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Topic: favourite prog ballad
Posted By: blazno
Subject: favourite prog ballad
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 10:24
There's tons of great ballad in prog music, Nights in White Saten, Cadance and Cascade, Tears ,...just to name a few. What are your favourite ballads and whats your opinion about ballads in general?
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 10:38
Ballads are fine as long as there aren't too many of 'em. My favorite is probably Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On 
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Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 10:47
Pain Of Salvation - Second Love
The most painfully beauty ballad in music.
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Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 10:56
Ever heard 'The Mariner's Song' by Rocket Scientists?
Very classy.
Great song, nice story, big buildup, strong lead gtr & arrangement.
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Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 10:57
And You And I?
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:23
I love ballads! My favourite:
Györgyhajú lány - OMEGA
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:24
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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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:43
R_DeNIRO wrote:
Pain Of Salvation - Second Love
The most painfully beauty ballad in music.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 14:21
I don't know whether it can really be called a ballad, but I think Yes's "Turn of the Century" is one of the best songs of its kind.
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Posted By: Lota
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:19
Entangled. Mad man Moon, And You and I, Time and word, carpet crawlers, follow you follow me and many more just dont remember right now
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:20
"In Your Eyes" Collage. A bit long, but what the hell, it's great! 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:23
prog ballad?...what's that?
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:24
micky wrote:
prog ballad?...what's that? |
...I take it to mean a prog love song of sorts.
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:24
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. One stands out now though- 'Don't Go Away' by Man, which is a rather lovely ballad with beautiful vocals and guitars.
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:29
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
The Night Watch/Cadence & Cascade - King Crimson
Grace Darling - Strawbs
'W' - VdGG
The Birds - Peter Hammill
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:30
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:31
Oh..uhh.... ....
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:31
micky wrote:
prog ballad?...what's that?
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Peter Hammill released an album called 'The Love Songs'
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:36
Man Erg wrote:
micky wrote:
prog ballad?...what's that?
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Peter Hammill released an album called 'Love Songs' |
ahhh... there we go.... Thanks, haven't heard it. Any good?
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Posted By: Rorro
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:37
i really like walking on air ( king crimson), but it is not a love song
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:40
micky wrote:
Man Erg wrote:
micky wrote:
prog ballad?...what's that?
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Peter Hammill released an album called 'Love Songs' |
ahhh... there we go.... Thanks, haven't heard it. Any good?
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It's a compilation and it's very good indeed.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:44
Man Erg wrote:
micky wrote:
Man Erg wrote:
micky wrote:
prog ballad?...what's that?
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Peter Hammill released an album called 'Love Songs' |
ahhh... there we go.... Thanks, haven't heard it. Any good?
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It's a compilation and it's very good indeed. |
I've yet to get into his solo work.. no idea why not... since I
consider him one if not the best prog vocalist, and lyrically amoung
the best based on the VDGG I've heard.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:46
are you all too posh for Shine on You Crazy Diamond? it's epic, but the meat of the song is the slow, emotional dedication.. a ballad in my eyes.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 15:52
laplace wrote:
are you all too posh for Shine on You Crazy Diamond?
it's epic, but the meat of the song is the slow, emotional dedication..
a ballad in my eyes.
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not too posh here... just dont consider a story of a man in the
crazyhouse all that romantic or capable of incited great passion. 
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Posted By: freehand
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:06
Vision - Peter Hammmill
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
Aspirations - Gentle Giant
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Posted By: kent
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:22
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give up
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes ...maybe
Genesis - Duke (the whole damned album is about Phil's divorce, for God's Sake!) Great music, but odd subject matter for such cool songs.
Genesis - Your Own Special Way

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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:42
Ballad?? You mean love song??... I've got very "slow songs" wandering thru' my mind as TEARS (Rush), SHOOT HIGH AIM LOW (Yes), RIPPLES (Genesis), ORPHEUS (David Sylvian), STILL.. YOU TURN ME ON (ELP), HERE COMES THE FLOOD (Peter Gabriel), ICE (Camel)... But I really need an specific definition of what means "ballad"... love songs? A particular compisition based on special lyrics and rhythm? Sad songs?...
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Posted By: toothpick2112
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:44
Posted By: White Queen
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:49
There are better ones out there, but since it hasn't been mentioned yet I feel obligated: Dream Theater's "Space Dye Vest"
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:52
On of the strangest ballad is Sleep is a course by Maudlin
of the Well but it isn't strange in sound, Is rather pleasant and
beautiful, it's strange because it doesn't fit with the
Avant-metal they make. It's like a gleaming beam of light in the
darkness of the album Leaving your body map.
Another good one is Jethro Tull's Black Satin Dancer and , as said earlier, Pain of Salvation's Second Love.
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Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:54
I'd say...
Yes - To Be Over, Soon
Rush - Tears, Rivendell, Different Strings
Genesis - Entangled, Anyway, Ripples
Jethro Tull - One White Duck
King Crimson - I Talk To The Wind
Dream Theater - Wait For Sleep, Vacant
ELP - Still... You Turn Me On
Pink Floyd - A Pillow of Winds, Us and Them
Led Zeppelin - That's The Way
* That is... if those are even considered ballads - I've always thought of them as slow, chill songs
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Posted By: Alagithil
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 17:18
EPITAPH!!!
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING!!!
You're all idiots. And I mean that in the fondest possible sense.
Ballad does not equal love song! =)
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Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 17:43
The Ritual
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Posted By: Dirk
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 18:02
I'm not sure if the following songs are really ballads, they all are rather quiet.
Green is the color - Pink Floyd Cautious response, One voice - Echolyn Funny ways - Gentle Giant Navigator - TFK
and many others ...
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Posted By: Nanook
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 18:08
Alagithil beat me to the punch, although I don't think you're all idiots.
Epitaph by King Crimson does it for me. I also think highly of Don't Give up and C'est La Vie.
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Posted By: Tenemos
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 18:36
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
National Health - Clocks and Clouds
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Posted By: Pylo
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 18:40
What's a prog ballad ? For me : cool song + acoustic guitar + lyrics about love or something like that !
My favourites without any order :
- Pink Floyd : "Wish you were here"
- Barclay James Harvest : "Hymn"
- Twelfth Night : "Love song"
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Posted By: Minkia
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 19:58
HOW ABOUT 'BLOOD ON THE ROOFTOPS' AND 'MAD MAN MOON' BY GENESIS?
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 20:05
ballad [bálləd] (plural ballads)
n
1. |
music literature narrative song: a song or poem, especially a traditional one or one in a traditional style, telling a story in a number of short regular stanzas, often with a refrain
the Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde |
2. |
music slow romantic song: a slow romantic popular song
two up-tempo numbers followed by a ballad |
[Late 15th century. Via French ballade from, ultimately, late Latin ballare (see ball2).]
1. Lucky Man - ELP
2. From The Beginning - ELP
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Posted By: KansasRushDream
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 20:11
Space-Dye Vest and Wait for Sleep, both of which were written by Kevin Moore while he was with Dream Theater.
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 21:23
Man Erg wrote:
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis The Night Watch/Cadence & Cascade - King Crimson Grace Darling - Strawbs 'W' - VdGG The Birds - Peter Hammill |
Is Carpet Crawlers a ballad ?
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 21:26
Minkia wrote:
HOW ABOUT 'BLOOD ON THE ROOFTOPS' AND 'MAD MAN MOON' BY GENESIS? |
great songs but are they ballads?
Did Gensis ever do a ballad ?
Turn of the century is a great track but I don't know if it is a ballad either?
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 21:28
Although it can tear me up inside, Dream Theater's "Through Her Eyes" is
awfully beautiful. Lyrics can really bring you down, however.
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Posted By: int_2375
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 21:40
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 21:42
"She is Everything" by Spock´s Beard
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Posted By: TOD KREMER
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 02:20
If you count Nights in White Satin (as BLAZNO does), then almost everything on Hayward/ Lodge's Blue Jays are my favorite ballads. My ultimate "make-out" album of the '70's....(almost) never failed.
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Posted By: chazmire
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 11:17
Wow, some cool ballads posted here. Made me get some old lps out and listen to a few of them. My favorite would be "Exiles" by Crimson. The guitar solo is heartbreakingly beautiful, and the live box set has the version I want played at my funeral.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 11:29
Losendos wrote:
Turn of the century is a great track but I don't know if it is a ballad either?
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Perhaps it's not, but then what do we count as a ballad? If I think of chart-friendly ballads, I think of songs such as "Still Loving You" by The Scorpions or the countless, sappy love songs produced by American AOR groups. Probably here by 'ballad' we mean a slow, often acoustic song where vocals feature more prominently than in other compositions. This is why we mentioned "Turn of the Century", "Exiles" (a great song - shame about Wetton's vocals!), "Blood on the Rooftops" and such others.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 11:37
E-Dub wrote:
Although it can tear me up inside, Dream Theater's "Through Her Eyes" is
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Posted By: chazmire
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 11:39
****** "Exiles" (a great song - shame about Wetton's vocals!) ******
Yeah, I hear you. But to me, though he strains mightily, his voice adds to the charm. I can't really separate the song from his vocals. But I wonder how Greg Lake might've fared?
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Posted By: Tenth Chaffinch
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 23:48
There are definately some noteworthy balladlike songs in Prog.
Unevensong (Camel: Rain Dances) has a complex and melodic introductory sequence, beautiful vocals, a rocking keyboard solo in an odd time signature, a great breakdown into some strange chord sequences, leading to a climactic and tear jerking ending in which a series of guitar riffs run parallel and are overlayed in a magnificent fashion.
Walking On Air (King Crimson: Thrak) is another great song with good use of some complex chords and a soothing, airy melody.
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Posted By: ozzy_tom
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 07:46
King Crimson - "Epitaph", ELP - "C'est la vie", Uriah Heep - "The Park" and my favorite: Van Der Graaf Generator - "House with no Door" !
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Posted By: retuow
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:10
Peter Hammill - A Better Time
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 09:01
My newest fav would have to be Everon's And Still It Bleeds- a power ballad par excellence. Now that sound engineer knew what he was doing.
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 09:39
There are so many great prog ballads:
VDGG: Refugees, Out of my book, House with no doors, My room (waiting for wonderland)
Peter Hammill: Vision, Child.
King Crimson: Talk to the wind, Moonchild, Lady of the dancing water, Islands.
Genesis: Dusk, harlequin, The carpet crawlers, The Lamia, Mad man moon.
Yes: And you and I, The Ancient(The end of the song), To be over, Turn of the century, Onward.
Jethro Tull: Reasons for waiting, For Micheal Collins, Jeffrey and me.
ELP: Lucky Man, From the begining, Still... you turn me on.
Pink Floyd: If, Fat old sun, A Pillow of winds, Wish you were here, Pigs on the wings, Hey you, vera.
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Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:30
Genesis - The Lamia. More of an melancholic epic, but it's stunningly beautiful and heart-wrenching.
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Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:37
In prog-metal probably I Remember by Psychotic Waltz !
Through Her Eyes by DT is more of a soul-ballad, so it doesn't count for me.
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Posted By: smokey
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:41
Yes - To Be Over 
other honorable mentions include: ELP - Lucky Man (kind of a ballad) Led Zeppelin - Thank You Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come
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Posted By: pechu prog 730
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 03:20
for me tarkus
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Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 04:09
The Hermit by Steve Hackett!
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 05:24
The Afterglow following the Lamb medley on Genesis' Three Sides Live LP is heart-wrenching. The best thing Phil has ever sung!
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Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 06:12
Give Love Each Day (Yes, Magnification album).
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Posted By: MANTICORE
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 15:16
The Beatles - A Day In the Life
Procol Harum - A whiter shade of pale
Marillion - Lavender
Queensryche - Silent lucidity
& Many Others..!
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Posted By: erlenst
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 15:30
Camel - Air Born and Yes - And You And I
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Posted By: Tenth Chaffinch
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 15:42
Gentle Giant's "Think Of Me With Kindness" is a good one. Excellent Phil Shulman vocals, good lyrics, complex composition. One of my all time favorites.
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 07:31
Marc Baum wrote:
In prog-metal probably I Remember by Psychotic Waltz !
Through Her Eyes by DT is more of a soul-ballad, so it doesn't count for me. |
I Remember is great! 
Guardian by Fates Warning is also an excellent song, one of the best metal ballads ever IMHO.
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Posted By: DarioIndjic
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 11:08
PFM - Dove Quando Parte 1
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Realta
Omega - Az éjszakai országúton
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Posted By: Trendkill_md
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 11:36
VDGG: House with no door Dream Theater: Space-dye vest Fates Warning: The road goes on forever King Crimson: Epitaph, I talk to the wind Marillion: Warmo wet circles Pain Of Salvation: Second love, This heart of mine
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 12:48
Yes - And You And I
Deep Purple - Soldier Of Fortune
Led Zeppelin - the Rain Song (BEST OF ALL TIME)
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Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 15:38
King Crimson were the best at doing ballads, IMO:
I Talk to the Wind
Cadence and Cascade
The Peace trilogy
Islands
Book of Saturdays
The Nightwatch
Trio
I don't know if I'd consider a song like Epitaph a ballad, though. It's a bit too grandiose.
Also:
VDGG- Refugees, House with no Door
Comus- The Herald
Jethro Tull- Moths, Requiem
ELP- From the Beginning
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 15:54
Trendkill_md wrote:
VDGG: House with no door Dream Theater: Space-dye vest Fates Warning: The road goes on forever King Crimson: Epitaph, I talk to the wind Marillion: Warmo wet circles Pain Of Salvation: Second love, This heart of mine
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Posted By: darius
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 16:34
I have tears on my eyes when I listen to PFM's "Impressioni di
settembre (The world became the world)" & "Dove Quando part 1"
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Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 04:45
Mostly Autumn:
Shrinking Violet
Heart life
Evergreen
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Posted By: oracus
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 06:37
Unfortunately I cant remember now a prog rock ballad but i remember from prog metal two great songs
Second Love by Pain of Salvation
I turned you down by Riverside
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Posted By: oracus
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 06:39
darius wrote:
I have tears on my eyes when I listen to PFM's "Impressioni di
settembre (The world became the world)" & "Dove Quando part 1"
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Really emotional songs..
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Posted By: Sekkyoku
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 07:16
Think Of Me With Kindness by Gentle Giant, of course!
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 07:18
And there's We All Need Some Light by Transatlantic
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Posted By: nowayman121
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 08:54
Space-Dye Vest by everyones faviourite band (sircasm), amazing amazing song, I wish I could write music like that
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Posted By: lucifersam
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 11:07
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Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 22:39
Aspirations, Reunion - GG
Cadence and Cascade, Book Of Saturdays - KC
Refugees, Out Of My Book, House With No Door - VdGG
Green Is The Color, See-Saw - PF
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong - Radiohead
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Posted By: DrGoon
Date 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. |
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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Posted By: Badabec
Date 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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Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: May 04 2006 at 17:14
What about Open Your Eyes by Stream of Passion? Sublime vocal performance by Marcela Bovio.
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Posted By: crimson thing
Date 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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Posted By: bamba
Date Posted: May 04 2006 at 20:30
I talk to the wind
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 08:18
One of my favourite is "More Fool Me" (GENESIS).
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Posted By: Barla
Date 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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Posted By: disastercasper
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 11:40
If I have to name one, definitely Pain of Salvation's "Second Love".
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Posted By: mrgd
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 00:36
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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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date 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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Posted By: Uroboros
Date 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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Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 20:34
' Rain' by Uriah Heep 3 mins of sheer brilliance.
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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 23:46
Wish You Were Here--Pink Floyd
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Posted By: Fede
Date 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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Posted By: Gomah
Date Posted: May 10 2006 at 01:30
Prog ballad? The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date 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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