25 side-long, or approaching, tracks/suites/epics

Syzygy wrote: De Futura, with Sleeping Giant a close second and most of the usual suspects joint third.

siLLy puPPy wrote: If anyone's interested check out my list on RYM that features nothing but 20-minute plus prog tracks.

A couple not on your list.

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (41:58)

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (77:54) To my knowledge it is one song.

JD wrote: BTW... <font size="7">Where's TARKUS ??

last I saw, it was headed out to sea.

Lewian wrote: In this big poll I go with my favourite band Can (over VDGG, KC and AZ), even though there are of course many great ones here. I agree with those that named Echoes though, one of the very few things I'd have voted over Halleluwah.

I like Echoes very much too, and when I mentioned people maybe preferring a different choice from the artist, that is the specific one I had in mind. I love the Atom Heart Mother Suite, especially for the Breast Milky section whose creamy goodness gives me chills despite not being breasty ice cream. I was only going to do "suites" but expanded my list.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Genesis Yes Soft Machine Others Tull - Thick as a Brick Frost* - Milliontown Rush - 2112 Transatlantic - The Whirlwind Echolyn - Mei Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing

I thought about including Thick as a Brick, but I think of it as one long epic lasting a full album (split into two parts). Had I included that, then I would have also wanted to do Magma's Theusz Hamtaahk (much as I do like De Futura, I adore Theusz Hamtaahk). I might do another more "classic" or more classic era poll like this, and then a more modern one, although my modern choices would be different from yours. And actually I would rather do that on long tracks that need not be Prog as so much of what I like as more prog adjacent or at right angles to prog than Prog itself.

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By the way, this poll was inspired by listening to the Hamburger Concerto suite again (had been a while). I came across Nina Hagen mentioned on youtube for a Bowie cover, which then led me to listen to her Naturträne which I love and that reminded me of Focus Hamburger Concerto and part of the 80s Cat People soundtrack. Originally I was going to do a poll comparing a section of the Hamburger Concerto suite to the Leopard's Dream from the Cat People soundtrack and Naturträne but then I thought it's probably too esoteric to get more than very little response.

Edited by Logan - December 22 2021 at 16:01

De Futura, with Sleeping Giant a close second and most of the usual suspects joint third.

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"Walking across the sitting room . . . "

In this big poll I go with my favourite band Can (over VDGG, KC and AZ), even though there are of course many great ones here. I agree with those that named Echoes though, one of the very few things I'd have voted over Halleluwah.


Edited by Lewian - December 22 2021 at 14:32