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PA top 25: the longest song on each album

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Topic: PA top 25: the longest song on each album
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Subject: PA top 25: the longest song on each album
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:05
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that selecting the longest song from every album in PA's top 25 made for a list of at least 80% Prog Classics (I skipped the album actually holding the last spot: Kind of Blue). Well I think so. Most of you know from which album these are lifted from anyway, so I won't bother with the album titles. Please vote for up to five favorites if you can, and let us know which ones.

Yes - Close to the Edge (18:50)
Genesis - The Battle of Epping Forest (11:46)
King Crimson - Moonchild (12:11)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - Part 1 (22:39)
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5 (13:40)
Pink Floyd - Time / Breathe (reprise) (7:06)
Genesis - Supper's Ready (22:58)
King Crimson - Starless (12:17)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:04)
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise (10:34)
VdGG - The Sleepwalkers (10:26)
VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (23:04)
Genesis - The Musical Box (10:24)
King - Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One (13:36)
Camel - Lady Fantasy (12:46)
Camel - Lunar Sea (9:14)
PFM - Il Banchetto (8:39)
Rush - The Camera Eye (10:57)
Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres (18:04)
Yes - The Gates of Delirium (21:55)
Banco - L'Evoluzione (13:59)
Jethro Tull - My God (7:10)
Banco - Canto Nomade Per Un Prigioniero Politico (15:46)
Frank Zappa - The Gumbo Variations (12:54)
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House (8:26)



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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:11
(fixed)


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:15
Ah, this is an excellent topic. I went with these five, which I adore.

VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
King Crimson - Starless
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5
Pink Floyd - Dogs
VdGG - The Sleepwalkers

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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:16
Supper's Ready
Close to the Edge
The Gates of Delirium
Thick as a Brick part 1
The Sleepwalkers

(a handful of honourable mentions may be easily picked)

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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:21
Thick as a Brick
Supper's Ready
Close to the Edge
Starless
Lady Fantasy


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:22
SR, CttE, TaaB, Plague, Cygnus

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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:27
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Genesis - The Musical Box
Camel - Lunar Sea
Camel - Lady Fantasy


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:27
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5
King Crimson - Starless
Genesis - The Musical Box
Camel - Lady Fantasy
Rush - The Camera Eye


Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 12:41
I'm kind of surprised by my own selection. From once being quite lukewarm to them I've come to love Camel this much over the years. And yep both the VdGG's gets a vote.

King Crimson - Starless
VdGG - The Sleepwalkers
VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Genesis - The Musical Box
Camel - Lady Fantasy

-super honorable mentions goes to:

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - Part 1
Genesis - Supper's Ready
King - Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One (13:36)
Camel - Lunar Sea
Banco - Canto Nomade Per Un Prigioniero Politico

-but I think most of these are great. Love the five underneath here as well:

Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
PFM - Il Banchetto
Banco - L'Evoluzione
Jethro Tull - My God


Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 13:01
If I was so inclined, I'd give five votes to A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. But instead, I gave one vote to that track and only that track. As much as I do like some of the other tracks, I didn't want to downgrade my vote for A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by voting for anything else.
 



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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 13:07
In order of their release:

Yes – "Heart of the Sunrise"
King Crimson – "Starless"
Yes – "The Gates of Delirium"
Rush – "Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres"
Rush – "The Camera Eye"

Honorable mentions:

Jethro Tull – "Thick as a Brick, Part 1"
King Crimson – "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One"
Genesis – "Supper's Ready"
Camel – "Lunar Sea"
Pink Floyd – "Dogs"

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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 13:24
Starless
Dogs
Shine On
Plague
CTTE

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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 14:19
Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

If I was so inclined, I'd give five votes to A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. But instead, I gave one vote to that track and only that track. As much as I do like some of the other tracks, I didn't want to downgrade my vote for A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by voting for anything else.
 

I don't have a track like that in my life. One that seemingly towers over everything else - in the way I get the impression that A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers does for you. Whenever I think of "favorites", I can always come up with so many that I feel very strongly about.


Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 14:32
Close to the Edge


Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 15:10
Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

If I was so inclined, I'd give five votes to A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. But instead, I gave one vote to that track and only that track. As much as I do like some of the other tracks, I didn't want to downgrade my vote for A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by voting for anything else.
 
I don't have a track like that in my life. One that seemingly towers over everything else - in the way I get the impression that A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers does for you. Whenever I think of "favorites", I can always come up with so many that I feel very strongly about.
 
If there had been other particular VdGG tracks, I might've considered voting for them also. But the only other VdGG track was The Sleepwalkers which is well down in my list of favourite VdGG tracks, and even below other tracks in the poll.
 
BTW, it's a good poll, based on a good idea, which I like to see in a poll (in contrast to random polls). Thumbs Up
 



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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 15:13
Kind of hard to choose. Went with Supper's Ready, Dogs, Starless, Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, and Gates of Delirium. Every month I go to the moon and bury a truckload of clothes hampers in the soil.

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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 15:43
^^ Four tracks from the poll (other than A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers) that are vote-worthy (but not voted) (in the order listed in the poll):
 
Yes - Close to the Edge (18:50)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - Part 1 (22:39)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:04)
Yes - The Gates of Delirium (21:55)
 



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