Prog Songs About Elves
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Topic: Prog Songs About Elves
Posted By: Anthony H.
Subject: Prog Songs About Elves
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 14:00
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It seems like whenever I've seen people poke fun at symph-prog lyrics, they use "elves" as the stereotypical subject matter. The strange thing is, I can't think of a single prog song with lyrics about elves. Can somebody help?
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Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 14:20
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Rush - Rivendell
One of about 273,000 hits in 0.06 seconds |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 16:20
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maybe this song have some fairies/elves relatedness, but it is fantasy thematicly strong -------------  
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 17:29
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Kate Bush's King of the Mountain.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 18:28
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Do Radio Gnomes count? At the risk of sending Dean into an apopoplectic rage, I think the (lazy) association of elves to Prog has been forged by another (lazy) association of fantasy Prog lyrics to Tolkien et al. (Dons armour headdress) ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 18:59
Elves? 
Oh.
 I thought it said... oh, nevermind. Elves it is. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 19:20
| the definitive '700 Elves' by Steeleye Span |
Posted By: avantgrind
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 21:16
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don't some Blind Guardian songs have elf themes?
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 21:25
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Sally Oldfield - The Song of The Quendi off the album Water Bearer ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 10 2011 at 21:26
 interesting connotation though!------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Dean wrote:Posted By: Heathcliffe
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 01:16
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Jack in the Green - Tull ?
Meybe - at a stretch... |
Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 07:27
Oh the mighty Valhalla, have you forgotten all those times we travelled with our elf friends?  "Three for the Kings of the elves high in light, Nine to the mortals which cry." -- "The Lord of the Rings"  "In my thoughts and in my dreams, they're always in my mind. These songs of hobbits, dwarves and men, and elves, Come close your eyes. You can see them too." -- "The Bard's Song (In the Forest)"  "The Dark Elf" has the classic line "a dark seed of evil is grown", acknowledging that the word "elves" and the word "evil" have three identical letters. Finally, "Valinor's empty now. Allied the elves and men, they shall be damned. Rise of Fall, a dark tale ends." -- "A Dark Passage" ------------- 
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Posted By: avantgrind
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 07:29
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ha! I was right. not really a fan aside from the first two records.
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 11:11
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Aren't there elves floating about on the hazards of Love? ------------- 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: Hober Mallow
Date Posted: August 06 2011 at 19:45
| the beginning of singring and the glass guitar |