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Topic: Renaissance 10 X 10

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Renaissance 10 X 10
Date 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

01.

1973: Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLlzvwRGj185pGq9yYhveAzan1m0qWHbQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLlzvwRGj185pGq9yYhveAzan1m0qWHbQ

02.

1978: Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mgE2kx7W8VBgkLIsb3ReXdobZc5oB7xnI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mgE2kx7W8VBgkLIsb3ReXdobZc5oB7xnI

03.

1974: Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs

04.

1972: Renaissance - Prologue - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nsKGwkJQV8nk_f5Xi353Il9e1A-tspJHg" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nsKGwkJQV8nk_f5Xi353Il9e1A-tspJHg

05.

1975: Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIwTNEhpVOv1gteY4V1ebEqSGu_9MfeVw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIwTNEhpVOv1gteY4V1ebEqSGu_9MfeVw

06.

1977: Renaissance - Novella - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDmNtmO30E4Hv0Z87Q_zad5EyglMAMrLs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDmNtmO30E4Hv0Z87Q_zad5EyglMAMrLs

07.

2014: Renaissance - Symphony of Light - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_luDpArUd5yXPax6W3TZWxWy2BDOL-faJM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_luDpArUd5yXPax6W3TZWxWy2BDOL-faJM

08.

1979: Renaissance - Azure d'Or - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nEYEFeCF0FKzAov9wq3XwAV7sUfChdGbo" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nEYEFeCF0FKzAov9wq3XwAV7sUfChdGbo

09.

1969: Renaissance - Renaissance - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nVNgH8bM6nt9-sohxxFOqvP4FMOzZvAbQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nVNgH8bM6nt9-sohxxFOqvP4FMOzZvAbQ

10.

1971: Renaissance - Illusion - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBsgKAeM7YKTisSIh0sp09HnVoDaGWt78" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBsgKAeM7YKTisSIh0sp09HnVoDaGWt78

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

Replies:

Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 10 2023 at 07:28

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 Kyiv Dead

)

4- Ashes Are Burning

5- Mother Russia

6- Trip to the Fair

7- Prologue (from Carnegie Wink

)

8- Can You Hear Me? (I'm snoring Sleepy

)

9- Day of the Dreamer (logical step while snoring Ying Yang

)

10- Deep slumber (I give up Tongue

)

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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 10:22

01.

Annie Haslam's all-time favourite Renaissance song, and mine too. Heart

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 12:25

02.

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

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 16:25

03.

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

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 17:04

03.

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

Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 17:34

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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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 13 2023 at 05:48

03.

Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 02:58

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.

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 03:05

^ 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

Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 07:15

can I do a 9X9 list? Evil Smile

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 07:41

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

Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 08:23

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)

Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 10:10

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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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 15 2023 at 13:28

04.

I already mentioned Mother Russia, so it's only fair to give the capital of the Ukraine a mention too.

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 17 2023 at 04:39

05.

Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 17 2023 at 06:27

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

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 18 2023 at 08:38

06.

Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 18 2023 at 09:34

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.

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 18 2023 at 11:18

Saperlipopette! wrote:

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

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

1981: Renaissance - Camera Camera - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kznu9_bJxu-CgNje8WzygHis-4gJD4vXw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kznu9_bJxu-CgNje8WzygHis-4gJD4vXw

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 19 2023 at 01:16

07.

Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 19 2023 at 03:57

Saperlipopette! wrote:

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

I actually like a lot that she tried out some nonstandard things with her voice on that album. It is fresh and full of ideas, although admittedly not all of them work well. The sound is not optimal but I like the playing a lot, guitars, keyboards, bass, some of it also nonstandard for Renaissance and full of ideas.

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 19 2023 at 07:16

08.

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 20 2023 at 02:17

09.

Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 20 2023 at 04:14

Lewian wrote:

Saperlipopette! wrote:

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

I appreciate the attempt, but I can't say I consider the end result a success. A shame as I can hear that they had a greater album in them. Glad you like it but Camera, Camera ends up a "close, but no cigar" for me.

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 20 2023 at 04:28

10.

Not one of one of my favourite Renaissance albums in all honesty, but Jane Relf's hauntingly-beautiful Face of Yesterday has always been one of my favourite Renaissance songs. Heart

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 20 2023 at 05:18

Renaissance - Widdecombe Fair

A rare song from the transitional line-up, but who's the mystery lady on vocals? Ermm