Best Acoustic: Songs/Interludes/Breaks
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Topic: Best Acoustic: Songs/Interludes/Breaks
Posted By: benchpressmasta
Subject: Best Acoustic: Songs/Interludes/Breaks
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 22:09
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I am trying to compile a list of the best acoustic passages that progressive music has to offer. All I need is a list. Indeed there are many, but I only require several...of the best. Thanks, I appreciate it. ------------- Failure to consecrate leads to a meltdown in the apparatus which consequently induces the ensuing apocalypse. Believing is Seeing |
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Posted By: Imadofus
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 23:19
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Bacamarte - Pássaro de Luz Harmonium - Dixie Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun, Pigs on the Wing, A Pillow of Winds, Green is the Colour, Mother and Wish You Were Here  Jethro Tull also has lots of those |
Posted By: Juliovp
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 23:59
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yeah. Cheap Day Return Wond'ring Aloud etc etc |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 01:15
| I thought Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses had some great acoustic work. Perfectly composed album. |
Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 01:26
For sure those ones, also maybe add Slipstream. For a different genre, Opeth has a lot of great ones. The best of which being Harlequin Forest, but like I said, they have many (their entire Damnation album could be considered for best Acoustic songs). Edit: Oops, forgot to mention Trains by Porcupine Tree. |
Juliovp wrote:Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 01:34
Yes - The Ancient 
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Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: February 05 2008 at 22:18
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Maudlin of the Wells Jazzy acoustic interludes are pwn!
Interlude 1-Bath
Interlude 2-Bath
Interude 3-Leaving your body map
Interude 4-Leaving your body map ------------- 
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: February 05 2008 at 22:46
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Harmonium's debut is entirely acoustic, but the first and last songs are far superior to the rest. |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: February 05 2008 at 23:25
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As far as breaks go, Yes - Starship Trooper
PFM - Appena Un Po'
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: February 06 2008 at 13:41
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Take A Pebble - ELP, is still by far my favourite ever purely acoustic (not sure if the water-drop effects count) song. Steve Howe's Mood For A Day is absolutely essential. Perhaps King Crimson's Lady Of The Dancing Water should be on here. I'm quite fond of Delitae Musicae (Focus). I love the opener to TAAB. I'm backing Cheap Day Return, Wish You Were here and Wond'ring Aloud. I'm opposing Mother (dull and irritating), Slipstream and Pigs On The Wing (not what I'd call great, though nice in the context of the album) and I'm not too enthralled with the other Floyd acoustic pieces, though they're OK. Edit: stupid comment removed, Orb's literacy levels are being called into question. |
Posted By: AresolKid
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 01:33
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Mood for a day. [/Acoustic] |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 14:29
yeah i was gonna say aqualung and thick as a brick of the top of my head,im to tired to think of anymore. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 14:39
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Le Orme's "Florian", "Calipso" and "Fine di un viaggio" (all from the acoustic album "Florian", 1979). They are really outstanding.
The short "Angel of the Air pt 1" by Popol Vuh is really enchanting.
"Vent'anni" from New Troll's "Concerto Grosso n. 2" is also remarkable (it's got beautiful vocal harmonies).
And why not mentioning "Bertie" and the piano driven "A Coral Room" from Kate Bush's last effort? ------------- 
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 08:34
Anything from "Friday Night in San Francisco".
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 17:57
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How about Bron-Yr-Aur from Physical Graffitti?
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 18:41
 Love them all.------------- 
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Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 16:51
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Genesis - Horizons Genesis - For Absent Friends Opeth - For Absent Friends  Yes - Mood For a Day Bacamarte - Passaro de Luz The Mars Volta - Tira Me A Las Arañas Ulver - Capitel IV - Een Stemme Lokker Wishbone Ash - Leaf and Stream Pain of Salvation - Dryad of the Woods ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 14:45
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Spock's Beard have some pretty wonderful moments acoustically, like in The Doorway, Goodbye to Yesterday, Thoughts Pt. 2, The Great Nothing and the ending to Bottom Line.
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