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    Posted: November 23 2021 at 15:59
There are many songs that could fill this question. But to me my all time mellotron song is; Care of Cell 44. There are plenty of amazing tron songs i care alot for but nr 1 is

The Zombies - Care of Cell 44


It is the perfect amalgamation of 60s chamber pop, and sunshine with the brim of the beginning of symphonic prog in one song.


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2000 Light Years From Home by The Rolling Stones 
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My favourite mellotron track would definitely be "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", not just because it is my favourite track which contains mellotron, but because the mellotron in that track is awesome.
 
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Care of Cell 44 is a great choice. Its really hard to choose one, but the best use of Mellotron that hit me the most is from Exit Music by Radiohead.
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We did this poll a couple years ago. My submission has not changed: 

ANDEKDOTEN's "Moons of Mars/The Sun Absolute" from 2005's Waking the Dead (Live from Japan). Three 'trons working together at once! with no other instrumentation.



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In the Court of the Crimson King followed by Steven Wilson Luminol.
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

My favourite mellotron track would definitely be "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", not just because it is my favourite track which contains mellotron, but because the mellotron in that track is awesome.

I totally agree. Mellotron goes horror.


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

My favourite mellotron track would definitely be "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", not just because it is my favourite track which contains mellotron, but because the mellotron in that track is awesome.

I totally agree. Mellotron goes horror.

I'm not the biggest fan of Julian Cope's writing (I much prefer The Sethman/The Book of Seth), but I've discovered some music I wouldn't be without thanks to him. And he did write this about Plague...

...Remember the first time you heard “The Soft Parade” title track and wondered when it was all gonna kick in, only it never did? Well, here, instead of berating your earhole sergeant-major-like all the way through (as Hammill is well wont to do), “A Plague of Lighthouse keepers” drifts in and out of control for 23-minutes of standing-on-the-verge-of-getting-it-on-ness, occasionally unleashing ridiculous stentorian extremes, then backing right off into passages of near meditational drift. It should also be noted that this lot use Mellotrons 400 and Mark 2 like they SHOULD be used. Sound FX, train choogles, stampeding elephants, bain’t nowt too gimmicky for our boys. If it was guaranteed to invoke the ancient Gods...

+there's also the obligatory Lester Bangs-level dismissals/machoisms/fear of beauty and skills in rock - and he'd hate most of the other tunes that popped up in my head:

Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis
Moody Blues - The Voyage (& many more)
Matching Mole - Immediate Curtain
The Bee Gees - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You
Herbie Hancock/Mwandishi - Water Torture
Terje Rypdal - The Hunt
Schicke-Führs-Fröhling - Pictures
Pink Floyd - Julia Dream
Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
PFM - Impressione di Settembre
Spring - The Prisoner (Eight by Ten)
Flamen Dialis - Symptome-Dei (the full album)
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust (the full album)
& King Crimson... Cirkus, Sailor's Tale, In the Wake of Poseidon, Starless... or just about every time it appears.
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I also realy like the Mellotron that floors your mortal soul in King Crimson 'A Sailors Tail" halfway in. It enters the scene like a foghorn from the sea of Icarus -and spoils your defensless walls in your sweat channels.
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It would have to be Watcher of the Skies for me, opening chords of countless Genesis concerts Big smile
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OMD - Maid Of Orleans










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