Best Tarkus Track
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Topic: Best Tarkus Track
Posted By: Misomex777
Subject: Best Tarkus Track
Date Posted: June 23 2009 at 21:58
| Whats your favorite track from Tarkus? |
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Posted By: PROGMONSTER2008
Date Posted: June 23 2009 at 22:20
Bitches Crystal  ------------- Jazz/Classical Rock(70's style prog/fusion). Lots of prog keys and melodies(all original ideas) http://www.myspace.com/vigilante2008" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/vigilante2008 |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: June 23 2009 at 23:42
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You have to put Tarkus as one whole song (it IS one song)
Anyway I voted for The Only Way (If you had put Tarkus as a song I would have voted for this one) ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: Scoppioingola
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 00:46
That would have been to easy... Everybody would have voted for Tarkus! Anyway, the opener of the album, Eruption, is one of the most amazing prog composition, and arguably the finest moment of ELP's career. |
ProGR72 wrote:Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 01:16
| Is Aquatarkus the part where it's like, "clear the battlefiiieeeld and let me seee", that'll be my fav |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 02:40
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Like some others here, I see side 1 of Tarkus as one epic track. I vote for Battlefield, which is my favourite part of it. ------------- 
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 03:43
| Tarkus is one track, I would like to refer to the Gestaltpsychologie: The whole is more then the sum of parts. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 03:58
That would be Battlefield then. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 03:59
It may be one body of work or a suite, but it definitely isn't one track. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 06:07
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I agree that Tarkus one unit, but so what? Then this poll would be pointless. Let's do what we prog-lovers do best- over-analyze! And over-analyze I shall. I think I will listen to Tarkus as soon as the wife leaves and vote.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 06:11
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Posted By: Prog_Bassist
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 07:28
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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeruption! ------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 07:51
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I went with "Battlefield."
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 12:54
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I didn't vote because ProGR72 is right Tarkus is the best track as one whole track ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 13:15
Battlefield for me. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 13:17
| I'm gonna give "Stones of Years" some love. Great section. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 13:26
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Mass. Favourite moment. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 15:45
Me too.
For me it's one of the most wonderful moments in prog moments when Greg Lake starts singing: "Has the dawn ever seen your eyes, have the days made you so unwise..." Magnificent lyrics, sung by Lake in a great way, over the wonderful chord changes of Emerson.
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 17:41
I really should have looked closer at the damned section names.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 17:59
| Stones of Years. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 18:24
| I gave Tarkus a listen today and I still can't "hear" it in any other way than a 20 minute compact song. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 20:49
| I'd go with Aquatarkus if somehow the "Welcome Back My Friends. . ." live version could be substituted. Since that's impossible, I went with "Bitches Crystal", since she knows how to twist all the lines. . . |
Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 21:23
| what is the name of "the weaver on the web that he made" section? |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: June 24 2009 at 21:56
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As tarkus as a whole is my favorite song it is going to be really difficult to decide...so let me listen to it at least twice (it will be just fun...I can't get tired of it) and then I will vote ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 01:53
What? Even though its made up of different "songs"? I mean its not like one part is like another, bbesides the beginning and end of course! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 01:54
Mass. The one I voted for.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 02:52
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Whoah, wait, dude, what the crap? Why'd you split up "Tarkus?" It's, like, "Tarkus," man. That's about all there is to it. Anyway, "Jeremy Bender" or "Bitches Crystal." Probably the latter. What? "Are You Ready Eddie?" gets no votes? Psh. That song's very nice. Leave it alone. It has the best keyboard soloing ever. And which was the song about the Jews? I kinda liked that one. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 18:43
Stones of Years, chills just thinking about it. And I want to say that Iconoclast will probably get no votes because it's really just sort of a bridge-track on the album, not a song per se. But man does that thing rock my amadeus. And side two?, honestly I find more and more that I can live without it.
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 21:09
Tarkus as a whole -------------  |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 26 2009 at 21:58
| I would choose Tarkus as a whole, though I don't like all of the section, only some of them. My very favorite part is Battlefield. |
Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 11:27
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I never knew all the different subdivisions of the song Tarkus, so I had to look them up, I picked Battlefield, but Stones of Years is a close second. Keith Emerson's solo over the Red Clay chord progression is like no other.
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Posted By: Proggy Pogo
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 16:47
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Aquatarkus - Emo at his best!
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 19:25
Right you are! |
Posted By: Tin Of Hurri Curri
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 09:04
| I voted for "Battlefield." My second favorite would probably be "Infinite Space (Conclusion)." |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 14:24
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Stones of Years for me but I guess it's the 'seamless whole' of the title track that made the album so ground breaking. Much of side two of the album is cruelly neglected I think, with the only filler track being the wretched Are You Ready Eddy ? (If only the answer had been - No ?)
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Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: October 26 2009 at 15:43
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For no particular reason I go with Bitches Crystal.
(Main Tarkus set, I've always just kind of thought of
as 1 song)
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