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Posted: October 24 2010 at 00:59
I'm not sure it's all that Proggy, but the ending piece of ELO's 'Mr Blue skies' must be high on the list, truly beautiful (at least until that silly interjection of Sparky harmonica suddenly jolts into the picture - almost as bad taste as the gong at the end of 'Bohemian Rhapsody', though you can never be sure if Queen meant the bad taste in the first place).
Also, a piece that probably influenced the ELO arrangement, the Beatles' 'And in the End', the final section of that has to be high on anyone's list, though again, a bit far right off Prog mainstream.
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Posted: October 24 2010 at 01:37
Prog:
Gentle Giant - Think of Me With Kindness Yes - Close to the Edge (the climax towards the end) King Crimson - Trio Transatlantic - Stranger in Your Soul (the ending)
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Posted: October 24 2010 at 05:33
There is lot of really beautiful piece of music in classical side, those Puccini and Verdi opera arias. But if we stay in Progressive rock music, I would say that King Crimson's "Starless" must be one of the most beautiful pieces of music.
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Posted: October 24 2010 at 06:22
Gentle Giant's Think of Me With Kindness always brings a lump to my throat. Especially the 'Fare thee well, fare thee well you that was once dear to me' part. Other really beautiful songs that come to mind are The Tangent's The Full Gamut and Lunatic Soul's Adrift.
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Posted: October 24 2010 at 21:28
Rasvamakkara wrote:
Gentle Giant's Think of Me With Kindness always brings a lump to my throat. Especially the 'Fare thee well, fare thee well you that was once dear to me' part.
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Posted: October 25 2010 at 00:50
if we are talking about Music in general I think MOZART is a king of a Beautiful music. His clarinet or piano or fluteconcertos or his simphonies, operas (or ...) are something incomparable .
In Rock greatest examples are Entangled,Refugees, For today, Soon(by Yes), Starless, Moths, Thick as a brick.
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Posted: October 25 2010 at 05:56
Phdeaux's "Crumbles" are very beautiful sounding. Also, that moment in Echoes when the chime comes back right after the 5 minutes of disturbing keyboard sounds is very moving. Tool's Lateralus, and Refugees by van der graaf would also be good choices by me.
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Posted: October 25 2010 at 16:41
Hard to say. Really depends of the my mood while i listen to a song. And as a lot of prog are 10 minutes plus, a lot of them have great moment sometimes mixed with average one, all within a song. This sometimes brings what could have been a great song to a forgetable one just for being long or mixing part that should not be mixed.
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Posted: November 15 2010 at 23:57
So many to choose from. Everyone knows the classics like Comfortably Numb, Starless, and Supper's Ready so I'll name some that I have just recently discovered mainly through Prog Archives just to prove that beautiful music is still being written.
1) Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
2) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
3) Anathema - Flying....Also Better off Dead
4) Baroness - Rays on Pinion
5) Black Mountain - Heart of Snow
6) The Dear Hunter - The Lake and the River
7) Devin Townsend - Deep Peace
8) Kayo Dot - Manifold Curiosity
9) Mostly Autumn - Heroes Never Die
10) No-man - Wherever there is Light
11) Oceansize - Music for a Nurse ...Also Ornament/The Last Wrongs
12) Orphaned Land - Building the Ark
130 Pineapple Thief - Remember Us
14) Russian Circles - Verses
15) Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
16) Silver Mt Zion - Mountains Made of Steam
17) Tortoise - Crest
It's good to know there is still good quality music out there. If only we could get more people to listen to it.
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Posted: November 17 2010 at 12:43
topographicbroadways wrote:
In progressive music that is (if we counted classical Beethovens String Quartet No.14 would win by a mile)
for me it has got to be Supper's Ready for the combination of amazing music and lyrics
and also Song of Scheherazade is hard to forget
any other suggestions?
sorry but for me Beethoven wouldn't stand a chance against Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante or Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, - as for progressive music I just can't decide!
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Rasvamakkara wrote:
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