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Psychedelic Paul 
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 Topic: The Top 50 Sweetest SuitesPosted: April 12 2023 at 03:06 |
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Inspired by James Baldwin, here's a Top 50 chart rundown of the sweetest epic prog suites:-
01.  1972: Genesis - Supper's Ready - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVyfj7-mHqs02.  1974: YES - The Gates of Delirium / Soon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRVBQtKltM03. 1972: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAt1b21S97k04. 1971: Pink Floyd - Echoes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk05. 2011: Phideaux - Snowtorch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Fx6uaCX4A06. 1973: YES - The Revealing Science of God - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIfAbQVkR3E07. 1973: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXatvzWAzLU08. 1972: YES - Close to the Edge - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDU-vilgic09.  1972: Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TXKdoi8WQ10. 1977: YES - Awaken - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXccU0xgNo11. 1974: Focus - Hamburger Concerto - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WMJsozf9eU12. 2010: Neograss - The Sea of Tranquility - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLq172JyO0s13.  1974: Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YCs_GkkWUg14. 1975: Renaissance - Song of Scheherazade - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baLPlJ9sQiA15. 1974: Todd Rundgren's Utopia - The Ikon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeFkydP5PFs16. 1972: Supersister - Pudding en Gisteren - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmzSWGkQ86817. 1968: Procol Harum - In Held Twas I - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klon0T5zbgY18. 1971: Caravan - Nine Feet Underground - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVR8lbbNBAo22. 2011: Brighteye Brison - The Rise of Brighteye Brison - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRv8vJa7Bw23. 2011: Haken - Visions - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSyfvnF5pps24. 2009: Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHB1AXYY9co25. 2002: Echolynn - Mei - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYD6sm-YoZ026. 1973: YES - The Ancient - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXUyrZBq3fM27. 2008: Moon Safari - Other Half of the Sky - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sEnjobgMZU28. 1973: YES - Ritual - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBabdgGAbI29. 2008: Brighteye Brison - The Grand Event - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5BKfg_DMvE30. 2012: The Flower Kings - Numbers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss7PYDicedA31. 2004: Magma - K.A. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqtqmrVbu432. 1970: Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6e0CED9A-Q33. 2005: Moon Safari - We Spin the World - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siCks7Nbjig34. 2011: Neograss - Atlantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHwEywDUqSU35. 2007: The Flower Kings - Love is the Only Answer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N68VfE_x-jI36. 1971: Focus - Eruption - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OB5kMsOSWc37. 2013: Days Between Stations - In Extremis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnX6bElfZ4w39. 1975: Hatfield & the North - Mumps - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_MUajIs9Vs40. 1975: Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2K-fx3uoeo41. 2008: Brighteye Brison - The Harvest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdueeQagDl442. 1975: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4WfWEBMFys43. 1970: Soft Machine - Out Bloody Rageous - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9O2lg1Jd6s44. 2010: Big Big Train - The Wide Open Sea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sqWtIOv1g845. 1980: The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card - - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFNa5jVmJtU46. 1978: Mike Oldfield - Incantations - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0qrRmiFRWI48. 1997: YES - Mind Drive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLAJnmSfUY49. 1971: Earth and Fire - Song of the Marching Children - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FZ1q7UxviQ50.
1996: YES - That, That Is - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B8ZQMQcqfIEdited by Psychedelic Paul - April 12 2023 at 04:08 |
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 03:18 |
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Just to be ultra-picky, it's just called The Gates of Delirium, there is no /Soon.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 03:23 |
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Is this your personal Top 50 Chart or is there a source?
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 03:33 |
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No Dabsong Conshirtoe?
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 03:34 |
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It must be a from a source (based on his VdGG rating!) but it’s obviously a dodgy one as there’s no IQ, DT or Marillion….
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Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 04:07 |
Nothing For Richard either.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 04:13 |
The Top 50 list was sourced from Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/progrockmusic/comments/2smxy4/favorite_long_prog_suites/ Obviously, if it was my own personal Top 50, it wouldn't have included VDGG, Magma, or Hatfield & the North.  I'll have a list of my own personal favourite prog suites coming up soon, none of which are included in the Reddit Top 50.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 04:15 |
That's a good point, especially considering Dream Theater's Octavarium isn't on the list.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 04:20 |
Soon is one of my all-time favourite Yessongs (especially the slide guitar part), although I prefer Sonja Kristina's version. |
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 04:25 |
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Nine from Yes! Also two from Motorpsycho:) - but no Lizard (by King Crimson). And hey number one on the list isn't sidelong  -out of these I think I personally has the most love for: Echoes A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Out Bloody Rageous* Song of the Marching Children Mumps ...closely followed by: Close to the Edge Supper's Ready Nine Feet Underground Atom Heart Mother Pudding en Gisteren Great as they are I'd probably take any long 1970's Magma-track over the two represented on the list. *would personally had selected Virtually I - IV as it's closer to a what a true suite is, and I love it just as much |
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 04:34 |
Yes, that Top 50 list was obviously compiled by a YES fan. Even I wouldn't have included nine epics from YES, but I might have included nine epics by Renaissance.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 06:09 |
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Paul's list is definitely incomplete. I've been working on a list for ten years now and have only recently become satisfied with my Top Classic Era Epics list:
"Supper's Ready" - Genesis (99.5/100) "Gates of Delirium" - Yes * (99/100) "Close to the Edge" - Yes * (98.5/100) "Cinema Show" - Genesis (98/100) "The Fall of the House of Usher" - Alan Parsons Project (98/100) "Can You Hear Me?" - Renaissance (98/100) "Ludwig II von Bayern" - Klaus Schulze * (98/100) "Awaken" - Yes (97/100) "The Musical Box" - Genesis (97/100) "A Trip to The Fair" - Renaissance (97/100) "Romantic Warrior" - Return to Forever (97/100) "The Ikon" - Utopia * (96.5/100) "Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times" - Anthony Phillips (96.5/100) "Friedrich Nietzsche" - Klaus Schulze * (96.5/100) "Dogs" - Pink Floyd * (96/100) "The Geese and the Ghost" - Anthony Phillips (96/100) "L'auberge du Sanglier/A hunting we shall go / Pengola / Backwards / A hunting we shall go (reprise)" - Caravan (96/100) "T. on a White Horse" - Eberhard Weber (96/100) "In the Dead of Night" suite - UK (96/100) "Adonis" - Anyone's Daughter * (95/100) "Histoires sans paroles" - Harmonium * (95/100) "Firth of Fifth" - Genesis (95/100) "Moana I" - Eberhard Weber (95/100) "The Court of the Crimson King" - King Crimson (95/100) "Mother Russia" - Renaissance (95/100) "L'araigné-mal" - Atoll * (94.5/100) "Introduzione" - Il Balletto di Bronzo (94.5/100) "Incantations (Side One)" - Mike Oldfield * (94/100) "Utopia Theme" - Utopia (94/100) "Heart of the Sunrise" - Yes (94/100) "Sheep" - Pink Floyd (94/100) "Canto nomade per un prigioniero politico" - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso (93/100) "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers" - VDGG * (93/100) "Fool's Overture" - Supertramp (93/100) "Sound Chaser" - Yes (93/100) "Lunar Sea" - Camel (93/100) "Hamburger Concerto" - Focus * (92.5/100) "Sleeping Giant" - Herbie Hancock * (92.5/100) "Pictures" - Island * (92.5/100) "Things I Don't Understand" - Renaissance (92/100) "Hortz Fur Dëhn Stekëhn Ẁest" - Magma (92/100) "Prince and The Sea" - Lenny White (92/100) "Can't be long now / Françoise / For Richard / Warlock" - Caravan (92/100) "L'isola di niente" - PFM (92/100) "Depuis l'automne" - Harmonium (92/100) "Poisoned Youth" - England (92/100) "Tubular Bells" (Side One) - Mike Oldfield * (91.5/100) "Take a Pebble" - ELP (91.5/100) "Friedemann Bach" - Klaus Schulze (91.5/100) "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" - Todd Rundgren * (91/100) "Eruption" - Focus * (91/100) "Tarkus" - ELP * (91/100) "Huascaran I" - Fermata (91/100) "Across the Waters" - Triumvirat (91/100) "The Duel of The Jester and The Tyrant (Parts I & II)" - Return to Forever (91/100) "W Kolysce Dloni Twych (Ojcu)" - SBB (91/100) "One for theVine" - Genesis (91/100) "Traummaschine" - Ash Ra Tempel * (91/100) "Shadow of the Heirophant" - Steve Hackett (91/100) "Wasting Time" - Zyma (91/100) "Wassilissa" - Mother Gong * (90.5/100) "Barbara" - Ivory (90.5/100) "The Torture Never Stops" - Frank Zappa (90/100) "Before the Fall" - Babylon (90/100) "La femme aillée" - Pollen (90/100) * denotes a side-long epic.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 06:18 |
Nothing here says they have to be, Awaken isn't either.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 06:19 |
This really takes us back to the question about what a "suite" is. Cinema Show, Lunar Sea - are they really suites?
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 07:46 |
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I noticed there's no Camel songs in the Top 50, which has given me the hump.
But it's good to see Lunar Sea in Drew's list.  Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 12 2023 at 07:47 |
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 08:02 |
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For a useful reference i made this list PROG albums with 20 minute plus tracksSome of them qualify as side long suites of course in the modern world there are many albums with no sides if only on CD or digital |
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 08:15 |
I kept scrolling and scrolling down through your extensive list, wondering how many more epic suites there were still to go, then when I finally reached the bottom of your list, I discovered there's another five pages of suites to scroll through.
Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 12 2023 at 08:16 |
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^ yeah it's meant to be comprehensive so if anybody sees something missing, please do tell!
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 09:04 |
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^Transatlantic The Whirlwind (one song).
The Psychedelic Ensemble Tale of the Golden King (One Song). He has another album, unsure of title, that is one song. Edited by Grumpyprogfan - April 12 2023 at 09:07 |
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Top 10 Epic Suites from Renaissance (only one of which is in the overall Top 50)
1969: Renaissance - Kings and Queens - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrSCU_3hK34 1972: Renaissance - Rajah Khan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox_hzO6SIAY 1973: Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXQATNJRLAg 1973: Renaissance - At the Harbour - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vODfYjbLxY 1973: Renaissance - Can You Understand - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A3bb47J3xU 1974: Renaissance - Mother Russia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7QsXJPoWQ 1976: Renaissance - Can You Hear Me? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdWA7l1FGcQ 1978: Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnINzfs6Pi8 |
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