Random Song

"The Nile Song" from the More soundtrack is great, and so unlike anything else Floyd did.

I love Tormato too.. and Release, Release is my favorite on the album also.  I actually skip over Circus also... i guess we all agree on that.  I use to play the album for a girlfriend alot.. She actually had "Onward" played at her wedding.

Songs that I like that are unusual for me...

When I'm in need of a little soothing, I love Enya's "Watermark".  It doesn't need lyrics.. the music says it all.

I love Hooverphonic's "Eden" and "Strange Effect"

David Sylvain has a song called "Thalheim" that I'm addicted to

There was a song from the tv show La Femme Nikita that I just love... but I don't think it was actually ever recorded for record... called "Unglued".. I have a version of it taped from the tv show.

Dido's first hit... "Here With Me"... I feel that song.. I could have written it, as well with Beth Orton's song "She Cries Your Name"

Nine Inch Nails -  "Closer"... I love a guy who can describe sex in a song with such passion...

 

emdiar wrote: My first hearing of Genesis, "The Return Of The Giant Hog Weed". I was 12 and reading "The Day Of The Triffids" at school at the time, so the song took on a greater significance for me than it otherwise might have done.

 

This happens to me ALL the time. I associate songs with feelings or events that are going on during its first impressions. The funny thing is that through some kind of synchronicity the events and the general feeling of the song are always related (Hog Weeds and man eating plants), This has happened waaaaaaay too many times to count but one time I remember is listening to welcome to the machine when I was about 18 in my friends room with a bunch of other dudes. Thoughts started to fill my head about how we are all machines and we were sitting in a room full of machines and if some alien was observing us from space that this is all it would look like to it. A bunch of different machines in a room.

Well, the drugs helped too  , but the fact still remains that every time I hear that song I think of the aliens. Out there. Oh yeah. 

Trouserpress wrote: My favourite cut from Tull's Heavy Horses has always been 'Journeyman' which might seem a little unusual. I adore the lyrics, (bland, commuter-like characters appear a lot in my writing) and the superb bass line. I

I was on Tull's show in 1995--unbelievable. Somehow I missed by that time  The Crest Of A Knave--and it was Hot Night in Budapest which absolutely conquered me. Having this album now--live version is absolutely irresistible, incomparable!!! As for bass--be it Yes, Tull or CK, virtuoso bass, which has its own partiture is a must. In many respects the sound and vibe of great prog is defined by virtuoso bass lines--Tull being case in the point!!

richardh wrote: I like 'Tormato' as well Yes are as tight on this as any band I've ever heard.So what if the tracks are not 20 minutes long.

 

Yep And Steve actually plays....riffs in it (once the "live" part starts)--they really rock there!!! However, duel of Steve and Rick on my recent visit to Yes concert, when they played The South Side of the Sky--ooohhhhh--couple minutes of instrumental magic and they are pushing 60-s man!!!!

JrKASperov wrote: Tormato isn't that bad actually! It has a lot of Taleslike songs. Only shorter.

 

My favorite being Release Release--enormous energy!!

emdiar wrote: Russiandude wrote:   1. Turn Of The Century (masterpiece) from otherwise average (that is good) Yes album Going For The One;   Do you mean to say that "Awaken" is average?!? As prog goes this track is just about as "essential" as it gets, imo.

 

Absolutely NOT. Best part of my life was spent in an attempt to convince number of the progfans (such were the circumstances) that GFTO and Tormato are sonic masterpieves by Yes and for some reason they didn't think so--so from now on--in order for me not to be I always use caution when stating something about those two Yes albums in superlative terms, I say GOOD, while mean--essential. Yet, GFTO is not my most favorite Yes album, for some reason Fragile and Tormato (plus some other more contemporary Yes work) are. 

 

Wondering, from VdGG's World Record. I think this album, if not bad, is so uneven, at times full of meandering jams that show some exhaustion both in teh foursome's interplays and Hammill's writing (SOME exhaustion, not total lack of creativity, let's state this clear).

Yet Wondering is soooo moving, soooo intense - it deserved a better companion repertoire, maybe it should have been part of Godbluff or Still Life.

Basic musical ideas by Banton, lyrics and additional melodic lines by Hammill - a mixture of Gothic depth and Stravinsky's splendor, in a prog rock context.

My first hearing of Genesis, "The Return Of The Giant Hog Weed". I was 12 and reading "The Day Of The Triffids" at school at the time, so the song took on a greater significance for me than it otherwise might have done.  

Russiandude wrote:   1. Turn Of The Century (masterpiece) from otherwise average (that is good) Yes album Going For The One;

Do you mean to say that "Awaken" is average?!? As prog goes this track is just about as "essential" as it gets, imo.