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King of Loss 
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 Topic: prog band with the best orchestral arrangements
Posted: August 24 2006 at 22:57 |
I really like Pain of salvation- BE! 
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chamberry
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 22:44 |
 Kleynan wrote:
chamberry wrote:
Have anyone heard of this little italian bands . . .
Quella Vechia Loccanda - Il tempo della gioia
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - ...Di terra
Am I alone on this? 
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Kleynan
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 21:44 |
chamberry wrote:
Have anyone heard of this little italian bands . . .
Quella Vechia Loccanda - Il tempo della gioia
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - ...Di terra
Am I alone on this?
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You're not alone.
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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sleeper
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 20:03 |
If were talking about arranging an orchestra with the band then my vote goes to Pain Of Salvation for Be, it actually sounded like one big band rather than band+ orchestra.
If its for how a band orchestrates its music then I'm going to say Genesis.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 19:56 |
Let me see without checking the list:
- Alan Parson's Project...Pyramyds: Andrew Powell does an incredible job with most of the album but In the Lap of the Gods is out of this world, of course you can't forget Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
- Rick Wakeman...Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Not his best album (Still a masterpiece) but The London Symphony Orchestra and the English Chamber Choir together is a unique.
- Renaissance: With or without orchestra, their arrangements are incredible.
Iván
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tuxon
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 19:19 |
I like Days of Future Past from The moodies, also Magnification from Yes is great
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chamberry
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 18:41 |
Have anyone heard of this little italian bands . . . Quella Vechia Loccanda - Il tempo della gioia Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - ...Di terra Am I alone on this?
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stonebeard
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 17:59 |
Why is there no Dream Theater on the list?
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Gravity Eyelids
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 17:51 |
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As much as I love YES's arrangement, I have to go with Renaissance.
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Into this wild Abyss the fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,
Pondering his Voyage.
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Kleynan
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 16:48 |
I vote Yes largely because of "Symphonic Live" which I have been watching constantly, since I got it last week. The best live DVD/CD I have ever experienced. 
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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reality
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 16:34 |
Renaissance... That is what they were all about and at time when orchestra was not a regular element in prog.
When I think of Classical/Orchestral rock I think of Renaissance above anyone else.
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MattiR
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 09:08 |
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richardh
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Posted: July 11 2006 at 02:07 |
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Kayak - Merlin,Bard Of The Unseen AND Nostradamus,The Fate Of Man
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: July 11 2006 at 01:55 |
What no mention of Alan Parson's Project?
Any orchestral arrangement done by that genius called Andrew Powell is a masterpiece, despite the quality of the central musical piece.
If youdon't believe me, listen "In the Lap of the Gods" from Pyramids, excellent production mixed with excellent Orchestra has to be great.
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - July 11 2006 at 01:57
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Zac M
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Posted: July 11 2006 at 01:33 |
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The Enid or Sky, but I think the Enid wins overall
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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micky
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Posted: July 10 2006 at 16:58 |
progadicto wrote:
It's seems to be no one knows After
Crying... amazing hungarian band with awsome orchestral
arrangements in almost every album... you have to listen OVERGROUND
MUSIC, DE PROFUNDIIS, FOLD ES EG and 6... beautiful pieces... I also
love Renaissance but I think After Crying deserves a highest place into
this poll...
Peace & Love---
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hmmmm... thanks for the tip.....
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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ANDREW
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Posted: July 10 2006 at 16:39 |
Andrea Cortese wrote:
Barclay James Harvest have great orchestral arrangements. As for example in Medicin Man album version and in Moonwater. |
Exactly!!!
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progadicto
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Posted: July 10 2006 at 16:10 |
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It's seems to be no one knows After Crying... amazing hungarian band with awsome orchestral arrangements in almost every album... you have to listen OVERGROUND MUSIC, DE PROFUNDIIS, FOLD ES EG and 6... beautiful pieces... I also love Renaissance but I think After Crying deserves a highest place into this poll...
Peace & Love---
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MajesterX
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Posted: July 09 2006 at 13:25 |
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How about Pain of Salvation on Be? |
 Exactly my thought. Amazing album. It took me a while to like it and after the first listen I thought it was pretty weird, but now I love it. The Orchestration is incredible, especially in the heavy songs where the strings add such great rhythm and mass to the overall sound.
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Sacred 22
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Posted: July 09 2006 at 08:32 |
micky wrote:
I'm going Yes.. but not for your examples.... Symphonic Live.... never would have figured a symphony could be utiized so well in some of those songs.. but the Yesmen pulled it off... again... |
Agreed, it is a very strong work.
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