Your favourite Hackett songs

I was wondering about what PA forum members would have to suggest from Steve Hackett solo career, from which i still have quite a few to check out, if already there was a thread about it i apologize.
 
Anyway, i made a little selection of 20 from my favourites of Hackett's compositions:
 
Between The Cold Moon And The Earth (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Celebration (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Lyra (Metamorpheus)
Hammer In The Sand (Defector)
Mountains Turned Into Clouds (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
She Moves In Memories (Wild Orchids)
Starlight (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
The Dancing Ground (Metamorpheus)
The Red Flowers of Tachai Blooms Everywhere (Spectral Mornings)
Cerberus At Peace (Metamorpheus)
Concert For Munich Part 1 (Momentum)
Concert For Munich Part 2 (Momentum)
Wind Sand And Stars (To Watch The Storms)
That Vast Life (Metamorpheus)
Under The World Orpheus Looks Back (Metamorpheus)
Elegy (Metamorpheus)
Kim (Please Don't Touch)
Second Chance (Bay Of Kings)
Variation On A Theme By Chopin (Momentum)
 
As you can see, i selected a little list of his Classical style songs that i actually love and for me of timeless spirit, besides it'is my favourite Hackett style. But i enjoy as well his other styles, Steve Hackett is an eclectic artist. I would like to know the others diverse perceptions you surely have about his compositions.
 

Edited by Rick Robson - March 09 2014 at 14:56

I love pretty well everything Steve has ever done (and that's a fair amount, it must be said!)...This real oldie off his first album always brings me out in goosebumps though:

I have been buying a lot of Hackett albums recently including Beyond The Shrouded Horizon , Please Don't Touch and Guitar Noir to add to the obvious ones. At the moment it would be difficult to make a balanced or interesting selection beyond the obvious.Anyway:

Edited by richardh - March 09 2014 at 17:27

richardh wrote: I have been buying a lot of Hackett albums recently including Beyond The Shrouded Horizon , Please Don't Touch and Guitar Noir to add to the obvious ones. At the moment it would be difficult to make a balanced or interesting selection beyond the obvious.Anyway: Clocks Spectral Mornings Slogans The Shadow Of The Heirophant Rebecca Please Don't Touch The Steppes Wind,Sand and Stars The Air Conditioned Nightmare ..i remember him playing several of those at The Reading Festival  in the late seventies (broadcast on the BBC , I wasn't there unfortunately). Always impressive.

Racing in A is probably my favorite song.  Spectral Mornings is obvious for favorite instrumental.

Tower Struck Down
Every Day
Clocks - Angel Of Mons
Tiger moth
The Steppes
Slogans
Leaving
Jacuzzi
The Air Conditioned Nightmare
Take These Pearls
Between The Sunset And The Coconut Palms
Emerald And Ash

Rick Robson wrote: richardh wrote: I have been buying a lot of Hackett albums recently including Beyond The Shrouded Horizon , Please Don't Touch and Guitar Noir to add to the obvious ones. At the moment it would be difficult to make a balanced or interesting selection beyond the obvious.Anyway: Clocks Spectral Mornings Slogans The Shadow Of The Heirophant Rebecca Please Don't Touch The Steppes Wind,Sand and Stars The Air Conditioned Nightmare ..i remember him playing several of those at The Reading Festival  in the late seventies (broadcast on the BBC , I wasn't there unfortunately). Always impressive.   No doubt, that would be quite interesting if someone could make available the recordings from that show, unfortunately the only Hackett shows that i've found out are his recent ones, thanks for that data Richardh.

Everything from Voyage is excellent.....the rest is just ok imo.

Also worth checking Steve Hackett's fascination for the middle-orient atmosphere clearly evident in Waters Of The Wild and Cedars of Lebanon (both tracks from the album Wild Orchids), just to name a few. And i think that it's evident also in this another really beautiful composition: