Nature and Music Make a Beaitiful Combo
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Topic: Nature and Music Make a Beaitiful Combo
Posted By: Nick Dilley
Subject: Nature and Music Make a Beaitiful Combo
Date Posted: June 29 2013 at 20:57
We just had a day-long rainstorm with thunder in my city and I cranked up Vangelis' Soil Festivities to 11 and dimmed the lights. It was such an awesome experience that I just had to log into PA and share. I rarely have time to sit down and just listen nowadays (especially to an entire album), so this was truly cathartic.  ------------- Progging the Rock, Rocking the Prog. soundcloud.com/withinareverie withinareverie.blogspot.com facebook.com/withinareverie Twitter: @WithinaReverie |
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 29 2013 at 21:59
Matching up the perfect record with the current weather conditions (preferably on the perfect setting, but not needed) is damn hard to beat. I also enjoy playing music during a thunderstorm. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Mr. Mustard
Date Posted: June 29 2013 at 22:04
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I usually find myself playing The Whirlwind from Transatlantic during a heavy rainstorm, or Moonmadness during a heavy snowfall. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: June 29 2013 at 23:14
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Man, you're right, although I rarely have the opportunity to do this...I do remember one time, though, when we had a thunderstorm going and I cranked up "Jacob's Ladder" by Rush on the stereo...it was great.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 30 2013 at 08:54
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I remember listening to Soft Machine "Third" during a particularly dark and rainy day, and it worked great. Another time, I was taking a long road trip and left in the morning before the sun came out. As the sun was beginning to rise, Gong's "A Sprinkling of Clouds" was playing, and it was damn perfect. ------------- 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: progbethyname
Date Posted: June 30 2013 at 19:52
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I really like ORPHAN LAND's MABOOL where the sounds of a tumultuous rain storm depict the great flood that is about to occur. Shortly after some incredible guitars kick in and it is just wonderful.
Oooiooh Sweet nature I love you! ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 00:00
Jade Warrior (Island years) on headphones at dawn.
Hard to beat. ------------- |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 01:53
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Back in the days when Britain had a summer I would listen to Kate Bush - Aerial as the perfect compliment. The only thing missing on that album is the sound of cricket bat on ball. I also imagine that Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn would be ideal for a foggy morning. I would have tried it on Sunday morning when I the fog was rolling in from the sea but for the fact I was with someone at the time and it would have been anti-social.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 06:18
| Close To The Edge is always well suited to a summer's day for me. It must be the birds. |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 07:08
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Emperor with headphones in the snow while walking around the city.... Mmmmm ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 08:03
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Granchester Meadows, Jimmehs.
Better yet get yourself a nature's sounds lp.
I got one of the crowds (in the distance at Woodstock). You hears the chants 7 bells in the distance. You almost can smell the sexual juices,patchouli and jimsonweed.
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 00:20
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In honor of CANADA DAY (July 1st)
RUSH are synonymous with NATURE. JACOB's LATTER and NATURAL SCIENCE. Ok. What more can you ask for. ;) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: July 04 2013 at 01:41
 That is what I call real nature (The Pyrénées in France).  |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: July 05 2013 at 23:35
A decade or so ago, I was in my apartment on a summer evening, and I was listening to the Angela Morley soundtrack of “Watership Down” (the animated film based on Richard Adams’ bestseller). Maybe ten minutes or so into it, I look across the parking lot to the big oak on the other side, and what do you think I saw sitting next to its trunk. You guessed it: a rabbit!  One of only a handful of times I see a rabbit in broad daylight in the area, and look when this one decides to show its adorable self!
To those not aware, “Watership Down” was about a band of rabbits looking for a new home. In the words of Michael Palin, "Isn't nature wonderful!!!! Heyhey, yeahyeahyeahyeah!!!!" 
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Posted By: zeqexes
Date Posted: July 05 2013 at 23:55
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Steven Wilson's Grace For Drowning is great on a rainy day ------------- 
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Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: July 06 2013 at 20:30
| Speaking of soundtracks and thunderstorms, the first time I listened to the soundtrack of "The Dark Crystal" it was thru headphones, during a storm, while sitting partially outside though I was sheltered. Perfect juxtaposition! |
Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: July 07 2013 at 16:05
Anything by him is period. But on a rainy day I usually listen to Opeth's Damnation or Pink Floyd's DSOTM. It's my tradition.
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zeqexes wrote:Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: July 07 2013 at 17:27
I love the BLADERUNNER soundtrack on a rainy day. Tears in the rain anyone?
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: July 07 2013 at 23:03
| David Bedford's Instructions For Angels has a strange afffect on me. I feel supernatural or trance like when listening to it. There seems to be a repeated marching style piece within the variations ,,but it's everything else that places me in a dream/hypnotic state. I usually play it if I know that a storm is coming. Pauline Anna Strom's Spectre is music from a dark world that interests me. Jade Warrior's Island period and also Breathing the Storm and Horizons are perfect for a landscape view. |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: July 16 2013 at 02:14
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I remember listening to "Industry" by King Crimson for the first time, and it reminded me of a boat ride my family took near the Giant City State Park in Illinois. It was on a lovely lake with a bunch of trees, there was even one growing on a patch of land within the lake itself (think of the inside cover of Yes' Going For The One). At one end of the lake, however, the tree line broke away and you could see what was some sort of power plant. "Industry" has that same effect; the music sounds like you're walking in a forest, then slowly it dissolves into a noisy highway full of strip malls and factories, then back to the forest again. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: gamegold1
Date Posted: July 16 2013 at 21:24
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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: July 16 2013 at 22:06
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The last time I made a long car trip in a severe storm, I had just put in Opeth's Ghost Reveries. Some might find an album that heavy to be disconcerting during something like that, but for some reason it put me at ease. Maybe because I could actually hear everything so clearly over the expected auditory debilitation of a storm like that. Made my already ridiculously high appreciation for that album climb even more. I did that once with Selling England by the Pound, but unfortunately the rain cluttered up the mix too much for me to get the same effect. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: July 17 2013 at 01:05
I have had the similar joy with that album, Soil Festivities. The first and second tracks are wonderful! They really take you down into the moist soil (oh, hopefully this doesn't sound like a metaphorical blame!). Other rainy tracks in prog: one part of 'Fall of the House of Usher' in The Alan Parsons Project debut, and the title track in GRYPHON's Raindance.
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