Best Progressive Song
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Topic: Best Progressive Song
Posted By: WaywardSon
Subject: Best Progressive Song
Date Posted: August 01 2006 at 22:37
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If someone had to ask you´....
"What is your favourite Progressive Song?", what would you say?
By that I mean the song that stands out from all the rest, the one that touches your very soul!
(Please no lists of songs, only one!)
Mine would be The Pinnacle-Kansas,( Musically, Lyrically, Spiritually Brilliant!)
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:07
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Don´t be nervous guys!
It´s not a debate over which song is better, It´s about your choice
It can be Yes, Dream Theater, Marillion...anyone..
The idea of this thread is to get some great suggestions of songs.
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Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:15
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Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons ------------- 
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Posted By: Alex Zambra
Date Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:16
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If only one , is "Isadora" by Illusion (The McCarthy, Jane Relf group)
Still gives me chills
Alex
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Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:16
| Nervous??, Hell no. My favorite Prog song of all time is a flip between The Revealing Science of God and Ritual, but if you ask me next week i might say it's The Ancient. Safe to say it's my all time fave album in the prog genre. |
Posted By: rushfan6588
Date Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:35
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my favorite is NATURAL SCIENCE by RUSH...allthough it may not be widely considered to be one of the best ------------- If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 02:02
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Robert Wyatt: Alifib, Alife, Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road. The whole side 2 on Rock Bottom is really one 20 min. long song/composition, so its impossible to choose one third of it. It stands out from the rest, and touches my soul. For a more typical song I'd have to choose Peter Hammill: A Louse is Not a Home. (or KC: Starless) ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 02:07
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I'm sorry,I will have to post more than one: Most likely Misunderstanding by Genesis, Assassing by Marillion, Dinasour by King Crimson or (as a proto-promontory-prog essence) Obladi Oblada by The Beatles. ------------- 
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Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 02:51
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My avatar may provide a hint...
My Room
...dreams, hopes and promises, fragments out of time,
all of these things have been spoken.
Still, you don't understand how it feels when I'm
waiting for them to be broken...
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 02:52
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Mad man moon - Genesis
------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 03:03
very hard  .it dependas how i feel that day ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 03:51
| Gates of delirium - Yes and Suppers ready -Genesis, yeah, I know, boring. |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 04:06
| On Reflection by GG for sure. AMAZING!! |
Posted By: the man machine
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 05:28
| possibly rubycon part 1 by tangerinre dream. |
Posted By: Baggiesfaninuk
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 05:33
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Gates of Delerium - Yes I play it as often now as I did 25 years ago when I first 'got into' Yes. It also helps a 5km run simply fly by. ------------- My father was a beekeeper before me; his father was a beekeeper. I want to follow in their footsteps. And their footsteps were like this. (Runs screaming) "AAAAAAAH! I'm covered in beeeeees!" - Izzard |
Posted By: digger1
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 06:14
| Shine on you crazy diamond - from the opening synth keys, I get goosebumps , even more now with the passing of Syd. |
Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 06:20
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Maybe Firth of Fifth, can't be sure...
------------- This is an electrified fairytale |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 07:20
Easy - "Script for a Jester's Tear" by MARILLION 
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 07:41
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Gates of Delirium Yes ( blows every other epic by any band right out of the water ) ------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 07:43
| Pink Floyd - Echoes |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 08:30
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Supper's Ready by Genesis has it all: captivating shifting moods (from mellow with twanging 12-string acoustic guitar and flute to bombastic with organ and fiery electric guitar), superb vocals and an outstanding grand finale, on video it's even more compelling (Shepperton 1974 footage) |
Posted By: billbuckner
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 08:53
| KC - Starless. |
Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 08:53
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Orthenthian St. (both parts) by VdGG -------------  |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 08:59
| 2112 or pretty much any of the side-long epics of Yes are my favs. |
Posted By: KazimirMajorinc
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 09:33
| One of these days, Pink Floyd. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 09:39
| July Morning - Uriah Heep |
Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 10:45
| While I agree that The Pinnacle is an amazing song, my choice is Neal Morse's The Separated Man. |
Posted By: soccerbum
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 11:33
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i know it sounds so terrible but i have to say Close to the Edge. No matter how many times i listen to it, i get goosebumps at one part or another. It has everything you could want all in 18 minutes...its more than most bands could do in 35. Phenomenal. |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 11:37
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Evergreen by Mostly Autumn. But the choice of Isidora by Illusion is a very interesting vote. Mr Zambra, you have taste! |
Posted By: ProgressiveNut
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 11:40
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Great question. I would have to go with "Close to the Edge." ------------- Give love each day. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 11:43
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Not very easy to pin down "the" progressive song... There are so many, in my book, that would deserve that title. I can try mentioning a few which are particularly meaningful to me, though: KC - Epitaph and Starless Yes - CTTE ELP - Tarkus PF - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Jethro Tull - the whole TAAB album |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 11:56
There are way too many to choose from. Just thinking about it makes my brain hurt (well, thinking in general  ). I'll go with my first favorite, and one of the best, "Supper's Ready."------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: MajesterX
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 12:23
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It's impossible for me, like others have said, ask me tomorrow and i'll have a totally different opinion. At least today, my favorite prog song is Hemipheres by Rush. ------------- 
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Posted By: bctruce
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 12:30
| Pink Floyd, "Dogs" |
Posted By: Harkmark
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 12:47
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Probably King Crimson - Starless or Gentle Giant - Cogs in cogs or Univers Zero - Dense or... |
Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 13:43
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I can't decide between these songs of Gentle Giant: "Nothing At All", "Time To Kill" and "Design"... |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 15:11
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This is such a hard topic.
Very hard to choose but if I had to I'd pick...
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Storm
------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: patomtz
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 16:20
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Metropolis Pt.1 ------------- I still can't get how Dream Theater music is created by humans Dream Theater in Monterrey, Mexico 03.03.06 Unforgettable 
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Posted By: Liquid Len
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 16:52
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Dancing With the Moonlit Knight is pretty much perfection.
That opening, that voice!
 ------------- Can you tell me where my country lies? |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 17:27
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VDGG-APOALHK(from pawn hearts) ------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: The Green Tank
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 21:01
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Thick as a Brick was the first thing that popped into my mind. ------------- 
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Posted By: verrata
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 22:16
| harry hood by phish. its a religious experience everytime i listen to it, and i mean that literally. the whole band soars to such a great crescendo, sometimes ive got to fight tears away. not bad for a song about milk. |
Posted By: The Ryan
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 22:27
"Helena" by My Chemical Romance. 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 22:40
I lived in Helena for a few years (the town in Montana, not the woman
 ).Anyway, there's absolutely no way I could name jut one best progressive song, especially not when the opening salvo on this thread was The Pinnacle (no fair WaywardSon!). Pretty much all of them mentioned up to now are great.
If I had to somewhat arbitrarily pick just one, I would say Marillion's "Forgotten Sons".
But that will probably change tomorrow.
I'll check back then.....
------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
The Ryan wrote:Posted By: Clepsydra
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 23:04
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"Awaken" - Yes |
Posted By: Progdrummer05
Date Posted: August 02 2006 at 23:48
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Well i can think of two good epics one metal and one rock.....the prog rock for me is definitely In Earnest by The Tangent and the metal one is probably The Glass Prison by Dream Theater i mean those are just ones i can think of off the top of my head ------------- Carry On My Wayward Son |
Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: August 03 2006 at 00:12
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Although boring and unoriginal... i'd have to say Supper's Ready ------------- Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can |
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: August 03 2006 at 13:46
I don't consider that song progressive, but I like it quite a bit. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 03 2006 at 17:52
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Can't decide! There are so many!! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Dirk
Date Posted: August 03 2006 at 18:33
| Only one song.... I am the sun pt1 - the Flower Kings |
Posted By: willy
Date Posted: August 03 2006 at 20:05
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I honestly cant pick just one. Super's Ready-Gen 2112-Rush A change of Season-DT Dogs-PFloyd |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: August 04 2006 at 02:18
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Here is a lost in No Order 1. Close to the Edge
2. Thick As A Brick
3. Lady Fantasy
4. And You And I
5. Comfortably Numb
6. Aqualung
7. Turn of the Century
8. Suppers Ready
9. The Knife
10. + hunderds of others
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 04 2006 at 03:14
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Just one "favourite" you say... I really don't have one favourite song,
but I'll choose Premiata Forneria Marconi's "L'Isola di Niente" anyway. |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: August 04 2006 at 15:55
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Today is "Memory Lain, Hugh/Headloss" from Caravan. I know that tomorrow may be another song, but I don't care. BTW, I think I'll put "For the Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night" on my player again. ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
Posted By: mgallard
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 01:13
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Genesis: Fly on a Windshield (Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) or Can-Utility and The Coastliners (Foxtrot), always take me off on a trip, even though they are quite short. Mogens |
Posted By: ldlanberg
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 02:12
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I think the very best "prog" rock compositions will always remain:
Shadow of the Hierophant (Steve Hackett) Apocalypse in 9/8 and the eggs closing of Supper's Ready (Genesis)
Everything else is just good.
------------- LDL |
Posted By: xtopher
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 02:25
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I can't tell you what's the best. But I can give my favorite. ...ok, so maybe my favorite three: "Learning to Live," Dream Theater "Song for America," Kansas "Second Life Syndrome," Riverside Subject to change. ------------- 
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Posted By: DarioIndjic
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 05:17
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Epitaph - King Crimson
It touches me as no song has ever before and i think ever will. ------------- Ars longa , vita brevis |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 07:04
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it HAS to be Tool, so either 46&2 or Lateralus.... |
Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 10:50
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Yes - The Revealing Science of God, Heart of The Sunrise, Gates of Delirium
ELP - Trilogy, Tarkus, Take A Pebble
Genesis - Supper's Ready, Firth of Fifth, The Musical Box
Pink Floyd - Echoes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, The Fletcher Memorial Home
King Crimson - Epitaph, Starless, Lizard ------------- 
You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: stupid_dreamer
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 13:54
I agree with that one
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Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 13:56
Oh yeah! BEST PROG EVER THERE! So long and goodnight' Anyway... Eh... Firth of fifth? ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: tytus
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 16:48
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Iron Butterfly - "Stone Believer" :)
------------- surrealistic weirdoistic http://www.ea.muzyka.pl/ http://www.ldf.muzyka.pl/ [IMG]http://www.exhume.ovh.org/pics/ea_small.jpg"> |
Posted By: Momentary Lapse
Date Posted: August 06 2006 at 16:56
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Aah! So many!
Probably Close to the Edge. But Script For a Jester's Tear, Echoes, Heart of the Sunrise, Firth of Fifth, and Karn Evil 9 are awesome too. 
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Posted By: mrgd
Date Posted: August 09 2006 at 23:25
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Yeah, difficult isn't it.
For mine, GG have been responsible for most. Therefore, Nothing at All, The Advent of Panurge and His Last Voyage. Then there's 'Easy' by Curved Air [from Air Cut].That one can do it for you too. ------------- Looking still the same after all these years... mrgd |
Posted By: Kars
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 08:59
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Has to be Peter Hammill - A Louse is not a Home. ------------- Maybe I should de-louse this place; Maybe I should de-place this louse; Maybe I'll maybe my life away |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 09:13
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For me... "CHILD IN TIME" (Deep Purple) or "DOUBLE TIME WOMAN" (Fuzzy Duck) or, Maybe, "DEATH WALKS BEHIND YOU" (Atomic Rooster) or, last maybe, "99" (Toto) ------------- 
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Posted By: Articuno1
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 09:17
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This is indeed a difficult choice.. Any of John McLaughlin's blazing guitar tracks with the Mahavishnu Orchestra could be it, but "The Odessey" by Symphony X is just such an awesome and effective piece. ------------- Many Bothans died to bring you this information. |
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 09:50
Michael Romeo is one of THE best guitarists out there. Both he and singer Russell Allen make Symphony X an outstanding band. My personal fav by these guys is the Candlelight Fantasia. Sheer power of the music and vocals leaves a lump in my throat. I can't believe I didn't think of this song earlier to place here. ------------- 
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 14:02
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IN THE CAGE/CINEMA SHOW/TE COLONY OF SLIPPERMEN concert mix on THREE SIDES LIVE by GENESIS... One of the most prog live performance that I ever heard and the first that makes me cry and believe that GOD is a prog fan....................... Peace & Love ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 15:25
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I have a lot of favorites, but I can't really compare the 70s to the New Millenium's Prog, so here are the classics from each era:
70s- Yes- Close to the Edge Genesis- Supper's Ready King Crimson- Starless Pink Floyd- Shine On Your Crazy Diamond Genesis- The Musical Box Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man etc. etc. etc. New Millenium/90s: Dream Theater- A Change of Seasons Dream Theater- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence TransAtlantic- All of the Above Spock's Beard- The Great Nothing Roine Stolt- The Flower King TransAtlantic- My New World The Flower Kings- I Am the Sun The Flower Kings- The Truth Will Set You Free The Flower Kings- Stardust We Are The Flower Kings- Garden of Dreams Roine Stolt- Humanizzimo etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. But I can assure you the best two Neo-Prog songs are Easter and Script for a Jester's Tear. |
Posted By: Kithulhu
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 15:38
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That's one hard question to answer. Hm. It might be Genesis - Supper's Ready. But then again, no. The one song that really got me into prog was Rush - 2112, I fell in love with it the first time I heard it. So that might be the one. Or.. Hm.. No, that's not it. Damn, this is hard. Could be Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick. Or rather, it could be basicly anything. Ah, what the hell... I don't know. O_o |
Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 15:58
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I think I'll keep it simple and just name the song that really represents prog:
Genesis - Firth of Fifth  -------------
You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 16:06
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Impossible to choose, really. But here are some worhty contenders: Yes - The Gates of Delirium Yes - Close to the Edge Yes - Heart of the Sunrise Camel - Rhayader (well, maybe not, but it's my favourite song atm) Camel - Lunar Sea ELP - Take a Pebble ELP - Tarkus ELP - The Endless Enigma (all parts of course, I, fugue and II) Genesis - Supper's Ready Genesis - Firth of Fifth Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles Edit: There is no KC or GG tune because I feel they had such special styles to their music that they're not really representative of the prog movement as a whole, unlike the songs listed, which sound more similair to each other and to most other prog from that period. |
Posted By: crimson magus
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 17:23
Mmm, Disposition - Reflection - Triad by Tool <3 (these three count as one, or one song in 3 parts). A complete masterpiece. Especially, the line "Mention this to me, mention something, mention anything, and watch the weather change" is so  .
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/chresto/?chartstyle=omgstfu"> 
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Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 18:38
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Despite my previous post, I am forced to also say Gentle Giant's "Schooldays". My god what an amazing song! -------------
You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: akamarko
Date Posted: August 10 2006 at 21:34
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Depending on the day of the week you ask me...
KC - Starless Yes - Gates Of Delerium [/thread] |
Posted By: gong
Date Posted: August 11 2006 at 02:48
| lets say..."Lunar Music Suite" from Steve Hillage's "L" album. |
Posted By: pero
Date Posted: August 11 2006 at 06:21
| 21 century - KC |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 11 2006 at 06:56
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I have to go with 2 here, so I'll be boring and say Genesis- Suppers Ready and Dream Theater- A Change Of Seasons. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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