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Lazarus - Porcupine Tree
My New World - Transatlantic
The Crane Wife (All three parts) - The Decemberists
Hazards of Love Pt. 4 (The Drowning) - the Decemberists (that song actually makes me tear up)
Think of Me With Kindness - Gentle Giant
The Court of the Crimson King - KC
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
One More Time to Live - MB
Are You Sitting Comfortably - MB
Balance - MB
Watching and Waiting - MB (I'm a Moody Blues fan if you can't tell! Big smile)
San Lorenzo - Pat Metheny Group
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
Hide in Your Shell - Supertramp
House with no Door - VDGG
To Be Over - Yes
 


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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

And here's something from my country:

nice selection but I think Spinetta has a lot of better songs than this one... I'm not a really big fan of Artaud to be honest, it has some outstanding songs though... my favorite period is with Invisible, though my fav. album is A 18' del Sol
But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
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Genesis - Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats, Mad Man Moon.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Much of the Anthony Phillip's album, The Geese and the Ghost" would qualify for me.   Steve
Hackett's "Jacuzzi" and "Spectral Mornings." Genesis "Time Table," "Harlequin" and "For Absent Friends."
ELP's "Jerusalem," "Fugue" and "Piano Concerto 1st Movement."
Peter Hammill's "Casteways."   King Crimson's "Cadence and Cascade" and "I Talk to the Wind."


Steve Hackett - Jacuzzi



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thought i'd add, from Banco's 1975 English sung album "Banco" the last song "Traccia 2" especially the piano intro-wonderous!
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Anathema - Everything
Radiohead - Lucky
Yes - Ritual
Godspeed You... - Rockets Fall, on Rocket Falls
Sun Kil Moon - Duk Koo Kim. (not prog, but something being 15 minutes got plenty of bands in the archives beforeWink)
Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity. A heavy and ambient track but has a lot of beauty to me.
Genesis - Supper's Ready.
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Renaissance- Northern Lights
 
..has to be worth a mention
 
 
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The two that come to mind for me first are Turn Of The Century by Yes, and Rendezvous 6:02 by UK.
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The Musical Box - Genesis
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
Gomorrah - Can
Starless - King Crimson
Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
The Emperor in His War Room - VDGG
Heart-attack in a Lay-by - Porcupine Tree
Gravity Eyelids - Porcupine Tree
Terrapin - Syd Barrett
Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel/Robert Fripp
Think of me with Kindness - Gentle Giant
Fritha - Camel
Sylvia - Focus
Oh Wot a Dream - Kevin Ayers
Halfway between Heaven and Earth - Hatfield & the North
Pocket Full of Change - Rain Tree Crow
My Work Is So Behind - Residents
Remember a Day - Pink Floyd
Come and Buy - Crazy World of Arthur Brown
A Small Plot of Land - David Bowie
Buffalo Ballet - John Cale

(the list goes on)
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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

One not mentioned yet that I love is Pallas, "Violet Sky".

Staying with Pallas: "The Last Angel" from Dreams of men
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One not mentioned yet that I love is Pallas, "Violet Sky".
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How could i forget Different Strings! 

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Oh hundreds and hundreds....

Dredg - Bug Eyes
Anathema - Dreaming Light
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
Dirty Three - Authentic Celestial Music
Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma
Gazpacho - Winter Is Never
Godspeed You Black Emperor - BBF3
Iona - Woven Cord
Karnivool - New Day
Moon Safari - Southern Belle
Pendragon - Masters Of Illusion
Pendragon - Am I Really Losing You?
Phideaux - Crumble (either one)
Pink Floyd  - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Porcupine Tree - Collapse Light Into Earth
Rush - Different Strings
Rush - Losing It
Sigur Ros - Vaka (Untitled 1)
Talk Talk - Wealth
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Sylvan - A Kind Of Eden
Sylvan - Posthumous SIlence
Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light
Ulver - Eos
Vanden Plas - Quicksilver
Yes - Wondrous Stories
Yndi Halda - Illuminate My Heart, My Darling

(As you can see, me and beautiful music get on pretty damn well :P)







Edited by JS19 - October 07 2011 at 10:29
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Points: 37240 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2011 at 16:07
Good one.  And how about Magma's The Night We Died off the much reviled (I think rather unfairly) album, Merci.
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There are so many, but beautiful in the truest sense of the word? Popol Vuh just might do the trick:
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

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Could think of quite  a few, some already mentioned, but I find this one hauntingly beautiful: Comus - "The Herald"




Edited by Logan - October 06 2011 at 15:17
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a Salty Dog and Hotel Grand - Procol Harum
the Sparrow - Mastodon
Epitaph - by you know who
Say its alright Joe - Genesis
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"Victorian Brickwork" and "Summer's Lease" by Big Big Train
"The Death of Music" by Devin Townsend
Any track from The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky
"Sylvia" by Focus
"Storm" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"Lamplight Symphony" and "Nobody's Home" by Kansas
"Biaxident" by Liquid Tension Experiment
"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
"My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)" by Van der Graaf Generator
 
...to name just a few.
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Marillion - Neverland
Mostly Autumn - Shrinking Violet
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
Genesis - Firth of Fifth
Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love
(Introitus - The hand that feeds you)
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ELP - From The Beginning
Genesis - Afterglow
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (for the sentiment as well as the music)
Jon and Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home
Colosseum II - Castles (late great Gary Moore showing how well he can sing)
IQ - The Last Human Gateway (middle section from Forever Live)
Yes - Wonderous Stories
Kayak - Life Of Gold
 
..ok I know there is some reallly cheesey stuff in there but I still think these are beautifull songs by prog bands if not 'prog songs' as such
 
 


Edited by richardh - October 06 2011 at 14:48
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