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Xaxaar

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Topic: Short Songs in Prog
Posted: August 14 2011 at 19:58

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Posted: November 06 2010 at 07:49

GG-Cogs in Cogs

GG-Just the same

Jethro Tull-Cross Eyed Mary

IQ-You Never Will

Genesis-Fly on a Windshield

Genesis-It

Rush-Freewill

King Crimson-Elephant Talk

To list a few.

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Posted: November 05 2010 at 18:27

frantic wrote:

there are many good songs that i can't get enough in Porcupine Tree' s Incident album, like Great Expactations etc.

True for Great Expectations. I would really like to see Wilson take that song fraqment and do something more with it. A great song in waiting, that one.

Which reminds me...Trains basically has all the elements and themes and construction of a long prog epic, but all packed into 7 minutes.

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Posted: November 05 2010 at 18:08

Everything off of Cressida's first album. No song reaches the 5:30 mark, and all of them are perfect.

Also, Klaatu's 3:47 E.S.T. Doctor Marvello, Anus of Uranus, and Sub Rosa Subway are all pure, impeccable pop/prog.

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Posted: November 05 2010 at 16:26

Most of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe(') album is under 5 minutes and all of it is very good stuff.

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Posted: November 05 2010 at 05:28

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Posted: November 05 2010 at 05:00

there are many good songs that i can't get enough in Porcupine Tree' s Incident album, like Great Expactations etc.

hunger for more prog can never be quenched.

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Posted: November 05 2010 at 03:08

Band - Year - Album - Song - Duration

Pink Floyd - 1973 - Dark Side Of The Moon - Eclipse - 2:00
Genesis - 1974 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Hairless Heart - 2:10
Yes - 1971 - Fragile - The Fish - 2:42
Genesis - 1974 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Fly on a Windshield - 2:45
Genesis - 1974 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging - 2:46
King Crimson - 1973 - Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Book of Saturday - 2:56
Gentle Giant - 1972 - Three Friends - Three Friends - 2:58
Genesis - 1971 - Nursery Cryme - Harold the Barrel - 3:00
Camel - 1975 - The Snow Goose -Rhayader - 3:01
Focus - 1972 - Moving Waves - Janis - 3:08
ELP - 1972 - Trilogy - Living Sin - 3:14
Genesis - 1974 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Anyway - 3:17

Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
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Posted: November 04 2010 at 21:36

Closer To the Heart

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Posted: November 04 2010 at 20:48

King Crimson- Book of Saturday

A Flower!?

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Posted: August 09 2010 at 14:21

wot gorilla?

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Posted: August 09 2010 at 13:31

Short as in two minuets? Or as in "not ten minuets"?

Anyway, I'll go with "After the Ordeal"

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Posted: August 09 2010 at 04:54

pink floyd - eclipse
pink floyd - pigs on the wing
pink floyd - get your filthy hand of my desert
pink floyd - is there anybody out there

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Posted: June 08 2010 at 06:13

Magma - Malaria
Magma - Lihns
Magma - Weidorje
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
KC - Elephant Talk, also Cat Food
The Mars Volta have many too.

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Posted: June 08 2010 at 03:57

To mention a few in random order (< 5 minutes):

Hold Out Your Hand - Chris Squire (4:13)
Circumstances - Rush (3:40)
Soft Eyed Woman - Alquin (2:39)
Lyrics - Kayak (3:42)
Raconteur, Troubadour - Gentle Giant (4:03)
Bi-se I Mo Shuil Part 2 - Iona (4:33)
La Dawotsin - Magma (4:10)
Riding the Scree - Genesis (3:57)
She (Will O' the Wind) - Collectors (3:45)
The Big Sleep in Search of Hades - Tangerine Dream (4:45)

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Posted: June 08 2010 at 03:41

Yes: Five per cent for nothing.: 0:35

Edited by XunknownX - June 08 2010 at 03:43

Pete A.

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Posted: June 08 2010 at 01:15

"In The Mystery" from Allan Holdsworth's "Metal Fatigue" LP. (3:49) Also contains a short, jaw dropping Holdsworth solo!!
There are many brilliantly short compositions to be found on most Lars Hollmer records, too.

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Posted: June 07 2010 at 15:38

Magma- Wurdah Itah

Jan Dukes de Grey- Sorcerers

Jethro Tull- Benefit

Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica

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Posted: June 07 2010 at 15:34

Two that come to mind right away for me are:

Gentle Giant - Cogs In Cogs
Echolyn - The Wiblet

Both of those are amazing short complex pieces

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Posted: June 07 2010 at 07:11

Just the first 5 to pop into my mind...

1. Rush's 'Closer to the Heart.'
2. Dream Theater's 'Surrounded.'
3. Dream Theater's 'Wait for Sleep.'
4. Rush's 'Carve Away the Stone.'
5. Rush's 'Cinderella Man.'

Wow, it looks like I'm only based on two bands. I just chose the first 5 that came into my mind... haha. Sorry. :)

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