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trackstoni 
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Joined: February 23 2008 Location: Lebanon Status: Offline Points: 934 |
 Posted: August 13 2010 at 01:17 |
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Thick as a Brick , The Musical Box , A Plague , Tale of Taliesin , Firth of Firth , Echoes !
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Tracking Tracks of Rock
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KingX
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Joined: July 23 2010 Status: Offline Points: 3 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 23:46 |
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Still Life as in Opeth?
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besotoxico
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Joined: July 06 2008 Location: ATL Status: Offline Points: 34 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 22:30 |
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Hmm. Most beautiful in prog IMO........ Copernicus by The Mars Volta. Aspirations by Gentle Giant. Starless by King Crimson. The Snow Goose (Whole Album) by Camel. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III by Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Crystal Silence by Chick Corea. Ricochet by Tangerine Dream. Boundless Voyage (Final Fantasy III)and Prelude (Final Fantasy I) by Nobuo Uematsu from the album Pray. Sophisticated Lady by Duke Ellington (I know it's not "prog" but Jazz is progressive). Dawn by Mahavishnu Orchestra.....etc......
I can't really choose which is the most beautiful to me. This is a hard question. |
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Lies, he only tells the truth, for he means it,
means, not anything he says, eyes unseen, but everything is ........ So sincere, so sincere, so sincere, so sin. |
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J-Man
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: August 07 2008 Location: Philadelphia,PA Status: Offline Points: 7826 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 21:06 |
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Anything by Pain of Salvation (well, almost anything) reaches a level of beauty that no other band can achieve. I would say that Martius/Nauticus II is the most beautiful song ever... listen...
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Mr. Maestro
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Joined: March 05 2010 Location: Knowhere, USA Status: Offline Points: 918 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 20:57 |
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That was my #2, just under Victorian Brickwork. Both are amazingly beautiful. Edited by Mr. Maestro - August 12 2010 at 20:58 |
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"I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...."
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moshkito
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18071 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:44 |
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There are pieces of classical music I would want to have ... hard to not ask for The Firebird Suite by Stravinsky ... but in the end the recording I have of Guy Guden's air play of this with Tomita's album is far superior ... and a total dream and synthesizers never sounded better. This was one of the far out things in that show that Guy is not willing to share with the public and it is a massive shame ...
I'm not sure that I would want to miss Renata Tebaldi and Birgit Nillson duking it out in Turandot with Leinsdorf directing ... the contrast in both sopranos is intense ... one is power the other is softness ... and they both let it all hang out! ... by comparison Duane and Eric only lasted 2 minutes!
Am I going to miss another performance of Adagietto by Terje Rypdal and David Darling (in Eos) ... which is "chamber music" with an electric guitar ... !!! It's enough to make you cry!
Am I going to pass up the call of "Soria Maria" by Jan Garbarek? (Eventyr album) ... NO!
Am I going to be able to get anyone here to sit through Egberto Gismonti's No Caipira i nits entirety? ....
But all in all, your time and mine has been about "something else" in music ... and it was all about CHANGE. A lot of that helped bring out many things and because I did travel a little and lived in 3 very different and distinct countries and lives ... that has been a benefit when it comes to listening to music ... I get bored with top ten real quick, including the prog top ten ... for example, because it tends to "sound the same" and have the same tendencies ... and when you listen to something like Tomita, or Gismonti, or that Rypdal album ... you will hear something else ... and that something else is what "music" is all about ... it is the visual, it is the picture ... it is the beauty that it brings forth!
Edited by moshkito - August 12 2010 at 18:51 |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com |
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EdgarKarg
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Joined: January 15 2010 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 40 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 16:50 |
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Gordian Knot - Grace (Live)? anyone?
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richardh
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Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29474 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 15:37 |
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I can remember going into Our Price records (yes it was that long ago) on about 3 occasions as I was so keen to get their latest album . I didnt buy music papers and the internet barely existed then so it was a shock to suddenly find Pete Nicholls was no longer involved and the intense raw power of The Wake had been replaced with shiney AOR
 . Over the years though my opinion shifted a little bit especially when I heard later live versions (with Pete Nicholls.... hurray!) of No Love Lost and Human Nature. |
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Norman Kiddie
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Joined: February 16 2009 Location: Stuttgart Status: Offline Points: 81 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 13:04 |
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 I love TAKE A PEBBLE from ELP. It is one of those songs that make my hair stand on end.
RICOCHET PART II from TANGERINE DREAM has a similar effect, as does SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, FIRTH OF FIFTH, TIME WAS from Wishbone Ash or MOTHER RUSSIA from Renaissance.
I have just mentioned a few of the endless progressive tracks that have dominated my musical taste for decades.
I´m presently listening to AND YOU AND I from Yes. Just another wonderful song.
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VanVanVan
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 756 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 12:52 |
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I've always thought Opeth's Bleak was very beautiful even though it's a death metal song...
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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refugee
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VIP Member Joined: November 20 2006 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 7026 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 12:42 |
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I find this one extremely beautiful. I don’t care if it’s prog or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZmoJjiCZ8 |
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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caretaker
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Joined: April 19 2010 Location: united states Status: Offline Points: 288 |
Posted: August 12 2010 at 04:54 |
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Kansas' Lamplight Symphony comes to mind.
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Conor Fynes
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Joined: February 11 2009 Location: Vancouver, CA Status: Offline Points: 3196 |
Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:55 |
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lucas
Special Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 06 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 8138 |
Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:51 |
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IQ - "still life"
I don't know why 'nomzamo' is so much despised by progsters, it's one of the best IQ albums. |
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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NeoGnostic
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Joined: June 09 2010 Location: Kanzas Status: Offline Points: 30 |
Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:16 |
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I once snuck backstage to a FZ concert, before the show began. They're were a lot of people on the side stage. Frank was alone on stage with his guitar playing "Watermelon in Easter Hay"...it was beautiful. I have always thought so.
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presdoug
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Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8743 |
Posted: August 10 2010 at 19:24 |
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thought of something else-
Fa Fa de Belem's second record from 1977 called Agua-her voice is beautiful and radiant throughout |
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BrufordFreak
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 8430 |
Posted: August 10 2010 at 17:59 |
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Too many to count.
Several Puccini arias, Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," "Peace" by John McLaughlin & Shakti, "Külvarosi Ej" by After Crying, "Not Afraid" by Satellite, "The Lamia" by Genesis, many Bill Evans songs, "Weathered Wall" by David Sylvian anything sung by Andy Stewart (Green Linnet) or Julie Andrews, any/every version of Eric Satie's "Trois gymnopaedies" "The Paris Match" by Paul Weller and Everything But the Girl etc, etc, etc. |
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Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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Rabid
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Joined: May 20 2008 Location: Bridge of Knows Status: Offline Points: 512 |
Posted: August 10 2010 at 08:30 |
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But surely, that's what forums are for, is'nt it?
The opportunity to express your own views. What constitutes 'empty criticism' to YOU might be deeply heart-felt by the person who wrote it.Who's to say? That's the great thing about free speech...
It's free.
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"...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..."
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lensag
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Joined: August 03 2010 Location: Above Sea Level Status: Offline Points: 194 |
Posted: August 10 2010 at 08:10 |
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you´re right. in this case it was not. but as recent member in the PA i´ve been reading a lot of empty criticism toward some music preferences. Maybe in this post everyone is a grown up but not on others!
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"when routine bites hard and ambitions are low,
and resentment rides high but emotions won´t grow And we´re changing our ways, taking different roads.. Then love, love will tear us apart again.." |
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Rabid
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Joined: May 20 2008 Location: Bridge of Knows Status: Offline Points: 512 |
Posted: August 10 2010 at 07:45 |
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Don't be sad....it was a misunderstanding, that's all. If you'd have read the post, you would have seen that no-one made any judgements about musical taste.
We're all grown-ups, here.
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"...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..."
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