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Poll Question: Section that you enjoy more?
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3 [6.82%]
2 [4.55%]
1 [2.27%]
13 [29.55%]
18 [40.91%]
4 [9.09%]
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    Posted: April 12 2014 at 22:26
I love the whole piece, but Apocalypse in 9/8 is just brilliant.
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Originally posted by The Bearded Bard The Bearded Bard wrote:

Apocalypse in 9/8.

To quote a friend of mine, "perhaps the best 5 minutes of music ever recorded".

I don't get that. When you have all those wonderful melodies and the brilliant ending, it's basically Tony Banks running scales up and down the keyboard. 

btw - the timings are wrong - 20:51 on my version is when Gabriel sings "our souls ignite".


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Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

Apocalypse sounds pretty standard to my ears. Bit of filler from one melody to another

that's because its been ripped off so many timesWink
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Quoting The Bearded Bard friend, refering to Apocalypse in 9/8 "...perhaps the best 5 minutes of music ever recorded..." even for me, but it could be by this way just because it is part of this whole thing called Supper's ready, so as Dellinger said "...they flow perfectly together (the sections) and make a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts..." perfect definition.
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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

It would be interesting what people would think if they had broken it up in to distinct tracks rather than calling it a single song. Would it be as loved?


Not at all, I believe. Unless, perhaps, they had been presented as different tracks but kept in the same order and without pause between one part and another (such as side 2 of Abbey Road with the Beatles) - which would be just about the same as it actually is. But if it had been broken into different "unrelated" songs (as they did with their "Duke" epic in the 80's), definitley not. Plus, for me, despite the fact that the sections are clearly identifiable and different, they flow perfectly together and make a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts (and I may add that all of which are perfectly beautiful in their own).
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Apocalypse sounds pretty standard to my ears. Bit of filler from one melody to another
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Apocalypse in 9/8.

To quote a friend of mine, "perhaps the best 5 minutes of music ever recorded".
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Just to be different I'm not a massive fan of Apocalypse, I voted for the brilliant climatic ending.
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I just see and hear it as one piece of music to be honest.  If pushed I'll go for Guaranteed....  Seen as it's not proving too popular Shocked.
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^ Depends on the potential effort of the band. Some could make nice ballads, like the interlude between "Willow Farm" and "Apocalypse" could be a part of a short ballad.

I'm of the school of thought that the whole sounds rather patchy, and each one of those sections would find its own niche elsewhere.


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It would be interesting what people would think if they had broken it up in to distinct tracks rather than calling it a single song. Would it be as loved?
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Apocalypse in 9/8, the peak of the epic, followed close by Lover's leap.
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I'll give a vote to Ikhnaton and Itsacon. I love that part.
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Lover's Leap. Simply beautiful.
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Of course it's gonna be the 'Apocalypse In 9/8' section but the entire piece is a pinnacle of 70's Prog.
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Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

Haven't played it for ages but it starts well then gets better about 1/3 of the way then it goes down hill at the half way mark and steadily goes downhill to the end


Have you heard any of the live versions? There's one with Gabriel on "Live at the Rainbow" if I remember well, and one with Collins on "Seconds Out". Both are more powerful at the final sections, so they might fix the song for you (though the middle "funny" section is made worse for my taste, specially the one on "Seconds Out").
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Points: 12608 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2014 at 21:38
Not sure, every part is great and I would find it really hard to choose one I enjoy better, specially if I were to listen to it isolated. Perhaps if I listen to the song again I might make a choice more easily. If it could be a couple of parts together, I guess it would be the last 2 or three parts, just after the "funny" section.
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Apocalypse for sure... Bloody amazing part. The whole Supper's ready is great though.
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