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    Posted: July 13 2007 at 21:46
Opposite of "Thick As A Brick" and "Tales From Topographic Oceans" comes Aphrodite's Child's "666" and the who's "Tommy"...albums consisting of many shorter, sometimes experimental songs.....
 
has anybody heard of anything similar in style to "666" or say, "Another Green World"? I love the shortness of the tracks, their diversity, and ultimately, their greatness.....
 
i tried Eno's "Music For Films" series...but was disapointed and own most early stuff, Ambient series, and Apollo
 
does he have anything else worthwhile, or anything similar in style to The Big Ship or Spider And I?
 
Thanks a lot for any recommendations and responses...greatly appreciated 
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Originally posted by Anonymous Anonymous wrote:

Opposite of "Thick As A Brick" and "Tales From Topographic Oceans" comes Aphrodite's Child's "666" and the who's "Tommy"...albums consisting of many shorter, sometimes experimental songs.....
 

has anybody heard of anything similar in style to "666" or say, "Another Green World"? I love the shortness of the tracks, their diversity, and ultimately, their greatness.....

 

i tried Eno's "Music For Films" series...but was disapointed and own most early stuff, Ambient series, and Apollo

 

does he have anything else worthwhile, or anything similar in style to The Big Ship or Spider And I?

 

Thanks a lot for any recommendations and responses...greatly appreciated 


Magnetophone could sound friendly to those who feel close to mr. Eno's music. There must be another way to say this...
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"Thanks a lot for any recommendations and responses...greatly appreciated "
 
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Hmm.
There's a lot I could say because I LOVE 'Tommy' and '666' but I must warn you that not all I'll reccommend here is prog:
1) Curved Air 'Second Album' =Clap
Female vocalist and great violinist and excellent piano ('nuff said for guitars and drumming) but fairly good catchy and short tracks, but at the same token, it can be a *little* too poppy for your taste. However, 'Young mother' and the last track...that i can't remember off the top of my head...are gorgeous. Musicianship AND singing-wise. 
 
2) Jethro Tull 'Stand Up'= Approve
You probably already know about this. But the tracks are short and it is GOOD. Pardon my sudden lack of eloquence in describing it. It's atmosphere is darker than 'Songs of the Wood' and lighter than 'Aqualung'...which is my favourite J.T album but the tracks are too drawn out for this topic.
 
3) Porcupine Tree 'in absentia'= Tongue Brilliant album. Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant and 'Gravity Eyelids' is the song of my life.
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yeah i wasn't sure quite where to put it... thanks
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yeah i wasn't sure quite where to put it... thanks
 
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Do you mean, like, a bunch of short songs, or a bunch of short songs that flow as one?
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Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Do you mean, like, a bunch of short songs, or a bunch of short songs that flow as one?
 
yeah sorry...i was too lazy to go in depth in explaining what i meant......
i'm not really looking for something like Abbey Road's final medley but more along the lines of Eno's "Music For Films" or "Another Green World"...in short, a bunch of half-song ditties (under 4 minutes) that may be diverse or experimental, may be instrumental or lyrical...that would make up an album
 
my best example is probably 666.....the songs are so experimental that if they were typical song length (4 minutes)..they wouldnt be that good...but since their only 1-2 minutes, theyre interesting
 
i apologize for the vagueness...and i probably have only further confused you.....but i love 666 and Another Green World
 
perhaps a perfect example would be We're Only In It For the Money or Absolutely Free (though they are extended suites)....
 
i just want similar examples that are good....thanks for pointing this out...it needed to be explained more in-depthly
 
 
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in conclusion, i don't know what i want and you should hit me over the head with a club....
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i love how "Another Green World" flows perfectly from a guitar-riff instrumental to gentle piano to floating/flowing synthesizer to cute little pop songs back to beat-based songs
 
diversity-i want 75 million different music styles...in 40 minutes
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thanks for moving this to its rightful home
 
...when i first made the post, i saw the area for recommendations, but figuredit was for people to make recommendations....now i see that's exactly what i was asking people for.....
 
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Originally posted by Anonymous Anonymous wrote:

i tried Eno's "Music For Films" series...but was disapointed and own most early stuff, Ambient series, and Apollo
 

does he have anything else worthwhile, or anything similar in style to The Big Ship or Spider And I?

 

Thanks a lot for any recommendations and responses...greatly appreciated 


Try Robert Wyatt's gorgeous' SHLEEP, on which Eno himself appears. A delightfully dreamy album.

Another fascinating collaboration is WRONG WAY UP, by Eno and John Cale.
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Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
 
Great melodic folky prog with loads of variations! Thumbs%20Up
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Points: 31473 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 11:12
^agree!
 
Also, if you like metal and avant-garde music, I'd recommend Fantômas first album. Really short and hugely experimental tracks, but it's awesome overallCool
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Also, "Ur Trollkarlens Hatt" by Bo Hansson.
The tracks are longer, and better, and still holds almost the same variation as "Sagan om Ringen". Thumbs%20Up
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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

^agree!
 
Also, if you like metal and avant-garde music, I'd recommend Fantômas first album. Really short and hugely experimental tracks, but it's awesome overallCool
 
on that note if you want to get even wierder than that, understandable, i need to LOL, then check out Melt Banana. Not really prog, but excellent short songs! Your best bet is with Fantomas indeed for the metal Avant Garde short songs.
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If you are into metal, the I would suggest Fredik Thordendal´s Special Defects - Sol Niger Within its like a 50 minutes song or so, divided into I dont knwo how many small parts, each of them very experimental... cool stuff
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i would suggest Primus
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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Also, "Ur Trollkarlens Hatt" by Bo Hansson.
The tracks are longer, and better, and still holds almost the same variation as "Sagan om Ringen". Thumbs%20Up


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