"Energetic" instrumental sections
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Topic: "Energetic" instrumental sections
Posted By: RoeDent
Subject: "Energetic" instrumental sections
Date Posted: February 09 2016 at 15:49
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I've discovered some songs lately that have some really thrilling instrumental sections. They just surge forward and keep going, like the pedal is down on a racecar. I'm looking for other songs with these instrumental breaks in them. The only other way I can describe what I'm after is by listing the sections in question: - Solomon by Arena, 7:08-10:50 - Milliontown by Frost*, 17:42-25:08 - This Green and Pleasant Land by Pendragon, 9:05-12:20
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: February 09 2016 at 16:10
I notice that a lot of the stuff (generally newer) I listen to is missing this so I'll definitely be following this thread.  ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 00:02
| "Soundchaser" by Yes should fit your bill. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 00:50
Good call Chuck but the first thing that popped into my head was the instrumental section on Gates of Delirium right after the "The pen won't stay the demon's wings the hour approaches pounding out the devil's sermon" line  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
cstack3 wrote:Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 09:47
| The first flute solo on "A Passion Play" is quite fantastic. |
Posted By: CosmicVibration
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 10:20
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 11:39
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 13:16
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Japanese band Bi Kyo Ran have some impressive passages. As does Magma - esp. the 'Zombies' section of E-Re. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: February 11 2016 at 19:05
Same here---I love Yes instrumental parts---the classic 70's line ups ---the boys could play. That Magma jam is really cool too.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 11 2016 at 20:09
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U.K.'s 'Carrying No Cross' from about 5:30 to 9:50 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqSL4tZGos" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqSL4tZGos Maybe the greatest drum part ever. Definitely one of the greatest instrumental passages in a studio cut. 'Nuff said. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: February 13 2016 at 23:56
Curved Air—Piece of Mind. The Latin-influenced next-to-last section chugs right along for an unfortunately brief time before giving way to an understated slow section that concludes the piece.U.K.—The Only Thing She Needs, from the same LP as Carrying No Cross, is equally propulsive.------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 14 2016 at 00:00
^  two great suggs------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 14 2016 at 09:40
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Dinah-Moe Humm - Frank Zappa, 3:55 - 4:50. (Turn up the volume way up) |
Posted By: Replayer
Date Posted: February 14 2016 at 23:58
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Another Arena example is the instrumental section of Sirens off their second album (7:00-11:00). Mike Oldield's got quite a few. The Sailor's Hornpipe closing Tubular Bells Part 2. The stormy section with multi-layered electric guitars of Hergest Ridge Part 2. The endings of Ommadawn Part 1 and Part 2 (excluding the Horse Song). There's also the exuberant Northumbrian bagpipe and electric guitar duet on QE2 Finale. The Heart of the Sunrise has a short energetic introductory passage that is reprised a few times times. There's also the intense jam in the beginning of Close to the Edge, and the one right after Wakeman's church organ section. I know Deep Purple is hard rock, but I found many of their songs quite proggy. Some intense instrumental breaks are the guitar solo and fantastic falling bomb ending on Child in Time, the organ and guitar solos on Highway Star, and the relentless Paice (bad pun, I know) of the largely instrumental Hard Lovin' Man. Uriah Heep's Look at Yourself is an energetic song has several instrumental breaks. I guess it's stating the obvious, but we can't forget 21st Century Schizoid Man. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 15 2016 at 02:37
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Dreamer by Supertramp -------------  
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 15 2016 at 04:04
| How could one forget - MAGMA - De Futura (the accelerando part where Vander and Top go off......) |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 15 2016 at 07:39
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tsk tsk.. the greatest of all Balletto di Bronzo - Introduzione the keys solo into the guitar solo.. with the climatic orgasm of that mellotron. I feel the need to fire up a Winston every time it finishes. As good as sex... nothing tops that for pure energy and musical violence... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: m2thek
Date Posted: February 15 2016 at 08:57
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Haken is full of them ------------- Matt |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: February 17 2016 at 20:33
No one’s mentioned The Cinema Show! The “Seconds Out” version especially, with the Collins/Bruford drum battle royal.ELP had several: the last sections of The Three Fates and Tank, and the middle section of Trilogy.The second part of You by Tony Banks, contrasting with the slow song portion.The concluding section of For Richard by Caravan.Caravan—All Sorts of Unmentionable Things, the last section of Dabsong Conshirtoe, which crossfades into a reprise of The Show of Our Lives.Colosseum—Valentyne Suite. The opening section especially, but it builds and releases energy a couple more times before it’s done.Greenslade—Joie de Vivre. The last section with the organ/violin duet.Esperanto—The Rape, with its tense, panicky, continually-glancing-over-your-shoulder coda.Flash—Lifetime.Gentle Giant—So Sincere, the live version from Playing the Fool, with its thundering percussive extravaganza.Happy the Man—Labyrinth. Or the solo rerecording by Kit Watkins. Another that speeds and slows nicely.Hoelderlin—Phasing. Starts out slow and builds gradually, making for excellent driving music.It Bites—You’ll Never Go to Heaven, with Dunnery’s intense solo at the end.Lucifer’s Friend—the middle section of Spanish Galleon.Santana—Flame-Sky. Another that starts slow and builds and builds.Pat Metheny Group—The Roots of Coincidence. One of my favorites of his.Anthony Phillips—The Geese and the Ghost. The closing section, where he sounds like he’s trying to wear his fingers down to the bone on his 12-string.Refugee—Credo. For a 3-piece, they could really do the “intense” thing.Todd Rundgren’s Utopia—Utopia Theme. There are 2 or 3 parts that really bust out.Van Der Graaf Generator—Scorched Earth. The first time I heard it I thought the end was one of the most intense things ever.Come to think of it, several of these were in the Extended Coda thread I started a while ago.And how about some tracks in which the whole thing proceeds at a constant or near-constant fast pace:Love Sculpture—Sabre Dance. Both the album version and single version (two different recordings) are about the wildest things ever recorded, and that’s no exaggeration.Focus—Harem ScaremWeather Report—Nubian SundanceJeff Beck—ScatterbrainJean-Luc Ponty—Enigmatic Ocean.PFM—Celebration (live version)------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: February 17 2016 at 22:59
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I think the XYZ section on the Yes song Mind Drive song is great and energetic.
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Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: February 18 2016 at 01:00
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"Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk" by Pink Floyd, if only for Nick Mason's drumming. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 12:34
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Amon Düül 2 - the last 4 minutes of "Mozambique" from the album "Vive la Trance". Mother Gong: The ending of "The Pied Piper" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 14:51
| Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! Currently giving UK's Carrying No Cross a go. This is awesome! Instrumental break is crazy! Reminds me of the instrumental movements of ELP's Tarkus. |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 14:59
| The ending of "Is It Really Happening" from Transatlantic's Whirlwind. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 15:31
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here is "Mozambique": ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 15:45
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The eight minute-long recapitulation at the end of Thick as a Brick is phenomenal (from 35:30 or so on), particularly when the strings kick in (and David Palmer's orchestral arrangements were always Tull's secret weapon). Barlow's drums and Evan's keys are great. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 20 2016 at 19:55
I had a feeling it would hit the spot. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: February 21 2016 at 04:53
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George Duke's synth solo section on "Inca Roads" by Zappa always feels like the epitome of fusion rock to me. ------------- "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?" |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 14:41
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Parts of Camel's Snow Goose take off quite adequately. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: March 17 2016 at 18:33
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- guitar solo on Crossing the Line from the Go! project (I think it's Pat Thrall) - second part of Spunk Rock by Man on All's Well That Ends Well - instrumental parts of the Moontan album by Golden Earring (with the US track listing that includes Big Tree, Blue Sea) - closing passage of Fighting Windmills by Golden Earring from the Contraband album - instrumental parts of Live by Golden Earring, this time with two guitarists - second half of Ginastera's Toccata by ELP, with the spacey drum synths - second quarter of Karn Evil 9 by ELP with the steel drums - guitar part of The Item is the Totem by Wigwam - Rick Wakeman's organ solo on the Close to the Edge title track - where Steve Hackett's guitar part comes in on The Musical Box by Genesis on the Nursery Cryme album - closing part of Sheep on Pink Floyd's Animals album - funky bass part of Echoes by Pink Floyd from Meddle - punchy piano solo on the live versions of Cannnball by Supertramp - Lunar Sea, an instrumental on Moonmadness by Camel - Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear (Instrumental) and Starbird by Manfred Mann's Earth Band from The Roaring Silence - Salmon Song by Steve Hillage - Sky High by Manfred Mann's Earth Band from The Good Earth. I sometimes wonder what happened to Colin Pattendon? - end of 4 Phil by Baker Gurvitz Army from the first album. It fades too quickly - the part of Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin) used as the title theme for Weekend World |