10/10 prog songs
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Topic: 10/10 prog songs
Posted By: Foxprog
Subject: 10/10 prog songs
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 12:13
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I love making this kind of lists, so here it goes. Supper's Ready Dancing with the moonlit knight Can-utility and the coastliners (maybe) The Knife Musical Box Cinema Show + Aisle of Plenty (maybe) Stagnation One for the Vine (maybe) Close to the edge Awaken Starship Trooper (Maybe) And you and I Careful with that axe eugene (maybe) Echoes Welcome to the machine The Ikon (maybe) A day in a life (exception) L'auberge du sanglier Nimrodel (medley) Aegian sea Poseidon's creation (maybe) Tarkus Think of me with kindness Thick as a brick part 1 and 2 Circus Lizard I Talk to the wind Epitaph 21st century schizoid man Starless Larks tongue in aspic part 1 (maybe) Easy Money (maybe) The Real Thing Ommadawn Zarathustra Introduzione In the black room/ the tower Still Life Plague of the lighthouse keepers Man-erg (maybe) House with no door Refugees Darkness 11/11 (maybe) The boat of million years (maybe) A louse is not a home (top three of all time) The Lie Trip to the fair (maybe) Song of scheherazade Sea song At last im free (robert wyatt) Bent cold sidewalk (maybe) Faith in others - Yes I know that I skipped e.g Rush, i didn't want to involve hard rock / prog metal on this list. Just the oldschool classics (few exceptions) |
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 14:20
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ok, I'll bite, but as usual I will only give 1 track per artist to avoid being a fangirl: Mother Gong - The Pied Piper of Hamlin Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh Gong - Master Builder Amon Düül 2 - Syntelman's March of the Roaring Seventies Embryo - Entrances Can - Halleluwah Guru Guru - Der Elektrolurch Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony Christian Boulé - Orange Climax Hawkwind - Assault and Battery / The Golden Void (I consider this to be one track) King Crimson - Lizard Genesis - Waiting Room (yes, an odd choice) Klaus Schulze - Velvet Voyage Brainticket - Brainticket (for the pure madness of it) Kraan - Holiday am Marterhorn Birth Control - Gamma Ray Ash Ra Tempel - Amboss these are just a few; I am certain I could name more -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 18:32
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I'll play, but only one from each band...otherwise I'll be here for hours  Crimson: Exiles (live version on USA) VDGG: Man Erg Genesis: The Lamia Devil Doll: MR Doctor Greenslade: Feathered Friends Hawkwind: Assault and Battery Rush: Witch Hunt Yes: The Revealing Science of God Tull: Back Door Angels Gentle Giant: The Moon is Down Camel: Nimrodel Pallas: Crown of Thorns (live on Arrive Alive) Marillion: Incubus (live on Real to Reel) The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever Ange: Sur La Trace Des Fees Magma: De Futura Grateful Dead: Unbroken Chain Amon Duul II: Green Bubble Raincoated Man PFM: Impressioni Di Settembre Procol Harum: In Held Twas in I Emmanuel Booz: Le Morts Donovan: Breezes of Patchouli Celeste: Favole Antiche Peter Gabriel: The Family and the Fishing Net Peter Hammill: Modern Twelfth Night: Sequences (live from Live and Let Live) Mona Lisa: Le Fantome de GalashielsPulsar: Dawn Over Darkness Pink Floyd: Time Zappa: The Adventures of Greggary Peccary Porcupine Tree: Stars Die Captain Beefheart: Sue Egypt Bowie: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps Ian Anderson: Swing it Far Adrian Belew: The Momur Tony Banks: Someone Else's Dream Cathedral: The Search Eno: The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch ELP: Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Fireballet: Les Cathedrales Asia Minor: Lost in a Dream Yell Ethos: Sedona Anekdoten: Book of Hours Pete Sinfield: The Song of the Sea Goat Focus: Focus 2 Echolyn: One for the Show Edith: Last Warning Thinking Plague: Les Etudes d'Organism ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 18:41
This will take days, so I won't post anything.
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Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 23:02
Ooh controversial  .Actually I like it now, it gives me a feeling of great comfort when it starts, but it took a while to get used to. ------------- "There is nothing new except what has been forgotten" - Marie Antoinette |
Foxprog wrote:Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 02:35
This is one of those "everyone needs to hear this before they die" tracks. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 03:29
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following the one per band principle Tarkus (live version) Xanadu Widows Peak (IQ) South Side Of The Sky Return Of Giant Hogweed Scorched Earth Epitaph Spiral Tangram Part One Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Oxygene Part Two A Change Of Seasons Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Cogs In Cogs Thick as a Brick Part One The Ninth Wave (Kate Bush) Dogs Catherine Parr Carrying No Cross (UK) Ommadawn Part One Judas Unrepentant (Big Big Train) The Storm Before The Calm (Anathema) Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist (Muse) The Inquisition (Coloseum II) Solomon
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 06:39
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Some (not so) random nominations (leaving out things that may either not count as prog or not as "song"): Can - Spoon Talk Talk - After the Flood & Living in Another World Cardiacs - Big Ship Pink Floyd - Echoes Camel - Never Let Go (Live Record version) & Ice Battles - Atlas William D. Drake - Me Fish Bring David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees Supertramp _ A Soapbox Opera
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 20:34
| OK, I have my list of very favourite british prog songs of the 70's, and that one goes for 119 songs (just the big 6, plus GG, VdGG, Renaissance, and Camel). There's still the songs from the other decades, and other countries, and other bands out of this small group, and so on. So I guess it's just about impossible for me to make such a list. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: May 23 2019 at 08:07
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This is easy! Yours Is No Disgrace Starship Trooper I've Seen All Good People Perpetual Change Roundabout South Side Of The Sky Long Distance Runaround Heart Of The Sunrise Close To The Edge And You And I Siberian Khatru The Revealing Science Of God The Remebering The Ancient Ritual The Gates Of Delirium Sound Chaser To Be Over Turn Of The Century Awaken |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 23 2019 at 09:51
No Genesis, King Crimson, ELP or Rush?
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Posted By: Foxprog
Date Posted: May 23 2019 at 13:57
You seem to like Yes :)
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: May 23 2019 at 18:02
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To give as a vote 10 means not only perfection, but excellence, that is to do something more, sensational, unexpected, brilliant. For this reason I am very picky with the 10: we are talking about the summit that can't be overcome. At the moment I have not yet put any 10 to the albums or songs of which I made the reviews. I put the max at 9.5. So far there is only one song to which I will give 10: Man-ERG. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 23 2019 at 18:41
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Songs of the Quendi ------------- |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 23 2019 at 20:02
What was your first clue?
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Posted By: Foxprog
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 01:01
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 02:12
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Close to the Edge - Yes Xanadu - Rush Chamber of 32 Doors - Genesis Starless - King Crimson Sleepwalkers - VDGG Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett Assault & Battery/Golden Void - Hawkwind Dogs - Pink Floyd Asylum - Supertramp Script for a Jesters Tear - Marillion Arriving somewhere but not here - Porcupine Tree March of the Black Queen - Queen Lunar Sea - Camel Rubycon Part 1 - Tangerine Dream In the dead of Night - UK Gypsy - The Moody Blues I wanted to stick to one artist per song. For some of these artists there are dozens of 10/10 songs. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 10:55
| ^ Nice list! |
Posted By: TenYearsAfter
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 11:11
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Nice topic, on the top of my head … Genesis - Supper's Ready + The Musical Box + Firth Of Fifth King Crimson - Starless Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra Rush - 2112 + La Villa Strangiato + Cygnus X-1 Camel - Lady Fantasy Marillion - Forgotten Sons Uriah Heep - July Morning Deep Purple - Child In Time Triana - Abre La Puerta Twelfth Night - Creepshow Solaris - Los Angeles 2026 to name a few ... |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 11:24
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Ok, Let me try this. Only one per artist. - Not really sure about the 10 out of 10 thing but these are pretty good. Starship Trooper - Yes La Villa Strangiato - Rush Firth of Fifth - Genesis Race with the Devil... - Al Di Meola Brain Damage/ Eclipse - Pink Floyd Inca Roads - Zappa Blackest Eyes - Porcupine Tree Mother Russia - Renaissance Judas Unrepentant - Big Big Train Heart of Lothian - Marillion Nothing is Easy - Tull Universal Mind - Liquid Tension Experiment |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 11:31
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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).
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 13:37
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^Those are incredibly beautiful indeed - and perfect. But I'm like tho
opposite of
jamesbaldwin who has only one progsong he'd rate a 10/10. Could I rate a
song on Kobaïa, Rock Bottom, Crossings, First Utterance etc... any less
than a 10/10? I don't think so. From my whole music collection I would have ended up
with a list of thousands. So I won't. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 18:00
Same for me with the songs on those specific albums and many, many, many more in my collection (if I included instrumentals, the list would be really massive). And for me it's not about perfection, it's really just about how much I love them. It's very subjective. Something that is perfectly polished might well not appeal as much to me as something that is rough around the edges. I wouldn't say that The Shagg's Philosophy of the World is better than, say, a Spock's Beard or Dream Theater album, but it would still rate higher for me. And while I could think of more complex, polished, and technical music than Can's "Mother Sky", Cos' "L'idiot Leone", Soft Machine's "Moon in June", Perry Leopold's "the Journey", or Spirogyra's "Duke of Beaufoot", to use specific song examples, they are all ten out of ten for me. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: May 24 2019 at 18:01
I try to explain myself better. I don't say that I will give 10 only to Man-Erg, I say that UNTIL NOW, looking at the reviews that I wrote here for PA, and those I'm going to write (Pawn Hearts, for example), only of Man-ERG I'm sure I'll put 10. And I dont put 10 if I find perfection, but a mix of excellence: melody, originality, emotions. Refined musical score with beautiful and deep lyrics with great pathos and performance determine, in a subjective way, the final rating. Now I checked my reviews, and I see that I had forgotten I put 10 to 21St Schizoid Man. I put the final ratings to albums and songs only when I publish here my reviews, which you can all see. Of course, of some songs and albums I already know, more or less, what vote I will give. But usually not in a precise way. I wrote in Italian, some years ago, all the reviews of the Beatles albums and their songs, which I will slowly translate and publish on this site (until now I've written here in PA the reviews since Please Please Me to Sgt Pepper's). I also wrote the reviews to the albums of my idol of youth Bruce Springsteen, which obviously I'm not going to publish here, but which have only one 10: Jungleland. Instead, in concert, The River, Racing in The Street, Lost in The Flood and Youngstown take 10. Then there are other studio songs with 9.5 (Backstreets) and 9+ (New York Cit Serenade etc). Anyway, UNTIL NOW, looking at my 106 reviews here in PA (plus my next reviews on the Beatles, plus ny review on Pawn Hearts that is almost ready), this is my personal ranking: 1. Man-Erg 10 2. 21st Schizoid Man 10 3. A Day In The Life 9,5/10 (10 - ) 4. Lorca 9,5 5. Song For Europe 9,5 6. The Weaver's Answer 9,5 7. If There Is Something 9,5 8. Firth Of Fifth 9,5 9. I am The Walrus 9,5 10. Strawberry Fields Forever 9+ 11. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 9+ 12. Let It Be (Lp version) 9+ 13. Spanish Tide 9 14. Heart of The Sunrise 9 15. I Want You - Shes so Heavy 9 16. Epitaph 9 17. Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite 9. Surely, Rock Bottom by Wyatt, Silent Corner by Hammill, The Least We Can Do and From H to He by Van Der Graaf, Wish You Were Here and Animals by PF include songs to which I'll put 9.5 or maybe 10. The same goes for The End and When The Music's Over by the Doors, and I believe also for First Utterance and many others.
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: May 25 2019 at 15:21
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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 |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 25 2019 at 16:05
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: May 25 2019 at 19:27
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OK, so one song per band/artist. The ones below are not necessarily the best songs by the respective artists, but if they are to fit into the prog, or prog-like department. I know there are only a few prog bands proper. The Beach Boys: Surf's Up (Smile sessions/Surf's Up) The Beatles: A Day In the Life (Sgt. Pepper's...) David Bowie: Subterraneans (Low) Can: Pinch (Ege Bamyasi) Deep Purple: Child In Time (In Rock) Faust: It's a Bit of a Pain (Faust IV) Genesis: The Carpet Crawlers (The Lamb...) Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells side 1 Neu!: Hallogallo (Neu!) Pink Floyd: Time (The Dark Side...) Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (A Night At the Opera) Talking Heads: The Great Curve (Remain in Light) The Who: Underture (Tommy) Frank Zappa/Mothers: The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny (We're Only...)
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 25 2019 at 21:23
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[Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite ] Imo, the weakest song on Sgt. Pepper.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 25 2019 at 23:59
River Man is a superbly melancholic song. Love Fruit Tree too. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: May 26 2019 at 00:17
Yes, I forgot River Man. That's my choice number 10. 
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: May 26 2019 at 04:01
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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 ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 26 2019 at 11:03
You're my man!
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Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: May 26 2019 at 15:43
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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". |
Posted By: oka2112
Date Posted: June 07 2019 at 04:07
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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 |
Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: June 08 2019 at 03:45
Another fan of Olivia Newton-John! I, too, loved her work with E.L.O.! ;) |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 08 2019 at 04:42
for a second I thought you did not know it was the Rush song he's referring to.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 08 2019 at 04:51
probably my favorite Beatles cover version, rivaled only by the "Eleanor Rigby" version of Vanilla Fudge ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 09 2019 at 00:40
I suppose as ELO are on PA as well then I should have specified
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 09 2019 at 04:18
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). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: June 09 2019 at 10:09
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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Posted By: Erenan
Date Posted: June 10 2019 at 11:07
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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. ------------- https://lukesimpsonmusic.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 08:54
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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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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 08:57
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 10:06
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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
Gong
Henry Cow
Yezda Urfa
John Greaves, Peter Blegvad, and Lisa Herman
Quill
This Heat
Present
Thinking Plague
Primus Kurt Rongey Ruins
KBB The Science Group Ahvak Far Corner Guapo Koenjihyakkei Retroheads Upsilon Acrux The Red Masque Traumhaus Willowglass Neom Syzygy Zevious Glass London Underground Il Tempio delle Clessidre
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Posted By: Moyan
Date Posted: April 07 2024 at 19:14
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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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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 08 2024 at 02:24
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Pink Floyd - Time King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky ManGentle 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 |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: April 08 2024 at 06:08
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No God's a Man by Gentle Giant. This gives me goosebumps. |