Spring Songs!
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Topic: Spring Songs!
Posted By: The Hemulen
Subject: Spring Songs!
Date Posted: April 21 2009 at 03:01
| Ahh... Yet another beautiful Spring morning here in the UK (it won't last, I'm sure!). To celebrate I'm currently listening to Spring Song by Gryphon (from their oft-misunderstood final album Treason). Can anyone think of any other prog songs that are either lyrically and/or musically inspired by this season? If so, do share. |
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: April 21 2009 at 03:55
| Possibly Deep Purple's April? |
Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: April 23 2009 at 23:12
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"Vert" by Harmonium is one. I'm not sure if he sings about spring, though, because I don't speak french.
------------- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 05:46
Vert, jaune et rouge et bleu Green, yellow and red and blue
J'ai le soleil dans les yeux Sun is in my eyes Avant de nous faire ses adieux Before waving goodbye Ché p'us quel de nous deux I don't remember which one of us two Qui va baisser les yeux who will look down Il vient de commencer à descendre It just began to fall Avant de se rendre Before surrending Y'va nous montrer ses couleurs It will show us its colors Comme s'il avait eu peur As if it were afraid Y'est allé rougir ailleurs It went reddening elsewhere Gris autour et noir au loin Grey around and black beyond La forêt le rejoint Forest follows it Pareil au jeu d'un magicien As a magician's play La forêt le retient Forest holds it back J'vient de commencer à descendre I just began to fall Avant de me rendre before surrending Faut que j'm'invente d'autres couleurs I have to find myself other colors C'est comme si j'avais eu peur It's as if I were afraid De me retrouver ailleurs To find myself elsewhere T'oublier toute une année Forget you one whole year Une année pour t'oublier A year to forget you Amène la folie, perd la raison brings madness, goes out of one's mind Mais j'ai le goût de m'rattraper But I like to catch up De m'retrouver to find myself back Just a sunset here ? ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Anderson III wrote:Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 05:56
with Pick Withers on drums (later with Dire Straits)
 The title of the album says it all "spring, ah it's you" ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 02:50
 XTC - Skylarking. An album based on the season's cycle.  Renaissance - A Song For All Seasons The first track,'Opening Out'. -------------  Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 07:05
Fred Frith's Domaine De Planousset from the album Speechless. An instrumental track that perfectly conveys the mood of spring without the pollen.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 08:22
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 09:19
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Though it is never mentioned expressly in the song, Caravan's "Golf Girl" makes me think of spring. The same could be said of "Hello Hello", which is accompanied by the sound of hedge-clipping shears. Incidentally, here in the DC area we are having a massive heatwave, so more than spring it feels like high summer... I think we'll be hitting 90°F today  . |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 12:25
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Black Sabbath - Orchid Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song Beatles - Norwegian Wood 
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Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 12:34
Wow, thanks! I really liked those lyrics too! ------------- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo |
Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: April 26 2009 at 12:38
When I think of music for spring, I think of PFM's Per Un Amico 
 ...& Franco Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries
  ...this old favorite is quite fitting as well:
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: April 29 2009 at 09:49
I'll have to agree on Per Un Amico...such a great album for this time of year. And another piece which I consider progressive and which I've always associated with spring (whether it's only for the name or not I don't know, but I've been thinking of it around spring since I was younger and first listened to it) is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Even the subject matter sort of has to do with spring, just instead of the happy light side it's the dark sacrificial side. 
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 29 2009 at 23:15
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Harmonium's various repertoire of songs is all I can think of... ------------- 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 20 2009 at 11:15
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supertramp - even in the quitest moments and Surley |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 20 2009 at 13:59
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1583 - Julverne . Hard to believe that its members of Univers Zero, Present etc... playing this wonderful, shimmering impressionist music. Start with Spiering from ../album.asp?id=7387 - À Neuf or almost any track on their two first.
------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: May 21 2009 at 03:29
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It's a bit obvious I guess but Curved Air covered Vivaldi's Four Seasons...
Then there's "April" from the S/T Deep Purple album, but the track's very maudlin and doesn't really seem very uplifting 'cos poor old Rod Evans has just lost his lady. ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |