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Topic: The "best" prog songs
Posted By: rushfan4
Subject: The "best" prog songs
Date Posted: July 29 2022 at 19:43
These 25 songs are the "best" prog songs in my collection.  Which 3 are your favorites?

Here are YouTube videos of 21 of the 25 songs:




I couldn't find the Darryl Way song.

The Keith Emerson song starts at the 17:32 mark in this video of the entire soundtrack:


Here is a link to the band camp page for the Napier's Bones song.

%3ca%20href=" rel="nofollow - Best of Times ? | Napier's Bones (bandcamp.com) "> https://napiersbones.bandcamp.com/track/best-of-times-2" rel="nofollow - Best of Times ? | Napier's Bones (bandcamp.com)


And here is a link the Spectra song on band camo:

%3ca%20href=" rel="nofollow - The Best | Spectra | Jacqueline Cates Johnny Burgess (catesburgess.com) "> https://catesburgess.com/track/the-best" rel="nofollow - The Best | Spectra | Jacqueline Cates Johnny Burgess (catesburgess.com)





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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 29 2022 at 20:19
Rush, Echolyn and Queensryche.


Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 29 2022 at 21:15
Moon Safari.


Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 02:20
DT, absolutely love that song!


Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 06:30
This was a very enjoyable listen, a kind of "easy prog listening": accessible and at the same time damn good. I started doing other things while listening to this, so I wasn't very concentrated on all tracks, but I guess my votes go to Patrick Moraz, The Pineapple Thief and Styx.


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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 09:32
Moodies...Best Way To Travel.....great track and lp.

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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 18:48
The ‘ryche. 

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 19:10
Mine is the first and maybe will be the only vote for Captain Beefheart - Best Batch Yet. Most of that was new to me. That is my favourite of these. Also went with Niacin's Best Laid Plans and the Moody Blues one.

I hope you don't mind me mentioning an other, but this off an album that I have liked very much (hadn't listened to the album or track in considerable years). It is an instrumental rather than a song:

Combo FM - "Druhá nejlepší pastička na myši (Second Best Mousetrap)" off Věci (Things) (1981)



Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 19:26
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Moodies...Best Way To Travel.....great track and lp.

This.


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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 20:19
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Mine is the first and maybe will be the only vote for Captain Beefheart - Best Batch Yet. Most of that was new to me. That is my favourite of these. Also went with Niacin's Best Laid Plans and the Moody Blues one.

I hope you don't mind me mentioning an other, but this off an album that I have liked very much (hadn't listened to the album or track in considerable years). It is an instrumental rather than a song:

Combo FM - "Druhá nejlepší pastička na myši (Second Best Mousetrap)" off Věci (Things) (1981)

Suggestions from other artists are always welcomed (and kind of expected).  I had never heard of Combo FH before.  The song was relatively short, but did have an interesting sound to it.  

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 30 2022 at 20:35
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Suggestions from other artists are always welcomed (and kind of expected).  I had never heard of Combo FH before.  The song was relatively short, but did have an interesting sound to it.  


Combo FH, I mean, from Czechoslovakia. I don't think it works all that well on its own, although all of the tracks on it are quite short. It's something that I might recommend to various people looking for Jazz Fusion Avant Prog/chamber oriented music, and in your playlist it would work better as something of an interlude, I feel. It was quite an early discovery of mine when exploring such music avenues.


Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 31 2022 at 21:23
Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

This was a very enjoyable listen, a kind of "easy prog listening": accessible and at the same time damn good. I started doing other things while listening to this, so I wasn't very concentrated on all tracks, but I guess my votes go to Patrick Moraz, The Pineapple Thief and Styx.
I listened to the playlist and found it to be enjoyable as well.  I tend to agree that it is "easy prog listening".  I suppose that it probably qualifies as "dad prog" as coined by an absentee PA member.

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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 26 2022 at 07:34
One of Queensryche's best tracks..



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