Best of the Songs Clocking 10:00 to 15:00

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick Number 10, and therefore my #1 choice


Rush - Xanadu

From the album A Farewell to Kings, this track is 11:09 and a slice of prog right in the middle of their prog period. Inspired by the work Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which tells the story of a search for Xanadu and the misfortunes incurred!

Only 3 members in the group, they sound like there's 10!

[Vyn]

That song has superior transportive powers. Well played, sir!

[Charger]

My top 3 went bit off because of Zzz stealing my #1 so I had to adjust...BUT the top dog here still is one hell of a song.

KDC took the other Maiden track from me which was actually a good thing because it made it easy here to choose this as my number one


IRON MAIDEN - SIGN OF THE CROSS

I talked about putting a slower longer song as an album opener before on this list but there are most certainly few occations when the risk has paid off in spades and this most certainly is one of them.
Starting with a quiet chant leading into a slow intro that then bursts into one of the best fast parts of any Maiden songs. Blaze's vocal delivery is absolutely brilliant. Sure very different from Bruce's but honestly Bruce never has sung this song right and he has admitted that himself.

I have said that I want this to be the song to be played at my funeral...sadly though I doubt anyone will be there to hear it.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
I should have put money on that being your #1! 

It is a good song though.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I'm just going to swap the order that I listed mine, as I've re-thunk things, but the top 3 are the same!

10. Magnum
9. Halloween
8. The Damned
7. Iron Maiden
6. Foetus
5. Yes
4. Iced Earth
3. Hawkwind
2. Metallica
1. Rush

[Charger]

If anything I am predictable!


I do find it bit shocking that you had that Metallica tune so up high...I am listening to it now and I find it just as mediocre as before...

[Zzzptm]

Mad props on the selections of Maiden, Rush, and War! All good stuff there.

For my tenth pick, it's a "last but by no means least" selection - The Temptations' full 11:44 version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone." One of the crowning tracks of the Psychedelic Soul genre, Norman Whitfield's composition and arrangement shines through in this extended masterpiece. It's a rich, dark, heavy track with clean playing throughout and that most haunting of choruses...

And if Isaac Hayes' "Hyperbolicsyllablicsesquedalymistic" had been 22 seconds longer, I'd have it on this list, as well! 

[Vyn]

Man, what a great collection of music we've come up with. Forty songs and not one rap tune! lol Inspired by Kilo's re-adjusted list oder, I dropped everyone's into a list, from last one posted and ending with the first.


Kilo:

Don't Wake the Lion - Magnum
Halloween - Helloween
Dark Asteroid - The Damned
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden
Slung - Foetus
Machine Messiah - Yes
High Water Mark - Iced Earth
Assault and Battery - Hawkwind
The Outlaw Torn - Metallica
Xanadu - Rush


Z:

Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations
Sly - Herbie Hancock
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic
Found a Cure - Ashford & Simpson
Child in Time - Deep Purple
Dance to the Medley - Sly & The Family Stone
Uncle Jam - Funkadelic
Blue Desert - Sky Valley Mistress
The Game - Roy Harper
Water No Get Enemy - Fela Kuti


Charger:

Sign of the Cross - Iron Maiden
Seasons of Tragedy - Benedictum
The Devil to Pay - Iced Earth
The Warning - Black Sabbath
The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish
The Ultra-Violence - Death Angel
Morphine Child - Savatage
The Profit of Doom - Type O Negative
Suite Sister Mary - Queensryche
Embrace - Solitude Aeturnus


Me:

The World is a Ghetto - War
Orphans of the Singe - Wo Fat
Advance Romance - Frank Zappa
The Musical Box - Genesis
Sanctuary - Miles Davis
The Necromancer - Rush
Pithecanthropus Erectus - Charles Mingus
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
When the Music's Over - The Doors
The Magician's Birthday - Uriah Heep

[Zzzptm]

If you want a rap song, I got the full version of Rapper's Delight from 1979 at 14 and a half minutes.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Thinking about the next challenge, I was wondering about...

1) Our 10 favourite instrumentals (I don;t think we've done that before!)

2) Like the last couple of games... Our 10 favourite 8-10 minute songs or our favourite 15+ minute songs.

3) Alternatively, something film related!

... anyone got other ideas?

[Vyn]

I like the instrumentals suggestion; doesn't seem like we've gone down that road before.

[Charger]

I'm up for instrumentals! That would be very cool!

[Zzzptm]

Yes! Instrumentals!

Lucky for me that T**** as a B**** has singing on it, so I can leave it off the list!

[Charger]

What kind of rules are we gonna set for this one?

Length wise? Any short instrumental intro or do they need to lets say clock atleast 3 minutes? It would make things bit interesting and since we already had that under 3 minute one that had few instrumentals I think it might be good to exclude short instrumental intros...no matter how good they would be...?

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
We can do that. I don't think the ones I've already thought about are that short.

I would also suggest that something which has minor vocal utterances can be included as long as they don't count as a verse/chorus. For instance E5150 would be ok even though there's that "You, you fools!" bit. *


* That's what it sounds like to me anyway!