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    Posted: August 15 2013 at 22:49
Every band has a few of those songs that sound out of place on an album, even out of place for the band, as if the band had decided to record a cover song and pass it off as their own.  Sometimes, a group will release a song that makes them sound like a different band entirely.  What are some prog tracks that are "oddballs" in the band's catalog, ones that sound like nothing the band ever recorded before or since?  I'm thinking of things like Dream Theater's "Space Dye Vest" or Rush's "Scars," stuff like that.
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How about... 

ELP : Are You Ready Eddy?
IQ : My Legs
Yes : I'm Down (live)
Procol Harum : Eight Days a Week
Gentle Giant : I Bet You Thought We Couldn't Do It
Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987
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'Our Song' - (not the Yes track LOL), but the piece which opens the Ron Geesin / Roger Waters project 'Music From The Body'.  Come to think of it, it's an odd-ball album.......
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What imediately springs to my mind is Deep Purple's Anyone's Daughter on Fireball.
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Originally posted by bytor2112 bytor2112 wrote:

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idk I don't see it as an "oddball track". It's not much different from their earlier acoustic/mellow tracks (Televators, Asilos Magdalena).
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Hmm all I can think of is

Styx - Man in the Wilderness
a straight up Kansas impression

Pain of Salvation - under the stars
feels incredibly out of place

Harold the Barrel
Kind of a stretch but it hits you in the face right after Seven Stones I love it.
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Don't Sit Down on the Plexiglass Toilet - Styx

a genuine WTF moment on their "Serpent is Rising" album.  It's hidden at the end of the track "As Bad as This".




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Originally posted by mister nobody mister nobody wrote:

Originally posted by bytor2112 bytor2112 wrote:

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idk I don't see it as an "oddball track". It's not much different from their earlier acoustic/mellow tracks (Televators, Asilos Magdalena).

Yeah, maybe a bit similar to Televators, 

I guess I only read this part of the question:
Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Every band has a few of those songs that sound out of place on an album
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Don't Sit Down on the Plexiglass Toilet - Styx

a genuine WTF moment on their "Serpent is Rising" album.  It's hidden at the end of the track "As Bad as This".


 
LOL  WTF indeed!
 
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Texas Armadillo - Yezda Urfa LOL  - Country 'hick' prog, anyone ??
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I'll second Harold the Barrel and Seamus. Both are songs I didn't like back in the day but now I love em.
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I call such tracks Get Out of Here songs, because that’s the reaction you’re liable to receive when you tell people who they’re by. Feel free to use it.

A few to add:

Queen – ’39
Black Sabbath – Their quieter tracks like Laguna Sunrise and Planet Caravan.
Family – Second Generation Woman
Camel – Down on the Farm, Remote Romance
Steve Hackett – Sentimental Institution
Chicago – Free Form Guitar
Roxy Music – South Downs (obscure b-side, Roxy goes New Age!)
Mike Oldfield – Into Wonderland
Soft Machine – Soft Space
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Points: 2549 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2013 at 00:31
Thought of another one: "Cat Food" by King Crimson.  It's not even that complex, it's just flat out bizarre, but bizarre in the kind of way that KC never really did.
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