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Squonk19 
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Excellent selection! More recently I can't get enough of "If You See Her' by Mystery (from Delusion Rain) - gets me every time 
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M27Barney
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Ballad of big....Genesis
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Televators - The Mars Volta
Desert of Song - Between the Buried and Me Mother Superior - Coheed and Cambria What it Means to Be Alone - The Dear Hunter Is There Anybody Here? - The Dear Hunter Ih-Ah! - Devin Townsend Project The Cloak - Leprous Face of Melinda - Opeth Lazarus - Porcupine Tree
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I prophesy disaster
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I've never really been a fan of ballads, but there are some that appeal to me. Two that I'll mention are: House With No Door - Van der Graaf Generator is perhaps their best ballad. Stranger Still - Peter Hammill speaks to me personally, but perhaps that is just peculiar to me.
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Posted: February 08 2019 at 14:57 |
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Many good ones posted already. My fave is probably Different Strings, by Rush.
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a whiter shade of pale -procol harum
starless -king crimson nights in white satin- the moody blues |
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Hi,
Do ballads without lyrics count? This way, your mind can create the ballad on its own ... which for me is way better! I can start with Maggot Brain, way back when if anyone wants, and I even have Pekka, and Terje ... who was a ballad all by himself in the early days of "Odyssey", and later in his album with David Darling! Talk about "ballads" and what I call the best chamber music for an electric guitar that Eric or Jimmy never/ever dreamed of! The word ballad becomes real ... but it looks like we must have lyrics to tell us what a ballad is ... like you learned the lyrics when you were 4 months old and mom hummed a tune, or equivalent!  |
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Blue Angel by David Cousins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_KB0Ow4fVo Edited by Snicolette - February 09 2019 at 10:19 |
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love me some Traffic and that song.. but a ballad... what the hell is a ballad anyway.. oh yeah.. the kind of stuff that makes it easy for her to change her opinion from.. maybe to HELL YEAH.. that is not exactly a song I'd put on with a hot babe, a roaring fire, and a good bottle of wine. now this one.. umm hmmm...Micky tested.. Micky approved.. in fact outside of the absolutely stone cold kickass rocker that was the album opener.. a very good 'ballad' album.. |
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I have to admit that, like Simon (aka Mascodagama) and Greg (aka The Dark Elf), I prefer traditional folk ballads to modern ones. Conventional rock ballads can often be rather sappy, and - unlike the stereotypical female listener - I don't have too much time for sappy stuff. However, looking at previous posts, I noticed a couple or more glaring omissions, notably King Crimson's "Book of Saturdays" and "Exiles", and ELP's "Still... You Turn Me On". Edited by Raff - February 10 2019 at 05:57 |
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Posted: February 10 2019 at 05:58 |
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ELP - From the Beginning
their best ballad IMO
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Amon Düül II - Green Bubble Raincoated Man
It's kinda cool, check it out. IMO it perfectly fits the "prog ballad" category. |
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In the traditional sense, a ballad is a stanzaed poem or song narrating a story. It may or may not be a love song, but it should tell a story. Therefore, when I hear "ballad" the inner English Major in me kicks in, and I think chanson or canzone. So from a modern sense, I am more apt to think of Bob Dylan singing "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", "Tangled Up In Blue" or "Hurricane", which are ballads in the truer fashion, and not the trivialized ditties ballads have become. From a prog sense of the word, a ballad could be Jethro Tull's "Velvet Green", which recalls the bawdier "Broadside Ballads" of the 17th and 18th centuries... You mentioned King Crimson's "Book of Saturdays", but you might as well throw in "Cirkus" as as a modern approximation of a ballad as well... |
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Many, many gorgeous ProgFolk ballads....Jack Orion, Willy of Winsbury, My Johnny Was A Shoemaker, Reynardine....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7sxeO3PQHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3_U6o0LogM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yRAi4miyvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH8CXSF7Brw And that's just a start of the Pentangle related ones... |
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