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doribure

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Posted: March 20 2012 at 04:28

I Talk to the Wind - King Crimson
Rivendell - Rush
Space Dye Vest - Dream Theater
Ballade de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg
Universal - Anathema
White Horses at Sea - Amplifier
Hex Omega - Opeth
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
My Name is Carnival - Youn Sun Nah

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Posted: March 16 2012 at 02:35

progprogprog wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

progprogprog wrote:

Your taste of music is great my friend, try to add some Yes albums as well if you didn't yet.Also I suggest you to give the 70s RPI scene a chance.

As far as I know, Yes haven't really written a lot of stuff that is emotional or sad in almost its entirety - such is my criterion. Maybe they focus on musicianship and diversity too much? And I've never heard of RPI, I think ... at least the abbreviation. I will check it out.

Yes! not emotional! .

I was going to make a list of songs here, but you know there's one thing about Yes and it is that either you love them or you don't like them.(This also applies to unique bands such Yes, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator and King Crimson too). Obviously when one loves a music it pretty much has things to do with emotional quality of it.

I never said that Yes were not emotional, that would be a kind of a blasphemy Big smile

; I said "haven't really written a lot of stuff that is emotional or sad in almost its entirety", that is, I don't know a single Yes song that is genuinely sad. Nor do I know a single Yes song that has emotions abound and around and onward and outward, and that's because they were used to writing long things (writing takes time and it's hard to keep something emo for 20 mins.) Cf. Nick Drake's 'River Man'. I just don't know a Yes song that could match up in terms of emo with KC or PF or ... ?

Now, let's just stay with the topic.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 16 2012 at 02:42

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Posted: March 15 2012 at 18:36

Off the top of my head -

Cadance and Cascade - King Crimson

Sofa no.1 - Frank Zappa. Also the live sax version on Zappa in New York

Two Suns in the Sunset - Pink Floyd

Perfect Sense - Roger Waters

I Talk to the Wind - King Crimson

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Posted: March 15 2012 at 18:32

Dayvenkirq wrote:

progprogprog wrote:

Your taste of music is great my friend, try to add some Yes albums as well if you didn't yet.Also I suggest you to give the 70s RPI scene a chance.

Yes! not emotional! .

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Posted: March 15 2012 at 17:48

I am not thinking in 2006 PFM needed inspiration from Genesis and Pink Floyd, neither of which had the longevity or staying power of PFM

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Posted: March 15 2012 at 17:33

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Very Genesis- and PF- inspired. I would probably take the drums out of the mix in order for it to be even more beautiful Smile

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Posted: March 15 2012 at 17:28

progprogprog wrote:

Your taste of music is great my friend, try to add some Yes albums as well if you didn't yet.Also I suggest you to give the 70s RPI scene a chance.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 15 2012 at 17:34

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 22:29

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The word beautiful seems misused here to me; then again, beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder; for me, not many prog songs qualify. My choices would be 21st Century Schizoid Man and Watercolour Days. Seems you need an element of pop melody to encapsulate beauty.

Hmmm...don't get me wrong, "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a great, great song, but I've never considered the purposeful discordance and harshness to be "beautiful". If the song "21st Century Schizoid Man" were a woman, it would be one scary date.

When I think of "beautiful" in regards to music, I think of mellifluousness, symetry, clean lines and a haunting melody. I'll rattle off ten or eleven:

Visions of Paradise - The Moody Blues

Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues

Reasons for Waiting - Jethro Tull

Won'dring Aloud - Jethro Tull

A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd

And You and I - Yes

Mood for a Day - Yes

Entangled - Genesis

Carpet Crawlers - Genesis

In the Beginning - ELP

C'est La Vie - ELP

Just proves my point that beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder. Your description of what constitutes beauty is very well said, but I can't personally hear that description in any of the songs you've listed.

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 22:23

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 22:15

When I think of "beautiful" in regards to music, I think of mellifluousness, symetry, clean lines and a haunting melody. I'll rattle off ten or eleven:

Visions of Paradise - The Moody Blues

Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues

Reasons for Waiting - Jethro Tull

Won'dring Aloud - Jethro Tull

A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd

And You and I - Yes

Mood for a Day - Yes

Entangled - Genesis

Carpet Crawlers - Genesis

In the Beginning - ELP

C'est La Vie - ELP

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 21:38

The word beautiful seems misused here to me; then again, beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder; for me, not many prog songs qualify. My choices would be 21st Century Schizoid Man and Watercolour Days. Seems you need an element of pop melody to encapsulate beauty.

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 11:37

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 05:45

Matching Mole - O Caroline

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 04:03

Your taste of music is great my friend, try to add some Yes albums as well if you didn't yet.Also I suggest you to give the 70s RPI scene a chance.

Always thinking in extremes.That's my way to beat boredom.

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 03:25

Go ahead and sue me if the list is wrong and too long:

Most beautiful and sad ones:

PF - Paint Box (sad musically, ... maybe even lyrically)

PF - Burning Bridges

PF - Mudmen

PF - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, pt. 2

Genesis – After the Ordeal

Genesis – Blood on the Rooftops

King Crimson – Trio

King Crimson – Night Watch

King Crimson – The Sheltering Sky

PF – Vera

Most emotional ones (more than just beautiful, mayhaps sad ones):

PF - Time (I wouldn't call it particularly sad)

PF - The Great Gig in the Sky

PF - Welcome to the Machine (dramatic, but not really depressing)

Genesis – For Absent Friends (also not particularly sad)

David Gilmour – So Far Away (emotional, but not really depressing)

King Crimson – Starless (well, the first half of it, actually)

ELO – Shangri-La

King Crimson – I Talk to the Wind

Robert Wyatt – Sea Song (again, don’t confuse depressing with emotional)

Robert Wyatt – Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road

Most beautiful ones:

PF - Cirrus Minor

PF - Cymbaline

PF - Julia Dream

PF - Remember a Day

PF - See-Saw

PF - Crying Song (not exactly sad in a genuine way, I think)

PF - A Pillow of Winds

PF - Wot's ... Uh the Deal

Genesis – Fireside Song

Genesis – In Hiding

Genesis – Visions of Angels

Genesis – Looking for Someone

Genesis – Seven Stones (hel-lo-o)

Genesis – Harlequin

Genesis – Supper’s Ready (like I had a reason not to put it here)

Genesis – More Fool Me

King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King

King Crimson – Lizard

King Crimson – Islands

King Crimson – Prelude: Song of the Gulls (also an instrumental composition, not a song)

King Crimson – Exiles

Matching Mole – Signed Curtain

Matching Mole – Immediate Curtain (for the psychologically disturbed ones; there’s a whole lot of beauty than emotion)

Soft Machine – Carol Ann (again, partly sad, partly sweet; and I wouldn’t gamble)

Yes – Heart of the Sunrise (oh, God, again, partly sad, partly sweet; and I wouldn’t gamble)

Yes – Close to the Edge (well, it is beautiful for the most part)

Yes – And You And I (emotional, not sad)

ELO – Telephone Line

Radiohead – Everything is in the Right Place

The Beatles – Fixing a Hole

The Bealtes – She’s Leaving Home (hel-lo-o)

Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song

Honorable Mentions:

PF - Green is the Colour

PF – Is There Anybody Out There (corny sad, I’d say)

The Mothers of Invention – Go Cry on Somebody Else’s Shoulder

The Mothers of Invention – How Could I Be Such a Fool

Yes – We Have Heaven

Genesis – Lamia

Genesis – Horizons (but it’s really an instrumental composition, not a song)

Genesis – In the Rapids

Genesis – Dusk

Soft Machine – Moon in June

Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin – A Lotus on Irish Streams

Rick Wright – Mediterranean C

Rick Wright – Against the Odds (just introspective)

Robert Wyatt – Alifib (partly sad, partly sweet; I wouldn’t gamble)

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 14 2012 at 04:09

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 02:54

I don't think anyone mentioned Beautiful by Marillion, also Estonia.

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 02:04

Since there are a lot i will pick one that hasn't been mentioned.
LUCIFER'S FRIEND - THUS SPOKE OBERON.
One of the most beautiful no doubt!

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Posted: March 14 2012 at 01:41

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VDGG - "Man Erg"

Beautiful? Well at parts yes but mostly that song scares me.

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Posted: March 13 2012 at 19:20

Gentle Giant - Aspirations

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