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Lumenko 
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Hrychu
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 23:29 |
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MzBT is the greatest SBB song ever IMHO, but it's not a good starting point for a non-prog listener.
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Lumenko
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 23:19 |
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Hrychu
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 23:10 |
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*szkła But personally I'd pick a different SBB track, Ze Słowem Biegnę Do Ciebie.
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Lumenko
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The following selection is listed in no particular order. Island "Empty Bottles" Egg "The Song of McGuillicudie the Pusillanimous (or Don't Worry James, Your Socks Are Hanging in the Coal Cellar with Thomas)" Yes "The Gates of Delirium" Genesis "Mad Man Moon" Jethro Tull "Aqualung" Van der Graaf Generator "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" King Crimson "The Court of the Crimson King" Family "The Weaver's Answer" Gong "Wingful of Eyes" Marillion "Ocean Song" The Nice "Diary of an Empty Day" Emerson Lake & Palmer "Karn Evil 9" Caravan "Where but for Caravan Would I?" The Soft Machine "Hibou, Anemone and Bear" Khan "Mixed Up Man of The Mountain" Hatfield and the North "Shaving Is Boring" Supersister "A Girl Named You" Moving Gelatine Plates "The World Of Genius Hans" Steve Hillage "Lunar Musick Suite" Picchio Dal Pozzo "Seppia" Cos "L'Idiot Leon" Gentle Giant "The Boys in the Band" Steve Hackett "Shadow of the Hierophant" Peter Hammill "Forsaken Gardens" Anthony Phillips "The Geese and the Ghost" Camel "Lawrence" Renaissance "Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)" Premiata Forneria Marconi "Appena Un Poco" Smak "Put od balona" Ange "Dignité" Flamengo "Pár století" England "Poisoned Youth" Indexi "Blago" Touch "Seventy Five" Korni Grupa "Not an Ordinary Life" Spirit "Space Child" Galaad "Sabličre" Spring "Golden Fleece" IQ " Further Away" Split Enz "Under The Wheel" Circus "The Bandsman" Mike Oldfield "Ommadawn (Part Two)" Time "Za koji život treba da se rodim" Saga "To Whom It Concerns" Il Balletto di Bronzo "Introduzione" Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention "Inca Roads" SBB "Wolanie O Brzek Szkta" Aphrodite's Child "Aegian Sea" Hawkwind "Magnu" Dream Theater "In the Name of God"
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Cristi
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:50 |
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I kinda agree, I listened to it long ago, I did not even know what prog or progressive rock or art rock was. It was just an album from the 70s, from 1974. I thought it was quite original and I enjoyed it a lot. I still do.
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progaardvark
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:47 |
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I always thought Supertramp's Crime of the Century album as a good gateway album for introducing prog. This is only anecdotal evidence, but a lot of YouTube reaction videos seem really positive upon first listens to songs from this album.
Otherwise, my inner practical joker would pick the Steve Miller Band's Bongo Bongo.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 15:36 |
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My only issue with the list is that it didn't make it past 1977 otherwise great list.
 If you do another fifty then please add some post 70s prog like kayleigh, pull me under, stardust we are, retropolis, jordrok or the doorway.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 14:43 |
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A great compilation! There are no songs I'd want to remove from your list and the only songs I'd add are Northern Lights and Owner of a Lonely Heart which introduced me to the music of Renaissance and YES.
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Logan
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 14:23 |
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I do think what is best to try depends on the individual. I think it's good to pay attention to what someone else likes and then try to fit it to someone with those musical interests. A beauty of Prog (or Prog umbrella music) is that it is so diverse. An issue I have with the opening list, a lot of which did turn this Gen Xer onto Prog, is its lack of diversity. There is the replication of artists and I think it both lack temporal as well as stylistic diversity. And it is so very Anglo-centric where there is a world of interesting music that could fit out there.
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:51 |
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You can't get anyone into prog. It might not be for them. And that's cool.
Good list, but all songs are from the progasaurs. Maybe add some more modern bands/artists... such as, Wippy Bonstack, Bubblemath, The Aristocrats, Thank You Scientist. And no more than two songs per band? Do you not consider fusion, prog? Many great songs to pick from. Edited by Grumpyprogfan - November 29 2023 at 13:34 |
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:19 |
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Posted: November 29 2023 at 12:12 |
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Here's the list I have complied (organized by length)
Long Distance Runaround Think of Me with Kindness Wonderous Stories Cross-Eyed Mary Solsbury Hill Nights in White Satin Lucky Man The Night Watch Elephant Talk The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Golf Girl Frame by Frame A Day in the Life Whiter Shade of Pale I Talk to the Wind Money Aqualung I've Seen All Good People Time Ocean Gypsy Pilgrims 21st Century Schizoid Man Turn of the Century Dancing with the Moonlit Knight Roundabout Epitaph Siberian Khatru Firth of Fifth And You And I The Musical Box Heart of the Sunrise The Sleepwalkers Cinema Show Pigs (Three Different Ones) Starless Shine On You Crazy Diamond (6-9) Lady Fantasy Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1-5) Awaken Close to the Edge In Held Twas In I Thick as a Brick (Pt. 1) Nine Feet Underground A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Supper's Ready Echoes Song of Scheherazade Tubular Bells Tarkus (Live) Karn Evil 9 (Live) if you have any suggestions to add or remove, let me know, I'm trying to limit it to 50 songs of varying lengths and styles.
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