Favorite Subtleties in Prog

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

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.

"If you hear this whispering you're dying..." or something like that in "The Great Gig In The Sky", by Pink Floyd

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.

tamijo wrote: Bell's i can hear Bells So the hole story is compleetly untrue, a big hoax

Dismal, pathetic chord sequence.

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!

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. 

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...

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.

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!