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Poll Question: Which track represents the best use of mellotron in proto-prog?
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    Posted: May 18 2010 at 09:23
I'm delighted to have the opportunity to support the Zombies, who I fel are criminally underrated (although not really proto-prog.) All the tracks you listed are fantastic, but I'll vote for Hung Up On A Dream.
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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

It appears to me that the list represents three different approaches to the use of mellotron. First, there's the keyboard-oriented use, Strawberry Fields Forever, being an example of this. Next, there's the string-oriented use as introduced by The Zombies on Hung Up On A Dream. Thirdly, the woodwind approach again exemplified by The Zombies on Changes.

The Beatles used mellotron in quite an akward fahion in my view - Flying is the other example.
 
In 1966 the Beatles were using things like loops, Indian instruments and backward tapes to create psychedelic soundscapes.
 
So the Beatles used the mellotron for the purposes to create psychedelic music IMO on "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Flying".  If you listen to the end or the fade-out of "Flying" the mellotron sounds like it  was taped backwards. The first Beatles song to have mellotron was "Tomorrow Never Knows" but I wouldn't call it a mellotron driven song. One weird way the Beatles used the mellotron was when they used it to tie 'Wild Honey Pie" and "Bungalow Bill" together with the Latin guitar solo used from a mellotron.


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Any of the The Zombies tracks. 
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It appears to me that the list represents three different approaches to the use of mellotron. First, there's the keyboard-oriented use, Strawberry Fields Forever, being an example of this. Next, there's the string-oriented use as introduced by The Zombies on Hung Up On A Dream. Thirdly, the woodwind approach again exemplified by The Zombies on Changes.

The Beatles used mellotron in quite an akward fahion in my view - Flying is the other example.
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1. A Saucerful of Secrets
2. Nights in White Satin

But these two tracks are clearly the two most known of the list, so...


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I was reading The Lord of the RIngs when Days of the Future Passed was released. For me, the two are inseparable. I chose "The Afternoon..." but not by much over the other Days... offerings. It emotes in me a feeling of happy gardening in the Shire, while "Nights..." is a bit darker and reminds me of the grave task at hand. 

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Legend of a Mind, but special mention must go to Nights in White Satin, which is on this list, and OM, which is not.  I also considered Flying, but decided not to.
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The Night: Nights in White Satin :)
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From the list Nights In White Satin... that is the mellotron I like.
 
An honorable mention to "How Is It (We Are Here)" from their Question Of Balance album, although being from 1970, doesn't seem to fit in this poll's timeframe.
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Strawberry Fields has my favourite mellotron part ever. Clap
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I've always loved Forever Afternoon, which beats some other exceptional tracks in this poll.
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Other. Jefferson Airplane's 'Sketches Of China'.
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I vote for Space Oddity in which the mellotron plays a prominent role. This goes also for Nights in White Satin, which is too sweet for my taste.
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Nights in white satin no doubt... Still touches me deeply
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Legend Of A Mind... no need to elaborate, just go listen. At last a poll where The Moodies might actually do ok, though their votes might be split among all those choices. 
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Your favorite use of mellotron in proto-prog?
 
Feel free to elaborate your choice.
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