Prog evoking children's playground
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Topic: Prog evoking children's playground
Posted By: clarke2001
Subject: Prog evoking children's playground
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 14:41
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I'm in the mood... Any prog songs about children playgrounds? I mean, some good lylrics reflecting the philosophy of life through the eyes of a child, or some lovely piano passages, something that fits with swings and sandboxes. (The only one I can think of right now is 'Playground' by Jeremy Storch.) ------------- |
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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 15:19
"Cross-eyed Mary" by Jethro Tull 
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 15:33
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Prog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDzV0C9RM5U&feature=related - The Residents http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDzV0C9RM5U&feature=related - Give it to Someone Else not prog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67l13rnYnMs - King Missile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67l13rnYnMs - The Sandbox ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 15:36
In Talitha Qumi's album there's one track where they recreate in the studio the sound of a children's playground 
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:01
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How about 'Narnia' off Steve Hackett's Please Don't Touch ?
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Posted By: Roy-Mus
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:04
School - Supertramp 
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:05
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SITTING ON A PARK BENCH EYING LITTLE GIRLS WITH BAD INTENT  |
Posted By: enigma
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:12
| Script for a Jester's Tear (Losing on the swings, losing on the roundabout) |
Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:27
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Ayreon's Day Nine: Playground. No lyrics but captures the mood well. ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:51
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Gentle Giant - Schooldays from Three Friends
------------- What? |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 17:02
Ahvak's Hamef Ahakim, with "fun fayre" music. 
Also, Étron Fou Leloublan is often playful and childish musically. Well, dadaist would be a better description, but it might just be what you're looking for. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: Thkasabrk
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 19:01
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How about this from the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed...
"Bluebirds flying, children sighing, what a day to go kit flying..." |
Posted By: Thkasabrk
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 19:03
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Uh...that's kite flying...a kit could be anything
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 21:28
| Poles apart by Pink Floyd. The lyrics have nothing to do, but there's some child-like keyboard solo in the song. Oh, yeah, and many of the Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd (right now I could think about See Emily Play, Matilda Mother, Bike, and I don't remember this ones so well, but perhaps Corporal Cleg, See-Saw, Jugband Blues, Scream thy last Scream, Vegetable Man; some of this songs have child oriented lyrics, some others not). |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 21:36
Damn! beat me to it. Syd songs can be a nightmare in a tea party, through a child's eyes. They feel like childhood visited through dreams, lucid, where things can go wrong sometimes Opel feels like the theme to a child running away. So, perhaps darker than the music the OP wanted, but somewhat related.Great topic!  ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Dellinger wrote:Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 21:57
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How about "Fairy Tales" by Mother Gong? It is not abot playgrounds, but there are three fairy tales superbly told by Gilli Smyth and accompanied by excellent musicians, led by a Didier Malherbe in überform. Jean put links to the tracks in this thread: forum_posts.asp?TID=66046&PN=5 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=66046&PN=5 Our kids love the album. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 22:18
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TIMOTHY PURE's "Island Of The Misfit Toys" is a concept album that has children as it's focus,even the playground at one point. The band sort of sounds like The Alan Parsons Project. It's really worth seeking out if it's still available. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 22:22
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"Schoolyard Ghosts" by NO-MAN is another. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 22:42
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Jackpot.....even video of the playground with the kids!! OK, so its not exactly prog.....it does have keyboards ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 22:52
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Devil's Playground?
Hey it was worth throwing out there  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 22:54
| Ayreons 'Playground?' =P |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 23:01
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Harmonium's "Aujourd'hui je dis bonjour a la vie" starts with the sound of children playing. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 00:57
Seconded, good sir Conor. First thing that popped into me little head, it was. |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 04:17
| What about the release of the children on Grobschnit's Rockpommel's Land? |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 12:27
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I forgot about the Grobschnitt! Their Ballermann indeed have some childish naivety in a good way. ------------- |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 13:23
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 14:37
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Hi,
Daevid Allen -- "Good Morning" ... he tells the kids a story ...
And probably the finest one in all of these examples, because the kids are involved in it too! ------------- 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: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 23:04
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The ones I thought of have already been mentioned, but I'll add my two cents in support of them:
School by Supertramp.
Aqualung and Cross-Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull. There's also Sparrow on the Schoolyard Wall from Catfish Rising.
Rockpommel's Land by Grobshcnitt.
Another Brick in the Wall Part II by Pink Floyd.
Note that many of these are dark and cynical. On the more positive side, Jon Anderson has had his share: Circus of Heaven and Song of Seven both key into childhood play.
One more outside of Prog: Art Lover by The Kinks. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 01:15
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IQ - Through The Corridors
Very dark song but does have typical kids playing type sounds as part of the intro.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 21:49
I was just forgetting about Floy'ds "Another Brick" and Yes's "Circus of Heaven". Ofcourse, if we're taliking about The Wall, there are other songs about "Pink's" Childhood, like "Another Brick 1", "Goodbye Blue Sky", "The Thin Ice", "The Happiest Days of our lives". |
Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 23:48
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The Husband and I used to live in a neighborhood with a seedy looking playground. We called it the "post-rock" playground 'cause it had this creepy vibe like a Godspeed album cover. We'd walk there in the middle of the night and listen to Misplaced Childhood together. Good times. So yeah, Misplaced Childhood. That album is an answer. The Flower Kings also have a number of songs that depict the innocence of youth in a unique way. ------------- 
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Posted By: Armand0
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 09:34
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Band: Pain of Salvation Album: The Perfect Element I Song: Morning on Earth I like the song so much.... lyrics: "A relation, so oddly old - bred not to love Suffers the beaten grounds of Idioglossia We talk but we do not speak Together only in our incapability to leave this fallen playground We rule this Empire merely with these few crippled toys Rust in our faces This is what we can share - this is all we can lose Still Furiously we will linger to it with our lives Cling to its rust and pains Barefoot and torn Bred not but born to love" Daniel Gildenlow has a wonderful voice.... best singer ever IMO. " Hear this voice, see this man standing before you I'm just a child trapped inside this fallen man See this child. " |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 09:41
I really identify with XTC's Playground:"We’re marked by the masters and bruised by the bullies in the ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 09:42
The first thing I thought of was "This used to be my Playground" but its by Madonna
Ayreon's "Playground" is obvious and Jethro tull has a few. Cant think of any else off hand. ------------- 
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Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 00:03
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A few that include sound backdrops of children playing:
Jon Anderson – Days, which segues into Song of Seven Alan Gowen – Before a Word Is Said Allan Holdsworth – Pud Wud ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 01:14
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 09:11
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Rush - The Pass "Proud swagger out in the schoolyard..." ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 10:45
| Memories of Old Days from Gentle Giant's The Missing Piece starts out with what appears to be sounds from a children's playground. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 12:27
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------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: August 21 2014 at 13:21
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I can't think of any prog examples, at least none that have not already been, but would "Years Ago" by Alice Cooper count? Oh, I know one! "Meadow Meal" by Faust! Around 6:10, there's some carousel music that could have been in a children's playground in one of the Silent Hill games. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |