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Posted: March 14 2012 at 21:38
The word beautiful seems misused here to me; then again, beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder; for me, not many prog songs qualify. My choices would be 21st Century Schizoid Man and Watercolour Days. Seems you need an element of pop melody to encapsulate beauty.
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Posted: March 14 2012 at 22:15
DiamondDog wrote:
The word beautiful seems misused here to me; then again, beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder; for me, not many prog songs qualify. My choices would be 21st Century Schizoid Man and Watercolour Days. Seems you need an element of pop melody to encapsulate beauty.
Hmmm...don't get me wrong, "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a great, great song, but I've never considered the purposeful discordance and harshness to be "beautiful". If the song "21st Century Schizoid Man" were a woman, it would be one scary date.
When I think of "beautiful" in regards to music, I think of mellifluousness, symetry, clean lines and a haunting melody. I'll rattle off ten or eleven:
Visions of Paradise - The Moody Blues
Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues
Reasons for Waiting - Jethro Tull
Won'dring Aloud - Jethro Tull
A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd
And You and I - Yes
Mood for a Day - Yes
Entangled - Genesis
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
In the Beginning - ELP
C'est La Vie - ELP
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Posted: March 14 2012 at 22:29
The Dark Elf wrote:
DiamondDog wrote:
The word beautiful seems misused here to me; then again, beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder; for me, not many prog songs qualify. My choices would be 21st Century Schizoid Man and Watercolour Days. Seems you need an element of pop melody to encapsulate beauty.
Hmmm...don't get me wrong, "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a great, great song, but I've never considered the purposeful discordance and harshness to be "beautiful". If the song "21st Century Schizoid Man" were a woman, it would be one scary date.
When I think of "beautiful" in regards to music, I think of mellifluousness, symetry, clean lines and a haunting melody. I'll rattle off ten or eleven:
Visions of Paradise - The Moody Blues
Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues
Reasons for Waiting - Jethro Tull
Won'dring Aloud - Jethro Tull
A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd
And You and I - Yes
Mood for a Day - Yes
Entangled - Genesis
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
In the Beginning - ELP
C'est La Vie - ELP
Just proves my point that beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder. Your description of what constitutes beauty is very well said, but I can't personally hear that description in any of the songs you've listed.
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Posted: March 15 2012 at 17:28
progprogprog wrote:
Your taste of music is great my friend, try to add some Yes albums as well if you didn't yet.Also I suggest you to give the 70s RPI scene a chance.
As far as I know, Yes haven't really written a lot of stuff that is emotional or sad in almost its entirety - such is my criterion. Maybe they focus on musicianship and diversity too much? And I've never heard of RPI, I think ... at least the abbreviation. I will check it out.
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Posted: March 15 2012 at 18:32
Dayvenkirq wrote:
progprogprog wrote:
Your taste of music is great my friend, try to add some Yes albums as well if you didn't yet.Also I suggest you to give the 70s RPI scene a chance.
As far as I know, Yes haven't really written a lot of stuff that is emotional or sad in almost its entirety - such is my criterion. Maybe they focus on musicianship and diversity too much? And I've never heard of RPI, I think ... at least the abbreviation. I will check it out.
Yes! not emotional! .
I was going to make a list of songs here, but you know there's one thing about Yes and it is that either you love them or you don't like them.(This also applies to unique bands such Yes, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator and King Crimson too). Obviously when one loves a music it pretty much has things to do with emotional quality of it.
Always thinking in extremes.That's my way to beat boredom.
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Posted: March 16 2012 at 02:35
progprogprog wrote:
Dayvenkirq wrote:
progprogprog wrote:
Your taste of music is great my friend, try to add some Yes albums as well if you didn't yet.Also I suggest you to give the 70s RPI scene a chance.
As far as I know, Yes haven't really written a lot of stuff that is emotional or sad in almost its entirety - such is my criterion. Maybe they focus on musicianship and diversity too much? And I've never heard of RPI, I think ... at least the abbreviation. I will check it out.
Yes! not emotional! .
I was going to make a list of songs here, but you know there's one thing about Yes and it is that either you love them or you don't like them.(This also applies to unique bands such Yes, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator and King Crimson too). Obviously when one loves a music it pretty much has things to do with emotional quality of it.
I never said that Yes were not emotional, that would be a kind of a blasphemy ; I said "haven't really written a lot of stuff that is emotional or sad in almost its entirety", that is, I don't know a single Yes song that is genuinely sad. Nor do I know a single Yes song that has emotions abound and around and onward and outward, and that's because they were used to writing long things (writing takes time and it's hard to keep something emo for 20 mins.) Cf. Nick Drake's 'River Man'. I just don't know a Yes song that could match up in terms of emo with KC or PF or ... ?
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Posted: March 20 2012 at 04:28
I Talk to the Wind - King Crimson Rivendell - Rush Space Dye Vest - Dream Theater Ballade de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg Universal - Anathema White Horses at Sea - Amplifier Hex Omega - Opeth Silent Lucidity - Queensryche My Name is Carnival - Youn Sun Nah
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Posted: March 20 2012 at 04:43
King Crimson — Islands King Crimson — Inner Garden Porcupine Tree — Lazarus Porcupine Tree — Half-Light Genesis — Watcher of the Skies Genesis — Selling England by the Pound Uriah Heep — The Spell Robert Fripp/Peter Gabriel — Here Comes the Flood Rush — Losing It
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Posted: March 23 2012 at 18:08
ole-the-first wrote:
^Yes, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight. I'm always confusing these two titles
How could you miss Inner Garden? They are two short tracks on THRAK. I love them very much 'cause they reminds me of 'Twin Peaks' soundtrack a lot.
I heard a little bit of the stuff from the 90's and I didn't like it. I prefer to keep away from KC's 90's stuff. I'm a paranoid that way. In fact, I stay away from pretty much anything from 90's.
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DiamondDog wrote:
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; I said "haven't really written a lot of stuff that is emotional or sad in almost its entirety", that is, I don't know a single Yes song that is genuinely sad. Nor do I know a single Yes song that has emotions abound and around and onward and outward, and that's because they were used to writing long things (writing takes time and it's hard to keep something emo for 20 mins.) Cf. Nick Drake's 'River Man'. I just don't know a Yes song that could match up in terms of emo with KC or PF or ... ?
