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    Posted: June 24 2012 at 01:35
Originally posted by RoyFairbank RoyFairbank wrote:


Originally posted by wjohnd wjohnd wrote:

One hit songs.
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
one hit albums
Talk talk - spirit of eden
bah?Talk Talk was a great Pop Band with great albums period. It's My Life is fantastic. Talk Talk's a fun listen too.Hackett has so many great songs and albums. I can't even begin on that. Every DayThe SteppesTime to Get OutCell 151Walking Through WallsCamino RoyaleFunny FeelingNarniaDown StreetThe Hierophant (?)Ace Of WandsI can just name tons!

Don't get me wrong, i love some of the poppy talk talk, but it ain't even vaguely prog.

And as for steve hackett, again i have enjoyed his solo work over many years but SpectralMornings is IMO head and shoulders above the rest of his work.
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Originally posted by Stevo Stevo wrote:

They've had many hits but "Terrapin Station" (the album) seems to be the Greatful Dead's singular contribution to prog.  I have found very little said about it here on PA, so maybe I'm the only one who thinks it qulaifies as prog.(?)

when i was young this album was totally hated... all the hipster/stoner types loved the country/roots music dead like american beauty, aoxomoxoa,  and uncle john's band(decent to great records) and they liked the live stuff...

a few years ago i heard this 'disco' album all the way through at this guy's house -he was 30--something... it seemed pretty good to me-i liked the funk and song writing... then i started running into people who claimed this was their favorite dead album... i thought it was a strange coincidence... but 'as the world turns'Smile... i think people(younger generation-gen xers) must've written the late seventies stuff off for so long... then they got desperate after listening to dark star and st stephen a couple thousand times... and started listening to the thing and ended up liking it a lot
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They've had many hits but "Terrapin Station" (the album) seems to be the Greatful Dead's singular contribution to prog.  I have found very little said about it here on PA, so maybe I'm the only one who thinks it qulaifies as prog.(?)
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Points: 7493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2012 at 23:47
I'd say that "Lady of the Lake" on Starcastle's first LP was a true "One Hit Wonder," although there are some listenable songs such as "To The Fire Wind." 

Their second LP, "Fountains of Light," had such vacuous lyrics that a guitarist friend of mine and I laughed that it was the prog record equivalent of a Hallmark greeting card!!  
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Points: 1072 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2012 at 20:34
Originally posted by wjohnd wjohnd wrote:

One hit songs.
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings


one hit albums
Talk talk - spirit of eden


bah?

Talk Talk was a great Pop Band with great albums period. It's My Life is fantastic. Talk Talk's a fun listen too.

Hackett has so many great songs and albums. I can't even begin on that.

Every Day
The Steppes
Time to Get Out
Cell 151
Walking Through Walls
Camino Royale
Funny Feeling
Narnia
Down Street
The Hierophant (?)
Ace Of Wands

I can just name tons!
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Sorry to be off topic here, but I can't seem to start a new topic for some reason so please accept my apologies in advance...

am trying to find out who is playing this crazy version of Vivaldi music, and I have confirmed it is not Curved Air and looked at many others but haven't found it yet.  Does anyone recognize it?  Uploaded from an old cassette, recorded off the radio probably circa 1971.  Thanks for any help.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5gIx_qi2tc&feature=youtu.be

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Hm, interesting, and I mostly disagree about what you said so far about Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Steve Hackett...Confused

But back to the topc: How about "Time Machine" of Beggar's Opera? I really like that song, but the rest of the album Waters of Change don't really do it for me.

Or Chaos Code's album A Tapestry of Afterthoughts, where the first track "The Cave" really sticks out for me, but the other songs don't. But I will give it another listen one day...
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Originally posted by Master of Time Master of Time wrote:

Flash- Small Beginnings. It's from their eponymous debut. The rest of the album is good but in my opinion Small Beginnings is the only really great track.

Small Beginnings was a very strong track, but "Children of the Universe" is nearly as good!  

These guys just reformed in this video, and this is one of the first times through the song.  Damn good job!   Ray Bennett really has his Peter Banks licks down nicely! 
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

The best example I can think of from my collection is Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP. The first track, Moya, is amazing and the reason I've looked into a couple albums from them (which I didnt like), the second track, Blaze Bailey Finnegan III, is the usual Godspeed snoozefest. I guess for me this isnt so much a one hit wonder from a single album as a whole career.

But Moya is like *the* typical Godspeed track... BBF3 is a bit different and it's absolutely fantastic. And I'm finding it hard to see how you could like Moya but not like anything of skinny fists or the first track of F#A#(infinity) (which I'm not a big fan of)?

Originally posted by wjohnd wjohnd wrote:

One hit songs.
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings


one hit albums
Talk talk - spirit of eden

But but but but... Laughing Stock? Cry


Edited by JS19 - June 22 2012 at 11:29
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Originally posted by PabstRibbon PabstRibbon wrote:

IMO, ELP only did one great piece of music and it's called Tarkus. Anything else from them is pretty boring
 
I would actually they did pretty good stuff except for Tarkus. I think it's a really horrible song except where Greg Lake sings. It's full of ridicule clichés of pretentious music.
 
Yeah, it's called improvisation without the musical scales. 
 
Not only improvisation, it's full of naive composition that tries to sound like it's refined music but it ain't at all. But I must say I really enjoy Brain Salad Surgery and most of their other albums (including Black moon and Love Beach).
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One hit songs.
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings


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Talk talk - spirit of eden
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Originally posted by The_Jester The_Jester wrote:

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Originally posted by PabstRibbon PabstRibbon wrote:

IMO, ELP only did one great piece of music and it's called Tarkus. Anything else from them is pretty boring
 
I would actually they did pretty good stuff except for Tarkus. I think it's a really horrible song except where Greg Lake sings. It's full of ridicule clichés of pretentious music.
 
Yeah, it's called improvisation without the musical scales. 
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Originally posted by PabstRibbon PabstRibbon wrote:

IMO, ELP only did one great piece of music and it's called Tarkus. Anything else from them is pretty boring
 
I would actually they did pretty good stuff except for Tarkus. I think it's a really horrible song except where Greg Lake sings. It's full of ridicule clichés of pretentious music.
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"Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull; the rest of the album doesn't do much for me. Wink
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Totally agree with Tarkus from ELP. Pretty good title track but the rest is boring.

I thought also of "Fish Rising" album by Steeve Hillage.
First track "Solar Musick" is excellent. The other tracks less ...

Finally, I will say "You look all the same to me" from Archive.
I love the first track "Again". I don't listen to the other tracks.
I heard some other albums by them, but was not very excited ...
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It's a rather hard decision when there are prog bands where I have all their music.

In terms of Electric Light Orchestra, I can only think of Kuiama or In Old England Town that stand out amongst the rest.
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And now for something completely different:

1. Porcupine Tree - "And Even Less"

2. The Mars Volta - "Eriartarka"

Two great and vastly unappreciated songs by those prog artists...


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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

3's To The Power of Three is rather weak but when it came out I really liked Desde La Vida.
A bit the same with Home By The Sea in Genesis "Shapes".
 
I agree with both those
 
I would add Emerson Lake and Powell's 'Mars'. Way more fun that anything else on that laboured album. 
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

 
ELP Works Volume One has a bunch of solo music and an overlong version of Fanfare For The Common Man (filler??!) but has one oustanding peice in Pirates. That is 13 minutes of symph prog heaven as far as I am concerned.

Fanfare filler?! it contains one of Emerson's most brilliantly paced and satisfying solos. Yep, Pirates is one of the greatest marriages ever of orchestral forces and electric band. I love the Piano Concerto to bits but would probably question it's inclusion on an ELP album.
 
 

 
Fanfare has always bothered me.Its ELP's 'Smoke On The Water'. Their classical adaptions are mostly brilliant (Barbarian,Toccata,Hoedown even Canario) but you can almost 'dance' to Fanfare (or more accurately sway back and forth headbanging as I remember doing on the Black Moon tourEmbarrassed) Copeland was quite happy with it though which is an endorsement I wouldn't want to argue with BUT my feeling has always ..errmm ..swayed back and forth about it. I do play the damn thing on occasion and what I do really like about is the production. Jim Kerr once described the feeling of playing Waterfront live as being on the deck of a battleship and Fanfare has a bit of that about it.
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3's To The Power of Three is rather weak but when it came out I really liked Desde La Vida.
A bit the same with Home By The Sea in Genesis "Shapes".
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