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    Posted: March 13 2008 at 21:47
there are a couple of amazing instrumental albums too. If the singing in it is simply melodic and there are no words prononced it counts.
 
5 Devils Triangle - King Crimson
4 Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
3 YYZ - Rush
2 La Villa Strangiato - Rush
1 Histoires Sans Paroles - Harmonium
 
 
 
I did it quick i probably missed some no brainers though
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Art Zoyd: Generations Sans Futur
Soft Machine: Slightly All the Time
King Crimson: Fracture
Tangerine Dream: Flight and Collision of Comas Sola
DAAU: My Goodness! Poetry
Picchio Dal Pozzo: Seppia
Vortex: Prolegomenes
Deuter: Babylon
Hellebore: Umanak/Marquis De Saint Cricq (if simply unmelodic grunts counts too)
Dün: Arrakis

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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
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1. Barbarian - ELP
2. Les Aventures Des Saxinette et Clarophone - Maneige
3. One Of These Days - Pink Floyd
4. A Lotus On Irish Streams - The Mahavishnu Orchestra
5. Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
6. Birth - Focus
7. After The Ordeal - Genesis
8. Larks' Tongues In Aspic pt. 1 - King Crimson
9. Resolution - The Mahavishnu Orchestra
10. Dark Side Of The Moog (preferably Live from the reissue of Strange New Flesh) - Colosseum II

Edit: nods to Ace Of Wands, Toccata, which should certainly have been on there, but I forgot it at the time of posting, and Valentyne Suite: 2nd Theme.


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1. Beware the Ides of March - Colosseum
2. Valentyne Suite - Colosseum (This counts as purely instrumental if Atom heart Mother does).  Note that the US version of Valentyne Suite includes Beware the Ides of March as the 3rd movement.
3. Saucerful of Secrets - Floyd
4. Karelia - The Nice
5. One of the Days - Floyd
6. Hoedown - ELP
7. Soul Sacrifice - Santana (from Woodstock)
8. The Fish - Yes (from Yessongs)
9. After the Ordeal - Genesis
10. Focus (from in and out of)
 
God Speed the Plough and Purple Spaceships over Yatton by Stackridge get honourable mentions.  Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner might also be included if it counts as Prog.
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Impossible to rank, but:

Rush- YYZ
Rush- La Villa Strangiato
Frank Zappa- Watermelon in Easter Hay
Frank Zappa- Cruisin' For Burgers
insert multiple Zappa tunes here
King Crimson- Red
King Crimson- The Devil' Triangle
Metallica- Orion (not on the site I know, but this is so prog metal)
Pink Floyd- One of These Days
King Crimson- Lars' Tongue in Aspic 1 &2
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These are some that come to mind, but this is by no means definitive:

Anathema - Violence
Gordian Knot - Rivers Dancing
Ozric Tentacles - Tidal Convergence
Porcupine Tree - Waiting Phase II
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways Phase II
Porcupine Tree - Burning Sky
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Yes - Five Per Cent for Nothing
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Rhayader/Rhayader Goes To Town - Camel
Harem Scarem - Focus
Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa
Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers/In That Quiet Earth - Genesis
The Boys In The Band - Gentle Giant
Larks Tongues In Aspic, Part Two - King Crimson
Birds Of Fire - The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Moon Voices - Max Webster
Facelift - Soft Machine
Ace Of Wands - Steve Hackett
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Cat's Squirrel - Jethro Tull (or Bouree) (great rocker)
Any Colour you Like - Pink Floyd (totally adventorous)
Mudmen - Pink Floyd (hidden gem)
Zoot Allures - Frank Zappa (totally great, full of joy)
Hoedown - ELP (one of the best proofs that Keith is such a player)
Ban Ban Caliban - Soft Machine (just can't get enought of fusion!)
VUG - Atomic Rooster (one of the best heavy instrumentals)
Harem Scarem - Focus (totally sticky and great)
Birth - Focus (beautiful)
Midnight on Mars - Ashra (massive psych prog, totally relaxing)
The Trans Love Express - Jean-Luc Ponty (the faster the better!)
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Mike Oldfield -- Tubular Bells
Tangerine Dream -- Phaedra
Camel -- Supertwister
John Coltrane -- A Love Supreme
Emerson Lake and Palmer -- Tocatta
Steve Hackett -- Spectral Mornings
Gustav Holst -- The Planets
King Crimson -- Lark's Tounge in Aspic, pt. 1
Pink Floyd -- Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Rush -- YYZ
Rick Wakeman -- The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Yes -- The Fish
Frank Zappa -- Watermelon in Easter Hay
 
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Bet nobody else was going to mention this, so I'll weigh in with:

Waiter, There’s A Yawn in My Ear by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Absolutely wonderful stuff. Smile
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Funeral for a friend - Elton John
Facelift - Soft Machine
Auberge du Sanglier/A Hunting We Shall Go/Pengola/Backwards/A Hunting We Shall Go - Caravan
The whole frecking Snow goose album by Camel
Devils Triangle - King Crimson
Sailors Tale - King Crimson
After the Ordeal - Genesis
The Waiting room - Genesis
The Boys In The Band - Gentle Giant
Peaches En Regalia - Zappa
Son Of Mr. Green Genes - Zappa
It Must Be A Camel - Zappa
Waka/Jawaka - Zappa
Negativeland - Neu!
Krautrock - Faust
Force Majure - Tangerine dream
Tangram - Tangerine dream
 
 
And so on.. (cant realy remeber anymore now Embarrassed)
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1. Stratosfear
2. Force Majeure
3. Sphynx Lightning
4. Tangram
5. Ricochet

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Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:


2. Les Aventures Des Saxinette et Clarophone - Maneige
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I made a compilation CD of prog instrumentals recently and completely forgot about that gem. Wonderful track!!
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Dün's Eros
Pat Metheny's Speaking of Now (despite some minor wordless vocals)
Weidorje's self-titled (same as above)
Henry Cow's Western Culture

As for just songs,
Happy Family's Sushi Bar
Änglagård's Sista Somrar
Present's Promenade Au Fond D'un Canal
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Widening Eye is becoming a favourite
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King Crimson - Red
Porcupine Tree - Waiting Phase II
Genesis - foxtrot

My 3 favorite!!!
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1) High Tide - Death Warmed Up (In my opinion unbeatable).
2) Gong - A Sprinkling of Clouds
3) Ozric Tentacles - Pteranodon
4) Guru Guru - God's Endless Love for Men
5) Van der Graaf Generator - Architectural Hair
6) Steve Hackett - Group Therapy
7) Gentle Giant - The Boys in the Band
8) Amon Düül 2 - Chewing Gum Telegram
9) Embryo - Entrances
10) Brand X - Nuclear Burn

This list may change any day, except for number 1.


Edited by BaldFriede - March 18 2008 at 18:59


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It's way too hard to try and make a list of songs, but albums...

Omega Massif-Geistrstadt
Pelican- The fire in our throats will beckon the thaw
Godspeed- F A infinity
Explosions in the sky- the world is a cold dead place
Johnnytwentythree- Self titled
Pelican- city of Echoes
Russian Circles- Enter
North-Ruins
 
To name a few...
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Marooned - Pink Floyd
A Gift of Wings - Ozric Tentacles
Mother and Child Divided - Porcupine Tree
The entire Instrumental section of Gates of Delerium - Yes
 
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La Villa Strangiato-Rush
Romantic Warrior-Return to Forever
Los Endos-Genesis
Micha-Russian Circles
Ratts of the Capitol-Mogwai
Angel Tears-Pelican
Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt 1 and 2-King Crimson
One Word-The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Dead Eyes-Jesu
The Way Up Pt 1-Pat Metheny
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...


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