prog ballad
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Topic: prog ballad
Posted By: drummer123123
Subject: prog ballad
Date Posted: August 18 2018 at 16:28
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hey guys im looking for a really cool prog rock ballad thanks
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: August 18 2018 at 16:49
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 07:17
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Dream Theater - Another Day, Space Dye Vest (not a ballad but just mellow), Lifting Shadow off a Dream Camel - Heroes, Mystic Queen Genesis - Please Don't Ask Me, Ripples (kinda) ELP - Lucky Man Jane - Out in the Rain Marillion - Waiting to Happen, Hollow Man, all the softer songs on Marbles (Angelina, The Only Unforgivable Thing, Fantastic Place), Go, Enlightened and many others... :) |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 07:35
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------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 08:08
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------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 08:15
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 09:25
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Devin Townsend - "Deep Peace" Porcupine Tree - "Lazarus", "Collapse the Light into Earth" Blue Oyster Cult - "I Love the Night" Archive - "Sleep" Uriah Heep - "Tales" Black Sabbath - "Changes" Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work", "Reaching Out" Just to name a few off the top of my head. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 09:29
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King Crimson's "I Talk to the Wind", "Cadance and Cascade" Jethro Tull's "Witches Promises", "Life's a Long Song", "Skating Away" Pink Floyd's "Us and Them", "Wish You Were Here" |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 09:41
| Triumvirat -"Lucky Girl" and "The Deadly Dream Of Freedom" come to mind. |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 09:56
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------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 10:10
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Power ballad: ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 10:15
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------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 12:20
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Depends on your definition of ballad. You could mean this, in a traditional ballad sense... Or a love song in contemporary definition... ------------- ...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: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 20 2018 at 13:40
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There are many great 'ballads'...but my personal favorite will always be Nights In White Satin by the Moodies. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 20 2018 at 23:54
| Many Too Many - Genesis |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 00:08
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Family: Mellowing Grey Wigwam: Lost Without a Trace Kevin Ayers: Girl On a Swing Roy Harper: Me and My Woman
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 04:11
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Wow! A lot of great songs here.
I don't know if it can be considered a ballad but I'll go with "Grace Darling" by the Strawbs. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: TiddK
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 09:44
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Kevin Ayers - "Puis Je?" (aka "May I?") If what you want is a ballad, there's few better.
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 10:24
Steve Hackett - Ballad of the Decomposing Man  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 13:39
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Turn of the Century - Yes Ocean Gypsy - Renaissance Entangled - Genesis From the Beginning - ELP
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Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 16:02
Excellent selection! More recently I can't get enough of "If You See Her' by Mystery (from Delusion Rain) - gets me every time  ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Argo2112 wrote:Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 05:28
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Ballad of big....Genesis ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Kempokid
Date Posted: February 07 2019 at 21:12
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Televators - The Mars Volta Desert of Song - Between the Buried and Me Mother Superior - Coheed and Cambria What it Means to Be Alone - The Dear Hunter Is There Anybody Here? - The Dear Hunter Ih-Ah! - Devin Townsend Project The Cloak - Leprous Face of Melinda - Opeth Lazarus - Porcupine Tree
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: February 08 2019 at 01:23
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I've never really been a fan of ballads, but there are some that appeal to me. Two that I'll mention are: House With No Door - Van der Graaf Generator is perhaps their best ballad. Stranger Still - Peter Hammill speaks to me personally, but perhaps that is just peculiar to me.
------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: February 08 2019 at 14:57
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Many good ones posted already. My fave is probably Different Strings, by Rush. ------------- Z |
Posted By: grantman
Date Posted: February 08 2019 at 17:24
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a whiter shade of pale -procol harum starless -king crimson nights in white satin- the moody blues |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 08 2019 at 23:01
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 09 2019 at 07:55
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Hi, Do ballads without lyrics count? This way, your mind can create the ballad on its own ... which for me is way better! I can start with Maggot Brain, way back when if anyone wants, and I even have Pekka, and Terje ... who was a ballad all by himself in the early days of "Odyssey", and later in his album with David Darling! Talk about "ballads" and what I call the best chamber music for an electric guitar that Eric or Jimmy never/ever dreamed of! The word ballad becomes real ... but it looks like we must have lyrics to tell us what a ballad is ... like you learned the lyrics when you were 4 months old and mom hummed a tune, or equivalent!  ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: February 09 2019 at 08:27
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Blue Angel by David Cousins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_KB0Ow4fVo ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 09 2019 at 08:48
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: February 09 2019 at 11:35
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 05:38
love me some Traffic and that song.. but a ballad... what the hell is a ballad anyway.. oh yeah.. the kind of stuff that makes it easy for her to change her opinion from.. maybe to HELL YEAH.. that is not exactly a song I'd put on with a hot babe, a roaring fire, and a good bottle of wine. now this one.. umm hmmm...Micky tested.. Micky approved.. in fact outside of the absolutely stone cold kickass rocker that was the album opener.. a very good 'ballad' album.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 05:56
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I have to admit that, like Simon (aka Mascodagama) and Greg (aka The Dark Elf), I prefer traditional folk ballads to modern ones. Conventional rock ballads can often be rather sappy, and - unlike the stereotypical female listener - I don't have too much time for sappy stuff. However, looking at previous posts, I noticed a couple or more glaring omissions, notably King Crimson's "Book of Saturdays" and "Exiles", and ELP's "Still... You Turn Me On". |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 05:58
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ELP - From the Beginning their best ballad IMO
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 10:58
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Amon Düül II - Green Bubble Raincoated Man It's kinda cool, check it out. IMO it perfectly fits the "prog ballad" category. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 13:56
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 15:23
In the traditional sense, a ballad is a stanzaed poem or song narrating a story. It may or may not be a love song, but it should tell a story. Therefore, when I hear "ballad" the inner English Major in me kicks in, and I think chanson or canzone. So from a modern sense, I am more apt to think of Bob Dylan singing "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", "Tangled Up In Blue" or "Hurricane", which are ballads in the truer fashion, and not the trivialized ditties ballads have become. From a prog sense of the word, a ballad could be Jethro Tull's "Velvet Green", which recalls the bawdier "Broadside Ballads" of the 17th and 18th centuries... You mentioned King Crimson's "Book of Saturdays", but you might as well throw in "Cirkus" as as a modern approximation of a ballad as well... ------------- ...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: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 21:04
Indeed
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: February 10 2019 at 21:39
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Many, many gorgeous ProgFolk ballads....Jack Orion, Willy of Winsbury, My Johnny Was A Shoemaker, Reynardine.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7sxeO3PQHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3_U6o0LogM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yRAi4miyvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH8CXSF7Brw And that's just a start of the Pentangle related ones... ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 11 2019 at 00:00
indeedlydoodly
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Posted By: klaatuarethebeatles
Date Posted: February 11 2019 at 01:50
| I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this beautiful Gentle Giant ballad. https://youtu.be/DYyMsBSnJ88 |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 11 2019 at 01:53
link does not work for me, why you don't just mention the song name.
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Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: February 11 2019 at 02:27
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Angra - Deep Blue (from Holy Land). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czfox3aTJ00 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 17 2019 at 07:47
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Hi, Unbelievable ... the listing is all songs with lyrics ... as if a "ballad" has not existed for hundreds of years ... it only shows how musically unawares we are? I'll take Albinoni's Adagio in G ... maybe followed by Terje Rypdal's Adagietto! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 17 2019 at 09:30
No, what is unbelievable is you continue to infer other people are ignorant when your ignorance is quite clear. The irony here is other posters are using the proper context, whether popular or in the more proper historical sense, for a ballad, but you are not. Perhaps it is because English is not your first language (and based on how you write, more likely third or fourth down the list), but a "ballad" by its very nature requires lyrics. This has been the nature of ballads since the 13th century. They are narrative songs, originally styled in quatrains (ballad stanzas). With words/lyrics as a requirement. From a non-song compositional point of view, poetic ballads (literary ballads) are written in the same style. With words. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Goethe, Coleridge, Keats, Poe, Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, Christine Rossetti, Kipling -- all wrote literary ballads. Not surprisingly, each of these poets used words for their ballads. So, in the sense of an "adagio", you may call it whatever you want beyond "adagio", but it is not a "ballad" in the literary and historical perspective. So no one who has commented thus far is wrong or "unaware" about their selections, per se. In fact, they are using the term in a far more correct sense than you have. ------------- ...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: moshkito
Date Posted: February 18 2019 at 07:54
Yes PROFESSOR! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 18 2019 at 09:29
or use the Insert Movie function.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 18 2019 at 10:04
Consider yourself schooled. Now, go and sin no more. ------------- ...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: uduwudu
Date Posted: March 08 2019 at 01:17
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Yes - And You And I |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: March 13 2019 at 12:14
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ELP - C'est la vie Kansas - Dust In the Wind
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Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: July 25 2023 at 12:18
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Arena - Mea Culpa Arena - Friday's Dream The Flower Kings - The Way the Waters Are Moving The Flower Kings - A King's Prayer Genesis - Undertow IQ - One Fatal Mistake Kate Bush - A Coral Room Kate Bush - The Man with the Child In His Eyes Kate Bush - This Woman's Work King Crimson - Matte Kudasai King Crimson - Epitaph King Crimson - Islands Marillion - Runaway Marillion - The Hollow Man Marillion - Sugar Mice Marillion - Fantastic Place Marillion - Seasons End Marillion - The Sky Above the Rain Marillion - Estonia Opeth - Isolation Years Opeth - Burden Pain of Salvation - Iter Impius Pain of Salvation - Second Love Pendragon - Starfish and the Moon Pendragon - Whirlwind Pendragon - If I Were the Wind (And You Were the Rain) Pendragon - It's Only Me Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood Peter Gabriel - Biko Peter Gabriel - Wallflower Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up Peter Gabriel - Washing of the Water Phideaux - Crumble Phideaux - Infinite Supply Pink Floyd - Nobody Home Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Radiohead - Nude Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film) Rush - The Garden Rush - Nobody's Hero Rush - Closer to the Heart Yes - Turn of the Century Yes - Soon
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Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: July 25 2023 at 15:44
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 25 2023 at 19:40
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Here's another cool one. Another Day Like Superman by Anyone's Daughter. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |