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Poll Question: Which track is your favourite?
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    Posted: April 19 2013 at 08:32
Ocean Gypsy - probably my favourite Renaissance song
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2013 at 08:10
Trip to the Fair - wonderful.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 23:58
I'll have to go with the sensational opener - 'Trip To The Fair'.  But the entire album is delicious as they come.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 20:13
Hard not to give it to Scheherazade, but the whole album is amazing!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 19:53
Scheherazade/Fair/Gypsy/Fly High
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 19:50
Trip to the Fair 
“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 19:19
Well, the whole album is sublime! It was one of the very first prog albums I bought, and had no idea what to expect.

But I'm going to vote for the `underdog' here, `The Vulture Flies High' is kind of a terrific classy pop track!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 19:13
Title track, easily. Though I do feel it's a bit overlong and looses a bit of continuity on the way.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 15:41
Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

I think I already see a winner here Big smile. A beautiful, beautiful album that is truly a masterpiece. My vote goes to the obvious option, Song Of Scheherazade.
Not sure if your choice is an obvious one since it's longer than the opening track because it contains sections that may throw some people off (though some of them may grow on you, like the solo piano composition in the second half; "Fugue for the Sultan" I think it's called). Just saying. Wink

Me: A tie between the first and the last tracks. The 25-minute wonder may have been stretched too far, but damn, it's got "The Young Prince And Princess As Told By Scheherazade". However, "Trip To The Fair" does not have a single moment that loses me, not even in the slightest; gotta listen to the whole thing as it flows so perfectly.

Ah, screw it. Not gonna choose. No vote!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2012 at 22:18
I'm going to go against the grain and vote "Vultures". I must say, the lyrics can really speak to me at times when I find some vultures of my own hovering above me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2011 at 14:27
Originally posted by Lark the Starless Lark the Starless wrote:

A Trip to the Fair...but nobody was there...

They left to hang out with Steven Wilson. Tongue

I only have the album in the form of a two disc compilation but everything from the album was in included.  Prime Renaissance to be sure.  I went for Vultures.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 29 2011 at 14:30
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2011 at 14:07
Also A trip to the Fair.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2011 at 14:01
Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Trip to the fair easily, one of my favourite Renaissance tracks.  The epic is my least favourite on a strong album.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2011 at 20:05
A Trip to the Fair...but nobody was there...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2011 at 10:44
Fantastic album. A trip to the fair for me.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2011 at 08:39

I voted for "Song Of Scheherazade" but "Ocean Gypsy" is a very close second.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2011 at 08:05
Ocean Gypsy is my fave, but the epic title track is quite good too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2011 at 22:06

Close between the first two.

 

I'll give a pity vote to the Vultures.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2011 at 21:30
Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

No question: Trip to the Fair. One of the most unsettling and mood-manipulating songs ever created. Never fails to send shivers through me. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2011 at 07:12
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