Spoken Word & Prog

[Rarebird]

I don't like the spoken words on Mehliana -Taming the dragon

[veteranof1000psychicwars]

Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Zappa - A lot, including Apostrophe (')
Lol Creme/Kevin Godley - Consequences

[moecurlythanu]

I'm generally not a fan of spoken word, but it works well on Hawkwind -"Steppenwolf."

[Scrotum Scissor]

^ Folx should shut up and play their tuba, Moe.

[moecurlythanu]

^ Folx should shut up and play their tuba, Moe.

With timpani & Habanero Sauce.

[Gizmotron]

I don’t believe anyone has mentioned the short intro and short end piece on Robert & Stephen Reed’s KOMPENDIUM project. It is pretty much perfect in my opinion. The accent and the quality of the voice is lovely. It is just enough narration to orient the story at the beginning, and just enough to clue you in that the end is actually a positive thing, not merely a death.

[Brad 2 the Bone]

Did we really make it this far without mentioning the hare who lost his spectacles?

[Munster]

Slipping over into progressive jazz, there is Neil Ardley's magnificent version of The Dong With A Luminous Nose, spoken by Ivor Cutler

[interbellum]

Bruford's Fainting In Coils has a nice spoken word intro from Alice In Wonderland:

[miamiscot]

Many fine albums have been ruined by the over-use of narration. If I want to hear a story I'll listen to an audio book. If I want to listen to music I usually like there to actually be music there...but that's just me.

[Gizmotron]

Bruford's Fainting In Coils has a nice spoken word intro from Alice In Wonderland:

One of my favorites…perhaps my vote for best spoken word Prog ever.

[Munster]

Thank goodness he didn't sing

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

....yes, but is it prog? <donning fireproof suit>

[Munster]

....yes, but is it prog? <donning fireproof suit>

When I first came to this site a thread would last for about five posts before veering wildly off topic. Nowadays everyone seems far more disciplined and threads generally stay on course. I just thought, having reached #62, it was time to revisit the old days.

[RichardGioaf.]

How about Mother Gong's "Fairy Tales", feat. Gilli Smyth?

[RichardGioaf.]

As far as spoken word/voice and progressive rock in general goes, I have a soft spot for legendary Yugoslavian veteran band Indexi's Modra Rijeka from 1978. It features a couple of purely recitated poems but overall a set of lyrical adaptations of Bosnian national poet Mak Dizdar integrated as songs into sometimes extremely interesting arrangements. It's probably one of my fave 10-or-so progressive albums from Eastern Europe as a whole, and should be heard by more people. The following two clips comprise the opening of the record.

It's all great, however their best song which featured spoken words, in my opinion, is this 11 and a half minute long suite-like track from 1969.

[RichardGioaf.]

Here is something from the German counterculture of the early seventies - Walter Wegmüller's "Der Weise", a lullaby-like track, spoken and sung by Klaus Schulze (from the album "Tarot")

[TheH]

greatest "narrated" album ever

[interbellum]

There's a special 2-CD edition of Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming Of The True with a second disc, containing a spoken word-version of the album.

[Progbear]

How about Mother Gong's "Fairy Tales", feat. Gilli Smyth?

I owned that album for a day. After I realized that it was literally Gilli reading actual fairy tales to some folky background music, I returned it to the store.

[RichardGioaf.]

If someone is in the process of preparing breakfast ...

[Scrotum Scissor]

^ That actually happens to be one of my very fave Floyds.

Thx, Svetonio!

[Dave (in MA)]

Thank goodness he didn't sing

If you like that, you'll probably like this.

[unclemeat]

A prog rendering of Henri Michaux's poems :

https://www.radiofrance.fr/francecul...ichaux-2049182

(music by Man from Back into the future)

[Trane]