Best single track disc
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Topic: Best single track disc
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Subject: Best single track disc
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 19:10
I'm probably leaving out a few but I really couldn't think of any others when I came up with this idea. There were a few such as The Flower Kings-Garden of Dreams that came close but didn't quite cut it. In 1974 That would have qualified though. If anyone wants to vote for that particular TFK track that's fine since it would have been a single track if it was on vinyl although it would have been split into two parts. I almost was going to include it too. Anyway, any others I missed I want to know about.  |
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Posted By: pfloyd
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 19:13
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Ommadawn closely follow by mei. That album is sooo epic ------------- check out my art: http://alexanderbennett33.wixsite.com/portfolio 
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Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 19:16
This was a little tricky to compile because there are a lot of great side long tracks but not all that many that take up a whole album. I kept thinking I was missing something by Frank Zappa, Magma, Pink Floyd or ELP or even Yes.  With the last one it seems that some could consider TFTO as one big long super duper piece. It is a concept but there are four separate individual tracks so no.
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Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 19:18
| OK, I'd really like to know what that "other" is that someone just voted for. ;) |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 19:22
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 19:28
| I have to mull this over. I bought Mei a few months ago, but I haven't warmed up to it so far. I'm going back and forth between Thick as a Brick and Remember the Future. Hmm... |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 20:13
Ok, people still aren't saying what these "others" are. 
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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 20:52
Well there's Crimson by Edge Of Sanity that's hovering around position 89 on the top 100prog albums list...that might have gotten a vote or two by roaming extreme metal fans.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 20:54
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Thick As A Brick ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 22:25
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First vote for Tubular Bells, one of my first prog rock discs and special to me. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 22:53
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Ommadawn is the only thing that could beat out Thick As A Brick for me. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 00:51
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Ommadawn and Thick as a Brick are too fantastic compositions, though I will side with Jethro Tull on this one. Six Degrees would be my third favorite. Might I also suggest Amarok from Oldfield as well? I'm not familiar with that album/song, but it fits the criteria. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 01:06
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Voted for Rubycon. I love Oldfield but his "single tracks" are more patchworks of different tracks tied together. I'd like to mention "Perhaps - Vol 1" and "Senmuth - Zekhenu Uaut Setekh" ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 02:44
| Hergest Ridge. Great album. Well, any of the Oldfields that are mentioned. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 07:05
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Tubular Bells or Thick As a Brick. Voted for Tubular Bells. Mei and Rubycon come next. ------------- 
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Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 12:52
| I know about "Amarok" but forgot to mention it. Then again, as it is he already has more on here than anyone else. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 13:17
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A Passion Play -------------  
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 13:40
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After meh, comes Mei. ------------- 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 14:58
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I can;t think of one that i've heard and enjoyed. :[ ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 15:05
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Some of the songs I don't know. I voted TaaB. Both MDK (Magma) and The Whirlwind (Transatlantic) are missing from the list (as well as plenty others of course). ------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 16:52
| Jethro Tull- A Passion Play |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 18:18
Ditto! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
octopus-4 wrote:Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 18:54
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Gotta go with Grobschnitt
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Posted By: gerdtheater
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 21:14
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Voted for other because Transatlantic's Whirlwind doesn't appear! My favorite from the list is Thick as a Brick if you want to know... ------------- Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations. Neil Peart |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 23:36
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Mei APP is better than TAAB, BTW.  I'd also like to mention the pretty unknown http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3651" rel="nofollow - "Between Sunlight and Shadow" by Singularity. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 00:25
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I'll have to check out Whirlind. I don't know it which is why it didn't appear. Then again I don't some of the ones on my list but DO know they are single tracks. The Grobschnitt is a real killer though. Those who don't know it owe it to themselves to check it out. Btw, Magma's MDK does not qualify. Kohntarkosz comes closer but that doesn't qualify either. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 00:33
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OK, it appears I stand corrected. The original version of MDK which was released as Mekanik Kommandoh was a single track disc. Carry on. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples I left off. Try not to be too hard on me. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 01:14
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If you are counting only those with an actual "single track" on a CD then you must exclude SDOIT, at the very least. I think most of the Oldfield's are divided into at least two tracks on CD as well. I'm guessing RTF is split in two as well. So...!
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 02:12
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The only 2 albums on this list that ever made it to No. 1 on the Billboard album charts. First: TAAB (1972) followed by Second: APP (1973) Oh those were the days! |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 03:18
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No album in the 70's had a single track, was at least one on side A, and one on side B ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 03:51
They were a single track as far as I am concerned........you just had to flip the record over. |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 04:28
I think I might go for Nektar's wonderful `Remember The Future', all those fuzzy keyboards and lovely vocal harmonies really win me over! It's also got a really upbeat and positive sound. 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 04:59
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Rubycon > Ommadawn > Light of Day, Day of Darkness > Tubular Bells > Thick As A Brick ------------- What? |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 10:36
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Ommadawn > Rubycon > Tubular Bells > Thick As A Brick
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Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 10:50
| Taab |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 11:08
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Of those I've heard, I'd have to be conventional and pick either Ommadawn or Thick as a Brick. Lovely stuff. This poll makes me curious about Green Carnation though. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 11:41
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Fates Warning's 'a pleasant shade of grey' is supposed to be one track...
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 01 2013 at 21:12
| Don't know many of them, and some I really like a lot. But I guess the one I like the most is the one you missed, "The Whirlwind". Perhaps some of the other albums, or songs, have better parts, but as a whole, The Whirlwind is the one I enjoy the most from start to end. |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: April 01 2013 at 21:35
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Devil Doll - Dies Irae ------------- 
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Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: April 01 2013 at 23:08
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I think Other may over take them.... ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: April 02 2013 at 01:25
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1- Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
2- Grobschnitt - Solar Music
3- Nektar - Remember the Future
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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: April 02 2013 at 02:26
| Passion Play |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 02 2013 at 15:51
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I struggled to think of any album from the seventies that isn't listed as having a part one and a part two. I did have a hunch that this 'passed' and it does according to PA http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7564" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7564 I quite like it but isn't the best thing Vangelis did by any stretch
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Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: April 03 2013 at 12:31
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Thick as a Brick ; one of my favorite songs of all time.
Could also have voted "Other" and gone with Fates Warning's "A Pleasant Shade of Grey". Amazing album, one track in 12 parts with recurring themes exploited differently ; a masterpiece. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 13:09
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Well, here I prefer Ommadawn over TAAB. ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 14:48
| A Passion Play |
Posted By: MJAben
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 15:03
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Hard not to give it to Thick as a Brick, but I do love a lot of these. ------------- The anteater is the worlds fastest land mammal. |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 17:35
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TaaB or Amarok. But because the latter isn't on the list, I'll go with Thick. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 18:15
Hi Richard, I think you forgot this one: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7522" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7522 I'm still looking forward to knowing Vangeli's 'Ignacio"  -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 18:24
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Voted for Green Carnation ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 19:20
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TAAB, APP, Ommadawn. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 20:06
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definitely going with other. Uninspiring selections from 'big names' Terra in bocca. Miles above of those. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: May 27 2015 at 05:32
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Equinoxe - Jarre ------------- 
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: May 27 2015 at 06:58
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Can't go against Thick As a Brick even when it's dominating but there are a 5 different 5 star albums here for me cool list! ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: May 27 2015 at 08:07
| Hate to be boring, but Tubular Bells. Love it about as much as TAAB, but seeing as how few votes it's got... |
Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: May 27 2015 at 08:38
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"A Passion Play" |
Posted By: gerdtheater
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 14:46
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Other. The Whirlwind by Transatlantic for me! ------------- Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations. Neil Peart |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 15:02
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From the list, TAAB. Some greats that aren't there: Edge of Sanity - Crimson Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 Terry Riley - In C ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: June 04 2015 at 23:04
| big Oldfield fan but went with Solar Music in this case. Tubular and Ommadawn would be next, then Remember the Future |
Posted By: WrytXander
Date Posted: June 06 2015 at 14:41
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TaaB > Passion > Bells > Omma ...Buuuuut I voted Passion Play cause it needs more votes! ------------- 20+ prog bands discovered and explored in 3 years, still going strong... |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 08:09
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I'll choose from the list rather than going for other. There's some great ones to choose from but I'll go with Mei, a fantastic piece of music. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 20:19
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Tough group to select one from but I'm going with Hergest Ridge over Solar Music Live. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |