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SteveG 
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SteveG
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Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (albeit a cover) The Golden Void - Hawkwind (sans Robert Calvert) Suicide? - Barclay James Harvest White Punks on Dope - the Tubes Sailing - Mike Oldfield Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk Under the Milky Way - the Church the Zookeepers Boy - Mew New Sensation - INXS Wanderlust - Paul McCartney (solo) Eight Miles High - the Byrds Baby's On Fire - Eno I Wanna Be Your Dog - the Stooges Sunshine Superman - Donovan Creep - Radiohead Rope Ladder to the Moon - Cream Electricity - Captain Beefheart (the list goes on)
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Shocked at some of these opinions!!!!
Genesis King Crimson Big Big Train Haken Radiohead Brian Eno All considered by some as bands with one good song. WTF!?!?! I expected the usual one hit wonder entries (Argent, for example, makes sense) but seriously? I just can't...
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austrianprogfan
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WUT? I was a huge Radiohead fan some time ago (got into prog by stumbling over a Kid A review of a German prog website), today I consider them, to speak with the words of this site, "good but non-essential". However, out of all their songs, "Creep" would be among my last picks for their best. Edited by austrianprogfan - July 20 2018 at 08:51 |
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I mean personally I think all of those people should be put to death. But that's just me.
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Hercules
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Ah, so contrary views are not tolerated here. Personally, I think King Crimson are pretentious and border on unlistenable, but clearly I'm not allowed that view since King Crimson have to be placed on a pedestal. |
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I can't speak for SteveG, but I meant that as a joke since I was told the exact same words earlier in this thread for stating that Genesis have only one good song. Of course you are allowed to dislike King Crimson if you want to (although I feel very sorry for you then). |
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We now have two 'Prog dogma' threads
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I don't have very many bands like this. Plenty of bands where I prefer one or two albums far more than any of their others, but for the most part if I love one song an artist has done, I'll almost always find others by them that I enjoy a lot too. With that said, there is one that comes to mind (not restricting myself to prog):
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
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I don't think that most people in this thread are suggesting that they only have one good song, but rather that the bands only have one amazing song (or at least that's my justification for putting forth Haken) and perhaps the other songs are good, but don't quite reach that level. I'm sure a lot of the opinions here come from lack of familiarity in a band, so maybe the most helpful thing would be to suggest other songs from the bands that someone would like based on the "one hit" they chose.
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I would definitely not say it is there only good song, but I will agree it is their masterpiece -- even if it is a mid-70s Genesis song to my ears. Fantastic lyrics and a story based on real events.
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Heh now , all views are welcome even if they are complete nonsense.  |
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Can't really thing of one among prog artists.
But I will offer one with a prog angle to it. Elton John: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding Great song. And the only one in his catalog I like. It's probably no coincidence it's his proggiest.
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about time Hercules said something that makes some sense... though he is ignoring the Wart's contribution to K.C. but his point is taken. K.C.'s fame really does rest upon one song and that one only.
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One song to rule them all, one song to find them,
One song to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. *ahem* Sorry! Mine might be "Wie der Wind am Ende einer Strasse" from Amon Duul II's "Wolf City!" I just love those tablas!! |
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Pink Floyd - Echoes (in my opinion the greatest Art Rock / Prog Rock song ever etched to vinyl)
Smoke Rise - Survival Gentle Giant - On Reflection Styx - Claire de lune/Ballerina Pavlov's Dog - Good Bye Trafalgar Magma - Hortz Fur Dehn Stekehn West Le Orme - Contrappunti PFM - Generale King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King Gypsy - Gypsy Queen (Part 1) Jasper Wrath - Portrait My Lady Angelina GoodThunder - Moonship ELP - Jerusalem Eloy - Atlantis' Agony at June 5th - 8498, 13 P.M. Gregorian Earthtime Ars Nova (American band 1967-69) - March Of The Mad Duke's Circus Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Art in America - Art In America Babylon - The Mote In God's Eye Bangor Flying Circus - Concerto For Clouds Captain Beyond - Icarus Elizabeth - Not That Kind Of A Guy Quill (67-70) - Tube Exuding Quill - First Movement Renaissance - Kings and Queens Automatic Man - I.T.D Interstellar Tracking Device Voila there is my list for some of my favorite bands. |
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Tunes that stand heads and shoulders above the remainder of their respective outputs:
Radiohead - The Pyramid Song Paatos - Sensor Brainticket - Egyptian Kings The Enid - Reverberations The Beatles - A Day In The Life Pineapple Thief - What We Have Sown |
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