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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2012 at 00:01
I'll revive this thread just because I wanted share, Gentle Giant's Memories Of Old Days is one of the most beautiful prog songs ever!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2012 at 11:39
I'll say;
 
King Crimson - Epitaph
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
 
Short list, but those are the ''ballads'' I've always enjoyed listening to.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2012 at 14:36
Oh, and I've forgot to mention The Cinema Show, by Genesis.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 18:29
Opeth's Heritage and In My Time of Need

Just give it all an hour by the concrete lake.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 15:47
Those four songs are just plain awesome!

Brothers Love Dubs - The Mighty Ming
Unity 3 - Age of Love
Punchunella - San Trancisco
Quivver - Twist & Shout
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 14:09
Genesis - SUPPER'S READY Approve / Firth of the Fifth / The Carpet Crawlers
King Crimson - Lizard / Starless / In the Court of the Crimson King / I Talk to the Wind
Yes - And You And I / The Revealing Science of God / Starship Trooper / Wonderous Stories
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus / Trilogy
Eloy - THE WHOLE OCEAN ALBUM IS BEAUTIFUL!!!! Approve
Gentle Giant - Pantagruel's Nativity / Prologue
Grobschnitt - Ernie's Reise
Haken - The Point of No Return / Celestial Elixir
Jethro Tull - My God / Thick as a Brick Pt. 1
Magenta - Envy / The Ballad of Samuel Layne
Pendragon - If I Were The Wind (And You Were the Rain) / A Man Of Nomadic Traits / THE VOYAGER
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky / Waiting for the Worms / The Trial / Atom Heart Mother / If / Summer '68 / Sheep / ECHOES / Shine on You Crazy Diamonds
Renaissance - Trip to the Fair / SONG OF SCHEHERAZADE (EPIC!!!!)
Rush - 2112 / Red Barchetta / Xanadu / Subdivisions
Sky Architect - Treebird

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 09:34
The newest PG album is insanely beautiful as well, New Blood.
 
I think Solsbury Hill is one of the most beautiful songs ever, can't believe I forgot it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 09:31
ah, forgot one of my favorite RPI classics: I love almost anything from Darwin, but PFM's Appena un po, that part about four minutes in is heavenly.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2012 at 09:30
Losing It and Bravado by Rush, as well as the middle section of La Villa Strangiato (a Lerxst in Wonderland)
Pure Narcotic, Heart Attack in a Layby, etc by Porcupine Tree
Radiohead's got a whole bunch.
Frozen Creek, Stop the F***ing Car, and Kicking Your Crosses Down by Circa Survive
Dirge for November and Hours of Wealth by Opeth
The Patient and Right in Two by Tool
The Noose, Orestes, 3 Libras by A Perfect Circle
Roulette Dares, Eriatarka, Halo of Nembutals, and Copernicus by The Mars Volta (the guitar solo of Roulette Dares, all unexpected)
House with no Door, My Room, Man-Erg, Snake Oil, Refugees by Van der Graaf Generator
One for the Vine (specifically string tribute), The Cinema Show, The Lamia, For Absent Friends, Harlequin, Fountain of Salmacis, Supper's Ready, the massively underrated Time Table, Can-Utility and the Coastliners, Counting out TIme, basically anything by Genesis
And You and I, Awaken, Mood for a Day, by Yes
Cadence and Cascade, Lizard by King Crimson
The intro to Thick as a Brick, Slipstream, Heavy Horses, We Used to Know by Jethro Tull
Thin Air, The Beginning and the End, Je Fait une Promesse, Everything by Anathema
Most Blackfield songs
Water, Idioglossia, Morning on Earth, Reconciliation, Dryad of the Woods, Vocari Dei, In the Flesh by Pain of Salvation
Wish You Were Here, Time, Us and Them, Echoes, High Hopes by Pink Floyd...
 
 
 
MAN THERE IS A BUNCH OF BEAUTY IN PROG Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2012 at 12:30
Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

Yes's And You and I is only slightly marred by too much business in the "Coins and Crosses" section.

Busy? What would you subtract?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2012 at 12:23
Pain of Salvation's Pluvius Aestivus and Song For The Innocent are probably the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.
Just give it all an hour by the concrete lake.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2012 at 12:01
Yes's And You and I is only slightly marred by too much business in the "Coins and Crosses" section.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2012 at 09:41
The enid "the lovers" or "the loved ones" depending on if its the original or remastered version. IMO their best song and prettiest.

Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2012 at 21:32
Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Everything by Iona
...and Bainbridge's solo album, Veils of Gossamer - many beautiful songs on that album...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2012 at 18:08
Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:

^Yes, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight. I'm always confusing these two titles Smile

How could you miss Inner Garden? They are two short tracks on THRAK. I love them very much 'cause they reminds me of 'Twin Peaks' soundtrack a lot.

I heard a little bit of the stuff from the 90's and I didn't like it. I prefer to keep away from KC's 90's stuff. I'm a paranoid that way. In fact, I stay away from pretty much anything from 90's.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2012 at 10:20
^Yes, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight. I'm always confusing these two titles Smile

How could you miss Inner Garden? They are two short tracks on THRAK. I love them very much 'cause they reminds me of 'Twin Peaks' soundtrack a lot.


Edited by ole-the-first - March 23 2012 at 10:23
This night wounds time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2012 at 23:13
Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:

King Crimson — Islands
King Crimson — Inner Garden

Ye-es, Islands Big smile ! Why is it that I haven't heard of Inner Garden?


Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:


Genesis — Selling England by the Pound
 

Bet, you meant Moonlit Knight Smile .
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2012 at 23:00
I like this topic... good song ideas.

Two beautiful songs that come to mind:
"Sleep" by Poets of the Fall
"Coming Back to Life" by Pink Floyd

Music is very spiritual — it has the power to bring people together. - Edgar Winter



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2012 at 05:33
First part of Starless is very beautiful too.
This night wounds time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2012 at 04:43
King Crimson — Islands
King Crimson — Inner Garden
Porcupine Tree — Lazarus
Porcupine Tree — Half-Light
Genesis — Watcher of the Skies
Genesis — Selling England by the Pound
Uriah Heep — The Spell
Robert Fripp/Peter Gabriel — Here Comes the Flood
Rush — Losing It
This night wounds time.
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