Cirkus-like music in Progressive rock songs
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Topic: Cirkus-like music in Progressive rock songs
Posted By: Svetonio
Subject: Cirkus-like music in Progressive rock songs
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 06:44
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I love it. For example.. |
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 06:53
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First 2 that come to mind are: King Crimson - Cirkus (obviously) Procol Harum - Twas Teatime At The Circus I'll let you know if I think of any more  EDIT: Renaissance - Trip To The Fair (not quite circus)
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 08:35
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There's that short calliope part on Court by KC.....but I can't think of another right now. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 09:17
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BRIAN ENO - "Back in Judy's Jungle" From "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)" (1974) A nicely goofy oom pa pa kinda song. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 09:31
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The middle section from "21st Century Schizoid Man" comes to mind immediately, as does the battle section to "The Gates of Delirium". ------------- "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?" |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 15:53
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The Nektar album Down To Earth is based on a Circus theme. Not that bad of an album really. The opening song from Samla Mammas Manna's debut, Circus Apparatha is very quirky and carnival-like. |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 16:17
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Wild Colonial Boy from Devin Townsend is kinda circussy, everything Primus ever wrote (if Primus is prog). Intermission by Tool. Trying to think...
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 17:59
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Most Samla Mammas Manna music is derived from circus music. One of my favorites is "Carnival" from the very first Mr Bungle album |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 19:49
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Tom Ozric wrote:Posted By: freudiana
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 01:40
| Circus Brimstone by the The Flower Kings? |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 02:01
Bob Calvert's prescence doesn't hurt either 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 05:48
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Unexpects In a Flesh Aquarium yet, that whole album would fit better than some of the suggestions here (21st Century Schizoid Man? ).
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 05:49
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The sadly missed Mr Ayers: ------------- What? |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:39
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The beginning of "Ifrån klarhet till klarhet" and the ending of "Längtans klocka", both by Änglagård. Might be more carnival than cirkus music though. -------------  
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 09:56
Just reminded me of another one - Karn Evil 9!
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 11:39
Carousel maybe? You would think if it was one of your favourites you would know the name  |
Posted By: stalker01
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 15:53
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Hello. I have on minidisc an album from a band called IL MONSTRO, which comes from Spain and is a beautiful blend of cirkus-like music and free jazz, with plenty of wind-instruments. It's not funny at all, being melancholic most of the time. Another one you should try is the first album of ALAMAINMAN VASARAT : I can't stand my friends shouting : "please, stop this dull cirkus-like music !!!" Very fine cd with influences from Klezmer and east-european music, but with heavy guitars though. |
Posted By: stalker01
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 16:09
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Hello... again. I have made some researches about IL MONSTRO : it's a french (not spanish) band which has recorded 3 cds. The one I think you would like is called : " Bleu nuit et les silhouettes aux chapeaux". Weird name for strange music, but the most prog-cirkus-enjoyable-jazz you can find !!!! |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 19:20
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King Crimson's "circus" is an obvious example but there is also: Shadow Circus by Shadow Circus. Also, Grobschnitt's "solar music live" has moments that are circus like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEyeKLIcVbc |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 22:26
DOH! Too many beers does things to a doggie brain! Carousel is the correct answer and you win the grand prize! |
Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 23:31
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I find a lot of the Thinking Plague type sound to be like that. ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 00:55
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If you're looking for a dilapidated carnival vibe, "After All" by David Bowie should do the trick. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 02:21
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Nicely done by Mr Rundgren.. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 09:57
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what is the difference form Circus, vaudeville Music and cabaret music -------------  
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 12:29
Yeah, that one is a good one indeed |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 13:20
Quite a lot in my estimation. What we associate with circus music all stems from this one piece of music: But played by a small and somewhat not very good troupe of travelling musicians that were essentially a small marching band (drums and brass). The music is usually a march (2/4 time) but can also be a waltz (3/4 time) depending on what act the music is accompanying. Carnival music is often regarded the same being the same as Circus music as the music played is usually waltzes or marched but here the music is often played by a steam organ (calliope or calliaphone) and looks like this:  Vaudeville, Music Hall and cabaret music is nothing like either of those, however Dark Cabaret (e.g., Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls, Emilie Autumn, Gabby Young and Other Animals etc) does sometimes incorporate circus-like music. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 18:29
| I believe Miriodor has some stuff that is circus like also. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 22:47
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Maestro Mr Hackett also couldn't resist the beauty of cirkus music.. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 03:47
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Just amazing.. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 10:16
| Love is All (featuring Ronnie James Dio) from Roger Glover's The Butterfly Ball and Grasshopper's Feast. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 25 2014 at 04:19
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Something from 'prog roots'.. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 20:21
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Hoelderlin – Circus (fr. “Clowns and Clouds”) There’s also the calliope-sounding tune at the end of Neon Magic by Camel, which is actually a quote from Rhayader. ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 04:26
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Just as the title of the song says .. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 04 2015 at 01:34
Circus Tragedyfrom http://tonycastellano.bandcamp.com/album/walking-like-rudy" rel="nofollow - Tony Castellano http://tonycastellano.bandcamp.com/track/circus-tragedy" rel="nofollow - http://tonycastellano.bandcamp.com/track/circus-tragedy
Released at May 8, 2002 "Not really titled after any particular event. The first part sounds like a circus with everybody happy and then some unspecified terrible thing occurs, as suggested by the ominous-sounding end section. However, I think the final chord conveys an air of hopefulness." Tony Castellano
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 10 2015 at 16:09
| The end section of Blood, Sweat, and Tears' Spinning Wheel (sort of). |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: January 10 2015 at 19:25
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Arcturus second album is a big recomandation -------------
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 11 2015 at 06:23
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A very good one by the French outfit Eclat: click http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=562" rel="nofollow - here .
-o0o- And another one that comes to my mind, from the Dutch band Solution, 1971: ------------- 
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Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: February 24 2015 at 03:59
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Very nice thread indeed and i'd like to contribute with "Mouse And Cheese" by Massachusetts' Krunkelstiltskin - i Bandcamp link:
http://krunkelstiltskin.bandcamp.com/track/mouse-and-cheese" rel="nofollow - http://krunkelstiltskin.
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: February 24 2015 at 04:11
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I like this cover by B for Bang, but most hate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPzDpGnVLpQ
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Posted By: Kayleur
Date Posted: February 24 2015 at 07:51
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You wish to do a radio show or mixtape on the theme of circus? Here, I give it you on a silver platter: Wakeman - Montezuma's revenge Fairfeild Parlour - sunnyside circus L'Ensemble Raye - rag n' roll (Nimal also has circus sound in their lps) Happy The Man - carosel Celebrated Ratcliffe Stout Band - track 2 Samlas - system system Flairk - "Circus" lp , last track side 1 Idle Race - skelton & roundabout Rodelius - cafe Stone Circus - carnival of love earth & Fire - same Ralph McTell - clown Blast Furnace - Mr Bobo Merchants of Dream - lovelife purple circus Motive - baby of the may Iskra - dolce vita Hackett - india rubberman Virgineers - love circus Yes - circus of heaven Maledictus Sound - crazy circus Robert Jacobs - entire lp Federal Duck - circus in the sea family tree - sideshow 12th night - creepshow Enid - ringmaster Julius Victor - circus lady CMU- clown Flock- Uranian circus - clown McCully Workshop - circus Bullenbush Band - clown Exception - sabre dance Horslips - hall of mirrors Micheal Moorcock's Deep Fix -New World's Fair entire lp Lee Micheals - carnival of life |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 24 2015 at 09:11
| Not exactly prog, but Blood, Sweat, and Tears' Spinning Wheel sounds rather circus-sy towards its end. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: February 24 2015 at 14:08
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the middle section of PF's Poles Apart; less cirkus & more carnival if you ask me, but whatever. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Littlecarrots
Date Posted: February 28 2015 at 19:31
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iamthemorning's 5/4 is great example of this I think. Also, there's Sigur Rós Sé Lest, that has a brief wind section that sounds a little bit 'circusy', like a marching band playing circus music. Also, Diablo Swing Orchestra music can get a little circus-like from time to time, though right now I can't think of an exact song.
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: March 01 2015 at 00:33
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I was listening to Miriodor's Cobra Fakir the other day and heard a bit of "circus music" sound. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 01 2015 at 06:42
Definitely, especially in the opening song, "La roue" (The Wheel)  . Another recent album that often hints at circus music is MoeTar's Entropy of the Century. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: March 05 2015 at 19:33
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The beginning of Queen's "Brighton Rock", and of Steve Hackett's "The Voice of Necam". And the end of the Who's "The Dirty Jobs".
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Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: March 05 2015 at 20:32
| Kayleurs mix is fantastic i checked most of those songs on youtube good stuff yo. I would like to point out that while early seventies Genesis didn't sound much like a circus, they look very theatrical and sometime circus like with Peter Gabriel in flower costume and such. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:05
Good call with the Hackett reference. Within the Top 10 for this thread easily. |
Posted By: justin4950834-2
Date Posted: March 28 2015 at 19:48
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Todd Rundgren Drunken Blue Rooster and his other loopy carnivale circus music. The Galloping Gaucho by Stackridge |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 05 2015 at 04:58
...As for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjSLF8r_Pw" rel="nofollow - Flamingo & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYgsELoMNE" rel="nofollow - Zen Acher from A Wizard, A True Star (1973), and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDLdhzVh0Q" rel="nofollow - Golden Goose from Healing (1981) |
Posted By: Terra Australis
Date Posted: April 05 2015 at 07:37
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Vicious Hairy Mary! Great Australian band... ------------- Allomerus. Music with progressive intent. http://allomerus.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - http://allomerus.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 06 2015 at 02:35
| Steve Hackett's http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/The+Wheel+s+Turning/7kwxC5?src=5" rel="nofollow - The Wheel's Turning is a great tune. |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: April 10 2015 at 11:42
Trip to the Fair was the first song that came to mind. Its not circussy all the way through, but it nicely blends a circus-like theme into a larger work. Also thought of Circus of Heaven by Yes. Musically, this doesn't sound too like the circus, but the subject matter is. ------------- Z |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 14 2015 at 03:58
Finsbury Park by The Royal Vincident http://theroyalvincident.bandcamp.com/track/finsbury-park" rel="nofollow - http://theroyalvincident.bandcamp.com/track/finsbury-park  |
Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: April 19 2015 at 08:33
| The end of Lizard by King Crimson, The Big Top, is very Circus like. I heard a reviewer say it was probably to bring the listener back because the first song on the album is Cirkus |
Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: April 19 2015 at 12:41
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On the last Bumblefoot album called Little Brother Is Watching, there's a song called Cuterebra with a circus-music spirit ------------- 
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: May 17 2015 at 00:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45k_dzjEX2w" rel="nofollow - The Circus in the Clearing by Gandalf's Fist ( from 2014 album A Forest of Fey ) |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: June 18 2015 at 01:40
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I'v Been Crying by Carmen, 1975 |
Posted By: POTA
Date Posted: June 18 2015 at 10:58
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http://https://youtu.be/r77rz_v93-s?t=311" rel="nofollow - http://https://youtu.be/r77rz_v93-s?t=311
A Treasure Abandoned by Spock's Beard 5:15 mark |
Posted By: POTA
Date Posted: June 18 2015 at 11:01
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http://youtu.be/PVimPk0kk1k?t=301" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/PVimPk0kk1k?t=301
Goodbye and Hello by Tim Buckley 5:01 mark |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: June 18 2015 at 11:09
Not even close to circus music I'd name Civic Circus by Univers Zero: But it's a very dark kind of circus, something you'd expect in a horror movie ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: June 21 2015 at 14:00
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A forgotten gem by Family... |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: June 21 2015 at 20:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSXJMqG6_o From the absolutely classic music manifesto of the Tropicalismo movement (that could be in progarchives at the "Various Artists" modality, actually...) ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 02 2015 at 00:50
Circus of Horrorsfrom http://geofwhitelyproject.bandcamp.com/album/circus-of-horrors-album" rel="nofollow - by http://www.gwpproject.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - http://geofwhitelyproject.bandcamp.com/track/circus-of-horrors-2" rel="nofollow - http://geofwhitelyproject.bandcamp.com/track/circus-of-horrors-2
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 12 2015 at 23:10
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Waltz by Yugoslavian avant-prog band called Begnagrad, from s/t album released in 1982. |
Posted By: RockHound
Date Posted: August 15 2015 at 09:10
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I write this post for the benefit of Mr. Kite: Disc 1 of the Flower Kings' Stardust We Are is loaded with circus music, including "Just This One," "Crying Clown," and the already mentioned "Circus Brimstone." And little snippets of circus music turn up in other parts of their discography.
Miriodor's "Jongleries Elastiques" album is built around circus/carnival music - it's great fun. Farmers Market's fusion of Klezmer-type music with rock and jazz often takes on a circus-like tone. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 15 2015 at 08:36
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Dans la Forêt by Contes de Jerobie (France) http://contesdejerobie.bandcamp.com/track/dans-la-for-t" rel="nofollow - http://contesdejerobie.bandcamp.com/track/dans-la-for-t (name your price)  |
Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: December 25 2015 at 05:03
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"Poisoned Youth" from shamelessly underrated "Garden Shed" lp (1977) by England.
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