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Rosescar 
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 Topic: Most progressive song?
Posted: January 29 2006 at 09:18 |
Supper's Ready. Taking the points from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock , it contains about 8/12
of them (three of those points were ment for albums anyway):
- A long composition divided in several pieces
- Bizarre lyrics covering themes as fantasy, history, religion, science fiction
(prayer capsule), madness (wonderful potion because I can't contain my
emotion), religion (angel), war (black skinned people waiting for
battle).
- Unusual Vocal Styles (mum to mud to mad to dad, dad diddley office, dad diddley office)
- Instruments unusual in rock (oboe)
- Unusual time signatures (Apocalypse in 9/8)
- wide dynamic range
- Solo passages for virtually every instrument
- Sound Effects (a whistle and a bang)
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My music!
"THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp
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akin
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Posted: January 29 2006 at 09:06 |
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
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R_DeNIRO
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Posted: January 29 2006 at 08:31 |
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Octavarium it's a compilation about prog rock is.
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We were always be much human than we whish to be.
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Jay Klmnop
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Posted: January 29 2006 at 08:18 |
I must say that I like the question in this thread. It's a good way to sample prog by listening to each person's choice.
To me what makes prog prog is complexity, changes, strange-sounding, and difficulty to understand.
I don't have a whole lot of experience and the question is subjective but I'd nominate the following:
Slapp Happy by Henry Cow from In the Heart of the Beast
In a Glass House by Gentle Giant from In a Glass House
Cancer of the Band by Yezda Urfa from Sacred Baboon (incredible "lyrics"...)
A Louse is not a Home by Peter Hammill from Silent Corner and Empty Stage
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Music is the only art in which the beholders are not ashamed to remain fossilized as "beginners."
I like difficult music.
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Crimsoner
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 10:33 |
Goooood question!!! 
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Just BE!
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erlenst
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 10:16 |
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Although I don't really know what you are asking, I would say that
there are a few songs that really captures the essence of prog rock,
although they sound COMPLETELY different from each other:
- Close to the Edge
- Tarkus
- Lizard
- A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
- The Musical Box
And a bunch of others of course. But your topic is really absurd. Most
progressive song ? As in most complex ? Most typical for the genre
(which of course makes no sense when you consider the diversity of
prog) ?
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W.Chuck
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 10:12 |
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It is simply,
WHICH ONE IS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE SONG?/WHICH SONG DEFINES PROGRESSIVE MUSIC?/WHICH SONG FULFILS ALL THE CRITERIAS OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC?
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TGElder
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:48 |
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If we're talking about the prog rock stereotype (and we all know what
that is, whether we like it or not) then it has to be Tarkus.
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GPFR
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:25 |
 Chipiron wrote:
Well... if we assume it's ridiculous... "Oops I did it again" by Britney Spears or "Waterloo" by Abba. |
Hmm... waterloo, so prog.
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Publius84
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:23 |
Trouserpress wrote:
This is the most ridiculous thread I've ever seen on this forum. And that's saying something. |
Right
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I know what I like and I like what I know...
Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul...
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W.Chuck
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:00 |
Chipiron wrote:
Well... if we assume it's ridiculous... "Oops I did it again" by Britney Spears or "Waterloo" by Abba. |
Well, I really expectet kind of a serious answer...
But thank you for your amusing joke 
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jojim
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 06:20 |
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A day at the races - by LITTLE FEAT - incredible peace of music: the
intro so bizarre classical and then the machinery that starts and is
rolling till the end. Marvelous. Could not play any part of it.
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YES - Close to the edge / UK - UK / GENESIS - The lamb lies down / KING CRIMSON - Discipline / MIKE OLDFIELD - Tubular bells / JETHRO TULL - Aqualung / GENTLE GIANT - Three friends / TMO - IMF
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Chipiron
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 06:11 |
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Well... if we assume it's ridiculous... "Oops I did it again" by Britney Spears or "Waterloo" by Abba.
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W.Chuck
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 06:05 |
Of course it's ridiculous 
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Rising Force
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:39 |
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I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing, the Atlantis trilogy by
Planet X is hella brilliant. On Live From Oz, it kind of feels like the
trilogy is extended to eight (Apocolypse 1470 B.C. to
Tony's solo), because of the way the songs flow from one
song to the next. It's other wordly. I can't stop raving about this
band.
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Chipiron
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:25 |
Take it easy... I don't know if the question is ridiculous or not, but if you think so, simply, you needn't take part in the thread... ... BTW, I couldn't answer the question.
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Bj-1
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:14 |
Yeah, ridiculous indeed
But if I have to pick one song, I would nominate Magellan - Magna Carta.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:09 |
Trouserpress wrote:
This is the most ridiculous thread I've ever seen on this forum. And that's saying something. |
I concur..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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The Hemulen
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 04:40 |
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This is the most ridiculous thread I've ever seen on this forum. And that's saying something.
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Publius84
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 04:35 |
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Epitaph?
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I know what I like and I like what I know...
Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul...
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