Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: long & varied pieces (ELP's Pirates) Message-ID: <1500@dciem.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 16:24:06 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1500 Posted: Mon Apr 1 16:24:06 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Apr-85 17:46:33 EST References: Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP ( Richardson) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 46 Summary: > I am currently addicted to listening to ELP's PIRATES. It is > over 10 minutes thus qualifying it as a long piece and it is certainly > varied. It tells of the formation of a pirate crew, their departure, > the capture of a treasure ship, the stop at a nearby island, > their night at town and return to adventure. Each part has a different > mood and is cohesive by the story and words. I didn't identify any > theme throughout the piece so it certainly is varied! Ah yes. I went through that phase myself a few years ago. (Phases like that are rare for me, especially when they occur a few years after I first get the album, as this one did.) "Pirates" gets my vote for most effective use of an orchestra in a rock song (piece), as well as best male vocal performance ever. It can be found on the album "Works Volume 1". Unfortunately, the rest of the double album is nowhere near as good, but "Pirates" makes it worth the price. Rick Wakeman has done many records on his own and I enjoy all of them. His records 'Journey To The Center Of The Earth' and 'The Times And Legends Of King Arthur and The Knights Of The Round Table' are very enjoyable, being semi-operatic narrations of the stories of the same name. They use an orchestra and chorus. I am mentioning them first to introduce you what I and my friends consider very enjoyable and listenable music and secondly to add them to the list of long and varied pieces (although it may be considered more of a 'theme album' if you refuse to call it a single piece). Buried somewhere I have a Jet 45 with 'Around the world' on one side. On the flip side is 'The Ho Ho Rock And Roll'. I nominate this as the worst song. It consists of an ordinary saxaphone dominated dance tune a la 60's, but a guy is laughing in the background (and the music pauses for the solo ho hos). I think that this record was used by parents to brainwash their younger kids to hate music. I think the way to torture anyone with any musical taste is to force them to listen to this 2-5 times at 45RPM, then at 33 1/3 RPM so as to enjoy the nuance of every ho ho and drum beat. Hideous!!! Jeff 'doompa doompa' Skot {ihnp4 | mcnc | cbosgb} abnji ! jeff -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff