Most Progressive song Ever

I think it's very hard to rate. So many bands can be described as "progressive", so really I can't answer this question.

I've no idea. Going by the standard "prog" clichés, perhaps it's Lizard? It's a very early epic with the title split into movements, has mellotron and jazz semi-improv, is themed, etc. =)

Wow gentle giant songs own in that field...realy...the most proggy band !And some King Crimson too, although they do it a kind of classical non-keybordish way ,that was reveling in most of the classical rock bands from that time.But if you wanna go jazzy ,go King Crimson.

I can post on this board? Excellent. Supper's Ready is hard to confuse with any genre but Prog... Perhaps Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth- which makes no effort to restrain its progressiveness, for good or bad.Echoes by Pink Floyd is really prog-brand and I would always put a word in for Dogs from Animals- my favorite track of all time , which features all the same "progressions" or changes as the song goes along, absence of any pop stuff like refrain, heavy instrumentation, pained, transcendent lyrics.... I think you can have a very bad prog style song but progressive music assumes good, breakthrough music. In the same way you can say, well this track really typifies the style of classic rock, but it sucks, and isn't really "classic" classic rock at all. So this is why I mention Journey to the Center of the Earth, which really has all the features of prog very easily  picked out even though many Prog fans would rather listen to Straight Rock.... Sorry if this post makes little sense, one must experiment!

Evans wrote: Don't get too caught up in the whole concept of "progginess", it kills the fun in listening to music, because you always end up thinking "hmm, is this prog enough?". But to answer your question, there are many ways to be progressive. Some will say Magma because Vander invented a language, some will say Tales from topographiv oceans because it has long songs, some will say Close to the edge because it is the quintessential prog epic, some will say ELP because they mixed classical with rock, some will say King Crimson, because they are the most experimental, some will say Gentle Giant because they are totally unique in concept and in music, some will say Dream Theater sucks because they are tired of endless Petrucci polls, some will say Arctic Monkeys because they haven't got a clue what they're talking about, and some will say "hello, look at me, i am a lamppost!" because they've taken too many of the doctor's pills, but I will say the Velvet Underground, because if not, no one will.

I think the thread should have ended here.

I dunno, some really crazy songs like the 2 epics of Amputechture (mars volta), or Beyond the Twilight's "For the art of Making Love" or however that incredibly over-pretentious album is called.

I know what you mean, cacho, i asked the same thing when i joined this site, but there's no such thing as "most progressive", however if you want some seriously tough to digest music, try Unexpect. There are samples on the site.

Oh no, i lied, there aren't, but you can just to a search on youtube, there are lots of it there.


Edited by Evans - February 10 2008 at 18:28

Its hard to choose what is more progressive

Just to name a short one which symbolizes well the genre for me, even if it's short: "Knots" by Gentle Giant...

Evans wrote: Don't get too caught up in the whole concept of "progginess", it kills the fun in listening to music, because you always end up thinking "hmm, is this prog enough?". But to answer your question, there are many ways to be progressive. Some will say Magma because Vander invented a language, some will say Tales from topographiv oceans because it has long songs, some will say Close to the edge because it is the quintessential prog epic, some will say ELP because they mixed classical with rock, some will say King Crimson, because they are the most experimental, some will say Gentle Giant because they are totally unique in concept and in music, some will say Dream Theater sucks because they are tired of endless Petrucci polls, some will say Arctic Monkeys because they haven't got a clue what they're talking about, and some will say "hello, look at me, i am a lamppost!" because they've taken too many of the doctor's pills, but I will say the Velvet Underground, because if not, no one will.

Hear hear.