Most Progressive song Ever
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Topic: Most Progressive song Ever
Posted By: The Quiet One
Subject: Most Progressive song Ever
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 15:57
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Well I was wandering around which song has the most progressive elements and starting to check out Tales From Topographic Ocean or Foxtrot or Echoes or Shine on You Crazy Diamond any of Gentle Giant??
Well i'm hoping anyone to tell your opinion... |
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Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 17:10
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I think it's very hard to rate. So many bands can be described as "progressive", so really I can't answer this question. ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 17:23
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Don't get too caught up in the whole concept of "progginess", it kills the fun in listening to music, because you always end up thinking "hmm, is this prog enough?". But to answer your question, there are many ways to be progressive. Some will say Magma because Vander invented a language, some will say Tales from topographiv oceans because it has long songs, some will say Close to the edge because it is the quintessential prog epic, some will say ELP because they mixed classical with rock, some will say King Crimson, because they are the most experimental, some will say Gentle Giant because they are totally unique in concept and in music, some will say Dream Theater sucks because they are tired of endless Petrucci polls, some will say Arctic Monkeys because they haven't got a clue what they're talking about, and some will say "hello, look at me, i am a lamppost!" because they've taken too many of the doctor's pills, but I will say the Velvet Underground, because if not, no one will. ------------- 
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 20:18
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I've no idea. Going by the standard "prog" clichés, perhaps it's Lizard? It's a very early epic with the title split into movements, has mellotron and jazz semi-improv, is themed, etc. =)
------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 21:03
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This is kind of like the question, "How Long Is A Piece Of String?"
The question to find the "most progressive song ever" is just about impossible to answer. Any result would be based on subjectivity because there is no way to measure such a concept.
Like Evans aluded to, don't get caught up in pigeon-holing the music by the amount of progressiveness or what ever; simply get into the music and if you enjoy it and talks to your soul, well and good ... and if you don't, don't play it.
------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Real Paradox
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 09:58
Wow gentle giant songs own in that field...realy...the most proggy band !And some King Crimson too, although they do it a kind of classical non-keybordish way ,that was reveling in most of the classical rock bands from that time.But if you wanna go jazzy ,go King Crimson. ------------- What is This? It is what keeps us going... |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 10:31
| It's probably easier to answer the question "which of the famous Prog pieces are not the most progressive song ever, and why not?" |
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 17:21
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I can post on this board? Excellent. Supper's Ready is hard to confuse with any genre but Prog... Perhaps Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth- which makes no effort to restrain its progressiveness, for good or bad.Echoes by Pink Floyd is really prog-brand and I would always put a word in for Dogs from Animals- my favorite track of all time , which features all the same "progressions" or changes as the song goes along, absence of any pop stuff like refrain, heavy instrumentation, pained, transcendent lyrics.... I think you can have a very bad prog style song but progressive music assumes good, breakthrough music. In the same way you can say, well this track really typifies the style of classic rock, but it sucks, and isn't really "classic" classic rock at all. So this is why I mention Journey to the Center of the Earth, which really has all the features of prog very easily picked out even though many Prog fans would rather listen to Straight Rock.... Sorry if this post makes little sense, one must experiment! |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 17:34
I realise the great irony in me telling you this after posting a really painful read earlier in the thread myself, but i am Clint Eastwood, so i do what i want. -------------
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
RoyFairbank wrote:Posted By: Drakk
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 18:03
 ------------- [QUOTE=darkshade] [QUOTE=Sckxyss] I'm disappointed - neither of these players are avant-garde! Al di Meola. [/QUOTE] haha i know. but the poll itself is avant-garde [/QUOTE] |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 20:29
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mmm... Im a lamppost!
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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 20:48
| I dunno, some really crazy songs like the 2 epics of Amputechture (mars volta), or Beyond the Twilight's "For the art of Making Love" or however that incredibly over-pretentious album is called. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 18:20
| KKKK I don't only hear prog music I was just asking your suggestions this is for Evans and T rox and Drakk. I love hard rock some of modern rock even folk rock, some pop like INXS and Simply Red. Blues rock. Some jazz fusion. |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 18:26
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I know what you mean, cacho, i asked the same thing when i joined this site, but there's no such thing as "most progressive", however if you want some seriously tough to digest music, try Unexpect. There are samples on the site. Oh no, i lied, there aren't, but you can just to a search on youtube, there are lots of it there. -------------
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 18:29
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just reviewed the album.... most progressive.. .this my friends...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oS1QltkP4M - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oS1QltkP4M ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: rockthebox
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 13:46
| Its hard to choose what is more progressive |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 14:05
| No idea, but the songs on Topographic Oceans deserves a mention! |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 14:12
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Just to name a short one which symbolizes well the genre for me, even if it's short: "Knots" by Gentle Giant...
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Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: February 14 2008 at 15:03
| Yes, listening to Knots by Gentle Giant, I have to agree. I can barely take it it is so progressive! It is a very bold piece with all sorts of rarities and innovations that exemplify prog and distinguish it from its predecessors and rivals. This is the kind of thing that is impossible for a non-prog fan to listen to. .... Wait now.... oooh... The next song though is very cool for anyone, yeah-yuh, great drums, guitar and... now sax! Great, sounds like Van Der Graf a bit. I should listen to Gentle Giant more often. Whats that chirping noise! BRILLIANT! |
Posted By: Hirgwath
Date Posted: February 14 2008 at 16:07
Hear hear. ------------- Skwisgaar Skwigelf: taller than a tree. Toki Wartooth: not a bumblebee. |
Posted By: Grobsch
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 08:18
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Metamorfosi - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
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Posted By: dpedal1
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 08:31
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Ooops...I Did It Again by the phenomenal Britney Spears. ------------- "So crucify the ego, before it's far too late." - Reflection |
Posted By: Jacopo Giudici
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 15:07
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Well, I think that the best prog song, I mean the song that most reflected the characteristic of prog rock, is Supper's Ready, by Genesis ------------- JacopoJeoffray |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 15:11
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the one where the guy screams a lot and its really long and there's a lot of drums and guitar solos
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Posted By: Wallium
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 13:50
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This is way up in the air, does it go to Thick as a Brick for longevity and folk prog, or to Oldfield for Amarok? Do we give it to Close to the Edge for being epic? The Mars Volta for having no continuity at all? It's up in the air.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 13:52
That one sucks. I like the one where they just play one jazz note after another while a cellist just plays the same seven note phrase for twenty five minutes. ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Real Paradox
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 16:42
Wow dude ,I like,totally agree with you.
!(get a prog life...) ------------- What is This? It is what keeps us going... |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 22:46
| Hm . . . Gates of Delirium? Third Eye? |
Posted By: dpedal1
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 08:16
WOW! Nice choice. I prefer the spiritual sequel to Third Eye though. Rosetta Stoned! But in Third Eye...when Keenan starts yelling "Prying Open my Third Eye!" That's some powerful stuff. ------------- "So crucify the ego, before it's far too late." - Reflection |