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    Posted: August 10 2023 at 06:29
Simply list your top ten favourite Renaissance albums, then choose your favourite song from each of those ten albums. Smile

Top 10 Favourite Renaissance Albums

02. 5 stars 1978: Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mgE2kx7W8VBgkLIsb3ReXdobZc5oB7xnI
05. 5 stars 1975: Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIwTNEhpVOv1gteY4V1ebEqSGu_9MfeVw


Top 10 Favourite Songs from Those Albums

01. At the Harbour
02. Song for All Seasons
03. Things I Don't Understand
04. Kiev
05. Song of Scheherazade
06. The Sisters
07. Symphony of Light
08. The Flood at Lyons
09. Kings and Queens
10. Face of Yesterday



Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 17 2023 at 05:14
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Yikes, this could be difficult from 76 onwards - even including the Ex-Yardbirds line-up

1- Kings & Queens (but it could be anyone on that album)
2- Past Orbits of Dust
3- Kiev (and not the horrible KyivDead)
4- Ashes Are Burning
5- Mother Russia
6- Trip to the Fair 
7- Prologue (from CarnegieWink)

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9- Day of the Dreamer (logical step while snoring Ying Yang)
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01. 5 stars 1973: Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLlzvwRGj185pGq9yYhveAzan1m0qWHbQ

Annie Haslam's all-time favourite Renaissance song, and mine too. Heart
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02. 5 stars 1978: Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mgE2kx7W8VBgkLIsb3ReXdobZc5oB7xnI

A Song for All Seasons, but for Mostly Autumn in my case. Wink



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03. 5 stars 1974: Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs

Back in the days when Mother Russia included the Ukraine too....  How times have changed.



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03. 5 stars 1974: Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs

Things I Don't Understand.... Why did I pick Mother Russia as my favourite song from the Turn of the Cards album when I could've chosen this song instead - especially bearing in mind the Daily Doug is awestruck  after hearing Annie Haslam's incredible vocal range for the first time and says "there's is NOTHING about that song I don't like." Clap



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1. Novella - "Can You Hear Me?"
2. Turn of the Cards - "Things I Don't Understand"
3. Scheherazade and other Stories - "A Trip to the Fair"
4. Live at Carnegie Hall - "Mother Russia"
5. Renaissance - "Island"
6. Ashes Are Burning - "At the Harbour"
7. Prologue - "Prologue"
8. Illusion - "Golden Thread"
9. A Song For All Seasons - "Northern Lights"

Sorry! That's all I can do!





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03. 5 stars 1974: Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs
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Album / Rating / Best Song

1. Ashes Are Burning ***** the title song

2. Turn of the Cards ***** Things I Don't Understand

3. Live at Carnegie Hall ***** Song of Scheherazade

4. Renaissance ***** Island

5. Prologue **** Bound For Infinity

6. Novella **** The Captive Heart

7. A Song For All Seasons *** the title song

8. Illusion *** Golden Thread

9. Azure d'Or ** Forever Changing

10. Camera Camera ** Ukraine Ways

After relistening the albums It's amazing how the debut album (by band's first incarnation) from 1969 still kicks ass.

I have left out Scheherazade album because you get the best songs on Live at Carnegie Hall (plus some goodies from their best albums). It's also nice to hear the live feel.
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^ That's an excellent line-up! My favourite Renaissance songs are Forever Changing and I could just as easily have chosen your list of favourites instead. Thumbs Up
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can I do a 9X9 list? Evil Smile
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

can I do a 9X9 list? Evil Smile

I don't see why not. You can do a 9 X 9 list then Let It Grow from there.  Thumbs Up



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1. Turn of the Cards - Mother Russia
2. Ashes Are Burning - Can You Understand?
3. Novella - Touching Once (Is So Hard To Keep)
4. Prologue - Prologue
5. Renaissance - Wanderer
6. Scheherazade and other Stories - The Vultures Fly High
7. A Song For All Seasons - The Day Of The Dreamer
8. Illusion - Past Orbits Of Dust
9. Azure D'Or - The Winter Tree
10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)
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1. Scheherazade and Other Stories - Song of Scheherazade
2. Turn of the Cards - Mother Russia
3. Ashes Are Burning - Ashes Are Burning
4. A Song for All Seasons - A Song for All Seasons
5. Prologue - Kiev
6. Novella - The Sisters
7. Illusion - Past Orbits of Dust
8. Renaissance - Kings and Queens

I haven't listened to enough of their remaining albums to come up with a 9 and 10.
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04. 5 stars 1972: Renaissance - Prologue - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nsKGwkJQV8nk_f5Xi353Il9e1A-tspJHg

I already mentioned Mother Russia, so it's only fair to give the capital of the Ukraine a mention too.
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05. 5 stars 1975: Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIwTNEhpVOv1gteY4V1ebEqSGu_9MfeVw
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Illusion - Love Goes on
Prologue - Spare some Love
Ashes are Burning - Can You Understand, On the Frontier, or at the Harbour
Turn of the Cards - Black Flame or Mother Russia
Scheherazade - Trip to the Fair
Live at Carnegie Hall - Ashes are Burning (though for Annie's performance in the final part nothing beats the version on Live in Chicago 1983)
Novella - Midas Man
Song for all Seasons - Opening Out, Day of the Dreamer, Kindness at the End, Northern Lights, or Song for all Seasons
Camera Camera - Okichi San
Symphony of Light - Mystic and the MUse or Grandine Il Vento
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06. 5 stars 1977: Renaissance - Novella - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDmNtmO30E4Hv0Z87Q_zad5EyglMAMrLs
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)

I might add that it's not really a song I consider to particularly great or even good. But that goes for the rest of Camera, Camera as well. Annie's voice is too shouty and "girlie" on most of this album for me to genuinely enjoy any of it. And the production generally sucks as well. Cheap sounding synths, thin and treble heavy. But the ABBA-like chorus here is drop dead gorgeous. It deserved a better song and sound surroundig it. I also like that it's a song about fairies.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)

I might add that it's not really a song I consider to particularly great or even good. But that goes for the rest of Camera, Camera as well. Annie's voice is too shouty and "girlie" on most of this album for me to genuinely enjoy any of it. And the production generally sucks as well. Cheap sounding synths, thin and treble heavy. But the ABBA-like chorus here is drop dead gorgeous. It deserved a better song and sound surroundig it. I also like that it's a song about fairies.

I see what you mean. Annie sounds nothing like the singer we know and love, but the chorus is magical - just like Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden). My personal favourite from the Camera Camera album is Bonjour Swansong, which seems a fitting song title, bearing in mind this is the album where Renaissance went in a New Wave direction and waved goodbye to their Symphonic Prog roots - at least until the 2001 Tuscany album anyway. Confused
 


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