25 side-long, or approaching, tracks/suites/epics

Amon Düül II - "Syntelman's March of the Roaring Seventies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygt29S1UicY

Art Zoyd - "Musique pour l'Odyssée"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3SoJabwgbk

Ash Ra Tempel - "Traummaschine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRrDg_RoePc

Björn J:son Lindh - "Musik från en storstad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-0Pvk1MQw8

Brave New World - "The End"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmq9WHph90

Bubu - "El cortejo de un día amarillo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Pu-ngYpkU

Can - "Halleluwah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA

Clivage - "Mixtus Orbis"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Vth8fdzic

Earth and Fire - "Song of the Marching Children"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDRRnr2KvSs

Focus - "Hamburger Concerto"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6t9rZ701g

Geinoh Yamashirogumu - "Osorezan"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYzmca8XHU

Genesis - "Supper's Ready"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJq1lwnkNw

Gryphon - "Midnight Mushrumps"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRWEnrLy2A

Hatfield and the North - "Mumps"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_MUajIs9Vs

Herbie Hancock - "Sleeping Giant"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDKMABCB2c

Jan Dukes de Grey - "Sun Symphonica"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTWLfclik0

King Crimson - "Lizard"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjIJi79O80

Magma - "De Futura"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkSVTDfBVE

Pink Floyd - "Atom Heart Mother"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHb3cBvWMY

Klaus Schulze - "Crystal Lake"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpllI5g1UyI

Soft Machine - "Moon in June"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJFSIX_uVPM

Tangerine Dream - "Alpha Centauri"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAuWKOBWNu4

Univers Zéro - "La Faulx"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3vJd2YfZ5A

Van der Graaf Generator - "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgdj74oNwc

Yes - "Close to the Edge"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oPKLSuyQY

These are 25 "classic" side-longs, almost side-longs or "approaching" side-long titles that have made an impression on me during my life. In two cases I am not so into them but they are big names and decided to include them. I had planned to make a shorter list originally. Some seemingly obvious ones might not be here because: I'm not trying to be complete but still filled out all 25 spaces; I might not have thought of them; I might not have felt they fit well in the list, or I might not have been or am not currently into them enough to have wanted to include those. Feel free to vote per your preference based on however much or little you know of these. It's not a contest. While I don't have an other option, provided that you state any that you like from this selection, then please feel free to mention any others. There is variety here, so I expect that most anyone here into the more classic period music will see something to appreciate even if some are disappointed by certain omissions. I expect that I will think of us some that I wished I had included, and maybe I will do a part two -- although this took me quite a long time due to a hand/arm injury and I probably should have stopped at seven as I had planned, and I needn't have posted all those links but I started off wanted to embed ones before it started to get really long. And while I decided to do just one per artist, sorry if you don't like my artist choice.

My choices are : Hatfield and the North- Mumps

In this big poll I go with my favourite band Can (over VDGG, KC and AZ), even though there are of course many great ones here. I agree with those that named Echoes though, one of the very few things I'd have voted over Halleluwah.


Edited by Lewian - December 22 2021 at 14:32

"Walking across the sitting room . . . "

Supper

De Futura, with Sleeping Giant a close second and most of the usual suspects joint third.

Lewian wrote: In this big poll I go with my favourite band Can (over VDGG, KC and AZ), even though there are of course many great ones here. I agree with those that named Echoes though, one of the very few things I'd have voted over Halleluwah.

I like Echoes very much too, and when I mentioned people maybe preferring a different choice from the artist, that is the specific one I had in mind. I love the Atom Heart Mother Suite, especially for the Breast Milky section whose creamy goodness gives me chills despite not being breasty ice cream. I was only going to do "suites" but expanded my list.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Genesis Yes Soft Machine Others Tull - Thick as a Brick Frost* - Milliontown Rush - 2112 Transatlantic - The Whirlwind Echolyn - Mei Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing

I thought about including Thick as a Brick, but I think of it as one long epic lasting a full album (split into two parts). Had I included that, then I would have also wanted to do Magma's Theusz Hamtaahk (much as I do like De Futura, I adore Theusz Hamtaahk). I might do another more "classic" or more classic era poll like this, and then a more modern one, although my modern choices would be different from yours. And actually I would rather do that on long tracks that need not be Prog as so much of what I like as more prog adjacent or at right angles to prog than Prog itself.

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By the way, this poll was inspired by listening to the Hamburger Concerto suite again (had been a while). I came across Nina Hagen mentioned on youtube for a Bowie cover, which then led me to listen to her Naturträne which I love and that reminded me of Focus Hamburger Concerto and part of the 80s Cat People soundtrack. Originally I was going to do a poll comparing a section of the Hamburger Concerto suite to the Leopard's Dream from the Cat People soundtrack and Naturträne but then I thought it's probably too esoteric to get more than very little response.

Edited by Logan - December 22 2021 at 16:01

JD wrote: BTW... <font size="7">Where's TARKUS ??

last I saw, it was headed out to sea.