Name the Lyrical Passage

T.Rox wrote: The Night Owl - The Nits, from the album Giant Normal Dwarf. (Got to admit to the use of google here...and the website I found had donkey instead of monkey! What are these guys like?)

Googled? Shame on you! Well, donkey it is. NITS is 'art pop' somewhere between Japan or Talk Talk and Brian Eno's songs. Simple but sophisticated, not much rocking. Keys player Robert Jan Stips was responsible of SUPERSISTER. The singer/guitarist Henk Hofstede can be considered as the leader, and the third core member is percussionist Rob Kloet. Best albums IMO: In the Dutch Mountains ('87), Urk (live 2cd), Giant Normal Dwarf, Ting ('92). Of their earlier, more avant-gardish output Omsk ('82) is the most interesting.

PS. VDGG song is Arrow.

Cogs in Cogs by Gentle Giant.

here's mine..

Stub towers in the distance,
riders cross the blasted moor
against the horizon.
Fickle promises of treaty,
fatal harbingers of war, futile orisons
swirl as one in this flight, this mad chase,
this surge across the marshy mud landscape
until the meaning is forgotten.
Hood masks the eager face, skin stretched and sallow,
headlong into the chilling night, as swift as any.....

 

Ah, that's the first STRAWBS song I had a crush on: Autumn.  (Yes, Dave Cousins is great!)

"With my friends from Finland   ;)  I went down from Athens in the night

In a boat two pilgrims on a bench, to the island where the monkey's never shot"

It's not prog but I'm curious if any of you know them... (A fine continental band!)

Peter wrote: T.Rox wrote: Now, how about this one... Fifteen was chosen because he was dumb Seven because he was blind I got the job because I was so mean While somehow appearing so kind That's from the camp classic "Back in Judy's Jungle," by Eno. Try this: "We are the 801, we are the central shaft  And we are here to let you take advantage of our lack of thought...."

Both from the same ENO album - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) - with the Peter's track being "The True Wheel"

next...

"Concealed his doubt
By skilful evasion
But he couldn't find out
About deception"

Edited by T.Rox

Jim Garten wrote: How about: "But there's something he never told us, It died when he went away. If only he could have been with us, No telling what he might say"

I think this it the one we are still with, and it would be...

Portrait (He Knew) from Point Of Know Return by Kansas

Now, how about this one...

Fifteen was chosen because he was dumb
Seven because he was blind
I got the job because I was so mean
While somehow appearing so kind

Matti wrote: Okay, Peter, just tell the Nektar answer .

OK, but I'm shocked that no one got it -- the right folks (fans) just aren't playing this game, I guess...

Costa del Sol - Nektar:

"Find some desolate place. Now, it's out of the way --

Soon, through word passed by mouth, friends are crowding you out."

Edited by Peter

"Turn a mountain send them lost
among the flowers of the young" is from 'Olias Of Sunhillow' album (Jon Anderson). I didn't recognize it at first, too long since I listened to it.

Okay, Peter, just tell the Nektar answer . Here's a new one:

"And king, old king George, sent Mother a note

when he heard that the father was gone

It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll, with gold leaf and all"

(If it seems difficult, just think of its contents!)

I have to admit I googled it, but... Brian Eno - "Spider and I"  How the cover art of Recycled by Nektar is a clue, I haven't divined. (Unless it was Brian Eno's cousin's roommate's uncle's best friend who did the cover art)

We now have two passages unsolved. According to Peter's hint his is Nektar (avatar is Recycled) which I sadly haven't heard much. Nor do I know the one by T.Rox. Here they are:

"Soon, through word passed by mouth, friends are crowding you out."

"Turn a mountain send them lost
among the flowers of the young"

Matti wrote:   Keep the lyrics game alive, guys (and ladies?)! Any hints, Peter? But what would hints help; if you don't know it, you don't know it. Meanwhile here's a new one (in a way current in the Archives!) "We sleep in the mornings, we dream of a ship that sails away a thousand miles away"

Well, I'm sure many here know the lines I quoted (Maani, for one), but they don't play this game (too busy talking to trolls and responding to best/worst/love/hate polls, I suppose).

OK, here's your hint: See my avatar.

Good luck!