Make Your Own Renaissance Album!
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Topic: Make Your Own Renaissance Album!
Posted By: Argo2112
Subject: Make Your Own Renaissance Album!
Date Posted: June 25 2019 at 13:31
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Yes, It's back, Just when you thought the insanity may have ended it's time again for..." Make your own ------ album", This time, Renaissance. You get to pick 8 Renaissance tracks to go on your own compilation album. The one rule is you can only use one track form each existing album. Pick for any 8 albums you like. Don't worry about song length, just pick 8 songs. 1. Prologue 2. Ashes are Burning 3. Mother Russia 4. The Vultures Fly High 5. Ocean Gypsy (From Live at Carnegie Hall ) 6. Song for All Seasons 7. Jekyll & Hyde 8. Tyrant-Tula ( I know everyone hates this album but this was a cool song with a great bass line)
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: June 25 2019 at 14:19
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now you're talking! 1. On the Frontier 2. Mother Russia 3. Trip to the Fair 4. Ashes are Burning (Live at Carnegie Hall) 5. Midas Man 6. Song for all Seasons 7. Kalynda 8. Mystic and the Muse
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 25 2019 at 15:58
The best song on a great album!
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Argo2112 wrote:Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: June 25 2019 at 21:07
I like that album and the song too
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 26 2019 at 04:19
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Kings & Queens Past Orbits of Dust Mr. Pine (from the transitional group >> see Belgian TV Pop Shop) Rajah Khan Ashes Are Burning Mother Russia Trip to the Fair |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 28 2019 at 16:11
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"Prologue" "At the Harbour" "Things I Don't Understand" "Trip to the Fair" "Mother Russia" (live) "Can You Hear Me?" "A Song for All Seasons" "The Winter Tree" ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 16 2019 at 02:58
Here are my selections, with the YouTube videos to follow later. I'm surprised no one chose "Northern Lights" for their album. Maybe it was just too obvious a choice.  1. Island (Renaissance) 2. Face of Yesterday (Illusion) 3. Kiev (Prologue) 4. At the Harbour (Ashes Are Burning) 5. Mother Russia (Turn of the Cards) 6. Ocean Gypsy (Scheherazade and Other Stories) 7. The Sisters (Novella) 8. Northern Lights (A Song for All Seasons)
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 08:27
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1. Island 2. Face of Yesterday 3. Kiev 4. At the Harbour 5. Mother Russia 6. Ocean Gypsy 7. The Sisters 8. Northern Lights |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 08:41
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Hey Paul, I just saw them with the chamber orchestra last weekend. They did "Island" with Jim McCarty as guest, with a great orchestral part. Re "Face of Yesterday", that also appeared on the first ILLUSION album in 1977. If you didn't know, the original group reformed in the mid 1970s and couldn't call themselves Renaissance so opted for the name ILLUSION. They release 2 excellent albums, "Out of the Mist" and "Illusion"
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 08:42
Northern Lights is a great song but didn't make a dent in the singles charts in North America. IT was their only claim to fame in UK. Funny how that happened. Unfortunately it didn't give the band any momentum. It didn't help that Azure D'Or was pretty poor
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 09:13
Yes, I used to have both of those superb Illusion albums on vinyl and I now have most of the songs from those two albums on a Jane Relf 2-CD compilation. "Beautiful Country" from the first album is a beautiful song and it's always been one of my favourites. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 09:17
Renaissance also achieved some minor success with "Back Home Once Again" from the same album which was used as the theme tune to The Paper Lads TV series in England.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 09:21
Beautiful Country is great. So are "Isadora", "Madonna Blue" and "The Revolutionary" among others Is the Jane Relf album worth getting? Did she have solo albums? I know nothing about her career apart from Renaissance/Illusion.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 09:37
| I can definitely recommend Jane Relf's 2-CD compilation titled "Jane's Renaissance - The Complete Jane Relf Collection 1969-1995". It features all of her best-known songs with Renaissance, Illusion & Stairway. It's a real must-have for any Renaissance fan. My favourite track from the second Illusion album is "Wings Across the Sea" |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 09:45
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One from each album except Timeline and Tuscany: 2. Trip to the Fair 3. Things I Don't Understand 4. Bound for Infinity 5. Face of Yesterday 6. Okichi San 7. Island 8. Forever Changing 9. Mystic and the Muse 10. Ashes Are Burning
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 09:55
It was supposed to be an 8-track Renaissance album according to Argo2112, but I guess you could count those two extra tracks as a special edition album with two bonus tracks.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 10:04
that's a great one too. Apparently they spent less time on this album yet it sounds more sophisticated than the first one in some ways. I think it's more even too. I thought Solo Flight and even Candles are Burning (Ashes anyone?) on the first album were kind of weak
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 10:10
| The only slightly disappointing song for me on either of the two Illusion albums was "Cruising Nowhere". It wasn't a bad song, but it didn't sound much like the Renaissance I'd grown to know and love. |