Top 10 Most "Touching" Prog Songs
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Topic: Top 10 Most "Touching" Prog Songs
Posted By: benchpressmasta
Subject: Top 10 Most "Touching" Prog Songs
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 19:13
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I am a man who enjoys music that is so overtly mindblowing that I can not help but have my heart touched by the sheer emotion; so, i am interested to find out what others consider to be some of the most emotionaly beautiful prog songs out there. Mine would be: 1. Close to Edge - Yes, a clear victor 2. Supper's Ready - Genesis, I don't mean to be cliche but it is impossible to resist 3. The Cinema Show - Genesis, overwhelming to say the least 4. Appena un Po' - PFM, Per un Amico is an incredibly touching album 5. Islands - King Crimson, it always gets me 6. Hamburger Concerto - Focus 7. Histoire sans paroles - Harmonium 8. Dryad of the woods - Pain of Salvation 9. And You and I - Yes 10. Thick As A Brick Pt. 1 - Jethro Tull Clearly there are many more, but these are some of the best. ------------- Failure to consecrate leads to a meltdown in the apparatus which consequently induces the ensuing apocalypse. Believing is Seeing |
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 19:20
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I dunno about my Top 10, but a couple have got me recently.
Yes - And You And I
Harmonium - Depuis l'Automne
Gryphon - Lament
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 19:26
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VDGG - Childlike faith in childhood's End VDGG - La Rossa VDGG - Pilgrims VDGG - Arrow Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles Pink Floyd - Gunner's Dream Marillion - Jigsaw Marillion - Incubus Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear Marillion - Kayleigh Marillion - Childhood's End? King Crimson - Starless Tool - 10.000 Days Porcupine Tree - Lazarus Porcupine Tree - Collapse the light into earth There. Take your pick, i seriously can't do it. ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 19:31
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ahhhh.... a suggestion for a new subgenre at PA's... touchy feely prog... hmmm... And You and I - Yes School Days - Gentle Giant Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Floyd hahhaha.. oh yes Still You Turn Me On - ELP (someone get me a ladder!  )ooohhhh how could I not put this one first  Starless - KIng Crimson may think of others.. but not exactly the touchy feely type hahhaha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 19:33
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And you and I- Yes
Dead Flag Bluse- GY!BE
Weight- Isis
Vaka- Sigur ros
Collapes light onto earth- Porc tree
Seven Stones- Genesis
The only moment we were alone-Explosions in the sky
Sea of Dying Dhow- *Shels
Blacklit- Isis
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 19:38
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1) Dead Flag Blues - GYBE!
2) Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd
3) Cheyanne Anthem - Kansas
4) Reflection - Tool
5) Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
6) Bleak - Opeth
7) Untitled 4 - Sigur Ros
8) Dogs - Pink Floyd
9) Radio Protector - 65daysofstatic
10) Trains - Porcupine Tree ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 19:48
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In Two Minds by Art Bears ...and nine others? ;P ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 02:06
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Marillion alone: 1. The Great Escape 2. This Strange Engine 3. Easter 4. Neverland 5. Beyond You 6. Bridge/Living With The Big Lie 7. Afraid Of Sunlight 8. Somewhere Else 9. The Invisible Man 10. The Other Half Everything else: 1. Firth Of Fifth - Genesis 2. The Gates Of Delerium - Yes 3. Close To The Edge - Yes 4. Supper's Ready - Genesis 5. 12 - Neal Morse 6. The Conflict - Neal Morse 7. Stardust We Are - The Flower Kings 8. The Great Nothing - Spock's Beard 9, Harvest Of Souls - IQ 10. The Pinnacle - Kansas A lot more I could ramble off. E ------------- 
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 07:11
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Refugees - VDGG
And You and I - Yes
Beware the Ides of March - Coloseum
Roads to Moscow - Al Stewart
Us and them - Pink Floyd
New World - Strawbs
Song for Europe - Roxy Music
A Long Way From Home - Kinks (maybe not prog but it is on a concept album of sorts)
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
Melinda - Uriah Heep
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 14:44
Good to see another lover of PT's 'Trains' I dont excatly what it is about that song, but it blows my mind! ..anyway, here's mine.. 
Turn of the Century - Yes At the Harbour - Rennaisance Script for a Jesters Tear - Marillion Undertow - Genesis Ripples - Genesis One for the Vine - Genesis Ghost of a chance - Rush Starless - King Crimson And dream of sheep - Kate Bush Trains - Porcupine Tree I could probably do separate lists for Rush, Genesis, Renaissance, Yes and Kate Bush.. 
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Proletariat wrote:Posted By: Spydrfish
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 21:54
Kate bush? Prog? ------------- This Space For Rent |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 23:45
(At least as much as all the metal, IMO.)
But then, WTF is this "prog" you speak of?  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 16 2007 at 20:40
| Another vote for Genesis - "Seven Stones" |
Posted By: keith_emerson
Date Posted: December 16 2007 at 21:22
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A plague of lighthouse keepers!!!! and many more, but i don't remembre right now... |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 17 2007 at 08:30
Yes. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 01:23
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PT- collapse the light into earth, shesmovedon
VDGG-Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
Tool-10,000 Days
Yes-Onward, And You and I
Coheed and Cambria-The End Complete, On the Brink, The Light and the Glass
King Crimson-Epitaph
Symphony X-Candlelight Fantasia
the entire "The Human Equation" album by Ayreon
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 01:55
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I can't think of ten right now, but.. Heavy Horses Different Strings Onward Don't Give Up |
Posted By: kenmartree
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:17
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Starless
The Cinema Show
Looking for Someone
The Light Dies Down on Broadway
Humdrum
One White Duck
For Jeffery Collins, Micheal and Me
Beyond You
Neverland
Wots...uh the Deal
Heart Attack in a Layby
If you have to ask artist name, you're not paying attention!
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Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:20
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Genesis-The Light Dies Down on Broadway
Pink Floyd-Comfortably Numb Marillion-Sugar Mice VDGG-Man Erg Genesis-Carpet Crawlers Pink Floyd-The Thin Ice Camel-La Princesse Perdue Marillion-Childhoods End? Genesis-The Lamia Focus-Focus II ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:39
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1.Pink Floyd - Hey You 2.Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul 3.GYBE! - Moya 4.Dream Theater - Space-dye Vest 5.Queensryche - Someone Else? 6.Fates Warning - Island In The Stream 7.Sieges Even - Change Of Seasons 8.Soul Cages - Moments 9.Marillion - Sugar Mice 10.Anathema - Inner Silence *11.Tool - Lateralus (how could i forget...  )------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 23:36
Most "touching," eh? 
What about Genesis - The Musical Box? Consider:
"Why dont you touch me, touch me,
Why dont you touch me, touch me, Touch me now, now, now, now, now..."  Damn that "extreme sex test' thread -- now I'm thinking of __ again (first time in at least five minutes)! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 23:38
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Add that with Invisible Touch and Genesis are quite the touching band. ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 23:39
hahahhahahha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 00:11
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Well, let's try and be fair about this...that is, let's try and not make everything Tull...
(Warning: compiled on the spot, not responsible for errors or omissions, may contain "Nights in White Satin.")
10) "Thick as a Brick" OR "Where the Hell Was Biggles?" Two movements from the "Thick as a Brick" suite. The whole "death of innocence" thing is really, really emotionally charged, particularly in the "the love that you feel" and the "you but your bet on number one" images. Well, it's three if you count "The Poet and the Painter;" that's both beautiful AND it rocks. Hell, the whole thing's great anyways.
9) "Tea For One" Crap. I'm sure that Led Zeppelin instills some deep, dark emotion in some of us, but somehow wailing about how Gollum stole yo babay never quite cut it for me. This though, this is so strained and pained, it's gorgeous.
8) "Fallen Angel" Everyone's saying "Starless," what about "Angel?" It's pretty gosh darn sweet. Dripping with emotion, and it also rocks. What more do you want?
7) "Can You Give Me Sanctuary?" The opening movement of "The Soft Parade"...suite. Thingy. Damn that thing hurts though.
6) "Processions" Family at their most gorgeous. It seems fast and throwaway, but it's really not.
5) "Dedicated to Lydia" I don't even know why, but I adore this song (it's by Carmen, by the way).
4) "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day (Live)" Specifically from the Slipstream DVD. The song as a whole holds a somewhat personal resonance, but it's this version that really gets me.
3) "Don't Leave Me Now" It was hard to choose a Pink Floyd favorite, but "Wish" and "Pigs inna Wing" must fall to the side for this one. Is the sentiment more sentimental elsewhere? Perhaps...but it's HERE that I really, really feel Rog.
2) "Washing of the Water" Couldn't escape with Pete, could we now? The whole album hurts, but gosh, this one...these are all sad, aren't they?
1) "Cheap Day Return" Is it about a minute long? Yes. Is it gorgeous? Oh yes. Hell yes. In every way, shape and form. Never has sadness been so simply expressed. It HURTS.
Honorable mentions include "Under Wraps #2," "Moths," "Elegy (LIVE!)"... ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Astrodomine
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 08:50
You forgot VDGG - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers!
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Posted By: Nucleus
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 16:47
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This'll be another tough one... No particular order
Moody Blues- Question
Moody Blues- The Dawn (Dawn is a Feeling)
Moody Blues- New Horizons
Yes- Awaken
Yes- Mood For A Day
Yes- The Revealing Science Of God
Yes- Ritual Yes- And You and I
Yes- Close to the Edge
The Alan Parsons Project- Nucleus/Day After Day/Total Eclipse/Genesis Ch.1. V.32
The Alan Parsons Project- Old and Wise
Explosions in the Sky- First Breath After Coma
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Dead Flag Blues
Pink Floyd- Great Gig in the Sky
Pink Floyd- Echoes
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Porcupine Tree- Fadeaway
Radiohead- Paranoid Android
Radiohead- Lucky
Supertramp- Take the Long Way Home
Supertramp- Crime of the Century
Supertramp- Even in the Quietest Moments
Supertramp- Downstream
Tangerine Dream- Rubycon
that was WAY more than ten, and that was just spontaneously...
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Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 17:25
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There are quite a few, but the first that springs to mind is Tears from Rush on 2112.
High Hopes from Pink Floyd also. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: efoman
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 23:27
Beyond prog.
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Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: December 21 2007 at 17:17
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Harmonium - Depuis l'Automne ------------- 
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 21 2007 at 18:29
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1. VdGG - Lost some other ones. Can't decide. |
Posted By: herring
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 05:51
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A Plague of Lighthouse keepers (goes straight to my heart) Moonchild (and when the drums come in at Court of the Crimson King... magic) Breathe (pink floyd) Musical Box (the end is so majestic, when the organ carefully joins... magic as well tony is a genius along with peter and steve) |
Posted By: Anonymous
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:49
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most already mentioned:
VdGG - Refugees
Peter Hammill - Wilhelmina, A Louse Is Not A Home
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Genesis - it, The Musical Box (touch me...)
Explosions In the Sky - Your Hand In Mine
Mogwai - Cody (or is it CODY?)
GY!BE - Moya
King Crimson - Starless
Interpol - Public Pervert (not prog? whatever.)
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage, Eclipse ------------- In my town, there is a raincoat under a tree In the sky there is a cloud containing the sea In the sea there is a whale without any eyes In the whale there is a man without his raincoat. |
Posted By: Anonymous
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:54
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How could I forget?
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry (live)
Supertramp - Don't Leave Me Now
both can (and have) brought me to tears on many occasions ------------- In my town, there is a raincoat under a tree In the sky there is a cloud containing the sea In the sea there is a whale without any eyes In the whale there is a man without his raincoat. |
Posted By: JROCHA
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 00:37
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Not in any order Starless-King Crimson 10,000 days-TOOL Garden of Light-Isis Anesthetize-Porcupine Tree Echoes-Pink Floyd Transfigure-Jesu The Musical Box-Genesis Heart of the Sunrise-Yes Scorched Earth-VDGG The Birth and Death of a Day-Explosions in the sky Travel is Dangerous-mogwai Mission-Rush Televators-The Mars Volta |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 02:58
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Starless - KC 'Soon' segment from Gates of Delirium - Yes Glass Museum - Tortoise Lazarus - PT Lucky - Radiohead One Time - KC Along The Banks of Rivers - Tortoise Exit Musik For a Film - Radiohead Last track off the 7 dvd - Supersilent I Can See You - Neurosis |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 03:09
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and these are the 'prog-related' ones hehehe: Biko - Peter Gabriel This Woman's Work - Kate Bush Against All Odds - Phil Collins (!!!) In Too Deep - Genesis (!!!) Blood of Eden - Peter Gabriel |
Posted By: dholl
Date Posted: December 24 2007 at 19:47
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Great topic! I'll try not to overdo the Floyd: Pink Floyd - Nobody Home ("I got a strong urge to fly!") Goldfrapp - Deer Stop (her wail at the end sends shivers down me everytime) note: Goldfrapp's certainly not prog but this song is. Harmonia - Ahoi! (the end section takes me to a place where all is...touchingly harmonious) Radiohead - Street Spirit ("Immerse your soul in love!") The Doors - The Crystal Ship ("Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss"...aw, how touching) Gong - Tried So Hard ("And you tried so hard to get there"...well, I didn't try so hard actually, which is probably why I didn't get there...but I still feel the sentiment) Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (I really feel this song if I myself am in, some kind of, love - otherwise you just feel like telling him to get over it.) Vangelis - Ask The Mountains (so lovely, the message seems to make you want to save the Earth) Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (I so want to touch and be touched when this song is playing, if only we had an extended version) Mansun - Cancer (not just for the piano section in the middle, nor for when the signature Mansun sound comes in after the piano, but also for the heart-wrenching emotional vocal delivery from our Paul) note: a progressive indie band for sure, but this song is so epic prog rock Pink Floyd would happily replace Have A Cigar with it...thus making Wish You Here Here the perfect album. |
Posted By: kenmartree
Date Posted: December 25 2007 at 00:51
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[QUOTE= Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (I so want to touch and be touched when this song is playing, if only we had an extended version) No doubt, I believe I left it off my list, so just move it to the top!
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Posted By: Deus_Nova
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 13:31
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Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway Dream Theater - Octavarium Porcupine Tree - Trains Tool - Schism Pain Of Salvation - Dedication ------------- 
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 13:49
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If it's based on sheer emotion, then probably the following. In no particular order, with adrenaline placed beside tragedy. 1. 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson 2. Echoes - Pink Floyd 3. Islands - King Crimson 4. And You And I - Yes 5. Lady Fantasy - Camel 6. Lizard - King Crimson (particularly Prince Rupert's Lament) 7. Wond'ring Aloud - Jethro Tull 8. Starless - King Crimson 9. Epitaph - King Crimson 10. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight - Genesis |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:03
A great song off of a great album. Most understated and one of the least played songs off that album on the radio. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:06
very true....  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:13
| A bunch of Pain of Salvation and Porcupine Tree songs. Very touching music indeed. |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:44
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Emotional prog... there are so many emotional tracks out there so...
1 - Le Orme "Un Angelo"
2 - King Crimson "Island" (the song)
3 - Gila "In a Sacred Manner"
4 - Moody Blues "Watching and waiting"
5 - New Trolls "Una Miniera"
6 - Popol Vuh "Abschied"
7 - Pavlov's Dog "Late November" (I missed n. 7 out... I cannot count!!!
 )8 - Roxy Music "2HB"
9 - Riccardo Zappa "Frammenti"
the last one, very difficult (I'd leave it blank for any suggestions, but I won't)
10 - Tangerine Dream "Sequent C" ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:51
I don't listen to that album enough... but put that on yesterday for sh*ts and grins and man alive is it a great one.------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 15:18
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^I love that band... If it weren't for my intention not to include suites, I would have put "Birth of Liquid Plejades" -------------
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 15:34
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Not very easy to find ten, but I'll try... 1. Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult 2. Starless - KC 3. Epitaph - KC 4. Take a Pebble - ELP 5. Pull Out the Pin - Kate Bush 6. San Jacinto - Peter Gabriel 7. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 8. The Trees They Do Grow High - Pentangle 9. My God - Jethro Tull 10. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 15:48
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VdGG have been mentioned several times, but I wonder why no-one named "House with No Door" yet. Peter Hammill's "This side of the Looking Glass" one that always touches me is "Pharaoh" from the Amon Düül 2 album "Only Human" (which on the whole is better than its average rating, in my opinion, though it is not really a typical Amon Düül 2 album. but it is a good symphonic prog album which I would give 3 stars) Robert Calvert`s "Hero With One Wing" is a touching song too, in my opinion -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |