Short ballads from classic bands
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Topic: Short ballads from classic bands
Posted By: windycrawford
Subject: Short ballads from classic bands
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 11:34
| All are top-notch short songs from the giants of rock. Interesting, what u gonna choose. |
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Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 11:57
| VdGG - House With No Door |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 12:03
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Great Gig - hard to describe as 'ballad' in form. |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 12:09
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All in the order from Yes to KC. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: windycrawford
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 12:09
It's hard to be exact in categories and definitions in such polls. Surely it's not the best representave of ballad as a genre, but at least it provokes same emotions as most of the pure ballads. And imo it feets in this poll quite well
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Flight123 wrote:Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 12:10
As ballads go, I'm torn between VDGG and Pink Floyd but I've been loving H To He recently, so I'm erring towards "House With No Door" 
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 12:11
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House with no door ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 12:53
| I'll go with Floyd on this one... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 13:27
| Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 13:41
| Van der Graaf just, and only just, before Floyd |
Posted By: dave-the-rave
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 13:53
Locomotive Breath - A classic example of the ballad form.  |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 14:25
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VdGG ------------- |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 14:33
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I've seen all good people. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 14:35
| First vote Night Watch by King Crimson. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 15:04
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Fallen Angel Time Table or Seven Stones -------------  
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 15:35
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KC and ELP are tied for me so I flipped a coin and ELP won.
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 17:21
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Locomotive Breath, even if it's not a ballad. Second place goes to The Night Watch, one of the very few things by KC that I actually like. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 19:37
| That's funny, I'm listening to the Night Watch right now! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 20:15
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VDGG ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 20:44
Only 3 votes for The Night Watch? Apologies to Starless, but I think it's probably my favorite King Crimson track. Is there a better song about a painting? I think not. 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 21:32
| I was thinking about voting for "From the Beginning", which is really beautiful... but then I saw "Great Gig" and just had to vote for it. Though I agree it kind of doesn't fit the ballad description, nor does it sit well among the others here (I guess Wish you Were Here would have fit better). |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 27 2015 at 22:08
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VDGG > Crimson ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 00:35
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ELP - Greg Lake at his best ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 00:54
| When I make up my mind it'll be either From the Beginning or Night Watch. |
Posted By: JesusisLord
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 00:56
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You See It's All Clear, You Were Meant to Be Here… From The Beginning…………….. ------------- And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11 |
Posted By: windycrawford
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 01:43
I bet Fallen Angel wouldn't have left any chance for other great songs in this poll. So I restrained myself from putting it in. Forgot about Time Table tho...
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 01:56
| I'll go for Lake's best song off his best album with ELP. |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 02:11
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From the Beginning. A great song for summer with some of Greg Lake's best acoustic and electric guitar playing plus an excellent moog solo. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: windycrawford
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 02:45
Actually quite astonished at this as well, The song has amazing catarthical intro, beautiful gentle melody and, while not complex by crimson standarts, still impressive solo.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 03:12
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The Great Gig in the Sky just above House With No Door and Night Watch. ------------- 
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Posted By: Altairius
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 05:24
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I never thought of those last three as ballads. I went with From the Beginning, but House With No Door is close. The Night Watch was in my top 5 of Crimson for a while. It's probably not now, but it's lovely.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 06:12
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 06:42
ELP - From the beginning...  Good list. Night Watch would come a close second. Are they all really ballads?? Can't really remember exactly what a ballad is, and don't have time to Google, but if someone asked me to describe Locomotive Breath, I'm not sure I'd say it was a ballad. Great gig also doesn't have any lyrics, and I thought a ballad had to tell some kind of story...  Whatever, nice list.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 07:03
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Shoot... I know nothing about Van Der Graff Generator but I actually am familiar with House with No Door, and it's a sad song... a really sad song. This one wins here. ------------- 
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Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 07:06
| usually I pick the first available Yes option but From the Beginning is one of my favorite songs, so I'm going for it. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 07:46
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House With No Door. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 07:53
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King Crimson
------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 14:17
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that great gig tho ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 15:06
| I gotta go with Night Watch, simply lovely to listen to every time |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 15:44
| I've Seen All Good People, one of my favorite Yes songs. |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 19:33
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House With No Door ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 28 2015 at 20:57
Not prog, but that 'classic ballad' Vincent by Don Mclean is also great. Both have a great atmosphere. |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: May 21 2015 at 19:39
Jethro Tull, Locomotive Breath.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |