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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2010 at 03:41
Yes: Five per cent for nothing.: 0:35

Edited by XunknownX - June 08 2010 at 03:43
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 14:21
wot gorilla?

assume the power 1586/14.3
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2010 at 20:48
King Crimson- Book of Saturday
A Flower!?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2010 at 21:36
Closer To the Heart
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Direct Link To This Post 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 





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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2010 at 05:28
Yes: We Have Heaven
National Health: Phlakaton
Beggar's Opera: Memory
Kevin Ayers: Two Goes Into Four
Robert Wyatt: Stalin Wasn't Stallin'
Pavlov's Dog: She Came Shining

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Direct Link To This Post 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.
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!

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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2010 at 18:27
Originally posted by frantic 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2011 at 19:58
Cynic...about everything.
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