25 side-long, or approaching, tracks/suites/epics

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Logan's polls are always impossible for me to give my vote. Standouts for me personally/in the last decade or so are: Sleeping Giant, Crystal Lake, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Mumps, Moon in June, Lizard, The End, De Futura, Atom Heart Mother, Musique pour l'Odyssée, Song of the Marching Children, Alpha Centauri, Halleluwah, Mixtus Orbis... and of course I love Supper's Ready & Close to the Edge as well...plus quite like - or maybe even love the rest. How the hell am I going to choose one sidelong here over all the others? Your last decade or so lasts almost five decades?

I  meant my last decade of music listening

VDGG followed by Can, Magma and Yes. 

HolyMoly wrote:   ... My advice to newbies to Klaus would be: If you only have 30 minutes to decide if you’re a Schulze fan or not, Crystal Lake from Mirage should be your next listen.

Saperlipopette! wrote: Logan's polls are always impossible for me to give my vote. Standouts for me personally/in the last decade or so are: Sleeping Giant, Crystal Lake, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Mumps, Moon in June, Lizard, The End, De Futura, Atom Heart Mother, Musique pour l'Odyssée, Song of the Marching Children, Alpha Centauri, Halleluwah, Mixtus Orbis... and of course I love Supper's Ready & Close to the Edge as well...plus quite like - or maybe even love the rest. How the hell am I going to choose one sidelong here over all the others?

Your last decade or so lasts almost five decades? 

Logan wrote: JD wrote: BTW... <font size="7">Where's TARKUS ?? In the poll by Hugh Manatee from yesterday -- CLICK -- as you know. Nothing wrong with "Tarkus", I just happen to be more into my poll choices. I never really got into Tarkus and based the poll on things I like, or have been into. There is no accounting for taste, or so it is said. Of course with only 25 spaces and not spending hours researching or thinking about my list (I listed ones as they came to mind), I wouldn't even cover everything I like that has been in my collection. I probably won't bother with the part two as I had suggested I might do in the opening post.

I enjoy your polls even though our tastes in music are far apart. 

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - December 23 2021 at 07:07

I wasn't sure if this poll allowed multiple votes, but I started with "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers", the ultimate epic.

moshkito wrote: verslibre wrote: "Crystal Lake" by Klaus Schulze. Sublime. Hi, Agreed. AND one of the prettiest electronic albums EVER done! The only sad thing is that there are so many of his pieces that are so far out, that listing one out of 100 is kinda weird. I like some of the stuff in the WORKS series, which is supposed to have been more open and improvised, and there are some things in those albums that are just out of this world.

It's probably listed because (like yourself and I) Logan also thinks Crystal Lake is from one of the prettiest electronic albums ever done. I own, enjoy and love TONS of Klaus Schulze too, but Mirage is still rather special to me. It just is. Maybe someone reads this and thinks he or she should maybe check out this side-long - or album, to see what all the fuzz is about. And then maybe this person becomes a lifelong fan. Selecting one out of a hundred makes sense if you want to introduce someone to an artist because checking out a hundred 20 minute tracks would be too overwhelming.


Edited by Saperlipopette! - December 23 2021 at 02:02

JD wrote: BTW... <font size="7">Where's TARKUS ??

In the poll by Hugh Manatee from yesterday -- CLICK -- as you know.

Nothing wrong with "Tarkus", I just happen to be more into my poll choices. I never really got into Tarkus and based the poll on things I like, or have been into. There is no accounting for taste, or so it is said. Of course with only 25 spaces and not spending hours researching or thinking about my list (I listed ones as they came to mind), I wouldn't even cover everything I like that has been in my collection. I probably won't bother with the part two as I had suggested I might do in the opening post.

Edited by Logan - December 22 2021 at 23:06

King Crimson - Lizard

Edited by EduTatsumi - December 22 2021 at 20:18

Grumpyprogfan wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: If anyone's interested check out my list on RYM that features nothing but 20-minute plus prog tracks. A couple not on your list. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (41:58) Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (77:54) To my knowledge it is one song.