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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2012 at 21:32
Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Everything by Iona
...and Bainbridge's solo album, Veils of Gossamer - many beautiful songs on that album...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2012 at 09:41
The enid "the lovers" or "the loved ones" depending on if its the original or remastered version. IMO their best song and prettiest.

Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2012 at 12:01
Yes's And You and I is only slightly marred by too much business in the "Coins and Crosses" section.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2012 at 12:23
Pain of Salvation's Pluvius Aestivus and Song For The Innocent are probably the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.
Just give it all an hour by the concrete lake.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2012 at 12:30
Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

Yes's And You and I is only slightly marred by too much business in the "Coins and Crosses" section.

Busy? What would you subtract?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 09:30
Losing It and Bravado by Rush, as well as the middle section of La Villa Strangiato (a Lerxst in Wonderland)
Pure Narcotic, Heart Attack in a Layby, etc by Porcupine Tree
Radiohead's got a whole bunch.
Frozen Creek, Stop the F***ing Car, and Kicking Your Crosses Down by Circa Survive
Dirge for November and Hours of Wealth by Opeth
The Patient and Right in Two by Tool
The Noose, Orestes, 3 Libras by A Perfect Circle
Roulette Dares, Eriatarka, Halo of Nembutals, and Copernicus by The Mars Volta (the guitar solo of Roulette Dares, all unexpected)
House with no Door, My Room, Man-Erg, Snake Oil, Refugees by Van der Graaf Generator
One for the Vine (specifically string tribute), The Cinema Show, The Lamia, For Absent Friends, Harlequin, Fountain of Salmacis, Supper's Ready, the massively underrated Time Table, Can-Utility and the Coastliners, Counting out TIme, basically anything by Genesis
And You and I, Awaken, Mood for a Day, by Yes
Cadence and Cascade, Lizard by King Crimson
The intro to Thick as a Brick, Slipstream, Heavy Horses, We Used to Know by Jethro Tull
Thin Air, The Beginning and the End, Je Fait une Promesse, Everything by Anathema
Most Blackfield songs
Water, Idioglossia, Morning on Earth, Reconciliation, Dryad of the Woods, Vocari Dei, In the Flesh by Pain of Salvation
Wish You Were Here, Time, Us and Them, Echoes, High Hopes by Pink Floyd...
 
 
 
MAN THERE IS A BUNCH OF BEAUTY IN PROG Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 09:31
ah, forgot one of my favorite RPI classics: I love almost anything from Darwin, but PFM's Appena un po, that part about four minutes in is heavenly.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 09:34
The newest PG album is insanely beautiful as well, New Blood.
 
I think Solsbury Hill is one of the most beautiful songs ever, can't believe I forgot it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 14:09
Genesis - SUPPER'S READY Approve / Firth of the Fifth / The Carpet Crawlers
King Crimson - Lizard / Starless / In the Court of the Crimson King / I Talk to the Wind
Yes - And You And I / The Revealing Science of God / Starship Trooper / Wonderous Stories
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus / Trilogy
Eloy - THE WHOLE OCEAN ALBUM IS BEAUTIFUL!!!! Approve
Gentle Giant - Pantagruel's Nativity / Prologue
Grobschnitt - Ernie's Reise
Haken - The Point of No Return / Celestial Elixir
Jethro Tull - My God / Thick as a Brick Pt. 1
Magenta - Envy / The Ballad of Samuel Layne
Pendragon - If I Were The Wind (And You Were the Rain) / A Man Of Nomadic Traits / THE VOYAGER
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky / Waiting for the Worms / The Trial / Atom Heart Mother / If / Summer '68 / Sheep / ECHOES / Shine on You Crazy Diamonds
Renaissance - Trip to the Fair / SONG OF SCHEHERAZADE (EPIC!!!!)
Rush - 2112 / Red Barchetta / Xanadu / Subdivisions
Sky Architect - Treebird

SORRY! IT'S TOO BIG!!!!!!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:47
Those four songs are just plain awesome!

Brothers Love Dubs - The Mighty Ming
Unity 3 - Age of Love
Punchunella - San Trancisco
Quivver - Twist & Shout
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 18:29
Opeth's Heritage and In My Time of Need

Just give it all an hour by the concrete lake.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2012 at 14:36
Oh, and I've forgot to mention The Cinema Show, by Genesis.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2012 at 11:39
I'll say;
 
King Crimson - Epitaph
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
 
Short list, but those are the ''ballads'' I've always enjoyed listening to.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2012 at 00:01
I'll revive this thread just because I wanted share, Gentle Giant's Memories Of Old Days is one of the most beautiful prog songs ever!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2012 at 23:31
Two of my favorite songs I could cite for this thread:
Aspirations by Gentle Giant
The Sheltering Sky by King Crimson
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2012 at 23:52
Master of Time by Anthony Phillips, extremely beautiful song, it's where my username comes from.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2012 at 00:18
I was sure it was the Big Big Train song.
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2012 at 00:59
The Big Big Train song is a cover of the Anthony Phillips song.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2012 at 03:03
GG created some absolutely beautiful moments- particularly "Edge Of Twilight"

bla Cardiacs bla
There be dragons
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2012 at 09:02

I have a LOT, but many of them have already been listed, maybe one or two new songs can be found in there:  

(All subjective depending on artist and their eras, and what I define as beautiful):


King Crimson - Epitaph, The Court of the Crimson King, Cadence And Cascade, Matte Kudasai

Yes - And You And I, The Remembering, To Be Over, Circus of Heaven, Lift Me Up,  I Am Waiting

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood, Family Snapshot, Lead A Normal Life, Wallflower (truly beautiful), Red Rain, Mercy Street, Some songs from Passion (I can't remember), Blood of Eden, Washing Of The Water, Secret World, Most of his Scratch My Back and New Blood albums.

Genesis - Stagnation, Visions of Angels, Supper's Ready, The Cinema Show, The Carpet Crawlers, The Lamia, In The Rapids, Mad Man Moon, Ripples...,Your Own Special Way, Blood On The Rooftops, Afterglow, Undertow, Heathaze, Alone Tonight, Man on the Corner

Van Der Graaf Generator - House With No Door

Rush - Xanadu, Hemispheres, In The End, The Fountain of Lamneth, Tears, Losing It, Grand Designs, Marathon, Mystic Rhythms, Mission, Tai Shan, Bravado, Ghost Of A Chance

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, Fat Old Sun, Saucerful of Secrets (mainly the Celestial Voices), Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun, The Great Gig In The Sky, When The Tigers Broke Free, Two Suns In The Sunset

Spock's Beard - The Light, The Doorway, Chatauqua, Walking on the Wind, June

Jethro Tull - Wind Up, some parts of A Passion Play



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