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    Posted: January 21 2017 at 22:16
albums like tales from topographic oceans. and mike oldfields amarok
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Brain Salad Surgery?
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A Passion Play
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I, for one, have never really bought into the idea of prog (or any music) ever going into "excess", but I can think of a few examples of albums that are extensive and ambitious in scope. No guarantees that you'll enjoy them, but you can't deny that the artists had a bold vision that they set out to execute:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2 - Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - The Astonishing 
Gandalf's Fist - A Clockwork Fable
IQ - Subterranea
Magma - Kobaia

As well as the obvious examples like The Lamb, Tales, and Brain Salad Surgery, of course.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2017 at 11:38
I'd suggest Afenginn's double LP / double CD from last year, OPUS, self described as "a composition built up in four movements, inspired by the form of the classical symphony". It's mainly acoustic music featuring sixteen musicians on all manner of instruments, including strings, horns, two drummers and a tuned percussionist and supplemented by a female choir. To boot the lyrics are written in a b*****dised form of Latin that they refer to as "street Latin". How much more prog than that can you actually get?

Certainly their masterpiece to date, and a massive achievement that sounds like nothing else (other than, to some extent, their own recent albums, which now seem like precursors to this). After quite a few listens I have to say that I respect it rather than love it - there is a certain coolness to everything they do, even when the music is quite frenzied - but that may well come later.

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Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness

Its the one I always reach for when in the mood for excess.
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Going strictly on the premise of the thread, I would say A Passion Play. Pretty ballsy to release that right after Thick as a Brick.
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Points: 5976 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2017 at 13:23
Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

I, for one, have never really bought into the idea of prog (or any music) ever going into "excess", but I can think of a few examples of albums that are extensive and ambitious in scope. No guarantees that you'll enjoy them, but you can't deny that the artists had a bold vision that they set out to execute:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2 - Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - The Astonishing 
Gandalf's Fist - A Clockwork Fable
IQ - Subterranea
Magma - Kobaia

As well as the obvious examples like The Lamb, Tales, and Brain Salad Surgery, of course.

I agree with this...Now get outta my head Magnum!
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Aphrodite's Child - 666
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Points: 13517 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2017 at 14:07
Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

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Points: 13517 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2017 at 14:08
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

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Oh yeah! Especially the latest remaster with the Klangwald gig added on a bonus disc,
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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Lamb lies down on broadway
The Wall
Tommy
Quadrophenia
Tales from topographic oceans
Subterranea
Flower Power
Stardust we are(heck any flower kings album)
Physical Graffiti
Thick as a brick (more or less a parody of prog)


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Points: 850 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2017 at 15:50
What came to my mind was many of The Flower Kings' albums, especially the likes of Flower Power (a 60-minute epic, plus a couple of tracks AND an entire second disc of other songs) and Unfold the Future (bookended by 31- and 25-minute epics, totalling well over 2 hours).
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Points: 246 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2017 at 17:12
I have a lot of respect for Charles Darwin by XII Alfonso. Triple CD album of quality music.
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