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At the Drive-In: Arcarsenal
The Hal al Shedad: Sailor's Song
Van der Graaf Generator: Refugees
pre-1975 Yes: Five Per Cent for Nothing

There are so many other bands popping in and out of my favourites-list all the time.
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Limelight- Rush- This song got me into Rush, which got me into prog rock in general. I had been listening to Pink Floyd for a while but this got me into the rest of prog.

CTTE- Yes
Aqualung- Jethro Tull
Karn Evil 9- ELP
Supper's Ready- Genesis- I didn't see how much depth Genesis had as a band until I heard Supper's Ready.
 
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Fun idea for a list, nice one!  Not all prog tho' Shocked


On The Run - Pink Floyd
You Can't Kill Me - Gong
Six (album version) - Mansun
Z.N.S - Einstürzende Neubauten
Oh Yeah - Can
Street Spirit - Radiohead
No Wrong No Right - Soundgarden
Brother James - Sonic Youth
Deranged - Derango
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
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Genesis - The Knife
Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here
(Warning, following 3 aint prog.)
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
David Bowie - Life On Mars
Queen - Seven Seas of Rhye
(You can relax again).
Supertramp - The Logical Song
Jethro Tull - Aqualung/Thick as a Brick
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Mostly Autumn - Shrinking Violet
RPWL - The gentle art of swimming
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
Yes - The revealing science of God
The Flower Kings - Stardust we are
Riverside - The same river
Pendragon - The last man on Earth
Magenta - The white witch
Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
Ayreon - Isis and Osiris
 
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(Introitus - The hand that feeds you)
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Genesis - The Musical Box
 
Steve Hackett - Every Day
 
Soft Machine - Why am I so short
 
Gentle Giant - Knots
 
Robert Wyatt - Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road
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Going through five favourites, and tacking on my current favourite two songs by that band (just out of curiosity)

ELP: Pictures At An Exhibition (Take A Pebble, Tarkus)
Genesis: One For The Vine (The Musical Box, Can Utility and the Coastliners)
Pink Floyd: Time (Time, Us And Them)
Rush: The Necromancer (specifically Into The Darkness) [Xanadu, The Fountain Of Lamneth]
King Crimson: Epitaph (21st Century Schizoid Man, Epitaph)

And a couple more.

Yes: You And I (South Side of the Sky, You And I)
Steve Hackett: Shadow of the Hierophant (The Silk Road, Clocks)
Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms (Telegraph Road, Brothers In Arms)
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Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Porcupine Tree - The Start of Something Beautiful
Pain of Salvation - Rope Ends
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Opeth - Bleak
Riverside - Loose Heart
Rush - Time Stands Still
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Most of the songs that hooked me to my favorite bands are usually the ones that made me go "Wow, who are they?"
OK, here goes:
Prog:
Porcupine Tree- Sound of Muzak
Genesis- Watcher of The Skies
Camel- Rhayader
Dream Theater- Pull Me Under/Metropolis Pt I
Yes- Siberian Khatru
Anathema- Fragile Dreams
Tool- Ticks and Leeches/Stinkfist
Mastodon- March of The Fire Ants
Opeth- Deliverance
dredg- Bug Eyes
Oceansize- Amputee
Rush- Anthem/YYZ/2112
Meshuggah- Soulburn
Dead Soul Tribe- Why
Pain of Salvation- People Passing By
The Gathering- Even The Spirits Are Afraid
Riverside- Loose Heart
King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man
Ayreon: Loser
Psychotic Waltz- A Psychotic Waltz
Symphony X- Inferno(Unleash The Fire)/ Orion The Hunter
Shadow Gallery- The Archer of Ben Salem
Enchant- Sinking Sand
Kansas- America/Carry On Wayward Son
Spock's Beard- The Light
 
Non Prog:
The Cure- Boys Don't Cry (loved thime since day 1)
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Give It Away/ Aeroplane
Megadeth- Hangar 18
Metallica- Lepper Messiah/Blackened
Pantera- Cemetery Gates
Skid Row- Wasted Time
Mr. Big- Green Tinted Sixties Mind/ Addicted To That Rush
Jimi Hendrix- Purple Haze
Rainbow- Long Live Rock N Roll
Iron Maiden- Aces High/ Two Minutes to Midnight/ Hallowed Be Thy Name
Deep Purple- Highway Star
Petra- Midnight Oil
Toto- I'll Be Over You/Ana/ I Will Remember (Yeah, I know, I know)
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to be continued
 
 
 


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Genesis - The Return of the Giant Hogweed
The Beatles - Blue Jay Way
Frank Zappa - Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague
King Crimson - Lizard
Pink Floyd - Time
Yes - Starship Trooper
Rush - Freewill
Kansas - Hopelessly Human
Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Todd Rundgren - All the Children Sing
Scott Walker - Mathilde (LOL)
maudlin of the Well - Ferocious Weights
Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity
Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants
Novembre - Distances
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will be Home Then)
Incubus - Nowhere Fast
Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
In Flames - Embody the Invisible
Cradle of Filth - IV. The Secret Garden - Mannequin
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Lurker of Chalice - Spectre as Valkerie Is
Leviathan - What Fresh Hell
Xasthur - The Prison of Mirrors
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The Sound of Muzak - Porcupine Tree
Beneath the Mire - Opeth
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Oops I forgot Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
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Mine are fairly predictable, since back in the days when free mp3s were more easily accessible, I would download the most popular songs by bands to check them out.

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (I wasn't much of a prog fan back then)
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
King Crimson - Epitaph
Yes - Roundabout
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
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Gong - Magick Mother Invocation, Master Builder, Sprinkling of Clouds...  Heck, the entire You album
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man, One More Red Nightmare
Genesis - The Musical Box
Iron Maiden - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Can - Spray
Tangerine Dream - Atem
Tortoise - Glass Museum
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"Easter" by Marillion.

I know who Marillion was back in the 80's and heard several songs; however, when my buddy sent me Six Of One, Half Dozen Of The Other, I was completely swept up by this song. Just absolutely beautiful.

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Yes- Machine Messiah
Rush- Freewill
Dream Theater- Overture 1928
Pink Floyd- Time
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
Styx- Renegade
Symphony X- Evolution
Steve Vai- For the Love of God
Hold on to the Dream...
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