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    Posted: April 08 2024 at 06:08
No God's a Man by Gentle Giant. This gives me goosebumps.
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Pink Floyd - Time
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
Gentle Giant - The Advent Of Panurge
Jethro Tull - Cold Wind To Valhalla
Hawkwind - Assault & Battery/The Golden Void
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Kate Bush - Moving
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King Crimson "The Court of the Crimson King"
Van der Graaf Generator "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"
Emerson, Lake & Palmer "Take a Pebble"
Yes "Starship Trooper"
Genesis "The Fountain of Salmacis"
Steve Hackett "Shadow of the Hierophant"
Camel "Lady Fantasy"
Gong "Master Builder"
Steve Hillage "Lunar Musick Suite "
Hawkwind "Dying Seas"
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Instead of the usual popular prog bands, of which it would take me a long time to compile a list (it's a lot easier giving a song a 10 than an album), here's a list of some lesser known/unusual stuff I would give a 10... (I'm purposely excluding things like Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard, i.e., more well known prog bands)

(and this is not a complete list; just some stuff I randomly pulled out of some Google docs where I keep track of things I listen to and rate)

Electric Light Orchestra
--New World Rising
--Daybreaker
Gong
--Master Builder
--A Sprinkling of Clouds
Henry Cow
--Ruins
--Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon
--Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army with Banners
--1/2 the Sky
Yezda Urfa
--Boris and His 3 Verses (including Flow Guides Aren't My Bag)
John Greaves, Peter Blegvad, and Lisa Herman
--Nine Mineral Emblems 
Quill
--Sursum Corda, First Movement
This Heat
--Horizontal Hold
--Makeshift Swahili
Present
--Le poison qui rend fou, Pt. 1: Ram Ram va faire "Pif Paf"
--The Limping Little Girl
--Souls for Sale
--Rêve de fer
--Vertiges
--Jack the Ripper
Thinking Plague
--Love
--Consolamentum
--The Underground Stream
--Lux Lucet
Primus
--The Pressman
--Hamburger Train
Kurt Rongey
--Petrograd
Ruins
--Graviyaunosch
--Thrive
KBB
--Hatenaki Shoudou
--Another Episode
The Science Group
--Dance of the Arguments
--Tractate
Ahvak
--Vivisektia
Far Corner
--Silly Whim
--With One Swipe of Its Mighty Paw
--Fiction
--Do You Think I'm Spooky?
--Creature Council
Guapo
--Five Suns, Part 2
Koenjihyakkei
--Tziidall Raszhisst
--Rattims Friezz
--Grahbem Jorgazz
--Angherr Shisspa
Retroheads
--Rainy Day
Upsilon Acrux
--Who's Running Sh*t (Son Of Destiny's Child)
--Expiration Date (Alaska, My Darkness)
--Touched By God (Inappropiately)
--In-a-Gadda-DeVito
--Transparent Seas (Radio Edit)
The Red Masque
--The Anti-Man (Not Afraid)
Traumhaus
--Hinaus
--Kein Zurck
Willowglass
--Argamasilla
--The Labyrinth
Neom
--Arkana Temporis, Act 1, Part 4
Syzygy
--Vanitas
Zevious
--Glass Tables
Glass
--Quest
--Edge
London Underground
--Honey Drops
Il Tempio delle Clessidre
--Danza esoterica di datura
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Edited by Cristi - August 05 2023 at 09:01
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I will have to limit myself to one song per band, otherwise I would be here for hours. Here are my 10/10 prog songs list:

Arena - The Hanging Tree
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
David Bowie - Five Years
Echolyn - Never the Same
Electric Light Orchestra - Mister Kingdom
The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
Galahad - Bug Eye
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
King Crimson - Epitaph
Marillion - Neverland
Pain of Salvation - King of Loss
Pendragon - A Man of Nomadic Traits
Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
Phideaux - Crumble (track eight on Doomsday Afternoon)
Phil Collins - If Leaving Me Is Easy
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)
Rush - Nobody's Hero
Yes - Awaken
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I'm trying very hard but pretty much everything I am bringing to mind that I love either isn't prog (IMO) or has some number of rough edges (IMO) or else some big picture compositional problem (IMO) that prevents me from declaring it perfect (IMO).
 
I suppose I will interpret "nearly perfect (IMO)" as being good enough to qualify for a 10.
 
Starless - King Crimson
The ConstruKction of Light - King Crimson
Dinosaur - King Crimson
Amarok - Mike Oldfield
Wish House - Locust Leaves
Prosper - Locust Leaves
From Silence to Somewhere - Wobbler
Foxlight - Wobbler
Almost surely something from Änglagård's Hybris but I can't remember which song is which.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Rather like my lack of appreciation for Close to the Edge, there's another example of were my tastes do not seem to fit the majority. I love Olivia Newton-John with ELO's "Xanadu", and I'm lukewarm on Rush's "Xanadu". I find the ELO song so much much more fun, and I do find Newton-John that much sexier than Geddy Lee (sorry Geddy, I'm just not that way inclined).

First off, I am a Close to the Edge fan - - I’m not that much of a heretic. But on all other counts I agree. The ELO/ONJ song is way better. And yes, back in the 1970s, Geddy had his moments (that hair!), but I’d take Olivia any day!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by patrickq patrickq wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

following the one per band principle

Tarkus (live version)
Xanadu


Another fan of Olivia Newton-John! I, too, loved her work with E.L.O.!

;)


for a second I thought you did not know it was the Rush song he's referring to. LOL
 

I suppose as ELO are on PA as well then I should have specified Embarrassed


Rather like my lack of appreciation for Close to the Edge, there's another example of were my tastes do not seem to fit the majority. I love Olivia Newton-John with ELO's "Xanadu", and I'm lukewarm on Rush's "Xanadu". I find the ELO song so much much more fun, and I do find Newton-John that much sexier than Geddy Lee (sorry Geddy, I'm just not that way inclined).
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by patrickq patrickq wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

following the one per band principle

Tarkus (live version)
Xanadu


Another fan of Olivia Newton-John! I, too, loved her work with E.L.O.!

;)

for a second I thought you did not know it was the Rush song he's referring to. LOL
 

I suppose as ELO are on PA as well then I should have specified Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Dopeydoc Dopeydoc wrote:

My hidden gem is I am the Walrus by Spooky Tooth. I love to get back to it every now and then. My "madeleine de Proust".

probably my favorite Beatles cover version, rivaled only by the "Eleanor Rigby" version of Vanilla Fudge


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Originally posted by patrickq patrickq wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

following the one per band principle

Tarkus (live version)
Xanadu


Another fan of Olivia Newton-John! I, too, loved her work with E.L.O.!

;)

for a second I thought you did not know it was the Rush song he's referring to. LOL
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

following the one per band principle

Tarkus (live version)
Xanadu


Another fan of Olivia Newton-John! I, too, loved her work with E.L.O.!

;)

Edited by patrickq - June 08 2019 at 03:46
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Yes:
Starship Trooper
Perpetual Change
Roundabout
Heart of Sunrise
Close to the Edge
And You And I
Awaken
Machine Messiah

Genesis:
The Musical Box
The Fountain of Salmacis
Supper's Ready
Firth of Fifth
Cinema Show
Dance on Volcano
Eleventh Earl of Mar
Duke's Travels/Duke's End

Pink Floyd:
Echoes
Time
Us and Them
Sheep

King Crimson:
Epitaph
In the Court of the Crimson King
Larks Tongues In Aspic I & II
Exiles
Starless

Van der Graaf Generator:
The Undercover Man
Sleepwalkers
Childlike Faith In Childhood's End

Rush:
2112
Farewell To Kings
Xanadu

Jethro Tull:
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick part 1
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My hidden gem is I am the Walrus by Spooky Tooth. I love to get back to it every now and then. My "madeleine de Proust".
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David Bowie : African night flight
Holger Czukay : Hollywood symphony
Talking Heads : Born Under Punches
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso : La città sottile
Frank Zappa : Alien Orifice
David Sylvian : Brilliant Trees
Ennio Morricone : Incontro a Venezia (per amore)
The Doors : Love Street
Paul williams : The hell of it

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These few immediately come to mind:

Yes - Close to The Edge
Genesis - Supper's Ready
VDGG - Scorched Earth
Gentle Giant - Cogs in Cogs
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Gentle Giant - Knots
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
King Crimson - LTIA Pt 1
King Crimson - LTIA Pt 2
Camel - Lunar Sea
Weather Report - Hovana
Frank Zappa - Inca Roads
Frank Zappa - Big Swifty
PFM - Appena Un Po'
PFM - Generale
PFM - Per In Amico
Yes - The Revealing Science of God
Yes - The Gates of Delirium
Genesis - Dancing with The Moonlit Knight 
Casiopea - Midnight Rendezvous

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Yes, I forgot River Man. That's my choice number 10.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

This is more of a Prog Folk Related song, but the song that most readily springs to my mind is Nick Drake's  "River Man".  To me it is so beautifully melancholic, fragile, and moving.  

For a song classified as Prog by the archives standards, Prog Folk that is, I'll go with Comus' "The Herald" ("Winter is a Coloured Bird" being another particular favourite).




River Man is a superbly melancholic song. Love Fruit Tree too.
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Imo, the weakest song on Sgt. Pepper.
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