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    Posted: August 04 2010 at 02:41
20 songs i love... there are definitely others i like as much as these:
 
1. Can - Bel Air
2. Can - Halleluwah
3. Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
4. The Moody Blues - A Simple Game (Justin Hayward vocal mix)
5. The Moody Blues - Melancholy Man
6. Pink Floyd - Echoes
7. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part I
8. Amon Duul II - Yeti (Improvisation)
9. Velvet Underground - Heroin
10. Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag
11. Leonard Cohen - Leaving Green Sleeves
12. David Crosby - Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)
13. Faust - Its A Bit of Pain
14. Genesis - The Musical Box
15. Gong - Zero The Hero And The Witches Spell
16. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Danger Bird
17. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Bold As Love
18. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
19. Soft Machine - Moon In June
20. Frank Zappa / The Mothers of Invention - Trouble Every Day
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No order and I will stick just to prog songs and from 20 different bands:
 
King Crimson- Starless
Genesis- Firth Of Fifth
Opeth- The Moor
Marillion- Script For A Jester's tear
Spock's Beard- The Light
Porcupine Tree- Fear Of A Blank Planet
Pink Floyd- Echoes
Yes- Close To The Edge
Van Der Graaf Generator- The Sleepwalkers
Camel- Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider
Mahavishnu Orchestra- A Lotus On Irish Streams
Gnidrolog- I Could Never Be A Soldier
IQ- Frequency
Anekdoten- Where Solitude Remains
Mastodon- The Czar
Eloy- The Light From Deep Darkness
Kansas- Miracles Out Of Nowhere
Death- Spirit Crusher
Bubu- Sueños De Maniqui
Sigur Ros- Hoppipolla
 
 
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I'll avoid instrumentals and epics.
1. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
3. The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush
4. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
5. Alone Again Or - Love
6. Fallen Angel - King Crimson
7. Wide Open Space - Mansun
8. Blood On The Rooftops - Genesis
9. Life Of Gold - Kayak
10. New England - Kirsty MacColl (song written by Billy Bragg)
11. From The Beginning - ELP
12. Blinded By The Light - Manfred Manns Earthband (song written by Bruce Springsteen)
13. Time - Pink Floyd
14. More Than A Feeling - Boston
15. Nothing At All - IQ
16. Fox On The Run - The Sweet
17. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - The Korgis
18. Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
19. Lucky Man - The Verve 
20. Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist - Muse
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No order, prog only, limit 1 per band:
A Change Of Seasons - Dream Theater
Supper's Ready - Genesis
A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - Van der Graaf Generator
Starless - King Crimson
Close To The Edge - Yes
Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree
Jordrok - Anglagard
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Mei - Echolyn
K.A. III - Magma
Nine Feet Underground - Caravan
Lady Fantasy - Camel
The Runaway - Gentle Giant
Heart Of Lothian - Marillion
One Word - Mahavishnu Orchestra
And The Devil Cried - Psychotic Waltz
The Water - Spock's Beard
Falling Snow - Agalloch
Beyond The Pale - Pain Of Salvation


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Here's a second list just as good as the first one I posted (I couldn't leave this tracks out. Maybe later I'll post a third list hehe LOL). Nah, just joking, I'll try not to think of any other songs/bands because if not I'll end up posting tons of different lists.
 
Gentle Giant- Knots
Pendragon- As Good As Gold
Flower Kings- Love Supreme
Focus- Hocus Pocus
Rush- Xanadu
Queensryche- Suite Sister Mary
Meshuggah- Bleed
Echolyn- As The World
The Gathering- Strange Machines
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso- Il Giardino Del Mago
Fates Warning- The Eleventh Hour
Symphony X- Candlelight Fantasia
Anathema- Fragile Dreams
Emerson Lake And Palmer- The Endless Enigma
Dream Theater- Voices
Cynic- Veil Of Maya
Comus- Diana
Crucis- Los Delirios Del Mariscal
Nexus- Metambo
Riverside- Second Life Syndrome
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I think anybody that can choose 20 definite favourite songs hasn't heard enough good music
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I think anybody that can choose 20 definite favourite songs hasn't heard enough good music

I'll just say that mine is certainly not definite. They're pretty much just 20 songs I really really like pretty much.LOLWink
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20 of my favourite songs, from different bands:
 

Hessian Peel – Opeth

Anesthetize – Porcupine Tree

Dread It – Disillusion

Not Even a Name – Leprous

Closer – Anathema

Orion – Metallica

Hyperventilate – Frost*

A Day in the Life – The Beatles

Holiday in Cambodia – Dead Kennedys

Hallowed be Thy Name – Iron Maiden

Three Days – Janes’ Addiction

Implant – Killing Joke

Sober – Tool

Astronomy Domine – Voivod

Isak – Baroness

Go – OSI

Supercrush! – Devin Townsend Project

Haze - Ephrat

The Czar - Mastodon

Consternation - Katatonia
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I started to make a list and couldn't. It's just too hard.
"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH!    WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!!   WAAAAAOOOO!!!"

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Well I'll just write what comes inmediatly to my mind, 1 per band
 
Gentle Giant - Prologue
Maneige - Les Epinettes
Frank Zappa - Black Napkins
Cardiacs - The Everso Closely Guarded Line 
King Crimson - Formentera Lady
Pain of Salvation - Thorn Clown
Sloche - Stadaconé
Camel - Supertwister
Genesis - Time Table
Yes - Siberian Kathru
BMS - Canto Nomade Per Un Prigioniero Politico
PFM - Geranio
Magma - The Last Seven Minutes
Everything Everything - Schoolin'
William D. Drake - Wolves
Mike Oldfield - To France
Pat Metheny Group - The Roots of Coincidence
Van der Graaf Generator - Pilgrims
Jethro Tull - My God
Mahavishnu Orchestra - A Lotus On Irish Streams
 


Edited by daslaf - August 04 2010 at 23:35
But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
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Originally posted by Morningrise Morningrise wrote:

No order and I will stick just to prog songs and from 20 different bands:
 
King Crimson- Starless
Genesis- Firth Of Fifth
Opeth- The Moor
Marillion- Script For A Jester's tear
Spock's Beard- The Light
Porcupine Tree- Fear Of A Blank Planet
Pink Floyd- Echoes
Yes- Close To The Edge
Van Der Graaf Generator- The Sleepwalkers
Camel- Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider
Mahavishnu Orchestra- A Lotus On Irish Streams
Gnidrolog- I Could Never Be A Soldier
IQ- Frequency
Anekdoten- Where Solitude Remains
Mastodon- The Czar
Eloy- The Light From Deep Darkness
Kansas- Miracles Out Of Nowhere
Death- Spirit Crusher
Bubu- Sueños De Maniqui
Sigur Ros- Hoppipolla
 
 

I'll follow the same rules you did, otherwise this would be way too hard. In no order and only prog(but including post rock and math rock):

1. The Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson
2. Supper's Ready-Genesis
3. It's Five O'Clock-Aphrodite's Child
4. Goliath-The Mars Volta
5. Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd
6. Close to the Edge-Yes
7. The Dead Flag Blues-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
8. The Psychedelic Warlords(Disappear in Smoke)-Hawkwind
9. Tij-Battles
10. Brown Metal-Hella
11. The Grudge-Tool
12. The Last Baron-Mastodon
13. Painkiller-Death
14. The Space For This-Cynic
15. Empire-Queensryche
16. Take the Long Way Home-Supertramp
17. Jerusalem-Emerson, Lake and Palmer
18. My Ass is On Fire-Mr. Bungle
19. No Me No You-Frost*
20. Family Snapshot-Peter Gabriel
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Points: 4395 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2010 at 00:22
Originally posted by 40footwolf 40footwolf wrote:

13. Painkiller-Death

Ahh yes. Great cover.
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Originally posted by DisgruntledPorcupine DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

Originally posted by 40footwolf 40footwolf wrote:

13. Painkiller-Death

Ahh yes. Great cover.

I love Judas Priest, but Death's cover utterly eclipses the original in every way, in my mind.
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I can't resist making a good list. So here is mine, limiting it to one song per artist (which is really difficult for me).

1. Stranger In Your Soul- Transatlantic
2. The Creation- Neal Morse
3. Monsters And Men- The Flower Kings
4. At The End Of The Day- Spock's Beard
5. The Count Of Tuscany- Dream Theater
6. Milliontown- Frost*
7. Close To The Edge- Yes
8. Mei- Echolyn
9. Send A Message From The Heart- Karmakanic
10. In Earnest- The Tangent
11. The Sixth Extinction- Ayreon
12. Late Night Salvation- IZZ
13. Firth Of Fifth- Genesis
14. Free Hand- Gentle Giant
15. Other Half Of The Sky- Moon Safari
16. Mindrevolutions- Kaipa
17. Thick As A Brick- Jethro Tull
18. Sleeping In Traffic- Beardfish
19. Victorian Brickwork- Big Big Train
20. Blackest Eyes- Porcupine Tree
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1. Supper's Ready - Genesis
2. Roads to Moscow - Al Stewart
3. Yours is no Disgrace - Yes (Yessongs)
4. Refugees - Van der Graaf Generator
5. The Valentyne Suite - Colosseum (Original version incl. Beware the Ides of March)
6. My Generation - The Who (Live at Leeds)
7. Porroh Man - Big Country
8. Epitaph - King Crimson
9. Always the Way - James Reyne
10. Spoonfull - Cream (Wheels of Fire)
11. Anthem - Alex Harvey
12. Cygnet Committee - Bowie
13. The Revealing Science of God - Yes
14. The Endless Enigma - ELP
15. Song for Europe - Roxy Music
16. Evening Over Rooftops - Edgar Broughton
17. Man-erg - Van der Graaf Generator
18. A Day in the Life - The Beatles
19. O Superman - Laurie Anderson
20. Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd (studio version)


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I'll start with those that others mentioned above (in the order mentioned):
Starless
Close To The Edge
Blood On The Rooftops
The Endless Enigma/Fugue
Yours Is No Disgrace (Yessongs version)
My Generation (Live At Leeds version)
And to round out, today's winners (taken from my list of Top 100) are live:
All Day And All Of The Night- KINKS (One From The Road version)
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen- SANTANA (Moonflower version)
Highway Star- DEEP PURPLE (Made In Japan version)
Hoedown- ELP (Welcome. . . version)
I've Seen All Good People- YES (Classic Yes version)
Level Five- KING CRIMSON (Eyes Wide Open version)
Roadhouse Blues- DOORS (An American Prayer version)
Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2 (Under A Blood Red Sky version)
Wring That Neck- DEEP PURPLE (Deep Purple In Concert version);
and randomly selected from '60's origin groups:
Surf's Up- BEACH BOYS
19th Nervous Breakdown- ROLLING STONES
'Golden Slumbers' medley- BEATLES
Over, Under, Sideways, Down- YARDBIRDS
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp- JIMI HENDRIX
 
 
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SmileScarborough Fair - Simon And Garfunkel
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Papa Was A Rollin Stone - The Temptations
Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues
Entangled - Genesis
Your Move - Yes
Time Was - Wishbone Ash
Love Reign Over Me - The Who
Desperado - The Eagles
Rudy - Supertramp
Ricochet part II - Tangerine Dream
Winter Wine - Caraven
Memories Of Old Days - Gentle Giant
Waiting - Porcupine Tree
Whipoorwill - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
Paintbox - Pink Floyd
Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers
Jessica - The Allman Brothers
Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple
 
All off the top of my head on a Friday evening with a weekend to enjoy music and more music.
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In no particular order:

In the Name of God                            - Dream Theater
The Glass Prison                               - Dream Theater
The Count of Tuscany                       - Dream Theater
Pull me Under                                     - Dream Theater
Voices                                                   - Dream Theater
The Grand Conjuration                     - Opeth
Deliverance                                         - Opeth
La Villa Strangiato                             - Rush
Cygnus X-1: Book 2                          - Rush
Roundabout                                        - Yes
Siberian Khatru (<-Spelling)            - Yes
From the Beginning                          - ELP
The Divine Wings of Discovery       - Symphony X
The Walls of Babylon                        - Symphony X
Tubular Bells (the whole thing)      - Mike Oldfield
Bramfatura                                         - 3
Comfortably Numb                           - Pink Floyd
A Change of Seasons                     - Dream Theater
Octavarium                                        -Dream Theater
Evermore                                           - Transatlantic


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No particular order, just 20 favorites.

Queensrÿche - Roads to madness
Doors - The end
Santana - Song of the wind
Uriah Heep - Echoes in the dark
Rainbow - Stargazer
Warhorse - Solitude
Deep Purple - Burn
Golden Earring - Back home
Kansas - Magnum opus
Focus - House of the king
Pestilence - Mind reflections
Procol Harum - Grand hotel
Klaus Schulze - P.T.O.
Death - Lack of comprehension
Savatage - Gutter ballet
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and confused
10CC - The wall street shuffle
Brainbox - Down man
Pink Floyd - Astronomy domine
Queen - Father to son

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20 different bands and no particular order as between themselves.  It threatened to become a Floyd/Beatles list mania otherwise. Tongue

Pink Floyd - Echoes
The Beatles - Because
King Crimson - Starless
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Genesis - Firth of the fifth
Shakti - Shringar
Gentle Giant - Just The Same
Stevie Wonder - Summer Soft
Magma - Kohntarkohz pt-2
Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word
Black Sabbath - Sabracadabra
The Who - Baba O Reilly
Yes - South Side of The Sky
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Annie Haslam - Rockalise
ACT - Manipulator
Tori Amos - Girl
Steely Dan - Aja
Minnie Riperton - Minnie's Lament
Supertramp - Rudy


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