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    I didn't think it was mythical because I looked it in the face...


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    Krzysztof Komeda - Vampires to Crypt
    "Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    I didn't think it was mythical because I looked it in the face...

    One of their best tracks, no? (The BBC version is great too.)
    "Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."

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    Thinking Plague - Lycanthrope
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    Quote Originally Posted by strawberrybrick View Post
    Hoelderlin - Death Watch Beetle

    Always wondered about that one...
    A Deathwatch Beetle is a real insect. From Wiki:

    The deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum, is a woodboring beetle.
    To attract mates, these woodborers create a tapping or ticking sound that can be heard in the rafters of old buildings on quiet summer nights. They are therefore associated with quiet, sleepless nights and are named for the vigil (watch) kept beside the dying or dead, and by extension the superstitious have seen the death watch as an omen of impending death.

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    Procol Harum - Pandora's Box
    Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi
    Jim Stafford - Swamp Witch

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Ahem. Though Return Of The Giant Hogweed sounds like some sort of Day Of The Triffids ordeal, it's nothing of the sort. The song was actually inspired by the actual real life ordeals in British horticulture, relating to an actual species of highly invasive plant that was brought to the UK by a Victorian botanist.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
    I know all that. I also know what the song is called. Perhaps my sense of humour is too dry.

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    Did I miss an obvious one...Unifaun?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    How about Atlantis? At least a mythical continent.

    Sun Ra had an album called Atlantis, which apart from the amazing side long title piece on side two, includes two pieces named after Lemuria and Mu (the other two "lost continents")

    And Miles Davis had an album called Agharta, named for a mythical underground city.
    Last edited by GuitarGeek; 01-09-2016 at 02:46 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    Greg Lake

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt-7y_mkgA0

    Ps I feel like the father in the movie Big Fat Greek Wedding.
    Greg Lake is not a mythical creature, is he?

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    Uriah Heep - Wizard

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    Rick Wakeman - King Arthur (Live)

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    Rush - Hemispheres, a whole bunch of mythical figures in there....


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    Does Ziggy count? I think he does.

    Last edited by angelo; 01-09-2016 at 03:21 AM.

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    Dont Let Go, Feels Alright - Tiger Moth Tales - The Robin 28/06/15

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    To be fair this forum topic covers a variety of concepts i.e. Before The Flower Kings there was Roine Stolt with The Flower King (first solo album) before The Flower Kings were formed.

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    Mythical creatures?

    These two appear in hundreds of thousands of songs

    God
    Satan


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sonia_Mota View Post
    To be fair this forum topic covers a variety of concepts i.e. Before The Flower Kings there was Roine Stolt with The Flower King (first solo album) before The Flower Kings were formed.
    And before that, there was the Flower King of Flies, by The Nice (Keith Emerson's band pre ELP):


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    Quote Originally Posted by No Pride View Post
    And before that, there was the Flower King of Flies, by The Nice (Keith Emerson's band pre ELP)
    I guess this is a really a metal-head forum and this fact needs to be explained.

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    The reason I found Lord of The Rings so Enid Blyton-ish...also on Immediate Records (like the Nice).

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    Seriously moonlighting at the keyboards is...


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    Quote Originally Posted by No Pride View Post
    And before that, there was the Flower King of Flies, by The Nice (Keith Emerson's band pre ELP):
    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    I guess this is a really a metal-head forum and this fact needs to be explained.
    I don't want to just assume that every prog fan knows everything they're "supposed to" know. There has been enough times here when somebody's listing some album title as an acronym without naming the band and I don't know wtf they're talking about. I try to do unto others as I would have them do unto me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No Pride View Post
    I don't want to just assume that every prog fan knows everything they're "supposed to" know. There has been enough times here when somebody's listing some album title as an acronym without naming the band and I don't know wtf they're talking about. I try to do unto others as I would have them do unto me.
    I'm not complaining, after all, I didn't know the Flower Kings history. Also ELP and WTF.

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