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The Pessimist 
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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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proggy
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Posted: January 04 2008 at 14:45 |
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Rush - The Camera Eye and Xanadu
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Avantgardehead
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Posted: January 04 2008 at 14:55 |
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Genesis - The Musical Box
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http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian
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crimhead
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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.
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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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# for band in doom:
# if indiekids(band): addband(band, "Post Metal")
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King Crimson776
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Posted: January 04 2008 at 16:02 |
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^^ sic sig. n e way, I'd have to say Starless by KC
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BaldJean
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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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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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sean
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Posted: January 04 2008 at 16:22 |
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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.
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SilverSean
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Posted: January 05 2008 at 17:15 |
Supertramp- "Even in the Quietest Moments"
David Bowie- "Space Oddity"
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Hold on to the Dream...
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el böthy
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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
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Dim
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Posted: January 06 2008 at 15:29 |
Any Godspeed song, and most post rock in general.
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Bj-1
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Posted: January 07 2008 at 02:02 |
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!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 07:45 |
 schizoid_man77 wrote:
Any Godspeed song, and most post rock in general. |
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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dwill123
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:01 |
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The Mahavishnu Orchestra
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allan Duul II
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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.
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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
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 22:30 |
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"Birds of Fire", by the great Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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MadScientist
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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...
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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.
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 00:34 |
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
- Musical Box:
- Tubular Bells Pt I
- In the Lap of the Gods (Alan Parson's Project - Pyra,mids) Starts soft, ends with full orchestra
- Looking for Someone (Genesis)
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: January 10 2008 at 03:28 |
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).
Edited by Certif1ed - January 10 2008 at 08:00
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