Musical Legacy

Here's the deal: the world ends. Everything that the human race has ever accomplished completely disappears. By incredible chance, one piece of music survives, the single record of our species' existence to whoever else may be out there...

...what would you want it to be, and why?

It can be a song or an album, prog or non-prog.

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life............

Wish you were here- Pink Floyd

Yes, It´s still the best album of all times 

Got to be "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" by REM!

THE MUSICAL BOX

Ok....on a serious note I think I would choose ELP's Toccata. I couldn't pick the whole BSS LP, however,...why subject them to Benny the Bouncer?

one piece of music and we're gonna choose a prog
track - oh dear - visiting aliens picking over a ruined
planet can only come across ELP or Pink Floyd as
humankind's greatest artistic achivement. They'll be
glad we blew ourselves to smithereens!
C'mon Floyd are good and all but what about uhhh
Mozart, Bach, Stravinsky, that bird from Pop Idol .....

I think Pain of Salvations - Be would be quite appropriate, this is what Daniel Gildenlow says its about

The album deals with the great mystery of earthly existence. “I consider the story of ‘Be’ as a kind of modern fairy tale about the genesis of life. It deals with mankind, with God, and our relationship with faith and science. The most important question of all questions is: How is everything connect with each other? Science gives us a few hints regarding this, however we are not able to really comprehend the whole system of life and emotions. As part of the system we cannot view it in it’s wholeness from outside.”
 

and of course its a darn good listen too, with a brilliant mixture of Folk, Rock, classical and with Daniels divine vocals too!

YES: And You And I

It's a near perfect tune. Intricate musical parts interwoven in an elegant patchwork quilt of aural color and thoughtful spiritual lyrics. It's my favorite YES tune and supports the prog movement, as well as the human creature. Except for James mention of "Imagine," I can't think of any other tune to capture that spirit.

I. Cord Of Life

A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream,
Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes.
As a foundation left to create the spiral aim,
A movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed.
Between the picture of time behind the face of need,
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Turn round tailor,          ;           ;           ;   Coins and
Assaulting all the mornings of the         &nb sp;      Crosses
Interest shown,                                      Never know
Presenting one another to the cord,         & nbsp;     Their fruitless worth;
All left dying, rediscovered                        Cords are broken,
Of the door that turned round,                     Locked inside
To close the cover,                                  the mother earth.
All the interest shown,                             They won't
To turn one another, to the sign         &n bsp;        Hide, hold, they won't
At the time         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         Tell you, watching the world,
To float your climb.                                Watching all of the world,
                                                      Watching us go by.

And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.

II. Eclipse

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the side of seeds of life with you.

III. The Preacher the Teacher

Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.
Ooh, ooh.

I listened hard but could not see
Life tempo change out and inside me.
The preacher trained in all to lose his name;
The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same.
In the end, we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalise
That the truth of the man maturing in his eyes,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
As a moment regained and regarded both the same,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you.

IV. Apocalypse

And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning.
And you and I reach over the sun for the river.
And you and I climb, clearer, towards the movement.
And you and I called over valleys of endless seas.