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Points: 1940 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2016 at 09:38
I'm not much of a fan of King Crimson's Lizard album, but "Cirkus" has got to be one of the best songs they ever did. Fantastic and kinda eerie.
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Sleepless Incidental on IQ's Subterrainia
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Points: 41343 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2016 at 06:06
Originally posted by Cambus741 Cambus741 wrote:

Sleepless Incidental on IQ's Subterrainia


wait, Subterranea is not a good album?!
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Gentle giant - Memories of old days - The Missing Piece
Led Zep - In the Evening - In through the outdoor
Yes - Machine Messiah - Drama
Rush - 2112 - 2112
Jon Anderson - Song of Seven - Song of Seven
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Points: 4452 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 12 2017 at 11:14
The Enemy Within  - Grace Under Pressure - Rush

    Didn't love that album but that's a great song.
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Yes - Future Times/Rejoice (Tormato)
Genesis - There must Be Some Other Way (CAS - I like the album, but as everyone else seems to dislike it, here is the name of the song I find great on this album)

Ange - Sue les grands espaces bleus (Tout feu, tout flame) - I love this song. 


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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Sometimes an album is nothing much but a carrier of one great, great song that makes you wonder how the artist managed to either come up with the big one at that otherwise not so inspired time, or on the other hand why what surrounds it is so mediocre. 

While it is quite far off the proggy path, The Boomtown Rats exemplified this with The Fine Art of Surfacing, which featured I Don't Like Mondays and a whole bunch of crap.
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With Comus' To Keep From Crying, an album that I like much more than most, various people think that "Children of the Universe" is the one saving grace on the album, but I consider the title track, "To keep from Crying" as good and think that it should be of interest to Comus fans and fans of folk-rock generally (in fact that tends to be the one that I am most likely to put on repeat). It's a very dynamic, exciting song to my ears.

With the much reviled Magma's Merci album, many people that "Eliphas Levi" is the one saving grace, but I also love "The Night We Died".

I like Lenny White's venusian Summer album, but it only has one really great track to my mind, which is the "Venusian Summer Suite".

Two not in the archives: I like the Marius Popp Panoramic Jazz Rock album, but at least from a Prog perspective, "Inscriptie" is the only track off it that I consider essential. And with my beloved Ennio Morricone, on his Il Gatto a Nove Code soundtrack from 1971, I love listening to the beautiful "Ninna nanna in blu", but the rest of the music is a sort of experimentalism that is probably good for the film's aesthetic, but does not make for a very entertaining album on the whole (not enough contrast).

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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:

I'm not much of a fan of King Crimson's Lizard album, but "Cirkus" has got to be one of the best songs they ever did. Fantastic and kinda eerie.


I like "Cirkus" considerably, and actually Lizard is my favourite King Crimson album these days, but for me the real stand-out is the B side of the album. The "Lizard" suite is wonderful to my ears.

Different strokes for different folks....
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Points: 8854 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2017 at 11:53
I agree that Cirkus is superb, but I think the album Lizard is good overall, not great.
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Points: 3236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2017 at 00:30
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Yes - GftO - Parallels
Jethro Tull - Broadsword And The Beast - Flying Colours


Two albums I really like. What's wrong with Awaken?
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Points: 41343 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2017 at 03:53
Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Yes - GftO - Parallels
Jethro Tull - Broadsword And The Beast - Flying Colours


Two albums I really like. What's wrong with Awaken?

Awaken is great. Last time I listened to GftO, I only enjoyed Awaken and Parallels. Parallels is my favorite on this album. 
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Points: 3654 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2017 at 04:30
Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

"Echoes" on Camel's Breathless and "Ice" on their next album.


You stole the words from my keyboard, you pirate (old post, anyway)


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Saga - Pleasure and the Pain -> Heaven Can Wait
Saga - Steel Umbrellas -> Why Not? and You Were Never Alone
Camel - Breathless -> Breathless, Echoes, Summer Lighting and The Sleeper
Barclay James Harvest - Baby James Harvest -> Summer Soldier <3 <3 <3
Yes - Relayer -> Soon
Eloy - Destination -> Eclipse of Mankind
Queen - Hot Space -> Under Pressure
Jethro Tull - Jtull.com -> Dot.com and AWOL


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Points: 41343 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2017 at 05:43
Originally posted by Quinino Quinino wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

"Echoes" on Camel's Breathless and "Ice" on their next album.


You stole the words from my keyboard, you pirate (old post, anyway)

The Sleeper and Summer Lightning are my favorite from Breathless. 

I like Breathless quite a bit. 


Edited by Cristi - September 15 2017 at 05:44
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Show Don't Tell , Rush - Presto
Lines in the Sand, Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity
Birthright - ABWH
Carrying no Cross, UK - Danger Money
Look Over Your Shoulder - The Steve Howe Album
Please Don't Touch, Steve Hackett - S/T
I'm Running,  Yes - Big Generator

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Points: 26171 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2017 at 15:35
Yes - Cinema . Never been a fan of that album (90125) but that track kicks serious butt.

ELPowell - Mars The Bringer War . Oh yeah baby!
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Points: 14110 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2017 at 05:30
Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:


Camel - Breathless -> Breathless, Echoes, Summer Lighting and The Sleeper
 

That's about half the album, isn't it? Tongue

I think that Breathless is a very special album really. I see why many don't like it but it has a marvellous variety and some truly great moments, despite the fact that some of the variety went wrong.
Ice on ICSYHFH is a much better example, a vast majority of that album is far below par and Ice is really outstanding.



Edited by Lewian - September 18 2017 at 05:32
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Points: 23098 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2017 at 05:58
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper : A Day In The Life
The Enid - The Seed And The Sower : Reverberations
Genesis - We Can't Dance : Fading Lights
Punk Flute - Division Bell : High Hopes
Rush - Hemispheres : La Villa Strangiato
ELP - Tarkus : Tarkus
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Points: 2037 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2017 at 06:49
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Yeah I sorta suspected that
I have never gotten into Hemispheres and it's not because I haven't tried.

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