Radio Capricon 2010
Jan. 20th, 2010 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericcolemanI'm iced in today, so I'm working on programming for the station.
I still need a one hour prog rock song ... I have managed to narrow it down to two songs for the Prog Rock Hour in previous years ... I think I did four one year, three the next, and then two the last couple.
I still need a one hour prog rock song ... I have managed to narrow it down to two songs for the Prog Rock Hour in previous years ... I think I did four one year, three the next, and then two the last couple.
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Date: 2010-01-20 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 07:30 pm (UTC)I think I may have found a candidate ... I'm dl'ing now
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Date: 2010-01-20 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 08:34 pm (UTC)Karn Evil 9 is....unlistenable. Like Berlioz's description of Wagner: 'Moments of sublimity, interposed with quarters-of-an-hour of tedium' but without the moments of sublimity.
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Date: 2010-01-20 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-01-20 10:07 pm (UTC)Hour-long songs
Date: 2010-01-20 09:59 pm (UTC)Nate
Re: Hour-long songs
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Date: 2010-01-20 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 11:21 pm (UTC)To me now it seems almost all prog is, 'pon reflection, bollocks; alas. Technically speaking, are Floyd 'Prog'?
Fripp & Crimson I can manage, mainly for the muscular angularity. ELP made a good single, once: based on Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man. Genesis....ah Genesis. 'Selling England' has one good verse (the bare folk opening) one great verse (where the school organ kicks in and you're back in chapel) and then what appears to be hours of meandering nonsense. Honestly, you bastards, edit.
Even Zeppelin's songs always go on at least one verse and chorus too long.
When it comes to folk writing modern music over a period longer than ten minutes Floyd's 'Shine on' seems to me to be the only candidate that stands up, with honorable mentions to Fripp and 'Starless' and 'Fracture' etc.
Another oft quoted example, Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' is too quaint by half: where is the Sturm und Drang, my dears? Worked well as a soundtrack, however.
Maybe it's time for his lordship to do a poll of songs over ten minutes long that it's actually worth listening to.
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Date: 2010-01-20 11:27 pm (UTC)I much prefer Ommadawn to Tubular Bells, but even it goes on just a bit.
Starless is brilliant all the way through, but mostly because it never sits still.
Like all music, most of prog is bollocks, but the good stuff is awfully good.