Dramatic 1970s Prog Songs?
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Topic: Dramatic 1970s Prog Songs?
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Dramatic 1970s Prog Songs?
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 09:01
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Supertramp's "Crime of the Century" is a good example, and so is this. Violins seem to always help, and the vocals especially on the song below. Esperanto - Obsession ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 09:34
Dramatic is subjective. But this has violin.  |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 09:36
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Van Der Graaf Generator – Lemmings (Including Cog) |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 09:41
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Yes’ “Turn of the Century” is quite dramatic with the story
of an artist’s recreation of his lost love. The instrumental center of the song
(the recreation) is perfect…the best Howe & Wakeman ever sounded together,
IMO… |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 09:47
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Family – Drowned in Wine |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 10:00
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Ange – Les Longues nuits d'Isaac |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 10:52
Great pick. To Be Over is another one that falls in that category from Yes. The guitar solo from Steve Howe on To Be Over is sublime. And the outro....Just play that song at my funeral. |
Criswell wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 11:17
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Magma - Mëkanïk zaïn (Live, 1975) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 12:54
-love all of these but a very random/top of my head selection from my early days. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 13:11
| A Passion Play starts with the death of a ballerina, and her journey through the other side. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 13:12
The first link says unavailable (must be a regional thing). Can I have the title please? I'm a huge fan of Curved Air. Great selection. And speaking of underrated songs, "The Prisoner". I like some Comus, too, but don't know that last song - I'll check it out. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 13:18
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^ Thank you. The First was the full Long Live Man Dead-suite including Skull by Gnidrolog:) maybe this song works? |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 13:32
Well... Any song with Peter's voice is inevitably dramatic. Or with Francesco's voice. ------------- Bloody bloody racket and rumpus |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 13:56
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For me one of the most dramatic ever........ ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 14:07
^ indeed 
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 14:13
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BJH : The great 1974 mining disaster BJH : Suicide ? (terrific final) The Strawbs : Ghosts (globally dark LP and an all times fav of mine) Just echoing Thyroidglands ( if I may say so ;-)) Peter Hammill : Out of Water Peter Hammill : Handicap and Equality Peter Hammill : The Lie |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 14:39
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Mellotronwave mentioned Strawbs and I had to post this one.......... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 14:48
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Genesis - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight I suppose anything by Van Der Graaf Generator also especially La Rossa. Good call on that Banco. You can't get much more dramatic than Francesco's vocals. I suppose a lot of 70s RPI was pretty dramatic though.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 15:53
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despite the paintroller  ------------- 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 |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 16:19
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This surely qualifies as dramatic; the battle between gladiator Spartacus and his "Slave army" against "the forces of Rome"-a tour de force, both musically and lyrically... |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 16:27
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Genesis – Supper's Ready |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 16:54
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Yes – Heart of the Sunrise |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 18:11
Hi, So happy to see ANGE represented here ... it has been one of my favorite bands for more than 40 years ... outstanding stuff ... made me cry. More: Epitath ... For me one of the most dramatic ever........ such a beautiful piece ... and so with it, even today with so many wars.
------------- 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: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 19:08
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King Crimson – Starless |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 19:45
Hi, I like this version a lot, the original when I first got the album a few months after it was out ... I got into them on Lark's Tongues in Aspic, which I liked and this album was even better then ... The one thing ... that version of this piece with the 3 drummers in the toob is also fantastic ... and what a treat for Mel Collins to still be there to do it ... far out ... but one thing in these three albums ... Bill Bruford is very good and far out. ------------- 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: moshkito
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 21:31
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Hi, One last comment ... all of this stuff, at the time I was hearing it was considered "art rock", a lot of which became known as "progressive" ... it's kinda strange seeing it considered "dramatic" since the main feature of the artistic movements in the arts was a strong dramatic effect, and that did not mean ... LOUD ... which is all folks show these days, it could be said. Let's look at a few things ... so 2001, was not dramatic? With its huge opening and some other moments? SW had a massive opening with huge sound all over the venues, including under your seat. "HAIR" featured some ... nudity, though it was not like Hustler or Penthouse ... it was more like Playboy covered. So both the concert in Monterey and Woodstock were not "dramatic" ... the film tried to add to it some, but it was all there, especially in the Bay Area concert with Jimmy going nuts and Jefferson Airplane asked to play again. I kinda thought the point of it all was ... make it strong ... and loud was not exactly the main thing, then ... though it became a few years later about how loud one could get ... already The Rolling Stones and Deep Purple owned the honor!
------------- 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: Lewian
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 09:40
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OK, instrumental, so no dramatic story, but... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 17:58
| 2112, Xanadu, By Tor and The Snow Dog, A Farewell To Kings, The Trees (you get the drift...) |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: October 31 2024 at 08:13
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apoteosi - apoteosi ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 31 2024 at 19:51
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Jethro Tull – Dark Ages |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 01 2024 at 07:14
Hi, I think the next track in the album is possibly better ... The Rape ... is really strong. ------------- 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: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 05 2024 at 05:18
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – The Endless Enigma (Part 1) |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 11 2024 at 23:23
Just the first one to come to my mind also. I might add Shadow of the Hierophant from Hackett and Darkness from VdGG. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 11 2024 at 23:29
My favorite version would have to be a live one from the Wetton years. For me that's the original version. First, because I heard those versions first, but also because that's the way it was played first, and in my mind the theme melody was made to be played with a violin (I still believe that's actually the way it was written, though I have nothing to prove me right). However, it's one version in particular, the one on Collectable King Crimson Vol 1, disc 1 (Mainz), that one gets it all right... and the ending, played with the electric guitar, is just the most powerful one for my taste. There's a video of the band playing the song "live" with this very line-up (though no audience is shown, so maybe it's sort of live in the studio), it's not the exact same version from Mainz, but it's the other closest version I have heard, and it's nice to see the band playing the song. |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 00:25
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Gentle Giant – Mobile |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 00:57
| Any Genesis song with Peter Gabriel singing on it LOL(function(){function c(){var b=a.contentDocument||a.contentWindow.document;if(b){var d=b.createElement('script');d.innerHTML="window.__CF$cv$params={r:'8e14f8039aabd0e4',t:'MTczMTM5ODIyMS4wMDAwMDA='};var a=document.createElement('script');a.nonce='';a.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(a);";b.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(d)}}if(document.body){var a=document.createElement('iframe');a.height=1;a.width=1;a.style.position='absolute';a.style.top=0;a.style.left=0;a.style.border='none';a.style.visibility='hidden';document.body.appendChild(a);if('loading'!==document.readyState)c();else if(window.addEventListener)document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',c);else{var e=document.onreadystatechange||function(){};document.onreadystatechange=function(b){e(b);'loading'!==document.readyState&&(document.onreadystatechange=e,c())}}}})();< height="1" width="1" style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium; visibility: ;"> |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 01:08
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Camel – Separation |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 01:16
Thank You Doctor
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Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 01:24
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Gong – Wingful of Eyes |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 05:51
King Crimson – In the Wake of Poseidon |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 08:13
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------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 08:14
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The first minutes are dark...then the live (low video quality) starts ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 17:59
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Wigwam – Bless Your Lucky Stars |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: November 15 2024 at 05:51
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hoelderlin - Schwebebahn ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: November 15 2024 at 09:18
My wife frequently says that ELP is too much drama for her, so they squarely fall into this thread...
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Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 15 2024 at 22:48
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Pete Sinfield – Still |
Posted By: GuruCan
Date Posted: November 24 2024 at 12:45
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Icy River by Fantasy, in my opinion, meets the criteria. |