The mellotron's finest moment - Progressive Rock Music Forum

All other contestants aside - "Entangled" by Genesis (ToTT). Awesome mellotron work at the end of that classic song...

Mike Pinder is a master of 'tron - though he didn't use it a lot on his solo The Promise. His work in the Moodies is some of the best in the business.

Traffic has some great mellotron moments, my favorites are No Face, No Name and No Number and Dream Gerrard.

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Do you remember the topic titled "Bald people on prog album cover design" posted by RoVeR? Smile

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Attention all Mellotron fiends!
What you need is Morte Macabre's Symphonic Holocaust. Swedish 'supergroup' with folks from Anekdoten and Dungen to name a few. The project was to rearrange and perform old horror flick music (The Omen, Rosemary's Baby etc), yet from an eerie prog rock pov. Plus all musicians involved play the mellotron!! Wrapped around it is a rhythmic powerhouse of drums and bass, beautiful piano lines, plus one Reine Fiske playing completely unlike himself in these glissandoing shimmering guitar twinkles. It is a gorgeous record.

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These were the ones I was going to mention. First off perhaps the ultimate analogue keyboard album ever was hidden among many other (fine) suggestions.:

Tom Ozric wrote:

Flamen Dialis from France with the 'Symptome Dei' album.

PC-72 wrote:

One w- ...sentence. Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares.

And of course:

Guldbamsen wrote:

Attention all Mellotron fiends!
What you need is Morte Macabre's Symphonic Holocaust.

My favorite mellotronsound is the thick, woolen and unbelievably gorgeous washes of Pete Knutsen's haunting and melancholic mellotron found on Terje Rypdal - Whenever I Seem to be Far Away (namely on Silver Bird is Heading for the Sun + The Hunt). Chamber-or maybe even symphonic jazzfusion that should appeal to symphonic prog lovers. Almost like a fuzzed out 70's version of late romantic era Gustav Mahler or pre-12 tone Arnold Schoenberg.

...for some intriguing and unorthodox use check out Herbie Hancock adding thick string-layers of "The Devil's Triangle"-like horror on his masterpiece Crossings strangely grooving last track "Water Torture".

Hard to say. Tons of good Mellotron uses - "Starless', "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Fountain Of Salmacis" - but if push comes to shove, I have to say Mike Pinder's use in the Moody Blues' classic period. There were good Mellotron players after Pinder, but no one made the Mellotron a household name to the extent that he did.

Edited by KingCrInuYasha - July 06 2014 at 01:08

He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!

Luminol by Steven Wilson, at 8:31. Mindblowing!

Simply great.