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AFlowerKingCrimson 
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 Posted: August 31 2024 at 22:27 |
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This isn't really prog but I'm going to post it anyway since it's by a prog icon. I suppose most on here have it heard it before but for those who haven't here you go.
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David_D
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Posted: September 07 2024 at 12:24 |
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Yes - "Total Mass Retain", Close to the Edge, Close to the Edge (1972) About this part of the Close to the Edge suite has Jon Anderson told: "It's got this deep sad feeling for the mass rape of our planet, for the evilness which creates the wars, and there's no answers to all these things. It's common sense in knowing what's right and what's wrong." (as quoted in David Weigel's The Show That Never Ends: The rise and fall of Prog Rock, 2017 p. 104) |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 07 2024 at 13:44 |
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Shots taken at Ron Reagan's United States - though the pictures show the Great Depression images. It's missing the last minutes with more closing comments This is worthy of Waters' Final Cut or Amused To Death. Edited by Sean Trane - September 07 2024 at 13:53 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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David_D
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Posted: September 08 2024 at 05:46 |
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More about "Supper's Ready", which, while not overtly politically, concludes by seeming to be optimistic about the future of human societies, and sees "the new Jerusalem" as the model for a perfect, fulfilled society (at least according to Edward Macan's Rocking the Classics, 1997 p. 81): Genesis - "Supper's Ready" (part vii) Can't you feel our souls ignite? Shedding ever-changing colours In the darkness of the fading night Like the river joins the ocean As the germ in a seed grows We have finally been freed to get back home There's an angel standing in the sun And he's crying with a loud voice "This is the supper of the mighty one" Lord of Lords, King of Kings Has returned to lead his children home To take them to the new Jerusalem (from the album Foxtrot (1972))
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David_D
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Posted: September 08 2024 at 06:02 |
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Similarily to "Supper's Ready", VdGG's "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End" is not overtly political but rather optimistic about the future of Humanity, and thus surely having some political effect: Van der Graaf Generator - "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End" (excerpt) All the jokers and gaolers, all the junkies and slavers too, all the throng who have danced a merry tune - human we can all be, but Humanity we must rise above, in the name of all faith and hope and love. There's a time for all pilgrims, and a time for the fakers too, there's a time when we all will stand alone and nude, naked to the galaxies - naked, but clothed in the overview... as we reach Childhood's End we must start anew. And though dark is the highway, and the peak's distance breaks my heart, for I never shall see it, still I play my part, believing that what waits for us is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past... In the death of mere humans life shall start (from the album Still Life (1976))
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Posted: September 08 2024 at 07:14 |
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It wouldn't suprise me if there were some songs too about Mag Thatcher, The Iron Lady's Britain.  |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 08 2024 at 16:01 |
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Leave it to Rog The Rogue Waters to insult Maggie Bicher.
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Posted: September 12 2024 at 12:32 |
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Here's a song about the French queen, Marie Antoinette, literally losing her head in 1793, during the French Revolution (1789-99): Curved Air - "Marie Antoinette" (excerpt) Marie Antoinette Your name's a legend In this land Treasure for your pleasure Bestowed on favoured gentleman The people are in arms Marching on the town They rise Chanting revolution! "Vive la Nation!" Marie Antoinette Your shadow's falling Along the land Anger born of hunger Poisons the hearts of your loyal men Fire in their eyes Steel in their hands They rise Chanting revolution! "Vive la Nation!" ..................... We are the people of France We demand That the elegant blue-blooded Leeches that bleed us Are taught what it means To grow fat and not feed us We are the people of France You must heed us Already at the Bastille The prisoners all run free They're hammering on the door Marie Antoinette They've taken the guillotine They're coming to take the Queen (from the allbum Phantasmagoria (1972))
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