Most progressive song?
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Topic: Most progressive song?
Posted By: W.Chuck
Subject: Most progressive song?
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 03:47
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What would you say?
I have absolutely no idea!  ------------- 
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Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 03:58
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So do I ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: pero
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 04:01
| 21 century |
Posted By: Bart
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 04:13
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KC fits well, but maybe Lizard instead of 21th century ? It's my opinion. ------------- Saw you sitting on a sunbeam in the middle of my daydream |
Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 04:35
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Epitaph? ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 04:40
| This is the most ridiculous thread I've ever seen on this forum. And that's saying something. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:09
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I concur..
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Trouserpress wrote:Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:14
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Yeah, ridiculous indeed But if I have to pick one song, I would nominate Magellan - Magna Carta. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:25
Take it easy... I don't know if the question is ridiculous or not, but if you think so, simply, you needn't take part in the thread...  ... BTW, I couldn't answer the question.------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: Rising Force
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 05:39
| I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing, the Atlantis trilogy by Planet X is hella brilliant. On Live From Oz, it kind of feels like the trilogy is extended to eight (Apocolypse 1470 B.C. to Tony's solo), because of the way the songs flow from one song to the next. It's other wordly. I can't stop raving about this band. |
Posted By: W.Chuck
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 06:05
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Of course it's ridiculous -------------
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Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 06:11
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Well... if we assume it's ridiculous... "Oops I did it again" by Britney Spears or "Waterloo" by Abba. ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: jojim
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 06:20
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A day at the races - by LITTLE FEAT - incredible peace of music: the
intro so bizarre classical and then the machinery that starts and is
rolling till the end. Marvelous. Could not play any part of it.
------------- YES - Close to the edge / UK - UK / GENESIS - The lamb lies down / KING CRIMSON - Discipline / MIKE OLDFIELD - Tubular bells / JETHRO TULL - Aqualung / GENTLE GIANT - Three friends / TMO - IMF |
Posted By: W.Chuck
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:00
Well, I really expectet kind of a serious answer... But thank you for your amusing joke  -------------
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Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:23
Right ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:25
Hmm... waterloo, so prog. ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: TGElder
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 08:48
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If we're talking about the prog rock stereotype (and we all know what
that is, whether we like it or not) then it has to be Tarkus. |
Posted By: W.Chuck
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 10:12
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It is simply,
WHICH ONE IS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE SONG?/WHICH SONG DEFINES PROGRESSIVE MUSIC?/WHICH SONG FULFILS ALL THE CRITERIAS OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC? -------------
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Posted By: erlenst
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 10:16
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Although I don't really know what you are asking, I would say that
there are a few songs that really captures the essence of prog rock,
although they sound COMPLETELY different from each other: - Close to the Edge - Tarkus - Lizard - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - The Musical Box And a bunch of others of course. But your topic is really absurd. Most progressive song ? As in most complex ? Most typical for the genre (which of course makes no sense when you consider the diversity of prog) ? |
Posted By: Crimsoner
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 10:33
Goooood question!!! 
------------- Just BE! |
Posted By: Jay Klmnop
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 08:18
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I must say that I like the question in this thread. It's a good way to sample prog by listening to each person's choice. To me what makes prog prog is complexity, changes, strange-sounding, and difficulty to understand. I don't have a whole lot of experience and the question is subjective but I'd nominate the following:
Slapp Happy by Henry Cow from In the Heart of the Beast In a Glass House by Gentle Giant from In a Glass House Cancer of the Band by Yezda Urfa from Sacred Baboon (incredible "lyrics"...) A Louse is not a Home by Peter Hammill from Silent Corner and Empty Stage
------------- Music is the only art in which the beholders are not ashamed to remain fossilized as "beginners." I like difficult music. |
Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 08:31
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Octavarium it's a compilation about prog rock is. ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: akin
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 09:06
| Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 09:18
Supper's Ready. Taking the points from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock , it contains about 8/12
of them (three of those points were ment for albums anyway):
------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |