Favorite songs with an extended coda
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Topic: Favorite songs with an extended coda
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Subject: Favorite songs with an extended coda
Date Posted: September 28 2014 at 21:40
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A common feature of prog, the extended coda can most easily be traced back to the Beatles’ Hey Jude. (If anyone can name an earlier example, let’s hear it!) Since I’ve never had any formal (or informal) musical training, those that do could probably describe it better, but to be a coda it has to be at the end of and distinct from the main part of the song, but still sound like a natural part of it. To be extended, it would need to go on for at least 2 minutes (IMO), and have some repetition but build to a crescendo or have enough variation within it to keep it from getting boring. I’ve found that a lot of tracks that have them tend to be favorites of mine: Ange – Au-Delà du Délire Kansas – Incomudro—Hymn to the Atman Kansas – Peaceful and Warm Esperanto – Gypsy Esperanto – The Prisoner Esperanto – The Rape Flash – There No More Steve Hackett – Shadow of the Hierophant Genesis – The Fountain of Salmacis Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning Caravan – Can You Hear Me National Health – Elephants Focus – Focus (Instrumental) Focus – Carnival Fugue Supertramp – Crime of the Century Stackridge – Teatime Strawbs – Down by the Sea Strawbs – No Return Quantum Jump – Something at the Bottom of the Sea Quantum Jump – Love Crossed (Like Vines in Our Eyes) Greenslade – Joie de Vivre Greenslade – Spirit of the Dance Yes – Starship Trooper Rare Bird – Epic Forest Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home a Heartache Santana – Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) A couple of non-prog examples: Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird Outlaws – Green Grass and High Tides The thread about songs that fade out reminded me of some songs that have codas that might be too short to be considered extended, but would have probably improved the song had they been longer: ELO – Shangri-La Formula 3 – Bambina Sbagliata ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: September 28 2014 at 21:42
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Lizard - King Crimson All of the Above - Transatlantic
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: September 29 2014 at 00:18
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The "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" coda is much better than "Hey Jude"!!
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 29 2014 at 10:54
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AreYouHuman wrote:Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 29 2014 at 20:13
| I'm not sure I remember every piece of music with this kind of description that I like, but since you mentioned Hackett's "Shadow of the Hierophan", yeah, that one might just as well be among my very favourite ones... it's just amazing and eerie. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: September 29 2014 at 20:15
Listen to this man. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 29 2014 at 20:46
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 01:51
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Good list OP. One of my favorite prog rock tools. Shadow of the Hierophant is probably my favorite. Crime of the Century has the added nuance of that melancholy - reverbed out harmonica. She's so Heavy And I would count the outro of Zappa's Montana in this class. Starless? Somebody - Haken Nova Express - Nebelnest I am trying to find a couple progmetal examples. They tend to be shorter. Meshuggah - Sublevels (Thordendahl used the same outro on Special Defects) They also created very eerie undistorted outros on Catch 33 and Koloss. From outside prog: The Last Resort - Eagles Madman Across the Water - Elton John
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Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:39
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Yes - Starship Trooper
Caravan - Nine Feet Underground Supertramp - Child of Vision
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 03:18
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The Beatles did a lot in this sort of thing: Hey Jude Day in the Life Strawberry Fields It's all Too Much All You Need is Love Hello Goodbye I am the Walrus I Want You |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 03:27
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When I look down my list of favourite songs, a distinct Coda seems to be a very common feature. Here are 10 in my top 100. Bowie - Cygnet Committee Alex Harvey - Anthem (though this is a reprise of the opening) Roxy Music - Song for Europe Edgar Broughton - Evening over Rooftops Yes - Starship Trooper King Crimson - Epitaph Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets (especially the studi version) Bowie - 5 Years Rolling Stones - Time Waits for No One ELP - Lucky Man |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 20:07
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^ Svetonio: Not sure if your choices would be ECs in the strictest sense, but they’re all songs I like so I’m not going to split hairs about it. ^ t.y.a.: Great choices, though I’m not familiar with all of them. You’re right about the Beatles, though Hey Jude is considered the first that’s actually extended. Again, not splitting hairs. Some more goods: PFM – Have Your Cake and Beat It Le Orme – Fine di un Viaggio Anthony Phillips – The Geese and the Ghost Anthony Phillips – Which Way the Wind Blows Barclay James Harvest – May Day Barclay James Harvest – Paper Wings U.K. – The Only Thing She Needs Van Der Graaf Generator – Scorched Earth Vangelis – To the Unknown Man Strawbs – Lay a Little Light on Me/Hero’s Theme King Crimson – In the Wake of Poseidon Robert Wyatt – Sea Song David Bowie – Memory of a Free Festival Babe Ruth – The Runaways Armageddon – Last Stand Before Kevin Ayers – The Confessions of Dr. Dream A few non-progs: Carpenters – Goodbye to Love Eagles – The Last Resort. That’s what makes it my fave from Hotel California. James Gang (w/ Tommy Bolin) – Mystery Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story Savoy Brown – Hellbound Train Grand Funk Railroad – Closer to Home (I’m Your Captain) ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 16:31
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First thing that came to mind: Genesis - Return Of The Giant Hogweed
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 17:53
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ummmmmmmm..... does The Cinema Show count here??
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Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 23:33
I don’t think there are hard-and-fast rules on this, so I don’t see why not, even though it segues into Aisle of Plenty. A few more goods: Procol Harum – Robert’s Box Beach Boys -- Cabinessence Beach Boys – Surf’s Up Chicago – Beginnings Dire Straits – Telegraph Road ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 01:22
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ELP - Aquatarkus may be some debate whether that one counts I guess...
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 07 2014 at 10:34
| I only want to say that Mike Rutherford's guitar work was economically excellent in Second Home By the Sea. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: October 07 2014 at 22:09
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Speaking of Mike Rutherford, there was a track from the sessions for “Smallcreep’s Day”, Compression, which was a B-side, that had a terrific EC. ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 11 2014 at 01:53
What about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjUgocX1djs" rel="nofollow - Spinning Wheel by Blood, Sweat & Tears? |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: October 11 2014 at 08:45
yeah, that makes sense. there's also (In) The Court of the Crimson King (who celebrated a 45th birthday along with the rest of the album yesterday!) that i think wasn't mentioned yet, but of course Epitaph, Starship Trooper, the like. and for non-prog, Free Bird, Green Grass and High Tides (pretty much a knock off of Free Bird with an additional guitar solo but its still great to me), Isn't It a Pity (Version One), etc. UPDATE: forgot to mention Crime of the Century! i mean, goddamn that was cool....
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Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: October 11 2014 at 15:24
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Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horseman Caravan - A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett Frank Zappa - Willie the Pimp (that guitar solo  ) All perfect songs IMO ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: October 12 2014 at 19:51
Supertramp – Another Man’s Woman
Supertramp – Lady
Robin Trower – Day of the EagleRobin Trower – Bridge of SighsHoelderlin – Sun RaysHudson-Ford – Silent StarElton John – Can I Put You onIt Bites – You'll Never Go to HeavenLindisfarne – Clear White LightFairport Convention – One More ChanceDave Mason – Look at You Look at MeMoody Blues – You and MeRoxy Music – For Your PleasurePink Floyd – DogsPink Floyd – Cirrus MinorPekka Pohjola – Hands Straighten the Water (or Hands Calming the Water)------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: November 15 2014 at 21:42
Curved Air – It Happened Today
Curved Air – Piece of Mind
Nektar – It’s All Over
Procol Harum – Pilgrims
Progress
Big Big Train – Summoned by
Bells
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Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: November 15 2014 at 23:29
| The fact that nobody mentioned "Layla" yet is strange. It's beautiful. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 02:26
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 02:40
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A lot of good ones have been mentioned throughout the thread, so I'll add some which haven't yet : Echolyn - Island Ars Nova - Ani's Heart And Maat's Feather Kraan - Head Magma - De Futura ...........can't think of any more......... 
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Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 03:10
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Stardust We Are by The Flower Kings has a six-minute instrumental coda, after the last vocals. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 05:24
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Kayo Dot - Offramp Cycle, Pattern 22. Wish it would never end ------------- 
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 06:04
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"Violence" ~ Anathema "republicans in lOve" ~ Thought Industry "How To Measure a Planet?" ~ The Gathering ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 08:22
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2 that just came to mind, I only skimmed the thread so apologies for any overlap King Crimson - VROOOM (listed as Coda: Marine on the Thrak album, but really part of "Vrooom") Creedle - Really
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 10:22
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Hi,,
(harsh editorial ... )
I find this rather sad.
It's almost like saying that it doesn't mean anything and the music is just filler and not important to the experience and the piece itself.
As stated here, it feels like it is completely meaningless and it is just an added bit to the song for the hell of it. Which of course might be true, but I seriously doubt that the majority of artists are that vain and stupid and selfishly boring, just showing an audience how stupid they can be and not know anything about the "inner experience" in music, and what it means to the creativity process that a person can go through.
I side with Vangelis here ... this is criminal! Because you are purposedly killing the life out of a body, you are killing a frog in your test lab in school for your own "learning" and "experiment", and you don't even care what comes out of it.
FEELING is sacred. And all you can do is call it a "coda", because you can not identify the rest of its meaning and intention and design ... why even bother listening to f**king music? Why even bother calling it music? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 11:44
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Hi I want you all to feel sorry for using WORDS to describe any sort of pattern pertaining to music. Just like you shouldn't use words like red, yellow, blue, green, turquoise and violet because they're all freakin COLOURS and why ruin the inner feeling you have when you sit in a gallery with crossed legs and the baguettes in your back pocket? ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: November 16 2014 at 11:46
| nope, keep your mouth open a bee might fly in |
Posted By: The Coastliner
Date Posted: November 18 2014 at 21:25
| I would definitely throw in a vote for "Stagnation" by Genesis as well as two of my favourite song moments ever in the coda to VDGG's "Wondering" and Radiohead's "Give Up the Ghost", where both songs are kind of built around getting to that glorious coda. |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 06:23
One of a few reasons (to be sure) why they are categorized under "proto-prog"... |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 02:57
I was going to risk a slap on the wrist from a mod and say something mean spirited. But that being against my nature, I will just pray for you and hope a cure is found. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 03:36
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Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: November 27 2014 at 01:41
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"Symptom Of The Universe" by Black Sabbath. That coda alone is enough to make it my favorite Sabbath song. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: December 02 2014 at 20:31
^ moshkito: To quote Snow White…“Oooo…you must be Grumpy.”
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Posted By: AllHellosInTheWorld
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 20:33
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Examples I can think of in my library: "Sound of the Apocalypse" - Black Bonzo (a lot of this song feels like a big coda) "Poseidon's Creation" - Eloy half of Discipline's discography, it would seem "Finally Free" - Dream Theater (at least until the music part fades) "The Watchmaker" - Steven Wilson "Suite Charlotte Pike" - Transatlantic
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Posted By: AllHellosInTheWorld
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 20:36
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Okay, for those of you that have heard "Sleeping in
Traffic" by Beardfish, do you think the song should stop around 34:45? I
do. It is a song which feels like it totally ends with an extended coda, but
then it goes on for another minute with a callback to that 7/8 riff in e
minor, then with ten or fifteen seconds left transitions to playing it in a
minor (…why?), and then ends with a big fall on an e chord. The build-up wasn't quite
as powerfull as the part before.. and the sense of finality felt at around 34:45 seems like a much
better ending to me. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 11 2014 at 04:50
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Over the Edge It Goes - Au4: -o0o- Safe (Canon Song) - Chris Squire: -o0o- Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie:
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Posted By: jacksiedanny
Date Posted: February 10 2015 at 07:57
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For those who do not know what a coda is, famous examples in rock: Layla I Want You (She's So Heavy) My three fav progressive rock codas are: Gentle Giant - Mr Class & Quality (the best end to ANY prog lp. uplifting, religious and the (bass) coda is more extended/complex than usual) Mike Oldfield -Ommadawn end of side one (again long and complex. I wish I could write something like that!) Procol Harum - Pilgrim's Progress .... How about side-long prog epics? Can future epics be effective if they do not include a coda? |
Posted By: jacksiedanny
Date Posted: February 10 2015 at 08:05
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Okay - I am mainly talking about single-instance repetitive codas, but if you want to include the other....that's okay also. (Only it would be good to distinguish it as such.) Also: any codas you think rather fail. For me the end to Hackett's first lp. The melody is absolutely beautiful but the problem is that he draws the coda out too long WITHOUT BUILDING IT UP ENOUGH. |
Posted By: infernalfrog
Date Posted: February 10 2015 at 12:09
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Didn't know what a coda is until now. Well, i think Van Der Graaf Generator - White Hammer has one of this thing called coda, and is just amazing.
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Posted By: jacksiedanny
Date Posted: February 10 2015 at 12:13
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Van Der Graaf had one of the best codas of all time. Its on the "Godbluff" lp. (I think "Arrow"???)
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 10 2015 at 14:07
Asia - Cutting It Fine , has always been one of my favourite ones. Geoff Downes -> genius but how about ELP - Aquatarkus (live version)? Now that's what I call a coda (in the stylee of 'Now that's what I call a knife')
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Posted By: Littlecarrots
Date Posted: February 15 2015 at 11:11
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This song has a lovely string coda that always give me a quite dizzy feeling. Sigur Rós and amiina surely know how to make a good hypnotic coda. I also love the fact that when you think the song's over, it isn't! Also, as someone noticed before. Dire Straits' Telegraph Road has a great ending. Back in post-rock territory (though with an electronic twist), here's Come to Me by 65dos. It has an ending coda and also a pretty, atmospheric intro. And, outside proggy stuff, both Damien Rice's It Takes a Lot to Know a Man (almost five-minute orchestral coda, with piano, strings, horns and a chorus, it's really amazing, very emotional and borderline chaotic!) and Josh Ritter's Another New World (another emotional coda, specially those bells at the end) have amazing codas I really love. Worth mentioning, even though I'm not sure it can be considered a coda is Educated Guess by Umphrey's McGee ending, with its double-kick-drum-and-string-section breakdown.
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Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: February 18 2016 at 22:51
The Rolling Stones—Moonlight Mile, with that moody piano part by Jim Price (who usually played trumpet) and orchestral arrangement by Paul Buckmaster.------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 18 2016 at 23:06
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Do the final sections of Gates of Delirium and Ritual count as codas? Also the ending of The Ladder.
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 07:35
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"Selkies: The Endless Obsession" by Between the Buried And Me. The last 2 minutes or so = absolutely gorgeous. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 09:21
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 20:12
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Can't believe nobody mentioned Dancing With the Moonlit Knight... ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 20:43
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Well, the most obvious one is "Starship Trooper". I'd throw in Tull's "Nothing Is Easy", Derek and the Dominos "Layla" and Bowie's "Big Brother". ------------- ...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: moshkito
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 12:23
Nahhh ... I was thinking that Beethoven's 5th is the best extended coda ... after the opening bars, it's all filler!  ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 14:12
| No one has mentioned Hot Love by T Rex yet. |
Posted By: DDPascalDD
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 06:02
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Hmmm... Nobody mentioned one of my favourite codas: Does It Really Happen? by Yes (Drama). A moment where Chris Squire (RIP) shines clearly! ------------- |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 10:03
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The Eye of Ra by Star One |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 16:09
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