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Amazing Lesser Known Prog Epics from the 1970s
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Poll Question: Which of these GREAT prog epics is your favorite?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
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2 [4.55%]
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2 [4.55%]
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2 [4.55%]
1 [2.27%]
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1 [2.27%]
2 [4.55%]
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5 [11.36%]
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    Posted: September 23 2021 at 16:22
I feel like either I've done this poll before (searched, could not find), or been wanting to for a long time: Vote for your favorite "lesser known" or "lesser acclaimed" prog epic from the 1970s--all of which, in my opinion, are masterpieces. 



Edited by BrufordFreak - September 24 2021 at 15:29
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Triumvirat's "Across The Waters", the striking suite on side one of their brilliant debut album, "Mediterranean Tales" released in early 1972. There is a special musical synergy happening here that makes this suite so appealing to me. I never really tire of it.
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Do we have multiple votes? Because for the moment I'm not able to choose yet between UK, Atoll, PFM, Focus and Triumvirat...

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My choice: "The Ikon" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia! A die-cast prog rock epic if I ever heard one.
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Oh good...I can vote for Ash Ra Tempel in this one! :p 
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Oh good...I can vote for Ash Ra Tempel in this one! :p 

LOL Went with PFM but some great picks there.
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Many excellent, but Harmonium is the best
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There are so great material here that is really difficult to choose. But, I decided to choose Fool's Overture of Supertramp. I always was a huge fan of it.
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I voted for (small spell correction) "Wassilissa". The whole album ("Fairy Tales") is simply incredible. Our kids Alice and Dorothy grew up with it and absolutely loved it.


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Good list!  'The Ikon' today
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Mr. Phillips gets the nod.
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Here a link to "Wassilissa":




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So many great places in this poll. I went with Renaissance, but any other could win, and that is fine with me.
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Hard to pick and some of them I haven't heard. I guess I'll go with Anyone's Daughter's Adonis.
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For me, easily the first pick is Shadow of the Hierophant.  After that, hard to rank a lot of these excellent choices, but probably Renaissance, UK, Atoll,  Return to Forever, and England.


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In The Dead Of Night is the bomb, but I'm going to give some love to Renaissance's overlooked classic.
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Steve Hackett's "Shadow of the Hierophant" is second, beaten out by the Alan Parsons Project's "The Fall of the House of Usher".


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Fool's Overture > Adonis
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Fool's Overture - Supertramp
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Glad to see this poll receiving such nice reception! (And a bit surprised.) Guess there's pretty much something for everyone here!

P.S. Like the multiple votes idea but just wanted to see everybody's one top choice.

P.P.S. This list was generated from my Top 50 All-time Prog Epics from the Classic Era list. The usual suspects from the top bands have, of course, been culled out.
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