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Topic: Top 10 Prog Songs
Posted By: justin4950834-2
Subject: Top 10 Prog Songs
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 12:53
I know its hard but list you top 10 prog songs.
Heres roughly mine in no particular order

Tarkus-  ELP
Suppers Ready-  Genesis
Firth of Fifth-  Genesis
Thick as a Brick-  Jethro Tull
Cygnus X-I Book II-  Rush
Time-  Pink Floyd
In the Court of the Crimson-   King Crimson
Starless-  King Crimson
Remember the Future-  Nektar
Close to the Edge-  Yes

Pretty obvious list, hopefully we will get more obscure selctions.




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Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 13:23
Your own preference? Oh boy...

1. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
2. Karn Evil 9 - ELP
3. Storm - GY!BE
4. The Only Moment We Need Alone - Explosions In The Sky
5. Supper's Ready - Genesis
6. Siberian Khatru - Yes
7. Starless - King Crimson
8. Pigs (Three Different Ones) - Pink Floyd
9. Living In The Heart Of The Beast - Henry Cow
10. The Battle Of Epping Forest - Genesis


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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 13:41
Mister Ten Percent-Triumvirat
Broken Mirror-Triumvirat
The  Deadly Dream Of Freedom-Triumvirat
Magika-Dzyan
Lost Angeles--Colosseum
I Can't Lose-Wallenstein
No More Love-Wallenstein
Words and Music-Libra
Pollution-Libra
Toccata-Pell Mell
 
mostly on the pretty obscure side, but that's me
 
 


Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 13:55
All Of The Above - Transatlantic
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Lady Fantasy - Camel
The Door - Neal Morse
And You And I - Yes
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Yours Is No Disgrace - Yes
Heroes Never Die - Mostly Autumn
Lunar Sea - Camel
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
 


Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 14:56
This is not a fixed list, and I have the feeling I might forget a song or two, but then again, I've given it some careful thought, so here it is:

1. Awaken - Yes
2. A Heart's Desire/End Peace - Camel
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
4. Tarkus suite - Emerson Lake & Palmer
5. Icarus Ascending - Steve Hackett
6. Hammer In The Sand Steve Hackett
7. La Cathedrale De Strasbourg - Focus
8. The Sleeper - Camel
9. Long Piece No. 3 - Egg
10. Nine Feet Underground - Caravan


Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 15:04
1) "The Rainbow/Eden/Desire" - Talk Talk
2) "Oro Caldo" - Osanna
3) "The Psychedelic Warlords/Winds of Change" - Hawkwind
4) "1983" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
5) "Horizontal Hold" - This Heat
6) "Heart of The Sunrise" - Yes
7) "Glissements Progressifs du Plaisir" - Art Zoyd
8) "Salisbury" - Uriah Heep
9) "Cross Eyed Mary" - Jethro Tull
10) "Nights In White Satin" - The Moody Blues
11) "Zarathustra" - Museo Rosenbach


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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 17:51
Taijin Kyofusho - The Evpatoria Report
Cassandra Gemini - The Mars Volta
Way Out Of Here - Porcupine Tree
Manifold Curiosity - Kayo Dot
Volume One - Perhaps
Flairs - Pretend
She Loves Us - Swans
Lost - Van der Graaf Generator 
Easy Money - King Crimson
Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost - Maudlin of the Well

Pretty much outlines my tastes perfectly.
Preference to more modern music. My love for Post-Rock/Math-Rock, and typically the mixing of emotion and heaviness. 



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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 18:25
Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

This is not a fixed list, and I have the feeling I might forget a song or two, but then again, I've given it some careful thought, so here it is:

1. Awaken - Yes
2. A Heart's Desire/End Peace - Camel
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
4. Tarkus suite - Emerson Lake & Palmer
5. Icarus Ascending - Steve Hackett
6. Hammer In The Sand Steve Hackett
7. La Cathedrale De Strasbourg - Focus
8. The Sleeper - Camel
9. Long Piece No. 3 - Egg
10. Nine Feet Underground - Caravan

AMAZING LIST, DUDE!


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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 18:26
I can't do it! 





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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 18:30
Okay, I'll try!

Face to Face - Shakti
Awaken - Yes
A Trip to the Fair - Renaissance
Prince of The Sea - Lenny White
Streetwalker - Jan Akkerman
Tell - Landberk
Utopia Theme - Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Weathered Wall - David Sylvian
Kana - Proghma-C
Fiori, frutti, farfalle - Humana Prog

sh*t! That was hard!


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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 20:28
The Endless Enigma - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Barbarian - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Red Flower of Tachai Blooms Everywhere - Steve Hackett
Lyra - Steve Hackett
Pulstar - Vangelis
Country Grave Yard - Cherry Five
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Cherry Five
Caro Fratello - Triade
Zartlicher Abschied - Neuschwanstein
Summer '68 - Pink Floyd
 
 


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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB


Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 29 2015 at 20:59
Ok, Ill give it a try

King Crimson - Starless
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Univers Zero - Dense
Henry Cow - Living In The Heart Of The Beast
Pink Floyd - Dogs
The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis
Cheer-Accident - Blue Cheadle
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Baby Doctor
Hatfield & The North - Mumps
Guapo - 5 Suns I - V


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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 00:24
As the French would say: "imm-posse-bull"

Also, if you asked a week from now half the list might be different.


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Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 00:46
Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

1. Awaken - Yes


BE MY BEST FRIEND!!!

This is not official, and for now, to make things easier, only the first generation

1. Awaken - Yes (The Greatest Song Ever)
2. Firth of Fifth - Genesis (This one has gotten me through so many hard times)
3. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull (An anthem of prog rock)
4. Supper's Ready - Genesis (Gets weirder and weirder until it all breaks into an amazing ending)
5. Echoes - Pink Floyd (First prog suite I ever heard-listened every night for two months)
6. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - VDGG (Blows my mind every time)
7. Close To The Edge - Yes (Classic and Amazing)
8. Tarkus - ELP (Flows really well, I love the end!)
9. Starless - King Crimson (Perfection and so much Emotion)
10. Cygnus X-1 (Books I And II) - Rush (Amazing Story-plus I love Sci-Fi)

Honerable Mentions:
Dogs - Pink Floyd, Carpet Crawlers - Genesis, Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues, A Passion Play - Jethro Tull, Karn Evil 9 - ELP, Lady Fantasy - Camel, 2112 - Rush, Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfeild, and SO MUCH MORE!


Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 00:58
In no order

Dogs - Pink Floyd
Suppers Ready - Genesis
Awaken - Yes
Starless - King Crimson
La Villa Strangiato - Rush
Sleepwalkers - VDGG
Rubycon Part 1 - Tangerine Dream
Lunar Sea - Camel
Nights in white satin - Moody Blues
Tarkus - ELP

That's this weeks choices. I may post again when I change my mind..

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 07:11
hmmm..

1. Sequenze e Frequenze - Battiato
2. Mon Amour - Dungen
3. Introduzione - Balletto di Bronzo
4. The Ancient - Yes
5. Animale Senze Rispiro - Osanna
6. The Rainbow - Talk Talk
7. Surrounded by Stars - ADII
8. Can't Feel Nothing - Captain Beyond
9. You Can't Kill Me - Gong
10. Stoah - Magma


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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 10:47
In no order, a blend of old and new:

Genesis - Supper's Ready
Pink Floyd -Echoes
Magma - Kohntarkosz part 1
Yes - And You and I
Rush - Xanadu
Van der Graaf Generator - Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
Gentle Giant - His Last Voyage
Echolyn - Some Memorial
Big Big Train - Summoned by Bells
Anekdoten - If It All Comes Down to You

Just a selection...

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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 12:35
And You and I - Yes
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
In a Glass House - Gentle Giant
Question - The Moody Blues
Can-Utility and the Coastliners - Genesis
Velvet Green - Jethro Tull
Dance on a Volcano - Genesis
Dogs - Pink Floyd
Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
 
 
 


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to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 15:16
Not in any particular order.

King Crimson Princ Rupert Awakes
Genesis Looking For Someone
Yes Heart of the Sunrise
Yes Gates of Delirium
Jethro Tull The Whistler
Frank Zappa Inca Roads
Igra Staklenih Perli Vrt svetlosti
Smak Stvar ljubavi
iamthemorning 5/4


Posted By: aliano
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 15:34
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Epitaph - King Crimson
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Blood on the Rooftops - Genesis
Dogs - Pink Floyd
Rhayader Goes To Town - Camel
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Man-Erg - VDGG
Signal To Noise - Peter Gabriel
Klaus Schulze - Friedrich Nietzsche


Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 23:45
Roughly mine {not in any particular order}
Smak -"Južni Voz"
Time - "Za Koji Život Treba Da Se Rodim"
Igra Staklenih Perli - "Vrt Svetlosti"
David Maxim Micic - "Daydreamers"
Gong - "The Other Side of The Sky"
Gong - "Shamal" [title track]
Robert Wyatt - "Sea Song"
Camel - "Lunar Sea"
Yes - "Heart Of The Sunrise"
Zappa - "Peaches En Regalia"
 
 



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