Masters of Progression
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Topic: Masters of Progression
Posted By: The Pessimist
Subject: Masters of Progression
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 14:37
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Which song and artist would you say are masters of progression? I mean progression as in starting from nothing or just one instrument playing, progressing very gently and skilfully towards the whole band playing and a high volume. e.g. pink floyd - echoes
i would have to say VDGG - Undercover Man What would you say? |
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Posted By: proggy
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 14:45
| Rush - The Camera Eye and Xanadu |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 14:55
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Genesis - The Musical Box
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 14:59
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The Sheltering Sky from Crimson is a great example of this. Abaddon's Bolero from ELP would be another. |
Posted By: bizarro laplace
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 15:01
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I would have named Fracture as the defining Crimso crescendo =)
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 16:02
| ^^ sic sig. n e way, I'd have to say Starless by KC |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 16:18
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VdGG: Meurglys III, the Songwriter's Guild. I love how the voices of the instruments enter one after another, as if it is a fugue about to be played
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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 16:22
| i think this could describe quite a bit of the "post-rock" movement. many of those songs are built upon crescendos and buildups of instruments. |
Posted By: SilverSean
Date Posted: January 05 2008 at 17:15
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Supertramp- "Even in the Quietest Moments"
David Bowie- "Space Oddity" ------------- Hold on to the Dream... |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 12:43
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King Crimson´s The talking drum, the way it progresses to Lark´s tongue in Aspic II, most definitly! The best build up ever
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 15:29
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Any Godspeed song, and most post rock in general. ------------- 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 02:02
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Any track of Univers Zero's Heresie or Present's Triskaidekaphobie.
Supertramp - Fool's Overture, Genesis - The Musical Box, King Crimson - LTIA Pt 1 and Gentle Giant's On Reflection are also incredible and some of my alltime favs! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 07:45
Definitely a lot of post rock and post metal in general.
One of my favourite post metal examples is March Into The Sea-Pelican ------------- 
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schizoid_man77 wrote:Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:01
| The Mahavishnu Orchestra |
Posted By: allan Duul II
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:39
I love Post Rock music, defiantly Godspeed you Black Emperor!  But if your talking Classic Prog, its gotta be Echoes or Shine on you Crazy Diamond really. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 22:13
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Alot of the ones I really like are shorter songs that do alot of development, which is aharder task I think Sisters of the Moon by Fleetwood Mac (from Tusk) Some other Time by Allan Parsons Project (from I Robot) Song for All Seasons by Renaissance Wings in the Night by Collage (from Moonshine) Things are Getting Better by Dice (the German group) (from Waterworld) Anyone's Daughter by Anyone's Daughter (from Adonis) Stationary Traveller by Camel (title track) All the Best Wishes by Decameron (from Third Light) Selangor by Groovector (from Ultramarine) Seagulls by Moongarden (from Moonsadness) Heroes Never Die by Mostly Autumn (from For All We Shared) The Lake by Mike Oldfield (from Discovery) Vision by Kaos Moon (from After the Storm) Sheep by Strawbs (from the Witchwood) - progresses from raucous to gentle |
Posted By: Jshutt64
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 22:30
| "Birds of Fire", by the great Mahavishnu Orchestra. |
Posted By: MadScientist
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 23:35
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All the songs on Hybris build magnificently, I think. The Moor on Still life builds pretty well; also Peel the Paint on three friends. I'm sure there are more... ------------- The goal of music is to transcend notes and rhythms, to transcend music; To become more than itself, a world set apart from mundane experience. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 00:34
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Let me see, if I get it is referred to songs that go "in crescendo"? Dancing with the Moonlit Knight: Starts a Capella and ends with the whole band
As a fact Genesis has a lot of racks that start with vocals or one insstrument and goes in crescendo to the end. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 03:28
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Interesting interpretation of the word "Progression" - would seem to include much Trance music (but, oddly, not necessarily Progressive trance, which progresses in terms of minimalist ideals).
Child in Time springs to mind, followed by Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody, Prophet's Song, One of These Days - and to some extent Warrior (Wishbone Ash). ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Stef
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 08:45
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Godspeed you! Black Emperor..... best proggression in every album.
but the best is the first song in ....ehm mmm...new zero canada.
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:38
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i have two more additions:
House with No Door - VDGG (starts of with merely piano, then builds in the organ, high vocals, drums and bass. lovely song, very sad as well) Genesis - Watcher of the skies (amazing mellotron intro, amazing drum intro, everything else is perfect. great tune as well) These two classic bands are THE masters of progression IMO. Godspeed have inherited their mystical art very nicely. |
Posted By: Roskisdyykkari
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 07:38
I've always thought that The Cinema Show is the most progressive song EVER. It just keeps progressing smoothly and logically, simply brilliant!  Not to mention Can-Utility And The Coastliners! It has probably more sections than Close to the Edge. Rush did some pretty progressive stuff as well back in the 70s. The Trees is a good example of this. ------------- And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction the moral melee. |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 14:12
| Hm. I'd mention Maneige's masterpiece Les Porches Du Notre Dame, since that fulfills the credentials perfectly. Dire Straits also have a couple of things in this vein (Telegraph Road, Brothers in Arms). |