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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Alright, my list is done. I could still change a few things but my mind is sore.

Clap Hats off to you for going for the full 300. I promise I won't post another one of these activities until your mind has gone fully un-berserked. 
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I'm at it but it's tough. I may get it done this weekend but I have to do much work and if I don't finish it by late Sunday, I won't be able to make the deadline.
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just posted a video without reading the task, ignore this Embarrassed

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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Alright, my list is done. I could still change a few things but my mind is sore.

Fantastic list overall (although I definitely disagree with that top two).

In completely unrelated news, I might have to start strategically voting just to make sure a certain track rhyming with "carcass" or that one about the absence of stars don't end up too high. 

Perhaps every voter gets a veto for a single song of their choice? LOL

Joking of course, please don't hurt me...


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Well those two are seen as real masterpieces by almost everyone around here, and you can defenitely hear that they worked real hard to compose and record these pieces. That's why it also ends up very high in my list.
We could need some fresh opinion tho WinkLOL
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Quite an eleborate job trying to compile 44 years of listening to prog into one list. I think I have forgotten quite a few, but 'ere I go:
 
1. Genesis - Foxtrot - Supper's Ready
2. Pink Floyd - Meddle - Echoes
3. Magma - Köhntarkösz - Köhntarkösz [127]
4. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma - The Narrow Way [265]
5. Yes - Close to the Edge - And You and I
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
7. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - The Cinema Show
8. Rush - A Farewell to Kings - Xanadu [66]
9. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9
10. Yes - Close to the Edge - Close to the Edge
11. Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase - Canto IV (Limbo) [281]
12. Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One) - Summoned by Bells
13. Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece - Memories of Old Days [260]
14. Genesis - Nursery Cryme - The Musical Box
15. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - Thick as a Brick
16. Magellan - Impending Ascension - Estadium Nacional
17. Alquin - The Mountain Queen - The Dance
18. Gentle Giant - Free Hand - His Last Voyage [102]
19. Rush - Moving Pictures - Witch Hunt
20. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus - Tarkus
21. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - Firth of Fifth
22. Focus - Hamburger Concerto - Hamburger Concerto [91]
23. Echolyn - Echolyn - Some Memorial
24. Deluge Grander - Heliotians - Saruned
25. Genesis - Foxtrot - Watcher of the Skies
26. Alejandro Matos - La Potestad - Pertenencia
27. UK - Danger Money - Carrying No Cross
28. Tangerine Dream - Ricochet - Ricochet [150]
29. Rush - Permanent Waves - Jacob's Ladder [67]
30. Iona - Journey into the Morn - Bi-se I Mo Shuil part 2
31. Discipline - To Shatter All Accord - Rogue
32. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering - Eleventh Earl of Mar [247]
33. Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone - If It All Comes Down to You
34. Echolyn - Echolyn - Islands
35. Deluge Grander - Heliotians - Ulterior
36. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple - Mister Ten Percent
37. Alejandro Matos - Freak - El Infierno de los Buenos
38. Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life - Childlike Faith in Childhood's End [73]
39. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream - Even Less
40. Rush - Moving Pictures - The Camera Eye [169]
41. Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One) - Winchester from St Giles Hill
42. Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase - Crutches
43. Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase - Before the Storm
44. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Riding the Scree [155]
45. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - In the Cage [97]
46. King Crimson - Islands - Formentera Lady [153]
47. Hamadryad - Safe in Conformity - Self Made Men
48. Rush - Hemispheres - La Villa Strangiato
49. Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste - Wreck [99]
50. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - The Colony of Slippermen [192]
51. UK - Danger Money - The Only Thing She Needs
52. Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré II
53. Yes - Fragile - South Side of the Sky
54. Klaus Schulze - Picture Music - Mental Door [219]
55. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing - Luminol
56. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
57. Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone - Shooting Star
58. Genesis - A Trick of the Tail - Dance on a Volcano [69]
59. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering - Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers ... In That Quiet Earth [253]
60. Yes - The Yes Album - Perpetual Change [93]
61. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - Atom Heart Mother
62. Neal Morse - Lifeline - So Many Roads
63. Iona - The Book of Kells - Matthew - The Man
64. Days between Stations - In Extremis - Eggshell Man
65. Tangerine Dream - Cyclone - Madrigal Meridian
66. Genesis - Nursery Cryme - The Return of the Giant Hogweed
67. Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning - Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army with Banners
68. Yes - Relayer - The Gates of Delirium
69. IQ - Tales from the Lush Attic - The Enemy Smacks [242]
70. Gnidrolog - Lady Lake - Lady Lake
71. Genesis - Nursery Cryme - The Fountain of Salmacis
72. Yes - Close to the Edge - Siberian Khatru
73. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die - Every Mother's Son
74. Pink Floyd - Animals - Sheep [98]
75. Saga - Worlds Apart - No Stranger (Chapter VIII)
76. Alquin - The Mountain Queen - The Mountain Queen
77. Gentle Giant - Octopus - Raconteur, Troubadour [142]
78. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die - Empty Pages
79. Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life - La Rossa
80. FreddeGredde - Brighter Skies - The Tower
81. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom - Sea Song [207]
82. King Crimson - Red - Starless
83. Klaus Schulze - Mirage - Velvet Voyage
84. Gnidrolog - Lady Lake - I Could Never Be a Soldier
85. North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon - Morpheus Miracle Maker [213]
86. Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood - Hunting Girl
87. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink - Nine Feet Underground
88. Yes - Fragile - Heart of the Sunrise
89. Marillion - Fugazi - Incubus
90. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura - The Conflict
91. Focus - Moving Waves - Eruption [86] 
92. Akt - Blemmebeya - l'Assalto
93. Gentle Giant - Free Hand - On Reflection [143]
94. Genesis - Trespass - The Knife
95. Gong - You - A Sprinkling of Clouds [116]
96. Genesis - Foxtrot - Can-Utility and the Coastliners [64]
97. Argent - All Together Now - Hold Your Head Up
98. Iona - Journey into the Morn - Inside My Heart
99. Fright Pig - Out of the Barnyard - Re: Creation
100. Anekdoten - A Time of Day - Stardust and Sand
101. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple - Illusions on a Double Dimple
102. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second - An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, Revisitation of the Blue Ghost
103. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory - Aspirations
104. Battlestations - In a Cold Embrace - Comrade / The Way We Grieve
105. Supersister - To the Highest Bidder - A Girl Named You
106. Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts - Man-erg
107. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory - Playing the Game [89]
108. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood - Bitter Suite
109. Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard - The Underfall Yard
110. Magma - K.A. - K.A. II
111. Deluge Grander - August in the Urals - August in the Urals
112. Yes - The Yes Album - Starship Trooper
113. Iona - Journey into the Morn - Encircling
114. Hamadryad - Conservation of Mass - Watercourse Hymn
115. Klaus Schulze - Timewind - Bayreuth Return
116. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House - In a Glass House [101]
117. Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning - Living in the Heart of the Beast [112]
118. Gentle Giant - Three Friends - Schooldays [80]
119. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Interstellar Overdrive [256]
120. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet - Anaesthesia
121. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura - The Door
122. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Easy Money [121]
123. Alquin - Nobody Can Wait Forever - Revolution's Eve
124. Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff - Scorched Earth [140]
125. Supersister - To the Highest Bidder - No Tree Will Grow (on Too High a Mountain)



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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

I desperately want to contribute to this event but I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME to do it justice!Cry

I can extend the deadline to the end of next weekend (final deadline for submissions would be Monday, August 29th as opposed to Friday, August 26th). 

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OK, here we are.
This was fun but also tough. I had some struggles with the idea of "prog songs"... my intuition for "songs" rather jumps on something melody driven and often pretty short. And then when listening to music I generally don't care much about whether something is "Prog" or not, so I included everything that I think is listed on PA and if this is not prog enough for someone tough luck.
 
I have severe difficulties comparing a nice little song like Army Dreamers with an epic such as Close to the Edge, let alone something where neither anybody sings on nor which has a melody such as Rubycon, but then of course who can tell where the boundary should be? So I came up with this compromise that includes bigger and even instrumental thingies of very limited melodic appeal, but is probably somewhat biased in favour of the "real songs" which may or may not be seen as prog regardless of who did them,
Here we go. (No problem about extending the deadline by the way, despite the fact that I tried hard to make it.)
 
(Updated 28 Aug)

1 Holger Czukay - Der Osten ist Rot - Träum Mal Wieder
2 Can - Ege Bamyasi - Spoon
3 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock - After the Flood
4 Björk - Homogenic - Yoga
5 Cardiacs - Big Ship - Big Ship
6 The Beatles - Revolver - Tomorrow Never Knows
7 Björk - Debut - Human Behaviour
8 Pink Floyd - Meddle - Echoes
9 Camel - Camel - Never Let Go
10 David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees - Brilliant Trees
11 Camel - I Can See Your House From Here - Ice
12 Battles - Mirrored - Atlas
13 Holger Czukay - Good Morning Story - Mirage
14 William D. Drake - The Rising of the Lights - Me Fish Bring
15 Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids - Nightporter
16 David Bowie - Scary Monsters - Ashes to Ashes
17 Talk Talk - The Colour of Eden - Living in Another World
18 Cardiacs - Guns - Signs
19 Supertramp - Crises? What Crises? - A Soapbox Opera
20 Kate Bush - The Dreaming - Suspended in Gaffa
21 Kate Bush - Never For Ever - Army Dreamers
22 Kraan - Nachtfahrt - Elfenbein
23 Peter Gabriel - 3 - I Dont Remember
24 Kate Bush - The Kick Inside - Wuthering Heights
25 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief - There There
26 Amon Düül II - Vortex - Gestern ist das Heute von morgen
27 Genesis - Foxtrot - Watcher of the Skies
28 David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees - The Ink in the Well
29 King Crimson - Red - Starless
30 North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon - Morpheus Miracle Maker
31 King Crimson - Discipline - Theja Hun Ginjeet
32 Cardiacs -  A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window - This is the Life
33 Japan - Tin Drum - Ghosts
34 Amon Düül II - Only Human - Kismet
35 Art Zoyd - Marathonnere 1 - Konzo Bele
36 David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive - When the Poets Dream of Angels
37 Art Zoyd - Berlin - A drum, a drum
38 Manfred Manns Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers - Time is Right
39 King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair - Industry
40 Yes - Going for the One - Parallels
41 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing - Arriving Somewhere but not Here
42 King Crimson - Red - Fallen Angel
43 Porcupine Tree - In Absentia - Trains
44 Legendary Pink Dots - The Golden Age - The Month After
45 Gong - Camembert Electrique - You Cant Kill Me
46 Holger Czukay - Movies - Hollywood Symphony
47 Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - Thick as a Brick
48 Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - The Carpet Crawlers
49 Amon Düül II - Yeti - Archangels Thunderbird
50 King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair - Sleepless
51 Porcupine Tree - Recordings - Even Less
52 Tear Garden - The Last Man to Fly - Turn Me on Dead Man
53 William D. Drake - Briny Hooves - Sweet Peace
54 Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes - Leather
55 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing - Deadwing
56 Manfred Manns Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers - Visionary Mountains
57 Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
58 Radiohead - Amnesiac - Pyramid Song
59 Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade - Speculative Fiction
60 System 7 - Can/Sacrilege - Dizzy Spoon
61 Art Zoyd - Häxan - Nuits
62 Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - Running Hard
63 Supertramp - Crime of the Century - School
64 Swans - Seer - Mother of the World
65 Jon Lord - Sarabande - Bouree
66 Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade - Working Nights
67 David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees - Nostalgia
68 Camel - Breathless - Echoes
69 Swans - To Be Kind - Screen Shot
70 Can - Monster Movie - Yoo Doo Right
71 Can - Tago Mago - Oh Yeah
72 Supertramp - Breakfast in America - Logical Song
73 Can - Tago Mago - Halleluwah
74 David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive - Orpheus
75 Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn 1
76 King Crimson - Thrak - Dinosaur
77 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 1
78 North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon - Mitte der Welt
79 Jethro Tull - Aqualung - Aqualung
80 Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea - Mares Nest
81 Can - Ege Bamyasi - Vitamin C
82 Peter Hammill - Patience - Patient
83 Jethro Tull - Stromwatch - Dun Ringill
84 Peter Hammill - Patience - Just Good Friends
85 Peter Hammill - Patience - Traintime
86 Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons - A Song for all Seasons
87 King Crimson - Discipline - Elephant Talk
88 Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea - The Ever So Closely Guarded Line
89 King Crimson - Discipline - Frame by Frame
90 Genesis - A Trick of the Tail - Entangled
91 Camel - Mirage - Lady Fantasy
92 The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour - I am the Walrus
93 Can - Landed - Half Past One
94 Kate Bush - The Dreaming - Sat in Your Lap
95 Novalis - Vielleicht bist du ein Clown? - Vielleicht bin ich ein Clown
96 Kate Bush - Never for Ever - Breathing
97 Can - Tago Mago - Paperhouse
98 Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning - Ashes Are Burning
99 Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado - Palewell Park
100 Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life - Pilgrims
101 William D. Drake - Revere Reach - Lifeblood
102 Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other - Darkness
103 Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden - The Rainbow
104 Gong - Shamal - Chandra
105 Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window - In a City Lining
106 Jethro Tull - Aqualung - Locomotive Breath
107 Holger Czukay - Movies - Persian Love
108 Can - Soon Over Babaluma - Dizzy Dizzy
109 Kate Bush - The Dreaming - The Dreaming
110 Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One - Lost 
111 Fred Frith feat. Iva Bittova - Step Across the Border - Morning Song
112 Camel - Breathless - Summer Lightning
113 King Crimson - Beat - Neil and Jack and Me
114 Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night - Memory Lane, Hugh
115 Saga - Saga - Humble Stance
116 Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood - Hunting Girl
117 King Crimson - Discipline - Indiscipline
118 King Crimson - Beat - Heartbeat
119 Van der Graaf Generator - The Aerosol Grey Machine - Necromancer
120 Salaryman - Karoshi - My Hands Are Always in Water
121 Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring - Lifes What You Make It
122 Edgar Froese - Stuntman - Detroit Snackbar Dreamer
123 Bill Brufords Earthworks - Earthworks - My Heart Declares a Holiday
124 Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - The Jezebel Spirit
125 Kong - Earmined - LumberHome
126 Pink Floyd - Animals - Pigs
127 Gong - Shamal - Mandrake
128 Genesis - Foxtrot - Get em Out by Friday
129 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love - Cloudbusting
130 Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life - My Room
131 Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets - Breakthrough
132 King Crimson - Beat - Satori in Tangier
133 Genesis - Nursery Crime - The Musical Box
134 David Bowie - Blackstar - Girl Loves Me
135 Can - Unlimited Edition - Ibis
136 Yes - Close to the Edge - And You and I
137 Pink Floyd - A Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Interstellar Overdrive
138 William D. Drake - Revere Reach - Revere Reach
139 Kate Bush - The Dreaming - Night of the Swallow
140 Genesis - Nursery Crime - The Return of the Giant Hogweed
141 Kate Bush - The Sensual World - The Sensual World
142 Genesis - Foxtrot - Suppers Ready
143 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love - Jig of Life
144 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Astronomy Domine
145 Robert Fripp - The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance
146 Pink Floyd - Animals - Dogs
147 Talk Talk - Its My Life - Call in the Nightboy
148 Mogwai - Mr. Beast - Friend of the Night
149 Kate Bush - Aerial - King of the Mountain
150 Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses - Weathercock
151 Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings - Spectral Mornings
152 Mogwai - Rave Tapes - No Medicine for Regret
153 Kate Bush - The Sensual World - Heads Were Dancing
154 .O.rang - Herd of Instinct - Orang
155 Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat - Gharbzadegi
156 Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome - The Habit of the Broken Heart
157 Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets - Let There Be More light
158 Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome - The Wave
159 Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome - Lizard Play
160 Porcupine Tree - In Absentia - Blackest Eye
161 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love - Hello Earth
162 Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses - Journeyman
163 Pierre Moerlens Gong - Expresso II - Soli
164 Japan - Tin Drum - Cantonese Boy
165 Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel - Spark
166 Manfred Manns Earth Band - Angel Station - Angels at my Gate
167 Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - Rubycon 1
168 Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite - Steede Bonnet
169 Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle - Carousel
170 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Time
171 David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees - Red Guitar
172 Kate Bush - Lionheart - In Search of Peter Pan
173 David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees - Pulling Punches
174 Curved Air - Second Album - Backstreet Luv
175 Novalis - Brandung - Astralis
176 Swans - Seer - The Seer Returns
177 Yes - Close to the Edge - Siberian Khatru
178 Yes - Close to the Edge - Close to the Edge
179 Porcupine Tree - In Absentia - The Sound of Muzak
180 Camel - Breathless - The Sleeper
181 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love - Mother Stands for Comfort
182 William D. Drake - Briny Hooves - Dark Ecstasies
183 Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - Atom Heart Mother
184 Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments - Fools Overture
185 Yes - Fragile - Roundabout
186 Genesis - Trespass - The Knife
187 Camel - Moonmadness - Air Born
188 King Crimson - Lizard - Circus
189 Renaissance - Camera Camera - Tyrant Tula
190 Tangerine Dream - Tangram - Tangram 1
191 Tori Amos - Scalets Walk - Virginia
192 Pink Floyd - The Wall - Comfortably Numb
193 Curved Air - Air Cut - Elfin Boy
194 Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet - Way out of Here
195 Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - Rubycon 2
196 Renaissance - Ashes are Burning - Can You Understand
197 Sky - 2 - Sahara
198 Yes - 90125 - Changes
199 Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle - Travolta
200 William D. Drake - The Rising of the Lights - Super Altar
201 Tangerine Dream - White Eagle - Mojave Plan
202 Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life - Childlike Faith in Childhoods End
203 Tangerine Dream - Exit - Remote Viewing
204 Tangerine Dream - Tangram - Tangram 2
205 Manfred Manns Earth Band - The Good Earth - Earth Hymn
206 Sky - 2 - Dance of the Little Fairies
207 Swans - To Be Kind - Oxygene
208 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom - Sea Song
209 Sky - Forthcoming - My Giselle
210 Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings - Clocks
211 Yes - Relayer - Sound Chaser
212 Sky - 1 - Carillon
213 Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure - Cloudburst Flight
214 Radiohead - Kid A - The National Anthem



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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

OK, here we are.
This was fun but also tough. I had some struggles with the idea of "prog songs"... my intuition for "songs" rather jumps on something melody driven and often pretty short. And then when listening to music I generally don't care much about whether something is "Prog" or not, so I included everything that I think is listed on PA and if this is not prog enough for someone tough luck.
 
I have severe difficulties comparing a nice little song like Army Dreamers with an epic such as Close to the Edge, let alone something where neither anybody sings on nor which has a melody such as Rubycon, but then of course who can tell where the boundary should be? So I came up with this compromise that includes bigger and even instrumental thingies of very limited melodic appeal, but is probably somewhat biased in favour of the "real songs" which may or may not be seen as prog regardless of who did them,
Here we go. (No problem about extending the deadline by the way, despite the fact that I tried hard to make it.)


Fantastic list, Lewian! Thank you for posting; there were actually a few tracks in yours that I had forgotten about that I may go back and edit into my own list.
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I'd love to go back through my list, rearranging and adding where necessary, but I'm bound to hate the result just as much. I think I ended up not allowing more than three or four songs per album, just so the list wouldn't get flooded by favorite albums of mine with 8+ tracks, like 8 or 9 tracks from The Dreaming (Kate Bush) alone. An album list would probably be less maddening overall, this is just cruel. Wink
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Originally posted by mechanicalflattery mechanicalflattery wrote:

I'd love to go back through my list, rearranging and adding where necessary, but I'm bound to hate the result just as much. I think I ended up not allowing more than three or four songs per album, just so the list wouldn't get flooded by favorite albums of mine with 8+ tracks, like 8 or 9 tracks from The Dreaming (Kate Bush) alone. An album list would probably be less maddening overall, this is just cruel. Wink

If you want to make any changes, just go for it! And don't worry about over-representing certain albums; there were a few that I went a little overboard with. 

And as for an album list...just stay tuned. Cool
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My list will be definite from now, so if you feel like it, you can already use it, Kevin. Hope that makes the work spread a little more Thumbs Up

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As with previous lists of this kind I will try to do one with one tune per band...and I am still fairly sure I'll forget a ton...but anyways here goes.

1. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
2. Can - Bel Air
3. Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan
4. Popol Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos
5. André Fertier's Clivage - Mixtus Orbis
6. Bjørn J:Son Lindh - Från Storstad Til Grodspad
7. Franco Battiato - Sequenze e Frequenze
8. Klaus Schulze - Voices of Syn
9. Tangerine Dream - Atem
10. Igor Wakhevitch - Materia Prima
11. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Via Lumière
12. Amon Düül ll - Deutch Nepal
13. Herbie Hancock - Hornets
14. Area - Vodka Cola
15. NEU! - Negativland
16. Caravan - 9 Feet Underground
17. Herbert F Bairy - Lady Ollala
18. Genesis - Fountain Of Salmacis
19. King Crimson - Fracture
20. Brainticket - Egyptian Kings
21. Faust - No Harm
22. Soft Machine - Hulloder/Dada Was Here
23. Gong - The Isle Of Everywhere
24. Embryo - King Insano
25. Heldon - Bolero
26. National Health - Elephants
27. Bubu - El Cortejo De Un Dia Amarillo
28. Il Balletto di Bronzo - Epilogo
29. Blue Effekt & Jazz Q - Coniunctio
30. Art Zoyd - Epithalame
31. Witthüser & Westrupp - Karlchen
32. Brave New World - The End
33. Samla Mammas Manna - Dundrets Fröjder
34. Weather Report - Unknown Soldier
35. Jean-Paul Prat - Masal
36. Dom - Edge Of Time
37. Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar
38. Zombi - Shrunken Heads
39. Vangelis - The Dragon
40. Manuel Göttsching - E2 E4
41. Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air
42. Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck
43.  Lard Free - Acid Framboise
44. The Enid - Reverberations
45. Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - Tingel-Tangel Mand
46. Blue Sun - Blue Sun
47. Captain Beefheart - Ella Guru
48. Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Little Umbrellas
49. Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
50. COS - Greeneldo
51. Dead Can Dance - Xavier
52. Elephant9 - Kungsten
53. ELP - Tarkus
54. Far East Family Band - Parallel World
55. Fire! Orchestra - Exit pt 1
56. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways (demo)
57. Focus - Early Birth
58. Frankie Dymon Jr - Aftermyth
59. Gentle Giant - The House The Street The Room
60. Ghost - Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
61. Gerard Manset - La Mort d'Orion
62. Nya Ljudbolaget - Continuum Prometheus
63. Grails - Doomsdayer Afternoon
64. Dungen - Högdalstoppen
65. Gösta Berlings Saga - Syrenernas Sång
66. Agitation Free - First Communication
67. Hatfield & The North - Mumps
68. Cardiacs - In A City Lining
69. Catapilla - Reflections
70. Cervello - Euterpe
71. Itoiz - Errotaberri
72. Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird
73. Kayo Dot - The Mortality Of Doves
74. Electric Orange - Fleischwerk
75. Kebnekajse - Skänklåt Från Rättvik
76. Magma - De Futura
77. Los Jaivas - La Poderosa Muerte
78. Necromonkey - The Rage Within The Clouds
79. Os Mutantes - Desanuviar
80. Phideaux - Chupacabras
81. Henry Cow - Amygdala
82. Pond - Midnight Mass
83. Paatos - Sensor
84. Jethro Tull - With You There To Help Me
85. Radiohead - Pyramid Song
86. Guru Guru - Oxymoron
87. Biglietto Per L'Inferno - L'Amico Suicida
88. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Metamorfosi
89. Van Damme Generator - My Room
90. Supersister - The Battle
91. Capitolo 6 - Frutti Per Kagua
92. Claudio Rocchi - Volo Magico
93. Delirium - Ancora un'Alba
94. Dedalus - Santiago
95. Franco Leprino - Lato A
96. Il Volo - Il Canto Della Preistoria 
97. Le Orme - Sospeli Nell'Incredibile
98. Lucio Battisti - Gli Uomini Celesti
99. Osanna - Anima Senza Respiro
100. Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun
101. Between - And The Waters Opened
102. Steve Hillage - Aftaglid
103. Mcluhan - The Monster Bride
104. Canzoniere del Lazio - Nu Gatto Come Nu Lione
105. Älgarnas Trädgård - Två Timmar Över Två Blå Berg Med En Gök På Vardera Sidan, Om Timmarna, Alltså
106. Vespero - Seagulls Sing (When It Rains)
106. Xhol - Breit
107. Laurent Thibault - Oree
108. A. R. & Machines - Truth and Probability
109. Nil - Le Gardien
110. Perry Leopold - Sunday Afternoon In The Garden Of Delights
111. Comus - The Herald
112. Plat Du Jour - Zilbra
113. Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Structure IV - La Structure du Temple et du Paradis
114. Peter Frohmader - Pagan
115. Shub-Niggurath - Incipit Tragaedia
116. Alpes & Catherine Ribeiro - Paix
117. Dashiell Hedayat - Cielo Drive/17
118. Komintern - Le Bal Du rat Mort
119. Procession - Un Mondo Di Liberta
120. Jean-Claude Vannier - Le Roi Des Mouches Et La Confiture De Rouse
121. Nosferatu - Willie The Fox
122. Talk Talk - The Rainbow
123. Harmonium - Depuis L'Automne
124. Gryphon - Lament
125. Jan Duke de Grey - Sun Symphonia
126. Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
127. Cluster - Im Süden
128. Alphataurus - Il Mente Vola
129. Santana - Soul Sacrifice
130. Brand X - Nuclear Burn
131. Egg - A Visit To Newport Hospital
132. Ash Ra Tempel - Jenseits
133. Harmonia - Walky-Talky
134. Univers Zero - The Funeral Plain
135. Secret Chefs 3 - Vajra
136. Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar
137. Goat - Run To Your Mama
138. Archimedes Badkar - Efter Regnet/Vattenfall


Alright - I'll come back to this. I went through my computer to see what I've transferred from my collection (hence the alphabetical listing), bu there is more to come and nothing is in order as of yet. Damn this is much harder than what I thought!

That's it - I give upDead Too many tunes to count...that I've left out because my brain won't work and I just happen to be a long ways from my record collection (It's currently housed at my aunt's place).




Edited by Guldbamsen - August 27 2016 at 01:41
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Well, I made some order changes and additions...  and now I really hate my list LOL
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Points: 6777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2016 at 09:35
Originally posted by DDPascalDD DDPascalDD wrote:

My list will be definite from now, so if you feel like it, you can already use it, Kevin. Hope that makes the work spread a little more Thumbs Up

Thanks, Pascal. You may want to make just one more edit, though; you have Boys In The Band listed at 23 and 55. I have it marked down for 23 right now, so if you want to replace 55 with something else, feel free. I noticed that you used to have Stairway to Heaven at 55 but evidently you replaced it; should I bring it back?
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

As with previous lists of this kind I will try to do one with one tune per band...
 

You've got my admiration for this for sure. Personally I found that best songs cluster much stronger than best albums and the number of artists in my list with one entry only is pretty small. There were many more in my albums list.

I realise it even takes me some time to understand my own list. David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees is a winner here with 5 entries and deservedly so, this is one stunning album full of additive and unique songs (not sure whether I mentioned him in any discussion in the forum yet, although the album of course appears on my album list - neither have I seen him mentioned in any recent discussion but he is listed, of course), followed by Discipline and The Dreaming with 4 each. Then I have the whole of Close to the Edge listed, hell, I didn't even think I'm a fan of that album. I don't play it often but when I do I just love all of it to pieces. Further albums that appear in full are Thick as a Brick, Rubycon and Tangram, but they have an easier job as they qualify as 1-2 songs.
Oh, and Kate Bush appears with songs from 7 albums, this is probably head and shoulders above the others. When it comes to songs, she's the queen.


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I have nothing to do today, so I looked at my own list, and calculated that 40% of my list is comprised of 13 different groups, each with at least 5 tracks. This is actually a lot better than I was expecting. As follows:
Gentle Giant: 12
Pink Floyd: 11
Van Der Graaf Generator: 9
King Crimson: 8
Camel: 8
Genesis: 7 (this feels too high)
Kate Bush: 6
Henry Cow: 6
Tangerine Dream: 6
Yes: 5 (this feels too low)
This Heat: 5
Earth: 5
David Bowie: 5

Only two albums (with multiple tracks) are represented in their entirety (Godbluff's 4 tracks and Earth 2's 3) and the album with the most tracks was Kate Bush's The Dreaming with a whopping 6. Tangerine Dream had the most diversity, with 6 tracks across 5 different albums (David Bowie had five tracks across 4 albums). Pink Floyd had the most album representation with 7, but I've listened to more Floyd than any other prog group, and the Floyd songs were typically lower on the list.

I like statistics...


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Well, I think my list is now officially done. There are songs that probably got left out that shouldn't of. Anyways, I'm pretty happy with it so you now start counting it if you want.
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