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Poll Question: Which of these songs is the best?
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    Posted: October 26 2022 at 07:34
One of Queensryche's best tracks..
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Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

This was a very enjoyable listen, a kind of "easy prog listening": accessible and at the same time damn good. I started doing other things while listening to this, so I wasn't very concentrated on all tracks, but I guess my votes go to Patrick Moraz, The Pineapple Thief and Styx.
I listened to the playlist and found it to be enjoyable as well.  I tend to agree that it is "easy prog listening".  I suppose that it probably qualifies as "dad prog" as coined by an absentee PA member.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Suggestions from other artists are always welcomed (and kind of expected).  I had never heard of Combo FH before.  The song was relatively short, but did have an interesting sound to it.  


Combo FH, I mean, from Czechoslovakia. I don't think it works all that well on its own, although all of the tracks on it are quite short. It's something that I might recommend to various people looking for Jazz Fusion Avant Prog/chamber oriented music, and in your playlist it would work better as something of an interlude, I feel. It was quite an early discovery of mine when exploring such music avenues.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Mine is the first and maybe will be the only vote for Captain Beefheart - Best Batch Yet. Most of that was new to me. That is my favourite of these. Also went with Niacin's Best Laid Plans and the Moody Blues one.

I hope you don't mind me mentioning an other, but this off an album that I have liked very much (hadn't listened to the album or track in considerable years). It is an instrumental rather than a song:

Combo FM - "Druhá nejlepší pastička na myši (Second Best Mousetrap)" off Věci (Things) (1981)

Suggestions from other artists are always welcomed (and kind of expected).  I had never heard of Combo FH before.  The song was relatively short, but did have an interesting sound to it.  
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Moodies...Best Way To Travel.....great track and lp.

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to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Mine is the first and maybe will be the only vote for Captain Beefheart - Best Batch Yet. Most of that was new to me. That is my favourite of these. Also went with Niacin's Best Laid Plans and the Moody Blues one.

I hope you don't mind me mentioning an other, but this off an album that I have liked very much (hadn't listened to the album or track in considerable years). It is an instrumental rather than a song:

Combo FM - "Druhá nejlepší pastička na myši (Second Best Mousetrap)" off Věci (Things) (1981)



Edited by Logan - July 30 2022 at 19:26
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The ‘ryche. 
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Moodies...Best Way To Travel.....great track and lp.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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This was a very enjoyable listen, a kind of "easy prog listening": accessible and at the same time damn good. I started doing other things while listening to this, so I wasn't very concentrated on all tracks, but I guess my votes go to Patrick Moraz, The Pineapple Thief and Styx.

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
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DT, absolutely love that song!
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Moon Safari.
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Rush, Echolyn and Queensryche.
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These 25 songs are the "best" prog songs in my collection.  Which 3 are your favorites?

Here are YouTube videos of 21 of the 25 songs:




I couldn't find the Darryl Way song.

The Keith Emerson song starts at the 17:32 mark in this video of the entire soundtrack:


Here is a link to the band camp page for the Napier's Bones song.



And here is a link the Spectra song on band camo:






Edited by rushfan4 - July 29 2022 at 19:43
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