Songs that are "rooms with many doors"

Do A Stunt is nothing, absolutely NOTHING like that Alphaville song

Ddiamondd is GREAT hehe - Mirrored still rly bangs

wait, I'll Sendspace it

Here. Get ready for...greatness. http://www.sendspace.com/file/36l75h

:DDD

In the queue after Intertiatic ESP finishes! Cedric can sing really nicely actually..shame the song is Yes minus geir-friendly hooks.

I suppose some songs by Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti and Field Music this year might fit into this category.

It's very good indeed - so many ideas and little bits! For some reason I always assumed Working were a spacemen 3 style dronerock thing.

Come to think of it that opening strummy guitar bit could be on a Stone Roses or Primal Scream record! Then the acoustic comes in..

Field Music were the only band WFANFC could come up with when trying to name good contemporary British music, haha! They're not really dronerock (although they can do it) so much as true eclecticism at play (with an electronic/rock skew, admittedly) - and it's very exciting to hear a band willing to do that

haha no challop to say that either of those bands' imaginations wouldn't have lasted more than 5 seconds of that song

i'd say Blind Guardian's "I'm Alive" fits that...

"Prog" in 2011 = horrible bad cardie bait

nah this is microprog, the new shit, kids are snorting it in the gutters

g.d. let's find nice ways of preeshiating the barOQUE y'all

like NO WHINAY

Also SLABS >>> twiddly twiddly diddly I doh

wfanfc's slabs are there, they're just not gonna spend ages mulling over their slabdom

get righteous quick, then get outta there

"Prog" in 2011 = horrible bad cardie bait

Not in any way. Prog is finally back, and it was about time!

However.... this thread is not really about prog.....

this thread is about MICROPROG

thing is geir, microprog is all about the sophisticated melodies so you shd get on board

p.s. what are the good prog albums from this year I should listen to?

LOT OF CUTE GUYS IN THE CLUB TONITE

p.s. what are the good prog albums from this year I should listen to?

Actually 2010 was a kind of silent year for prog IMO after 2009 which was the best year for prog since the mid 70s or so.

so sounds like John Cage ruled 2010 then

But, yes, "microprog" I suppose is closely related to the more sophisticated pomp pop from the 70s that I love. Definitely into stuff like Boo Radley and Super Furry Animals and their likes as well (even though I prefer the two Boo Radleys albums where the faster moments are fast and lively without being noisy)

love Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal

as do I :D

so what were 2009's prog highlights? take it Frost was one...

For me it was largely the old guard. Stylistically at least. Transatlantic, IQ and Dream Theater all released perhaps their best albums ever. Guilt Machine, Astra, Syzygy and Bigelf also released great albums that year.

Although perhaps the most important thing to happen to prog in 2009 was not music, it was a magazine.

yeah Heat had a good 12 months

I'll take your word for that, although prog still has a way to go for its musicians to be interesting for the readers of that magazine. :)

"The End" is a Doors song with rooms: first the singer finds his sister in one, then his mom and dad in another. Bad scene all around.

(It is quite proggy even, although largely in a krautrock/spacerock kinda way ;) )

btw I hope yr all downloading that song I linked a Sendspace of upthread

That Alphaville song sounds not at all bad. Although the Alphaville name is occupied, occupied, OCCUPIED!

Buncha Zep besides the already-mentioned "Dazed and Confused":

What Is and What Should Never Be
No Quarter
Whole Lotta Love
Over the Hills and Far Away
The Rain Song
Stairway to Heaven (obviously)
Kashmir
A couple things from Physical Graffiti that I can't remember

most of these aren't really rooms with many doors. they're more like railroad apartments. a bunch of rooms in a row.

i wonder if LJ is a Plank fan. they remind me (a very little) of lapsus linguae

where was I during this thread?

in a padded room with no windows

Hah!

I dunno, that record with the owl might be (for it's genre) a little too restrained and polite for him.

yeah you could be right

nice record tho

Karma Police by Radiohead

No way, this is standard verse-chorus-verse with a coda at the end.

yeah it's hilarious how many people just don't get this

I love this kind of thing, but sometimes it exists as an excuse to stitch together loads of unused song fragments to make a pop-epic a la Bohemian Rhapsody or Paranoid Android. The best is when the song has been composed (or gives the illusion that it has been composed) with the express intention of being a song with many doors. Something like 'Lazarus' is a good example of this.

I meant Paranoid Android rather than Karma Police. Must've had a brainfart when typing.

Diamond Bollocks (above) is a great example of a non-prog, non-pronk RWMD tune. I don't see how most of those Zep tracks qualify tho'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut2AiqYPY1k

Bump for Supergrass.

The newish album by Pretty & Nice "Golden Rules for Golden People" put me in mind of this thread. Kind of like Sugarplastic-sounding Lilys (aka XTC+New Wave + pop songs without choruses or verses) I guess. Less precious than the former, and less chameleon-like than the latter. All of the songs go all over the place, but remain catchy. It's quietly becoming one of my most played albums of the year. Mummy Jets=favorite track initially.

I will habitually check out any record that gets compared to Lilys. I hear much more XTC/Field Music (and even very small touches of Devo/Plastics/P-Model and even Cardiacs), but I'm really enjoying this record, thanks for the tip!

i like this pretty & nice album, definitely a pleasurable listen

This is great, thanks for the tip! There's a bit of Sparks in there, too.