A Prog Song For Christmas.
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Topic: A Prog Song For Christmas.
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: A Prog Song For Christmas.
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 11:19
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Greg Lake with Ian Anderson. Enjoy.
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 11:34
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The only choice. But the lyrics are anything but really. Exposing the hypocrisy of organised religion. I xelebrate the pagan rite of the coming of spring. The return of Sol! NOUS SOMMES DU SOLEIL! Happy Solstice in advance everybody.... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 11:35
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Well in northern hemisphere anyway... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 11:50
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Barney, lay down your paganism and just enjoy the music from this long dead prog legend, ok?
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 11:54
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Who said I didnt like it or G. LAKE? Im with him every word of the song. The best xmas song ever. Unlikely to be bettered even if the main tune is nicked from Prokoviev....peace... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 11:57
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If that's how you enjoy music then I'd hate to hear you criticize it. But you are silly a bugger at times so C'est La Vie. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 12:02
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This site has become a little too serious for its own good. The fact that i enjoy a pagan (a derogatory term in xtian circles) rite does not make me a pagan....I embrace all cultural aspects of non religious dogma...no big sky fairy is going to tell me what I can do on the 21st December... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 12:40
Hmm...I was going to say New Age beliefs but that's so long in the tooth that I'm sure that's a derogatory term now too.  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 13:04
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Hi, I PASS! I leave Christmas for everyone else. I don't need it, and don't have anyone to give it to! Ohhh, c'mon ... what would I give Vangelis? Sakamoto? Oldfield? Renate? Decamps? Fripp and Toyah? that they don't already have ... well a wonderful hug and a thank you for all of their beings ... is really all I can think of! ------------- 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: SteveG
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 13:22
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^ Sound's like a wonderful gift. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 14:14
| Nice to see Greg, who sadly is not with us anymore, and Ian with his wonderful flute playing. |
Posted By: rgodfrey53
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 14:31
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Not for latter day prog purists, but for us old-timers who remember that truly progressive music began with the Beatles and took many an interesting turn on the way to prog. Tull fans, Prog Folk enthusiasts, and humanitarians might like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_dsk7u26A |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 20:11
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Happy holidays to everyone. And the best holiday song to be found on this site is Tull's "A Christmas Song." ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 20:26
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Kate's "50 Words for Snow" may not be a Christmas album per se, but it is a "winter album" that I enjoy but once per year, around Christmas. As for actual Christmas music, I'll take a traditional boys choir before Mass, and then Bing Crosby and Johnny Mathis at home. Not very proggy, I'm afraid.  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 20:45
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IQ - Tales From A Dark Christmas....CD......... Time to dig this album out
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Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 21:12
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Thanks for the reminder about Kate Bush. I haven't listened to that in a long while; I'll have to pull it out. From what I remember, it is a great one to listen to at this time of year. I've always considered side one of Ommadawn to be wintery as well. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 08 2018 at 22:00
| I once read that the final choral part on Focus's Hamburger Concerto is actually some Christmas Related thing from Holland... not one of the nicest passages, but whatever (something about the persecution of children born near the birth of Christ, I think)... however, that would make it the best Christmas song ever. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 09 2018 at 00:54
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Run With the Fox - Chris Squire and Alan White I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake Christmas Song/Ring Out Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull December Will Be Magic Again (original single) - Kate Bush In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield (with Les Penning) Sussex Carol - Rob Reed (with Les Penning) - great YouTube video clip Merry Christmas - Big Big Train On Christmas Day - Magnum ....add Slade, Roy Wood, The Darkness, Chris Rea, Bruce Springsteen etc. and it's a festive playlist I can cope with for a few weeks! "Hey, Santa..... pass us that bottle, will you?"  ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 09 2018 at 07:54
The sad thing is that this album is one of the most progressive there is ... but the folks are stuck on a format with a screaming solo and a bunch of other turd'y material ... and when you have someone that is phrasing things so beautifully and accompanied by a master drummer in a couple of pieces, that make it all sound so "air'y" it's almost scary ... no one can really listen to it ... it has no "format" that we can recognize, and its impression is like ... this is really special and different ... a poet that stands out ... and no one knows it or hears it, because they are looking for a rock song. As for it being a "Christmas" this and that, I find it all too weird, specially in these commercially sounding days ... I mean ... progressive was originally a sort of revolution against commercialism, and here we are discussing something that has become so commercial that we can't even recognize the ones that are not even close to it ... so far apart and away, that it makes for a difficult listen ... or as an old friend once asked me while listening to Ozric Tentacles ... where's the lyrics? ... where's the song? Gosh, for me Peter Hammill is a great Christmas ... his care and dedication alone, is worth it in his 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 |
Finnforest wrote:Posted By: grantman
Date Posted: December 09 2018 at 10:16
| carol of the bells tran siberian orchestra |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 09 2018 at 10:37
...and so evocative of seasonal elements. the atmosphere created absolutely conjures imagery of cold, winter, snow, night sky like few albums have. the sparseness and space should stand as a great lesson to musicians of all stripes. no, not every album should sound like this one, but she made perfect use of arrangements that (seem) to support the spirit of her material. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 09 2018 at 10:43
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Still one of the greatest Christmas Songs of all time...prog or otherwise. ------------- ...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: SteveG
Date Posted: December 09 2018 at 11:09
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: December 18 2018 at 14:19
The Sigur Ros lp () Has a similar 'wintery' feel to me; the environmental atmospherics, the 'Hoplandish' lyrics, the artwork, the slow build of the music just expresses frost and ice and soporific movements of nature in a wintery world... but nothing to do with Christmas really, sorry .. more like January..------------- |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 18 2018 at 14:55
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^ True......new category....Winter Prog! I actually have certain rock titles that I find are personally seasonal for me. I think many of us do. Summer albums, fall, etc. I need to hear that one again too. () ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 18 2018 at 15:08
Renaissance has all seasons and Harmonium even one more .------------- 
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 10:37
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 11:24
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Easier Said then done - Jon Anderson Not real proggy, but still a nice song for the holidays.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 11:27
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 12:42
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For Barney..... :) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 13:09
Why is it whenever you have an appreciation for something, it has to be 'more progressive' but other folks 'just don't get it' and think something that 'isnt really progressive is progressive'? Why can't you just enjoy it for what it is and let others enjoy it for what it is? Why are you experiences and reactions more valid than those of others?
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Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 13:10
^ ^ Great choice!  ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 13:55
Well, they say when you're dead, you're a long time dead  ------------- |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 13:58
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: December 21 2018 at 14:03
Great choice for Christians, Pagans, heathens and secularists of all shades and colours.. oh, id add 'Jack in the green' as well Not really proggy but 'Gaudette' by Steeleye Span is fave at Christmas along with 'the hunting of the Wren' also performed by SS.. Wren Day, also known as Wren's Day or Hunt the
Wren Day, is celebrated on 26 December, St. Stephen's Day. The tradition
consists of "hunting" a fake wren and putting it on top of a decorated
pole where it is paraded accompanied by Mummers dressed in costume.. Ah, good ole' English Mid winter traditions ------------- |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 22 2018 at 17:16
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Linus and Lucy. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: December 22 2018 at 22:56
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Posted By: scruffydragon
Date Posted: December 23 2018 at 02:22
| I have always felt a magical seasonal tune was Chris Squires Run With The Fox. The B side Return Of The Fox can also be found on CD. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: December 23 2018 at 12:37
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And now something for the pagan in all of us! ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: December 23 2018 at 12:45
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^ Ah Yes!! Last saw them when they toured that lp a couple of years back.. ------------- |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: December 24 2018 at 12:52
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Saw 'Span open for 'Tull one year. From the looks of it, it was snack bar time. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 24 2018 at 15:24
Bah, humbug! I've always loved Steeleye's rendition of "Gaudette". Great for the holidays.... ------------- ...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: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 24 2018 at 15:27
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Love SS, highly underappreciated, they could rock with the best of 'em. One of the most tasteful blends of trad. folk with heavy blues. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 24 2018 at 15:34
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I just posted this one on my facebook page. It's called Frankinsense and I'm sure most of you will "get it" after a few seconds. :D |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: December 25 2018 at 10:43
Seeing Maddy Prior's Christmas band and the Albion Christmas band (with Ashley Hutchings and Simon Nicol amongst others) used to be a regular Holiday tradition; sadly not this year but many a year before, starting off the season with proper festive cheer ------------- |