What touches your soul?
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Topic: What touches your soul?
Posted By: E-Dub
Subject: What touches your soul?
Date Posted: May 15 2006 at 23:15
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I'm about to power down and head out to the living room to catch the news. Before I do that, however, what is THE definitive disc in your collection? If your house/apartment was burning down, and you had the opportunity to grab one disc, what disc would you reach for? You're about to be placed in the witness protection program, and they give you a chance to grab one disc before being wisked away, what would you grab?
For 20 years, U2's The Joshua Tree was the best disc I owned. I can't tell you how often I listened to it....and how little I got tired of it. On the contrary, I loved it the more I listened to it. Then, I discovered Marillion's Brave a few years ago. Driving home from work tonight, I put in disc 2 of Marillion's Made Again--which is Brave performed live. As "Bridge/Living With The Big Lie" was blasting out of the speakers, I thought to myself, "I cannot live without Brave." If I lost my collection, Brave would be the first one I'd replace. And if it's OOP, and it's being sold on ebay, I will break just about every Commandment to be the winning bidder. Never has a CD gripped me like Brave. There are those reading this thinking, "You know, I've heard it....don't care for it." Perfectly fine by me. We all hear differently. All I know is Brave is my musical crutch. It's a collection of songs that has this amazing impact on me. It's an absolute masterpiece. Thanks, H, Mark, Ian, Steve, and Pete. I look forward to reading the results in the morning. E ------------- 
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Posted By: KansasRushDream
Date Posted: May 15 2006 at 23:19
| I'd definitely say Ayreon's "The Human Equation." Two discs of great music with such a nice variety. The entire album never gets old, and whenever any of its songs come on from Shuffle, I always listen to it. It doesn't really have any weak areas at all. |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: May 15 2006 at 23:52
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In Search of The Lost Chord - The Moody Blues
Runner Ups:
Harmonium - 5 Seasons
Camel - The Snow Goose
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Moody Blues - To Our Childrens Childrens Children
Strawbs - Grave New World -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: May 15 2006 at 23:54
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Harmonium-Si on avait... most likely, the runner-up would be Ardley's "Kaleidoscope of Rainbows."
------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 00:02
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Foxtrot.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 02:36
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Hybris, mainly because it's autographed by the entire band and would be almost impossible to replace.
Picking one album for musical reasons alone... I just can't do, there are so many that mean so much to me. ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 02:38
| it couldn't be anything but Ommadawn. More stirring than Wagner in places, and in others the perfect example of pastoral beauty. I can't sit through the piece without being moved. Going to play it right now. |
Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 03:40
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Gosh, thats a really hard question........I go through waves of playing something non stop and then not playing it for ages, I rediscover stuff I used toplay to death and reappreciate it.
Hmmmm.............most listened to in our gaff right now is the David Gilmour "on an island" pushes an awful lot of buttons..............but blimey, this is ONE album FOREVER right? it's couldn't be DG, I need to yell and (as Ivan so neatly put it) "shake my booty" from time to time, and DG wont give me that.......... Maybe some opera? ........nah, maybe .......... I am really stumped with this, it could be George Michael, or Sade, (don't tell the prog police!) or it might be something like Believe (Pendragon) or Ever (IQ) Or I am playing the last Annie Lennox album A LOT!!!.......... I am stumped, no answer "by the morning" from me, but I willl definately think it over during the day! Wx |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 03:52
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I would probably be burned down with the house due to my inability to choose...
Otherwise, I'd let it burn and with the insurance money, buy it all back. ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 05:14
Satan!
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Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 05:56
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Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory..
Spirit Carries On ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg"> 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 06:37
At the moment I would ahve to go with this album as well, but I have few that are beginning to catch up. |
imoeng wrote:Posted By: Mr. Sanchez
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 06:41
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Damn, this is quite hard indeed. These are only SOME songs/albums with some significant meaning for me, I dont really have a favourite many favourites, too many to choose from. Here's a few of them... Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Genesis - Trespass (1st Genesis album my dad played me) Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory Yes - The Yes Album (1st Yes album I heard) Rush - YYZ/Working Man/Different Strings (1st Rush songs I heard) ------------- It's Calling Me Back To My Home. |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 06:58
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1.Porcupine Tree - Stars Die/Buying New Soul
2.Dream Theater - Space-Dye Vest 3.Queensryche - Someone Else? 4.Fates Warning - Island In The Stream 5.Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 6.Sieges Even - A Sense Of Change 7.Soul Cages - Impressions 8.Marillion - No One Can 9.PAIN oF Salvation - Morning On Earth 10.Tool - 46&2/Lateralus 11.LTE - Acid Rain 12.Queen - Somebody To Love 13.Roger Waters - Too Much Rope |
Posted By: Reverie
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 07:21
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Does it have to be prog? If so.... something by Pain of Salvation. BE i think. If not, Quartet For The End of Time by Olivier Messiaen is really speaking to me at the moment. I mean i just got it and everything, but i thought to myself the other day "if there were one CD i would want to listen to before i died, right now it would have to be Quartet For The End of Time." |
Posted By: pero
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 07:24
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Can we take some boxes? It would be Zappa's 7 LP colection
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 07:34
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Prog-- Foxtrot Non prog-- The Cure-- Show ------------- 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 07:40
I would have been burned in the fire since I wouldn't be able to choose so fast  I have so many CD's I would like to take with me, not just 1, but at least 250!------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 11:43
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Non-prog: Parachutes - Coldplay ------------- [IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/amorfous/astro-1.jpg"> |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 12:10
Fire by Arthur Brown  !
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:08
| If my house was being flame-broiled, I'd grab Focus' Hamburger Concerto. Very 'Well Done' indeed. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:20
Well, my daddy wanted to touch my soul, and he did, and then the bad police men took him away.  Okay, all sick sense of humor aside, *and sorry to anyone who has experienced that* I'd have to sayAnimals or WYWH- Pink Floyd Awake- Dream Theater A Farewell to Kings- Rush 10,000 Days- Tool Master of Puppets- Metallica ------------- 
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:28
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Rush - Resist ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:30
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The Edhels album I still can't get...(PM me about it, please!) ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:43
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Supper's Ready ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: bsurmano
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 17:52
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Colosseum - Valentyne Suite ------------- 'Sundown,yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast..... Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.' Bob Dylan |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: May 20 2006 at 00:41
| The Revealing Science of God |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: May 20 2006 at 16:42
I'd do that if my parents hadn't lost the CD - I still have the case. Then it'll be either Misplaced Childhood, Beethoven's 5th +7th, The Night Watch or Nursery Cryme. ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 20 2006 at 19:05
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'A Trick of the Tail' - Genesis
My runners up... Moving Pictures - Rush Seventh Sojourn - Moody Blues Going for the One - Yes Ashes are Burning - Renaissance ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: DrGoon
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 01:58
| <=== Tago Mago by Can |
Posted By: Serguilloche
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 05:29
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A Flame to the Ground Beneath - This touches my soul ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Serguilloche/?chartstyle=Bubbles"> 
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 05:42
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Rush - Caress of Steel few songs - Analog Kid - Rush Endless Enigma - E L P Catch the Rainbow - Rainbow Shine on you Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 18:02
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IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING...definitly
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 21:33
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Permanent Waves- Rush
Foxtrot Genesis
Fragile- Yes
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Posted By: Peace Frog
Date Posted: May 23 2006 at 12:33
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For prog, I'd bring Larks' Tongues in Aspic. Non-prog I'd bring Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. I'd cheat and put 2 CDs in one case. ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: _sam_
Date Posted: May 23 2006 at 17:30
| Rush's Signals. No other album by anyone has moved the way this has. Not even the two best birthday presents my dad got me (Pink Floyd's Animals and Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien) can touch Signals. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 23 2006 at 19:35
I think I'd quickly grab my PC, its got all my CD's saved onto it.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Tyroler664
Date Posted: May 24 2006 at 14:35
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Pink floyd - Comfortable numb i get all soby when i hear that tune |
Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: May 24 2006 at 15:22
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Well, I should think I'd take my iPod But to answer your question it would be Pawn Hearts by Sir Graaf. ------------- Your life or your lupins!!! |
Posted By: YYZed
Date Posted: May 24 2006 at 19:06
Nothing. I have no soul.  The Who's Quadrophenia was the first album to have an emotional impact on me. The beauty of much of Supper's Ready is also touching. ------------- 
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