3 Focus epics
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Topic: 3 Focus epics
Posted By: WrytXander
Subject: 3 Focus epics
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 12:40
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 16:15
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I like Eruption, but Hamburger Concerto is an absolute favourite here. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 16:20
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Eruption is the best thing Focus ever did. Hamburger is also excellent. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 16:27
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Eruption. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 16:28
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Hamburger Concerto. ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 16:51
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I'll take my Focus medium rare, please. "Eruption" is good, too.
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 19:18
Love Hamburger Concerto ---think it's perfect, less jazzy and more symphonic---so that one for me--but love Eruption too.
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 19:46
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Anonymous II ------------- |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 19:55
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 20:14
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Food all the way. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 21:47
| Hamburger Concerto easily for me. |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 23:25
| Eruption is one of the most stunning pieces I've heard. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 19 2014 at 23:44
| Eruption for me !!! |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 01:25
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For some reason they used the Latin spelling of Anonymus in both versions of the track. I voted for Eruption just ahead of Hamburger. Anonymus II was very good as well but it didn't need the extra 7 minutes on side 4 of the album. |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 01:31
QWhooheeeeeeeeee Focus Eruption yes jajajaha yep ahum oh yes gnack gnack   
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 01:56
| Only old men vote for Hamburger Concerto :P |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 02:05
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Nothing wrong with grumpies however wheeeeeeeheeeiiiaaahhhhh Eruption whaaahaaaaaaa whoohaaahhhxxxxx bounce, bounce, happy bounce hihihi gnack gnack gnack happy grin gnack
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 02:16
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^ You *really* love Eruption ....... [<:o)] (Daww, my emoticon won't work :-(....... |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 02:22
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All essential but for the moment I'll vote Eruption just for that brilliant use of the melodic minor scale in the climax of this mega awesome classic that I like a bit. Imagine (if you can) any other band that has a huge hit (Hocus Pocus) on an album only to have it obscured and eclipsed by the B side. |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 02:27
hahaha Tom yes indeedy Eruption is one of my most favorite prolific euphoric gasmic orgasmic eargasmic thrilling songs ever written to date :) hihihi big hug to you
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 02:29
| ^ Right back at ya' !! Best Focus album - MOVING WAVES....... |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 20 2014 at 12:13
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Hamburger Concerto, no doubt. I find Eruption too fragmentized, and Anonymous is definitely not one of my fave Focus tracks. The Hamburger is IMHO by far their best epic track.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 01:56
........please......... |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 03:55
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OK let's dissect these. Eruption - I first bought Moving Waves in 1973 - It simply is an astonishing work. Akkerman's guitar playing was in my opinion at it's peak. Tommy (in Eruption) is about the best guitar solo in the history of contemporary music. Incredible for it's time i.e. 1971. Anonymus II - The first 2/3s of the vinyl side makes my hair stand on end. Probably the best orchestrated jam session ever....it feels that it was put to tape without any overdubs....just a band displaying it's mindboggling musicianship without the need of recording gimmickry. When Akkerman start's his electric guitar bit followed by van der Linden's extended (read boring) drum solo it loses me. Yes, it all went far too long but van Leer's manic flute work and organ flowing into Bert Ruiter's bass bit in the first section is etched in prog folklore (if there is one i.e. a prog folklore!) Hamburger Concerto - great throughout - yes, yes, yes simply magnificent....but it's not quite as exciting as Eruption IMHO. So it's Eruption from me. |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 18:51
Oh God, I adore that album, Tom!    Last album written and performed by Roger Waters, I think he sang on all songs besides one, he wrote all the tracks on this album. I love Roger Waters, I feel him    this is for you, Tom xxxxxP.S. I klove that guitar solo starting from 3.23 xxxx
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 18:57
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 18:58
hahaha!!! Verslibre you made me laugh now
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 19:03
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 19:13
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:11
Just in case for those who have not voted yet as they might be unsure which to vote (all great), listen this this :) maybe I can sway a vote Eruption buy Focus starts a beautiful orchestral bit turning a fabulous slow melodic tune a bit like perisienne walkways by Gary Moore, thereafter with a great drum into turning into a fantastic clever avant garde jazz master extraordinaire piece but instead of the sax or trumpet it's the guitar doing the prolipupupupu's lilipupupu's :) and thereafter hahaha it gets better Van Leer on the most explosive eargasmic mellotron coupled with Akkerman on guitars, all perfect insync, keeping building steps going higher and higher and higher to explosive nonstop brilliance!  
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:18
I think most who are fans of Bitches Brew by Miles Davis would pick Eruption too among these above 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:20
| ^ A true lilipilipupupu MASTERPIECE. Gosh, I must've bought Moving Waves 20-odd years ago - and never get tired of it (unlike the usual CTTE, DSOTM etc.). And never wear out WYWH - always bliss, every time..... |
Posted By: Quirky Turkey
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:21
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Anonymous II isn't an 'epic'. It's a jam session. A really long one. I vote Hamburger Concerto |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:24
Hahaha indeed Tom, Akkerman on guitars, Thijs van Leer on mellotron and the flute! ha! Incredible! Magnificent! Really!
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:34
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Le Clochard is an exquisite piece, and way too short...... Also Cathedral de Strasbourg is beautiful. |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 21 2014 at 20:44
Those two both great too! I cannot fault them, except one is typical Andalucían acoustic guitar tune (Le Clochard) and Cathedral de Strasbourg is very organ or rather mellotron (church orchestration classic moozik) orientated. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 22 2014 at 21:07
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Eruption is, too me, a masterful composition that could have been rehearsed, performed and recorded better. The problem with Focus is that you had all these emotional virtuosi who had great trouble playing second fiddle (or got bored when they had to). Each one is just waiting, waiting, WAITING for their chance to shine for their solo. While I appreciate the minds and talented musicians working on Anonymous II, it is too cold and emotionless to me. Hamburger Concerto is the most polished, the tightest, yet it is also the most subdued and, at times, soporific. My favorite Focus "epic" is "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!"--though it is not included here due to its clocking in at 'only' 14 minutes. It is raw, it is energetic, it is frenetic, it is emotional, it is sloppy, it is virtuosic, it is funny, it is breathtaking, it is beautiful! What more could a music lover ask for? ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: November 24 2014 at 10:22
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all of them are amazing but HC ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 24 2014 at 14:43
Agreed! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 25 2014 at 01:52
Oh yes, absolutely stunning!
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 25 2014 at 15:58
Thirded. -------------
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Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: November 25 2014 at 22:29
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This was actually hard. I like all these equally but Eruption was my first Focus epic so that's what i voted for. ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 25 2014 at 22:34
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Eruption is aka bounce, bounce happy bounce whooohaaaaaaaaa gnack gnack gnack yes, jaja, yep, sim, si, oui, da, yes yay! Ahum
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 25 2014 at 23:36
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Kati + Eruption =
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: November 25 2014 at 23:39
hahahaha!!! Tom
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 25 2014 at 23:42
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^ I tried to get the little party-dude emoticon on the post but it didn't take it, so double-hugs looked cool. Definitely Moving Waves is my uber-fave Focus. Total 5 star masterpiece. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 26 2014 at 05:10
Forthded, though I think Le Clochard works perfectly as a short piece. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 26 2014 at 05:49
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^ True - in a word, PERFECT. But still, too short......That majestic mellotron, the elegant classical guitar. Sure, Akkerman can be rough at times ( so can Steve Howe), but here he is nothing less than inspiringly perfect and breath-taking....... |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 26 2014 at 06:00
That's part of why I love Akkerman; he is real! He may not be 100% perfect all the time (always close though) but plays with a lot of emotion and is totally not boring like a lot of shredders. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: December 13 2014 at 21:35
Hamburger Concerto.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |