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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:51
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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Points: 3196 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:55
Originally posted by DisgruntledPorcupine DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Sorry, but I don't think there is a beautometer.
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Kansas' Lamplight Symphony comes to mind.
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Points: 7026 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 12:42
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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Points: 756 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 12:52
I've always thought Opeth's Bleak was very beautiful even though it's a death metal song...
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Points: 81 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 13:04
SmileI 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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Points: 29474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 15:37
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

IQ - "still life"

I don't know why 'nomzamo' is so much despised by progsters, it's one of the best IQ albums.
Don't hate it but I think its the weakest IQ studio release.
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 AOROuch. 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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Gordian Knot - Grace (Live)? anyone?
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Points: 18071 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:44
Originally posted by Rabid Rabid wrote:

If I was gonna die tomorrow and had to listen to one piece of music,beforehand, it would be :
 
Holstz - Venus, from the Planets suite.
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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!
 


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Originally posted by caretaker caretaker wrote:

Kansas' Lamplight Symphony comes to mind.
 
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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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 21:06
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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Points: 34 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 22:30
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.
Lies, he only tells the truth, for he means it,
means, not anything he says, eyes unseen,
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So sincere, so sincere, so sincere, so sin.
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Still Life as in Opeth?
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Points: 934 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 01:17
  Thick as a Brick , The Musical Box , A Plague , Tale of Taliesin , Firth of Firth , Echoes !
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Points: 1438 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 01:31
This song is so beautiful because when Gabriel sings "gripped in fright"..it reminds me of the other lyric "kryptonite" which Peter also mentions in this lovely album. Of course I'm talking about "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" and the song is "The Lamia"

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Points: 29474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 01:53
I'll throw in my classical selection as others seem to be
 
 
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 23:38
Probably Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros... it´s beyond beautiful!
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Points: 170 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 23:38
1.Yes "Holy Lamb"
2.Saga "The Security of Illusion"
3.Floyd "Goodbye Blue Sky"
Jazz isn't dead.......it just smells funny.
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Points: 1882 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 01:30
GYBE! - Dead Flag Blues
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Rush "Available Light"
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