The first melody or motif that comes to mind.....
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Topic: The first melody or motif that comes to mind.....
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Subject: The first melody or motif that comes to mind.....
Date Posted: October 01 2020 at 14:51
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Here's an idea I had for a thread. Basically, a member can name any album and you reply with the first little musical motif or melody that you hear in your head. So for example, if someone said Camel - Mirage, the first melody I always think of is the blissful solo section of Freefall at 3:23. Or how about Pale Communion by Opeth? The first thing that always comes to mind is the chorus of Cusp of Eternity. Figured this would be a fun little game. So i'll start: IQ - The Road of Bones Supertramp - Crime of the Century (For me it's the synth climax of without walls reprising the main intro melody, and the opening vocals/line of Hide in Your Shell, a song that I think perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere of that album) ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 01 2020 at 16:04
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Some might call for this to be in Just for Fun. I commonly think of lyrics (with music) if not instrumental. When I saw Road of Bones, the first bit of music to come into my mind was Rush' "Roll the Bones" "Why are we here? Because we're here, Road of bones Roll my bones." And with Supertramp's Crime of the Century, I think of the part where it goes "Now we're planning the Crime of the Century, well why the hell not?" I don't always remember things correctly. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: October 01 2020 at 23:37
Cool thread idea OP! Something a little different for once  ."Watcher of the skies watcher of all!" is the first one that immediately comes to mind! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: October 01 2020 at 23:56
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^^ For foxtrot its always the gloriously blissful organ and acoustic guitar motif including the line "Todays the day to celebrate!"
Also, I love individual thought patterns! ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 02:24
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The beginning of Dreamer. Iconic. I've probably heard Road of Bones once. |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 03:17
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From Caravan's "Nine Feet Underground", the line "There are people waiting here who really want to know" has been popping up in my head for two days. |
Posted By: Paulo V
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 04:53
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This one is permanent on my mind "...And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin.." ------------- Always taking the point with the dawn patrol fraternity... |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 11:35
"the walls are thin as tissue" (A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers) -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Paulo V wrote:Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 11:56
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Haken - Virus - "I don't want to talk about this anymore..." Why does it not surprise me that most of the replies, so far, are from music fifty years ago??
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 12:03
"...I don't know what it is you want to hear...", from the same song.  Joking, the first one I thought of was "Walking across the sitting room", actually. ------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten |
Posted By: Theriver
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 12:09
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Flower! |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 13:59
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Peter Hammill - pH7 - Careering - "We're all normal" ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 15:10
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There coming over charaton bridge Look do you see the man who is rich I am on a Gentle Giant binge. |
Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: October 02 2020 at 16:34
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I had them a lot inside my brain. However, do not get me wrong, last two or so days this melody from my own recently made VERY raw dsbm (depressive suicidal black metal, that is) instrumental haunts my head: I must say now it already has 3 likes (one is mine) and no dislikes. It looks like painful boring listening to tons of black metal tunes brought some ripe fruit... I almost had no doubts that something like that (a very primitive music idea) had already been invented, done, re-done and so. But, honestly, I did not steal it consciously. Now, ain't that haunting? ------------- Favourite Band: Gentle Giant Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: October 03 2020 at 07:31
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Sing to God by Cardiacs. Foundling. "Ghostly lady is here, to warm your bed. Both now and, in the life, everlasting." ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 05 2020 at 11:29
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The raucous intimidation that initiates Crimso''s One More Red Nightmare. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: October 06 2020 at 13:59
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I adore the beginning of the Russian song Near The City Of Kronshtadt - it always reminds me of the violins in GG's Peel The Paint, for some reason: ------------- Favourite Band: Gentle Giant Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |