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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2024 at 22:27
This isn't really prog but I'm going to post it anyway since it's by a prog icon. I suppose most on here have it heard it before but for those who haven't here you go. 







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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2024 at 12:24

Yes - "Total Mass Retain", Close to the Edge, Close to the Edge (1972)

About this part of the Close to the Edge suite has Jon Anderson told:

"It's got this deep sad feeling for the mass rape of our planet, for the evilness which creates the wars, and there's no answers to all these things. It's common sense in knowing what's right and what's wrong."

(as quoted in David Weigel's The Show That Never Ends: The rise and fall of Prog Rock, 2017 p. 104)

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2024 at 13:44
Shots taken at Ron Reagan's United States - though the pictures show the Great Depression images.



It's missing the last minutes with more closing comments


This is worthy of Waters' Final Cut or Amused To Death.








Edited by Sean Trane - September 07 2024 at 13:53
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2024 at 05:46

More about "Supper's Ready", which, while not overtly politically, concludes by seeming to be optimistic about the future of human societies, and sees "the new Jerusalem" as the model for a perfect, fulfilled society (at least according to Edward Macan's Rocking the Classics, 1997 p. 81):

Genesis - "Supper's Ready"    (part vii)

Can't you feel our souls ignite?
Shedding ever-changing colours
In the darkness of the fading night
Like the river joins the ocean
As the germ in a seed grows
We have finally been freed to get back home
There's an angel standing in the sun
And he's crying with a loud voice
"This is the supper of the mighty one"
Lord of Lords, King of Kings
Has returned to lead his children home
To take them to the new Jerusalem

(from the album Foxtrot (1972))


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2024 at 06:02

Similarily to "Supper's Ready", VdGG's "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End" is not overtly political but rather optimistic about the future of Humanity, and thus surely having some political effect:

Van der Graaf Generator - "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End"  (excerpt)

All the jokers and gaolers, all the junkies
and slavers too,
all the throng who have danced a merry tune -
human we can all be,
but Humanity we must rise above,
in the name of all faith and hope and love.
There's a time for all pilgrims,
and a time for the fakers too,
there's a time when we all will stand alone
and nude,
naked to the galaxies -
naked, but clothed in the overview...
as we reach Childhood's End we must start anew.
And though dark is the highway,
and the peak's distance breaks my heart,
for I never shall see it, still I play my part,
believing that what waits for us
is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past...
In the death of mere humans life shall start  

(from the album Still Life (1976))


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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Shots taken at Ron Reagan's United States....

It wouldn't suprise me if there were some songs too about Mag Thatcher, The Iron Lady's Britain. Tongue

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2024 at 16:01
Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Shots taken at Ron Reagan's United States....

It wouldn't suprise me if there were some songs too about Mag Thatcher, The Iron Lady's Britain. Tongue



Leave it to Rog The Rogue Waters to insult Maggie Bicher. StarStarStarStarStar
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Here's a song about the French queen, Marie Antoinette, literally losing her head in 1793, during the French Revolution (1789-99):

Curved Air - "Marie Antoinette"    (excerpt)

Marie Antoinette
Your name's a legend
In this land
Treasure for your pleasure
Bestowed on favoured gentleman
The people are in arms
Marching on the town
They rise
Chanting revolution!
"Vive la Nation!"
Marie Antoinette
Your shadow's falling
Along the land
Anger born of hunger
Poisons the hearts of your loyal men
Fire in their eyes
Steel in their hands
They rise
Chanting revolution!
"Vive la Nation!"
.....................
We are the people of France
We demand
That the elegant blue-blooded
Leeches that bleed us
Are taught what it means
To grow fat and not feed us
We are the people of France
You must heed us
Already at the Bastille
The prisoners all run free
They're hammering on the door
Marie Antoinette
They've taken the guillotine
They're coming to take the Queen

(from the allbum Phantasmagoria (1972))


Edited by David_D - September 12 2024 at 17:04
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