Gig In The Sky", by Pink Floyd
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Posted: November 15 2010 at 21:29 |
RIREINC wrote:
"If you hear this whispering you're dying..." or something like that in "The Great Gig In The Sky", by Pink Floyd
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I think it's "I never said I was afraid of dying".
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Posted: November 15 2010 at 22:32 |
The "Trying to sound like one of the older bands" trend that some bands of today have, instead of trying to find their own original sound.
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 00:36 |
Bell's i can hear Bells
So the hole story is compleetly untrue, a big hoax
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 00:44 |
tamijo wrote:
Bell's i can hear Bells
So the hole story is compleetly untrue, a big hoax |
Dismal, pathetic chord sequence.
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 04:56 |
A Person wrote:
RIREINC wrote:
"If you hear this whispering you're dying..." or something like that in "The Great Gig In The Sky", by Pink Floyd
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I think it's "I never said I was afraid of dying".
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It's both, the first (If you hear this whispering you're dying) is hidden so well that you can't barely hear it even if you try to hear it, but if you really focus it shouldn't be too hard.
I think Roger is a genius for including stuff like that in the song, I love those small psycholigical jokes he includes in almost every album from Dark Side to Final Cut
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 04:59 |
A voice in Sober says "turn that S**t down! That cracked me up. Artistically speaking though, the triangle in and you and I is brilliant!
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 05:02 |
And how could I forget that great moment in Echoes, where we hear the first little "ding" that we heard in the beginning of the song, right after the dark passage.
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 07:35 |
One that I have in mind is the initial part of the instrumental coda of Mostly Autumn's "The Gap Is Too Wide", when Liam Davison passes from harping to rhythmic and Bryan Josh starts the same harping on his electrical guitar. Another is the bass single note played by Waters on Atom Heart Mother after the initial brass section to introduce the band over the orchestra. The Didgeridoo in Ayreon's "Day Sixteen: Loser" is another, but at the end of the same song while Mike Baker growls a high-pitched string instrument similar to a mandolin adding a touch of grotesque is even more remarkable.
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 07:37 |
"I'm eating your brain...." Angel's Egg - Gong
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RIREINC
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 12:16 |
I never understand why at the end of "Grantchester Meadows" by Pink Floyd there is someone chasing what appears to be a fly and then kills it...
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 12:23 |
^ Because flies are annoying.
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 12:50 |
The wrap around "we came in?" and "isn't this where" at the beginning and end of Pink Floyd's The Wall is one that immediately came to me.
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 15:48 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
tamijo wrote:
Bell's i can hear Bells
So the hole story is compleetly untrue, a big hoax |
Dismal, pathetic chord sequence.
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Dang Walter ... now you're quoting Tchaikovsky!
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 15:49 |
Billy Pilgrim wrote:
A voice in Sober says "turn that S**t down! That cracked me up. Artistically speaking though, the triangle in and you and I is brilliant! |
Hmmm ... you sure you are not talking about Alice Bowie? ... ???
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moshkito
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Posted: November 16 2010 at 15:51 |
Hi,
My favorite one of all is in "Apocaliptic Bore" from AD2's Vive La Trance album.
That break, and they do it twice, is magnificent and sets up the guitar part magnificently ...
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