best excess albums?
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Topic: best excess albums?
Posted By: Oprium
Subject: best excess albums?
Date Posted: January 21 2017 at 22:16
| albums like tales from topographic oceans. and mike oldfields amarok |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 01:38
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Brain Salad Surgery? TFTO Something Magic (Procol) A Passion Play |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 11:20
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I, for one, have never really bought into the idea of prog (or any music) ever going into "excess", but I can think of a few examples of albums that are extensive and ambitious in scope. No guarantees that you'll enjoy them, but you can't deny that the artists had a bold vision that they set out to execute: Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2 - Scenes From A Memory Dream Theater - The Astonishing Gandalf's Fist - A Clockwork Fable IQ - Subterranea Magma - Kobaia As well as the obvious examples like The Lamb, Tales, and Brain Salad Surgery, of course. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 11:38
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I'd suggest Afenginn's double LP / double CD from last year, OPUS, self described as "a composition built up in four movements, inspired by the form of the classical symphony". It's mainly acoustic music featuring sixteen musicians on all manner of instruments, including strings, horns, two drummers and a tuned percussionist and supplemented by a female choir. To boot the lyrics are written in a b*****dised form of Latin that they refer to as "street Latin". How much more prog than that can you actually get? Certainly their masterpiece to date, and a massive achievement that sounds like nothing else (other than, to some extent, their own recent albums, which now seem like precursors to this). After quite a few listens I have to say that I respect it rather than love it - there is a certain coolness to everything they do, even when the music is quite frenzied - but that may well come later. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 11:44
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Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness Its the one I always reach for when in the mood for excess. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 12:01
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Going strictly on the premise of the thread, I would say A Passion Play. Pretty ballsy to release that right after Thick as a Brick. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 13:23
I agree with this...Now get outta my head Magnum!
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Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 13:26
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Aphrodite's Child - 666 Klaus Schulze - X ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 13:56
| Zeit |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 14:07
And Cyborg!  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 14:08
Oh yeah! Especially the latest remaster with the Klangwald gig added on a bonus disc, ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 15:04
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Lamb lies down on broadway The Wall Tommy Quadrophenia Tales from topographic oceans Subterranea Flower Power Stardust we are(heck any flower kings album) Physical Graffiti Thick as a brick (more or less a parody of prog)
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Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 15:50
| What came to my mind was many of The Flower Kings' albums, especially the likes of Flower Power (a 60-minute epic, plus a couple of tracks AND an entire second disc of other songs) and Unfold the Future (bookended by 31- and 25-minute epics, totalling well over 2 hours). |
Posted By: Darious
Date Posted: January 22 2017 at 17:12
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I have a lot of respect for Charles Darwin by XII Alfonso. Triple CD album of quality music. ------------- Writing about truth is a little bit like getting your dick out in public and hoping no one laughs (Steve Hogarth) |