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    Posted: January 12 2008 at 14:12
Hm. I'd mention Maneige's masterpiece Les Porches Du Notre Dame, since that fulfills the credentials perfectly. Dire Straits also have a couple of things in this vein (Telegraph Road, Brothers in Arms).
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Originally posted by kibble_alex kibble_alex wrote:

Which song and artist would you say are masters of progression? I mean progression as in starting from nothing or just one instrument playing, progressing very gently and skilfully towards the whole band playing and a high volume. e.g. pink floyd - echoes

i would have to say VDGG - Undercover Man

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I've always thought that The Cinema Show is the most progressive song EVER. It just keeps progressing smoothly and logically, simply brilliant! Clap
Not to mention Can-Utility And The Coastliners! It has probably more sections than Close to the Edge.

Rush did some pretty progressive stuff as well back in the 70s. The Trees is a good example of this.
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in the tidal destruction the moral melee.
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i have two more additions:

House with No Door - VDGG (starts of with merely piano, then builds in the organ, high vocals, drums and bass. lovely song, very sad as well)

Genesis - Watcher of the skies (amazing mellotron intro, amazing drum intro, everything else is perfect. great tune as well)

These two classic bands are THE masters of progression IMO. Godspeed have inherited their mystical art very nicely.
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Godspeed you! Black Emperor..... best proggression in every album.
but the best is the first song in ....ehm mmm...new zero canada. LOL
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 03:28
Interesting interpretation of the word "Progression" - would seem to include much Trance music (but, oddly, not necessarily Progressive trance, which progresses in terms of minimalist ideals).
 
Child in Time springs to mind, followed by Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody, Prophet's Song, One of These Days - and to some extent Warrior (Wishbone Ash).


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Let me see, if I get it is referred to songs that go "in crescendo"?

Dancing with the Moonlit Knight: Starts a Capella and ends with the whole band
  1. Musical Box:
  2. Tubular Bells Pt I
  3. In the Lap of the Gods (Alan Parson's Project - Pyra,mids) Starts soft, ends with full orchestra
  4. Looking for Someone (Genesis)

As a fact Genesis has a lot of racks that start with vocals or one insstrument and goes in crescendo to the end.

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All the songs on Hybris build magnificently, I think.  The Moor on Still life builds pretty well;  also Peel the Paint on three friends.  I'm sure there are more...
The goal of music is to transcend notes and rhythms, to transcend music; To become more than itself, a world set apart from mundane experience.
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"Birds of Fire", by the great Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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Alot of the ones I really like are shorter songs that do alot of development, which is  aharder task I think

Sisters of the Moon by Fleetwood Mac (from Tusk)
Some other Time by Allan Parsons Project (from I Robot)
Song for All Seasons by Renaissance
Wings in the Night by Collage (from Moonshine)
Things are Getting Better by Dice (the German group) (from Waterworld)
Anyone's Daughter by Anyone's Daughter (from Adonis)
Stationary Traveller by Camel (title track)
All the Best Wishes by Decameron (from Third Light)
Selangor by Groovector (from Ultramarine)
Seagulls by Moongarden (from Moonsadness)
Heroes Never Die by Mostly Autumn (from For All We Shared)
The Lake by Mike Oldfield (from Discovery)
Vision by Kaos Moon (from After the Storm)
Sheep by Strawbs (from the Witchwood) - progresses from raucous to gentle
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I love Post Rock music, defiantly Godspeed you Black Emperor! Big%20smile

But if your talking Classic Prog, its gotta be Echoes or Shine on you Crazy Diamond really.
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Originally posted by schizoid_man77 schizoid_man77 wrote:

Any Godspeed song, and most post rock in general.

 
Definitely a lot of post rock and post metal in general.
One of my favourite post metal examples is March Into The Sea-Pelican
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Any track of Univers Zero's Heresie or Present's Triskaidekaphobie.
 
Supertramp - Fool's Overture, Genesis - The Musical Box, King Crimson - LTIA Pt 1 and Gentle Giant's On Reflection are also incredible and some of my alltime favs!
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Any Godspeed song, and most post rock in general.
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King Crimson´s The talking drum, the way it progresses to Lark´s tongue in Aspic II, most definitly! The best build up ever
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Supertramp- "Even in the Quietest Moments"
 
David Bowie- "Space Oddity"
Hold on to the Dream...
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Points: 1155 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2008 at 16:22
i think this could describe quite a bit of the "post-rock" movement. many of those songs are built upon crescendos and buildups of instruments. 
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VdGG: Meurglys III, the Songwriter's Guild. I love how the voices of the instruments enter one after another, as if it is a fugue about to be played


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^^ sic sig. n e way, I'd have to say Starless by KC
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I would have named Fracture as the defining Crimso crescendo =)


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# if indiekids(band): addband(band, "Post Metal")
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