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Question: Should Crises be divided into parts? :: Total Votes:40 Poll choices Votes Statistics Great idea, would give more appeal to the album having more tracks/divided long composition 5  [12.50%] Its charm would be comprimised if this was the case. 25  [62.50%] Yes! Then I could skip to my favourite crescendo!! 5  [12.50%] Other ............................ 5  [12.50%] Guests cannot vote

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Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Feb. 16 2010, 20:05 Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Aug. 06 2005, 19:04) I think Crises looks great as one single track. Like "Echoes". Wow!!! How good!! 'Echoes' ---> the best track ever from Pink Floyd - probably together with 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'. Definately one part. 'Crises' is 'Crises'. If we start putting names to the sections, I would do it like follows: 1 - Tubular Bells 1983 2 - Green Room (Tubular Bells 1983) 3 - City Chase 4 - Crises, Crises 5 - The Wedding Song 6 - Simon Phillips & the Digital Sound Processor 7 - The Crise 8 - The Bell (End) Hahahahahahahahahaaha!!!!! (just kiddin', of course) -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

New Incantation Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Mar. 09 2010, 08:55 I'm glad this particular track remains in one piece as I think it would lose its overall appeal & flow if it was broken down into individual sub-tracks. although I will say I do prefer the second half of Crises (10mins onwards). But overall, it is a most absorbing piece of music. Back to top

Happy? Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: April 2022 Posted: April 11 2022, 09:27 Quote (Delfín @ Feb. 16 2010, 20:05) 1 - Tubular Bells 1983 Finally someone who noticed the close similarity between the famous TB introduction an the introduction of Crises: same rhythm (but bended into 4/4), but in major key instead of minor. The arpeggiator makes it a bit more difficult to extract the base melody because of adding additional filler notes and reverb effects, but when I tried to play it myself on keyboard, the similarity with TB became clear immediately. Mike must have been playing the TB introduction on his piano and switched to major key and a synthy sound somewhere halfway. Great track, though, I really like it. Still wondering what it must have sounded like if it would have been acoustic. -------------- I'd rather be... happy? Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: April 11 2022, 23:28 It's my seize and I'll cry if I want to... Speaking of TB 2003, there is of course a movement called "Russian". Should we now burn our copies of TB2003 to show solidarity with the people in Ukraine? Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: April 15 2022, 16:34 Seventeen years after the question was asked, here is my answer: NO! Much of the magic of pieces like Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge or Taurus II lies in the fact that the various sections are namneless. You are left to ponder what role they play in the whole of the piece, and exactly what they are meant to illustrate. The addition of titles with TB2003 was a huge turn-off for me, and I never bothered with the Amarok sections either. Crises is obviously built in sections. I see the first and second half as different songs, with the "calm" bluesy section as a bridge between the "rock" section and the groovy drums and synth section. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

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