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DrGoon 
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 Posted: May 03 2006 at 23:05 |
 salmacis wrote:
Prog and ballads don't really go hand in hand- though there are occasional love songs in the genre, they tend to be somewhat esoteric and hardly of the 'boy meets girl/ girl leaves boy' variety that many ballads are.
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On Tuesdays She Used To Do Yoga? Porcupine Tree have done a few good ones, most recently Lazarus. I'll be excommunicated from the Church of Wilson for calling them prog however.
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Badabec
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Posted: May 04 2006 at 15:58 |
Gentle Giant - Funny Ways (live).
This ballad is awesome!!! The killer-vibes-solo is awesome! The whole band is awesome!!! 
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Takeshi Kovacs
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Posted: May 04 2006 at 17:14 |
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What about Open Your Eyes by Stream of Passion? Sublime vocal performance by Marcela Bovio.
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 Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/
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crimson thing
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Posted: May 04 2006 at 19:04 |
I cant agree that every quiet song is necessarily a ballad - theres got to be a more specific definition than that.
I would have thought it implied, as some here have said, a love song of sorts. But now that I look the word up in Chambers Concise, I find Im wrong:
ballad: "orig. a song accompanying a dance: a simple narrative poem in short stanzas: a popular song, often scurrilous (!!), referring to contemporary persons or events: any slow, sentimental song."
So it looks like all slow songs may be ballads after all, strictly speaking.
Anyhow, why has no-one mentioned the most ballad-y KC song, Matte Kudasai - a real ballad, by all definitions.
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bamba
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Posted: May 04 2006 at 20:30 |
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I talk to the wind
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ANDREW
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Posted: May 05 2006 at 08:18 |
One of my favourite is "More Fool Me" (GENESIS). 
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Barla
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Posted: May 06 2006 at 11:35 |
Well, some I can remember right now are:
Genesis - "Your own special way"
Dream Theater - "The spirit carries on"
Queen - "Love of my life" (the favourite Queen song of people of Argentina)
Pink Floyd - "Wish you were here"
And much more ...
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disastercasper
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Posted: May 06 2006 at 11:40 |
If I have to name one, definitely Pain of Salvation's "Second Love".
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mrgd
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Posted: May 08 2006 at 00:36 |
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I go with those who have mentioned 'Reunion' &'Aspirations' by GG, 'Book of Saturdays' by KC and I'll throw in 'Sossity...You're a Woman' by TULL of couse and 'Wondering Aloud/Again' aren't bad either.
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Looking still the same after all these years...
mrgd
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Mandrakeroot
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Posted: May 08 2006 at 10:25 |
Uhm... It's very difficult... Prog Ballad?
Uhm... It's very difficult...
Uhm... It's... "Gioco Di Bimba" by Le Orme
...But "Gioco Di Bimba"... Is a ballad? Is a very Prog song?
For always yours, Mandrakeroot.
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Uroboros
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Posted: May 08 2006 at 17:43 |
Definitely Turn of the Century, House with No Door/Refugees, Islands and Space-Dye Vest, but I'd add
A Pleasant Shade of Gray IX (Fates Warning)
Beautiful (Marillion)
Flags and Footprints (Threshold)
Tears in the Rain (Arena)
Carie (Spock's Beard)
Follow Me (Royal Hunt)
Into the Coming Dawn (Thanatopsis) (Kansas)
Lady of Rain (Deadsoul Tribe)
Stuck in the August Rain (Jethro Tull)
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Tous les chemins
qui s’ouvrent à moi
ne mènent à rien si tu n’es plus là
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Fragile
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Posted: May 08 2006 at 20:34 |
' Rain' by Uriah Heep 3 mins of sheer brilliance.
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: May 08 2006 at 23:46 |
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Wish You Were Here--Pink Floyd
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Fede
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Posted: May 09 2006 at 00:02 |
el böthy wrote:
I usually don´t like ballads...but there are some that are nice...mmm let´s see...they are not many, in fact for me most of ballads just suck...a yes
Led Zeppelin - Thank you...quite honest songs, nice solo...mmm like it
I dont consider Island by KC to be a ballad, but many do...so, well that would be another one
Somebody to love by Queen is actually very good!
But for me the best ballad ever, also from Queen is Love of my life!!! Best ballad ever
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Totally agree about Love of My Life......... totally.
The best ballad in music history!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gomah
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Posted: May 10 2006 at 01:30 |
Prog ballad? The Ballad of Bill Hubbard 
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memowakeman
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Posted: May 10 2006 at 01:35 |
Sinc Mr. Mandrakerrot mentioned "Gioco di Bimba", i immediately remember L`Aurora.. i dont know if it is a ballad.. but i just wanted to tell this...
I love that song...
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