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GY!BE 
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 Posted: August 03 2010 at 17:43 |
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Child in Time 'cause of the huge guitar solo (repeated twice) followed by Fools because of the long long bridge (kind of...) in the middle of the song.
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b4usleep
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 00:58 |
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Anthem for me. Great Organ and great Baroque style Strings
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Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
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Gandalfino
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Posted: August 01 2010 at 03:03 |
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Child In Time definitely not! I think April is a very good choice.
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trackstoni
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 19:32 |
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APRIL , fr Sure , then Child !
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Tracking Tracks of Rock
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ten years after
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 06:59 |
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The Gemini Suite would also be worth considering. IMO its not a Jon Lord solo.
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Weirdamigo
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 06:41 |
I voted for April mostly because it's one of the purple's most melodic song and not to mention the longest. But the whole Deep Purple album is pure genius progressive or not. Child in time is also melodic but not quite as progressive as April
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earlyprog
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 06:21 |
I find their best prog rock achievements in their 60's output, notably
Prelude: Happiness / I'm so glad.
Mandrake Root.
Wring that Neck.
Anthem.
Blind.
Fault Line.
April.
Third Movement: Vivace - Presto.
Encore: Third Movement (part).
Child in Time (from Concerto).
I choose "Other": Prelude: Happiness/I'm so glad.
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AbrahamSapien
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 02:17 |
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Child in Time? Please. Would you vote for Smoke on the Water if it was there?
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sgt wilko
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 16:11 |
Child in Time, - no contest
followed by
Soldier of Fortune
Mistreated
Lazy
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 14:15 |
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Don't get the whole Child In Time Thing. A soft bit, development and organ soloing do not a prog song make.
(and given how reliably it was explained to me that Telegraph Road doesn't count in one of the Dire Straits suggestion threads, I resent this)
Anyway, never saw the point of these kinds of threads (what is the most brownie-like cake?). Carry on.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 13:11 |
 otto pankrock wrote:
Lots of choices. Child in Time may be the most obviouse but I'm going for The Mule.
Oh yeah, another song that seems to be overlooked alot, Sail Away off the Burn album. |
I wouldn't call 'Sail Away' Prog at all, it just has a couple of synths.
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himtroy
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 13:08 |
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Child in Time is one of their simplest structured songs.......a majority of the song is just a two chord progression.....how is this their most progressive? I like the song, but it's sure as hell not their most progressive.
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Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell?
I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance.
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omri
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 10:45 |
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I did not vote. It seems silly to me that most voters chosed their most loved song although it is quite clear that it is not very progressive. Child in time is a great song indeed but April and the concerto are much more progressive and progier for sure.
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omri
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Mr. Maestro
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Posted: July 28 2010 at 15:29 |
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Dang, this is a pretty one-sided poll. "Child In Time," of course.
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"I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...."
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otto pankrock
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Posted: July 28 2010 at 14:54 |
Lots of choices. Child in Time may be the most obviouse but I'm going for The Mule.
Oh yeah, another song that seems to be overlooked alot, Sail Away off the Burn album.
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AbrahamSapien
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Posted: July 28 2010 at 11:45 |
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Haven't heard Concerto yet, but for me it's Fools.
Also very progressive are Fireball, No One Came, April, Mandrake Root (Made in Japan at the end of Space Truckin'), Child in Time ...
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TODDLER
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Posted: July 28 2010 at 07:39 |
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I find their lyrics to be annoying. Even the songs "Burn" and "Stormbringer" where they attempt to be errie. The style of rock lyrics reminds me of a fall down drunk. "Highway Star" the version from Machine Head or Live In Japan is a hellish work out physically. The center section of H.S. on the Machine Head recording for example. The keyboard solo lifting classical ideas from a centuries old composer. Ian Paice sounds like a jazz drummer playing rock, and Blackmore is keen to combine blues playing to classical and jazz. I mean musically.......they were just amazing! There entire musical background...Lord, Paice, and Blackmore is fascinating. Roger Glover who I know little about, released an instrumental album titled "Elements". It's comparable to any outstanding Passport or Soft Machine title. Amazing guys! Especially some of the early black and white film footage recorded in Europe. "Highway Star" is not on the list for voting purposes. Sorry I went off thread.
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Progosopher
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 19:15 |
I have to jump on the April bandwagon. I considered the Concerto for Group and Orchestra, but April functions as a song in the classic sense. Besides, it is expansive yet contained. A concerto, of course, is another beast altogether. I guess this means April wins on a technicality. 
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Anthony H.
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 19:06 |
Thin_Man wrote:
"April", of course. |
That would have been my second choice.
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SimZeppelin
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 19:05 |
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I voted for child in time. I just realised April existed (found it on youtube after reading this thread) and am astonished on how close DP came to classical music. April is friggin astounding!
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