25 side-long, or approaching, tracks/suites/epics
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Topic: 25 side-long, or approaching, tracks/suites/epics
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 25 side-long, or approaching, tracks/suites/epics
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:01
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Amon Düül II - "Syntelman's March of the Roaring Seventies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygt29S1UicY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygt29S1UicY Art Zoyd - "Musique pour l'Odyssée" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3SoJabwgbk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3SoJabwgbk Ash Ra Tempel - "Traummaschine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRrDg_RoePc" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRrDg_RoePc Björn J:son Lindh - "Musik från en storstad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-0Pvk1MQw8" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-0Pvk1MQw8 Brave New World - "The End" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmq9WHph90" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmq9WHph90 Bubu - "El cortejo de un día amarillo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Pu-ngYpkU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Pu-ngYpkU Can - "Halleluwah" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA Clivage - "Mixtus Orbis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Vth8fdzic" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Vth8fdzic Earth and Fire - "Song of the Marching Children" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDRRnr2KvSs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDRRnr2KvSs Focus - "Hamburger Concerto" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6t9rZ701g" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6t9rZ701g Geinoh Yamashirogumu - "Osorezan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYzmca8XHU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYzmca8XHU Genesis - "Supper's Ready" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJq1lwnkNw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJq1lwnkNw Gryphon - "Midnight Mushrumps" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRWEnrLy2A" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRWEnrLy2A Hatfield and the North - "Mumps" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_MUajIs9Vs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_MUajIs9Vs Herbie Hancock - "Sleeping Giant" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDKMABCB2c" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDKMABCB2c Jan Dukes de Grey - "Sun Symphonica" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTWLfclik0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTWLfclik0 King Crimson - "Lizard" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjIJi79O80" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjIJi79O80 Magma - "De Futura" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkSVTDfBVE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkSVTDfBVE Pink Floyd - "Atom Heart Mother" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHb3cBvWMY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHb3cBvWMY Klaus Schulze - "Crystal Lake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpllI5g1UyI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpllI5g1UyI Soft Machine - "Moon in June" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJFSIX_uVPM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJFSIX_uVPM Tangerine Dream - "Alpha Centauri" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAuWKOBWNu4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAuWKOBWNu4 Univers Zéro - "La Faulx" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3vJd2YfZ5A" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3vJd2YfZ5A Van der Graaf Generator - "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgdj74onwc" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgdj74oNwc Yes - "Close to the Edge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oPKLSuyQY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oPKLSuyQY These are 25 "classic" side-longs, almost side-longs or "approaching" side-long titles that have made an impression on me during my life. In two cases I am not so into them but they are big names and decided to include them. I had planned to make a shorter list originally. Some seemingly obvious ones might not be here because: I'm not trying to be complete but still filled out all 25 spaces; I might not have thought of them; I might not have felt they fit well in the list, or I might not have been or am not currently into them enough to have wanted to include those. Feel free to vote per your preference based on however much or little you know of these. It's not a contest. While I don't have an other option, provided that you state any that you like from this selection, then please feel free to mention any others. There is variety here, so I expect that most anyone here into the more classic period music will see something to appreciate even if some are disappointed by certain omissions. I expect that I will think of us some that I wished I had included, and maybe I will do a part two -- although this took me quite a long time due to a hand/arm injury and I probably should have stopped at seven as I had planned, and I needn't have posted all those links but I started off wanted to embed ones before it started to get really long. And while I decided to do just one per artist, sorry if you don't like my artist choice. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:08
Earth & Fire's "Song of the Marching Children" just above Pink Floyd's "Echoes" and "Atom Heart Mother". Thanks for providing all of the YT links. 
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Posted By: rik wilson
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:18
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My choices are : Hatfield and the North- Mumps Pink Floyd-Echoes Univers Zero- La Faulx Genesis- Supper's Ready Soft Machine- Moon in June |
Posted By: felonafan
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:20
| CTTE |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:31
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In this big poll I go with my favourite band Can (over VDGG, KC and AZ), even though there are of course many great ones here. I agree with those that named Echoes though, one of the very few things I'd have voted over Halleluwah. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:51
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Plague over Lizard & De Futura ------------- 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: Mormegil
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:51
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"Walking across the sitting room . . . " ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:55
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VdGG>Genesis>KC ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 15:03
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Supper ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 15:08
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Genesis Yes Soft Machine Others Tull - Thick as a Brick Frost* - Milliontown Rush - 2112 Transatlantic - The Whirlwind Echolyn - Mei Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 15:27
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De Futura, with Sleeping Giant a close second and most of the usual suspects joint third. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 15:47
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Tere are here some really great lengthy tracks. So, this is a very difficult choice. But, I must go with "Close To The Edge" of Yes.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 16:00
I like Echoes very much too, and when I mentioned people maybe preferring a different choice from the artist, that is the specific one I had in mind. I love the Atom Heart Mother Suite, especially for the Breast Milky section whose creamy goodness gives me chills despite not being breasty ice cream. I was only going to do "suites" but expanded my list.
I thought about including Thick as a Brick, but I think of it as one long epic lasting a full album (split into two parts). Had I included that, then I would have also wanted to do Magma's Theusz Hamtaahk (much as I do like De Futura, I adore Theusz Hamtaahk). I might do another more "classic" or more classic era poll like this, and then a more modern one, although my modern choices would be different from yours. And actually I would rather do that on long tracks that need not be Prog as so much of what I like as more prog adjacent or at right angles to prog than Prog itself. ----------------------------------------------- By the way, this poll was inspired by listening to the Hamburger Concerto suite again (had been a while). I came across Nina Hagen mentioned on youtube for a Bowie cover, which then led me to listen to her Naturträne which I love and that reminded me of Focus Hamburger Concerto and part of the 80s Cat People soundtrack. Originally I was going to do a poll comparing a section of the Hamburger Concerto suite to the Leopard's Dream from the Cat People soundtrack and Naturträne but then I thought it's probably too esoteric to get more than very little response. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Lewian wrote:Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 16:53
Kind of a dick move to only allow one vote. About a third of these are huge favorites of mine  First place tentatively goes to Atom Heart Mother. ------------- 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: JD
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 16:58
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 16:59
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BTW... Where's TARKUS ??
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 17:01
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 17:38
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"Crystal Lake" by Klaus Schulze. Sublime. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 18:00
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If anyone's interested check out my list on RYM that features nothing but 20-minute plus prog tracks. I'll check Logan's list to see if i'm missing any http://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/prog-albums-with-20-minute-plus-tracks/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/prog-albums-with-20-minute-plus-tracks/
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 19:04
| Midnigh Mushrumps, Lizard, Supper's Ready, Close to the Edge. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 19:29
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (41:58) Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (77:54) To my knowledge it is one song. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 19:38
Hi, Agreed. AND one of the prettiest electronic albums EVER done! The only sad thing is that there are so many of his pieces that are so far out, that listing one out of 100 is kinda weird. I like some of the stuff in the WORKS series, which is supposed to have been more open and improvised, and there are some things in those albums that are just out of this world.
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 19:54
De Futura for me as well. Just in the mood for that right now. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 20:10
Cool! Thanks, Grump. I'll check em out  ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 20:12
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These are all classics but i have a thing for VDGG so "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" wins! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 20:13
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King Crimson - Lizard --------------------------- Other Choices: Twelfth Night - Sequences Rush - 2112 IQ - The Last Human Gateway, The Narrow Margin, Harvest of Souls The Alan Parsons Project - The Fall of House of Usher Marillion - Grendel, Ocean Cloud Utopia - The Ikon Pendragon - Queen of Hearts Camel - Lady Fantasy Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Return of Ommadawn Mystery - Looking for Something Else
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Posted By: Argentinfonico
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 20:51
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Close To The Edge is unbeatable. ------------- -Will I see you tonight? -I never make plans that far ahead. Casablanca (1942) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 23:04
In the poll by Hugh Manatee from yesterday -- http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=128078" rel="nofollow - CLICK -- as you know. Nothing wrong with "Tarkus", I just happen to be more into my poll choices. I never really got into Tarkus and based the poll on things I like, or have been into. There is no accounting for taste, or so it is said. Of course with only 25 spaces and not spending hours researching or thinking about my list (I listed ones as they came to mind), I wouldn't even cover everything I like that has been in my collection. I probably won't bother with the part two as I had suggested I might do in the opening post. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 00:54
| Plague |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 02:01
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Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 02:10
Quite right. I have enjoyed everything by Klaus Schulze that I've managed to get my hands on. My preffered "sidelong" piece of his is the title track from "Inter*Face". For all those who want to know where Techno/ House music came from. ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 03:36
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I wasn't sure if this poll allowed multiple votes, but I started with "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers", the ultimate epic. ------------- 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: JD
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 06:07
Although, I prefer Klaus Schulze's Miditerranean Pads even though it comes up short on your time criteria.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 07:07
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 07:58
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Logan's polls are always impossible for me to give my vote. Standouts for me personally/in the last decade or so are: Sleeping Giant, Crystal Lake, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Mumps, Moon in June, Lizard, The End, De Futura, Atom Heart Mother, Musique pour l'Odyssée, Song of the Marching Children, Alpha Centauri, Halleluwah, Mixtus Orbis... and of course I love Supper's Ready & Close to the Edge as well...plus quite like - or maybe even love the rest. How the hell am I going to choose one sidelong here over all the others?
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 08:33
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 08:42
------------- 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: moshkito
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 09:09
Hi, Love it ... but I might joke about this, though. If you have to place a time element when you go listen to Klaus Schulze ... please don't bother! And there are some outstanding things, like the DVD with Lisa Garrard, when you get to see him in action and how he works and develops things. And unlike a lot of musicians, he is his own sound man, and adjusts the levels himself as he goes and how many channels and all that come together or not. AND, the addon special bit in the DVD about him and a tech discussing one little bit in his piece, will give you a HUGE IDEA of what Klaus does in his music, that we can't even conceive or find. Try to find that bit on the DVD ... I couldn't find it! I doubt that many musicians, are that capable or close. Thorsten Quaeschning might be one, but he does not do solo stuff, like Klaus does simple to exercise his mind and brain. Special for me, is his WORKS material that has other folks in them, and is supposed to have been more improvised and less about his sound/music design in his electronic pieces. By comparison, some of these seem almost acoustic. AND, he has pieces there that are far more than 45 minutes ... and still far out ... time to close your eyes, and simply fly with it ... no other way to describe it! LET THE MUSIC LIVE.
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Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 09:20
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Same question Same answer Close to the Edge.
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 09:30
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VDGG followed by Can, Magma and Yes. Had you included "Echoes" instead of "Atom Heart Mother", I'm not sure I could've decided on #1 spot.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 10:19
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CAN rulez!!! Honorables: Rush~Hemispheres Porcupine Tree~Anesthetize Spock's Beard~The Light Pineapple Thief~Too Much To Lose Pineapple Thief~What Have We Sown? Parts 1-4 makes up Side III and IV -------------   
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 11:35
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 12:22
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The choice would be between "Halleluwah" "Hamburger Concerto" "Supper's Ready" "Close to the Edge" but I'm fond of all of them, see them just as different and can't choose - even I'm most impressed of CTTE. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 13:05
| Lizard, because I'm bored of voting for the usual suspects. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 14:38
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I thought we had more electronic (Berlin School) fans here... ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 15:41
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Genesis: Supper's Ready is my all time favourite. But there are more great ones here: Yes, Pink Floyd, Klaus Schulze, Jan Dukes de Grey, Focus, ... ------------- 
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 19:08
| If you take out the obvious three it's a good fight between the others with the Gryphon just edging out the also rans. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: December 24 2021 at 02:00
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1. Close to The Edge 2. Supper's Ready 3. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 24 2021 at 07:03
Hi, It's hard to not say something weird or funny about that. But I always wonder if those folks voting for pop/rock bands, their favorites obviously, know what "Berlin School" is all about ... that is just too stratospheric I keep thinking! ------------- 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: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 24 2021 at 07:50
It's hard to not call you a pretentious tw*t. Pick a composition that you prefer, state why you prefer it, and keep your insults of other people's musical tastes to yourself. What is truly humorous is that you refer to the three favored in this poll, "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", "Close to the Edge" and "Supper's Ready" as works from "pop/rock bands" -- as if any of the three compositions could ever be considered "pop tunes". I've got news for you, Sunshine, the "Berlin School" is made up of rock bands, same as VdGG, Yes and Genesis. Pompous a**. ------------- ...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: Cambus741
Date Posted: December 24 2021 at 11:18
| I am aware that this may be sacrilege to some people on this forum, but I've always felt that Supper's Ready doesn't have a satisfactory ending. |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: December 24 2021 at 11:20
| It was very very close, but I went for Close to the Edge, mainly because I've never been keen on how Supper's Ready ends. |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 21:32
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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 21:34
Not only sacrilegious, but blasphemous and irreverent I cry every time I hear that ending. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 27 2021 at 10:31
Hi, Oh sure ... and some names like Stockhausen, Shankar ... and many other well known musicians. Please visit the loo before posting!  ------------- 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: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 27 2021 at 10:38
I would got to the loo...as soon as you get your head out of there before you drown. Perhaps that explains the nonsense you post: lack of oxygen to the brain due to porcelain permeation. Stockhausen and Shankar have nothing to do with the conversation -- surprise! The Berlin School is made up of...rock bands. Rock bands. Each one of them. Nothing whatsoever to do with Stockhausen and Shankar, who were not in rock bands. Please try to follow along. Have your cat help you type.
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: December 28 2021 at 07:27
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Supper's Ready for me. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: December 28 2021 at 07:50
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Some glaring omissions here, e.g. Tarkus & Karn Evil 9 (ELP), Eruption (Focus), Song of Scheherazade (Renaissance), Echoes & SYOCD (Pink Floyd) all of which are favourites of mine, but I'll plump for AHM having reappraised the album over the seasonal holiday period. Honourable mentions: Hamburger Concerto, Supper's Ready, CTTE.
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 12:05
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CTTE ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |