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    Posted: June 25 2022 at 16:30
What are your favorite RTF songs? In un-numbered order, I like:
  • Light As A Feather
  • Spain
  • Crystal Silence
  • Return To Forever
  • Sometime Ago/La Fiesta
  • Song To The Pharaoh Kings
  • Duel of The Jester and The Tyrant 
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Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
After The Cosmic Rain
Captain Senor Mouse
Vulcan Worlds
Flight of the Newborn
Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant
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All of "Romantic Warrior". As close as you can get to fusion perfection.
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"Romantic Warrior"
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Hymn of the 7th galaxy
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1. Medieval Overture
2. Song To The Pharoah Kings
3. Duel Of The Jester And The Tyrant
4. Majestic Dance
5. Vulcan Worlds
6. Sorceress
7. The Romantic Warrior
8. Space Circus
9. The Game Maker
10. Captain Seņor Mouse
11. Light As A Feather
12. Theme To The Mothership
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Return to Forever
Light as a Feather
The Romantic Warrior
Vulcan Worlds
Spain
Crystal Silence
Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant
Song to the Pharaoh Kings
No Mystery
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
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Return To Forever
Sometime Ago / La Fiesta
Song to the Pharoah Kings
Celebration Suite Part 1
Celebration Suite Part 2
500 Miles High
Spain
Crystal Silence
The Shadow of Lo
Light As A Feather
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Romantic Warrior is what I associated fusion with back was when I was certain it was the worst music made by mankind. It didn't really sound to me like it's made by human beings really. In retrospect I suppose a highly advanced "jazz-fusion-generator" could come up with something like this. The medieval/fantasy songtitles however appears to have been made by a progrock-title-generator. Unfortunatly the latter was exactly what I found so attractive in my formative years. So when I stumbled over the (to me) equally attractive cover art in the cheap bins, I was probably hoping for was some Gryphon/Jethro Tull-like music (without having heard of any of them yet). For a long time I was certain fusion was like this and Mezzoforte/Tower of Power - that I had heard on the radio/TV. Sterile and show-offy stuff that "says nothing to me about my life". It set me back for years, jazzwise:). Now I can appreciate the chops it takes to pull this off, but I still understand my younger self. Needless to say I'm much more of a jazz-flute and latin-flavoured kind of Return to Forever-fan.
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Overlooked gem here. A 1968 Corea-piece gets a 1972 fusion update, but first included as a bonus on the 1998 re-release of Light as a Feather. It wouldn't have sounded out of place on Miles Davis first few semi-fusion styled albums (Filles De Kilimanjaro, Miles in The Sky...). Probably among my ten favorites, had I remembered it 
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Everything on Where Have I Known You Before and Romantic Warrior.
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