Definitely not trying to trash prog, and I apologize if it sounded that way! I have much, much respect for Keith Emerson, Tony Banks (especially!), and those great players. I very much love Robert Fripp's guitar work with and without King Crimson (definitely with Eno). I think I related a little mor...

I've tried very hard to get into the prog rock thing, but it's just a little too, I don't know, elaborate and big for me. However, the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis has great Mellotron textures in it, and I quite enjoy that one. I love all those early Tangerine Dream albums, but I think the ...

From what I hear, the first chord is chorused guitar followed by piano (CP70) playing octaves, repeating in the first few measures before the drums, bass, and bright Fender Strat come in. The intro is an interaction between guitar and piano.

I believe it's actually Daniel Lanois' guitar heavily chorused.

I'm surprised no one has posted this one yet:

Ok, you asked for it... I know I'm not the ressurector-whatever. Here's a version I recorded with my wife about 10 years ago. Everything is Juno-106, except "echo guitar" and "sax solo" which are Yamaha V50, and also real sleigh bells. Nothing sequenced, everything played. https://soundcloud.com/cur...

This one:

Malcolm and Robert in excelcis:

Definitely love all the '80s synth-pop references, and of course Stevie Wonder, but I just can't help voting for Pedro with this one:

Oh L'Amour by Erasure on a Yamaha V50 with the 8-track sequencer and unquantized drums before I knew that they could be more in time... Ah, youth.

Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois at Grant Ave. Studios in the early 80's

That whole album is really great, I love the blend of New Orders more post-punk sound along with the very "housey" techno. Vanishing Point is a really great example of the house style on that album. I would say that the orchestra stabs and hits are Emulator 2 samples, the bell lead is the "Fantasia"...

I still have my Yamaha V50 "workstation" 4-op FM synth with sequencer/drum machine. Right now the internal RAM battery is dead, so all my interesting sounds are gone... Oh well, the thing really taught me how FM synthesis works and I actually got rather good at making the thing sound like all the 80...

I also love big, ambient sounds as well, but as far as my favorite analog sounds go, I really love sample & hold filter modulated rhythms a'la Kraftwerk and Vince Clarke. Here's an example: