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    Posted: May 05 2020 at 13:18
I'll use this to seed a song tournament for this website to do! What are your top 10?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2020 at 14:03
Bloody hell. This will take thought!

Will you post yours?

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2020 at 15:50
I would really struggle to narrow the list down to my Top 100 Prog-Rock *albums*, never mind my Top 10 Prog-Rock *songs*, and even naming my Top 10 songs by a single artist isn't an easy task, so I'm afraid it's a Mission Impossible for me. "This post will self-destruct in five seconds" Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote essexboyinwales Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2020 at 15:52
Off the top of my head, without too much thought....

The Last Human Gateway - IQ
Metropolis Pt. I - Dream Theater
Incantations Pt. IV - Mike Oldfield
The Cinema Show - Genesis
Firth Of Fifth - Genesis
Once Around The World - It Bites
The Narrow Margin - IQ
This Strange Engine - Marillion
Octavarium - Dream Theater
In The Wake Of Evolution - Kaipa

Yeah, they'll do, for tonight....

Edited by essexboyinwales - May 05 2020 at 15:53
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Anders Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2020 at 16:38
Oh dear, that's difficult, but I'll give it a try:

In no particular order:
David Bowie - "Subterraneans"
Can - "Halleluwah"
Genesis - "The Carpet Crawlers"
King Crimson - "Larks' Tongues In Aspic" part 1
Mew - "Hawaii"
Mike Oldfield - "Tubular Bells" part 1
Pink Floyd - "Time"
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
Sigur Rós - "Svefn-g-englar"
Talking Heads - "Seen And Not Seen" (if it counts)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sacro_Porgo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2020 at 18:48
Lol, this isn't goin to be anywhere near an accurate list if I include more than one from one artist. I'll keep it to one per artist so I can contribute.

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage
Yes - South Side Of The Sky
King Crimson - Starless
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Appena Un Po
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Tarkus
Pink Floyd - Sheep

I think that's a reasonably accurate list of my favorite songs from each of those ten artists.
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1. ELP - Karn Evil 9 (counting it as one track!)
2. Yes - The Gates Of Delirium 
3. Genesis - Suppers Ready
4. Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Part One
5. Van Der Graff Generator - Scorched Earth
6. Tangerine Dream- Ricochet Part Two
7. IQ - The Last Human Gateway
8. Rick Wakeman - Ann Of Cleeves
9. Big Big Train - Judas Unrepentant
10. Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2020 at 07:37
Subject to change on a daily basis.

Zappa - Inca Roads
Kansas - The Wall
Thank You Scientist - Blood on the Radio
Rush - 2112
Steely Dan - Aja
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
Mike Keneally - Pride is a Sin
Frost* - Milliontown
National Health - Dreams Wide Awake
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Awesoreno Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2020 at 00:04
Huh. I guess being a prog fan is great for this kind of stuff because you have the option to pick a song that's the equivalent of an entire album side (or more nowadays). Sacro put the entirety of Thick as a Brick!

I mean, for limited picks, I'd definitely throw in some tunes that are as long as half an album or more. It's like a hack for desert island picks.
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  1. Yes - Close to The Edge
  2. Yes - The Gates of Delirium
  3. Genesis - Supper's Ready
  4. VDGG - Scorched Earth
  5. VDGG - Sleepwalkers
  6. VDGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
  7. King Crimson - LTIA 2
  8. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
  9. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
  10. U.K. - In The Dead of Night


Edited by Frenetic Zetetic - May 07 2020 at 02:34

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1. Marillion - Blind Curve
2. Camel - Song within a Song
3. Supertramp - Rudy
4. Rush - Subdivisions
5. Jane - Daytime
6. VDGG - House with No Door
7. Threshold -  Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams
8. Sieges Even - Sequence I  The weight
9. Fates Warning - Still Remains
10. Marillion - Goodbye To All That 
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This weeks top 10..

10 -Rubycon Part 1 - Tangerine Dream
9 - March of the Black Queen - Queen
8 - Sleepwalkers - VDGG
7 - Islands - King Crimson
6 - The Revealing Science of God - Yes
5 - Gypsy - Moody Blues
4 - Old man & the Angel - It Bites
3 - Xanadu - Rush
2 - Dogs - Pink Floyd
1 - Suppers Ready - Genesis
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Pink Floyd - Echoes
Can - Spoon
Björk - Yoga
Talk Talk - After the Flood
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Cardiacs - Big Ship
Amon Düül II - Kismet
Supertramp - A Soapbox Opera
Camel - Never Let Go
Kate Bush - Suspended in Gaffa

(I left out Rubycon and Holger's genius work Träum Mal Wieder, because they don't really fit the term "Song", whereas "Echoes" just about does.)


Edited by Lewian - May 08 2020 at 02:41
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2020 at 01:07
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

1. Marillion - Blind Curve
 
 

Blind Curve is a fantastic track but I would really want the whole of side two. It was their Suppers Ready Wink
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Straight off the top of my head:

1. Living in the Heart of the Beast - Henry Cow
2. Karn Evil 9 - ELP
3. Mumps - Hatfield and the North
4. Cinema Show - Genesis
5. MDK - Magma
6. Siberian Khatru - Yes
7. Remember a Day - Pink Floyd
8. Slightly All the Time - Soft Machine
9. Yo Mama - Frank Zappa
10. Inner Temple/Outer Temple - Gong
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Heart Of The Sunrise
Supper's Ready
Starless
Close To The Edge
The Revealing Science Of God
Thick As A Brick
Karn Evil 9
Tarkus
Watcher Of The Skies
The Gates Of Delirium
The Prog Corner
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Mother Gong - The Pied Piper
Magma - De Futura
Amon Düül 2 - Syntelman's March of the Roaring 70s
Christian Boulé - Orange Climax
Ash Ra Tempel - Amboss
Hawkwind - Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
Gong - Master Builder
Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Can - Bel Air
Neu - Hallogallo
Faust - Why Don't You Eat Carrots?


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote emisan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2020 at 18:08
Modern prog:

Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
Transatlantic - All Of The Above
Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing
Neal Morse - The Door
The Tangent - In Earnest
Steven Wilson - Luminol
Phideaux - Snowtorch (part I)
Parallel or 90 Degrees - The Aftercycle Sequence
The Flower Kings - Numbers
Big Big Train - Brave Captain



Classic prog:

Genesis - The Knife
Yes - The Gates Of Delirium
Rush - 2112
Pink Floyd - Echoes
King Crimson - Starless
Kansas - The Pinnacle
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles
Gentle Giant - Peel the Paint
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rick1 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2020 at 02:27
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Mother Gong - The Pied Piper
Magma - De Futura
Amon Düül 2 - Syntelman's March of the Roaring 70s
Christian Boulé - Orange Climax
Ash Ra Tempel - Amboss
Hawkwind - Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
Gong - Master Builder
Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Can - Bel Air
Neu - Hallogallo
Faust - Why Don't You Eat Carrots?

A seriously good list!
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1. Marillion - Neverland
2. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
3. Genesis - Supper's Ready
4. Echolyn - Never the Same
5. Galahad - Bug Eye
6. Kate Bush - An Endless Sky of Honey
7. King Crimson - Epitaph
8. Pendragon - A Man of Nomadic Traits
9. Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
10. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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