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jude111 
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Posted: August 20 2014 at 19:51 |
The best track. The one radio stations would have played, back when they used to play a bit of prog. Not the longest or the "most epic" (although it can be that). The best. You know, the gateway track. Yes's "Roundabout" (or "All Good People"), Jethro Tull's "Aqualung," the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin," KC's "Starless," Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale." The one that leads others to want to hear more by that band. The one that everyone loves. The one that every fan of prog should hear, - even if they don't care much for that band, this is the one track that everyone *has* to like... Of course, as objective as one tries to be, this is ultimately a subjective enterprise...
I'll get it started:
Riverside: The Same River Anglagard: Jordrok Pendragon: The Shadow Flower Kings: There Is More to This World Beardfish: The Hunter Nemrud: In My Mind Anekdoten: Karelia The Watch: Shining Bald Heads Big Big Train: Master James of St George Arena: The Hanging Tree Moon Safari: Mega Moon Archive: Again
Edited by jude111 - August 21 2014 at 08:35
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Posted: August 20 2014 at 20:30 |
Key tracks that any prog fan needs to hear? Aight top 5.
Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt - TMV Gazpacho - Tick Tock Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize GY!BE - Static Kayo Dot - Manifold Curiosity
Edited by Horizons - August 20 2014 at 20:30
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Posted: August 20 2014 at 20:35 |
 Horizons wrote:
Key tracks that any prog fan needs to hear? Aight top 5.
Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt - TMV Gazpacho - Tick Tock Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize GY!BE - Static Kayo Dot - Manifold Curiosity
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Cool! I'm only familiar with Anesthetize, and while I love that track, I do consider it a bit 'difficult' to initially get into. I'd have picked Moonloop (Coda), or maybe Stars Die or The Moon Touches Your Shoulder. But hey! That's exactly what I was hoping for - subjective, and a discussion about it. Thanks for your list, I'm going to listen to these others right now! (I hope they're on Spotify, if not, then Youtube! :-)
Edited by jude111 - August 20 2014 at 20:39
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Posted: August 20 2014 at 21:02 |
These are band's key tracks that I think any kind of music fan would get impressed if listened to them: Keith Emerson - Another Frontier
Steve Hackett - That Vast Life
Vangelis - Dream In An Open Place
Latte e Miele - Kubilai Kan
Magenta - Envy (esp. from "Seven - The Instrumentals")
Flamborough Head - Dancing Ledge
Unreal City - Horror Vacui
Par Lindh Project - Sky Door
Willowglass - The Dream Harbour
Camel - Running From Paradise
Abel Ganz - The Danger of Strangers Pt 1 +2
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Posted: August 20 2014 at 22:02 |
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For me, as far as I understand and like them:
- A Change of Seasons, from Dream Theater.
- The Sky Moves Sideways, from Porcupine Tree.
- Home, from Dream Theater.
- Something from Ayreon... though I'm not sure which songs to choose.
- Duel with the Devil, from Transatlantic (though I actually don't like it THAT much, but I understand it's a rather important song from the band).
- In the Presence of, from Yes.
- The Glass Prison, from Dream Theater.
- Blackest Eyes, from Porcupine Tree.
- Level Five, from King Crimson.
- The Cathedral in the Sky, from Rick Wakeman.
- Octavarium, from Dream Theater.
- The Whirlwind (or at least some selection from it), from Transatlantic.
- Raider II, from Steven Wilson.
- Luminol, from Steven Wilson.
- The Holy Drinker, from Steven Wilson.
- The Drapery Falls, from Opeth.
- The Point of no Return, from Haken.
- Something from Riverside, but I'm not yet sure what I would choose.
- Something from Pain of Salvation, but I'm not yet sure what I would choose.
- Cockroach King, from Haken.
- Earth Day, from Devin Townsend.
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Posted: August 21 2014 at 01:41 |
Great choices in the above lists but also
Par Lindh Project - The Cathedral Glass Hammer - Tales Of The Great Wars Kayak - Merlin ( the 'new' version) Neil Morse - The Creation Marillion - The Invisible Man Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Magenta - Pride ( Directors Cut) Keith Emerson - Malambo Big Big Train - The First Rebreather
Edited by richardh - August 21 2014 at 01:43
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Posted: August 21 2014 at 03:40 |
Encircling - Iona Canto IV (Limbo) - Discipline Even Less - Porcupine Tree Island - Echolyn The Door - Neal Morse Summoned by Bells - Big Big Train Luminol - Steven Wilson KA III - Magma An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost - Maudlin of the Well Morpheus Miracle Maker - North Sea Radio Orchestra August in the Urals - Deluge Grander
(not always my favourite tracks but I can imagine these as gateway tracks)
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Posted: August 21 2014 at 08:31 |
someone_else wrote:
Encircling - IonaCanto IV (Limbo) - Discipline Even Less - Porcupine Tree Island - Echolyn The Door - Neal Morse Summoned by Bells - Big Big Train Luminol - Steven Wilson KA III - Magma An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost - Maudlin of the Well Morpheus Miracle Maker - North Sea Radio Orchestra August in the Urals - Deluge Grander
(not always my favourite tracks but I can imagine these as gateway tracks)
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Discipline's Canto IV is great, but for an accessible gateway song that's shorter and not nearly as difficult or challenging, I think I'd go with the track "Dead City." Likewise, Steven Wilson's "Luminol" is great, but I found it took awhile to appreciate. On the other hand, something like "Deform to Form a Star" is shorter, and grabbed me immediately, and was the gateway track for me that lead me to buy that album, and the next one as well. Because of that and other tracks like it (Drive Home, The Raven That Refused to Sing), I stuck with it and eventually "got" Luminol." For Echolyn, although it's not a band I know that well, I'd go with the track "21." It's short, I imagine if FM radio still played prog, then it would be a radio staple, and it's the gateway track that makes me want to hear more by the band. EDIT: Listening to "Island" on Youtube now. Wow. I'm adding it to my playlist! :-)
More shorter gateway tracks I thought of (including those I mentioned above):
IQ - Frequency
Flaming Lips - Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung
Pain of Salvation - Her Voices
Anathema - Anathema (or Emotional Winter)
Timothy Pure - Playground Politics (or The Aberration)
Marillion - Neverland
Days Between Stations - Eggshell Man
Il Bacio Della Medusa - Melencolia
Phideaux - Micro Deathstar
Birds and Buildings - Abominable Pelican
Motorpsycho - Into the Mystic
Echolyn - 21 Steven Wilson - Deform to Form a Star
Porcupine Tree - Moonloop (Coda) Asia Minor - Nightwind
Comedy Of Errors - Something She Said
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real
Ske - Fraguglie
Collage - Heroes Cry
Edison's Children - A Million Miles Away (I Wish I Had a Time Machine)
Mostly Autumn - Half the Mountain
Rain - The Lammas Lands
The Tea Party - Sister Awake
Edited by jude111 - August 21 2014 at 09:46
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