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Topic: 10 Ultimate prog SONGS
Posted: June 18 2006 at 22:15

1) Knots (Gentle Giant)

2) Thick As A Brick (Jethro Tull)

3) Close To The Edge (Yes)

4) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd)

5) 2112 (Rush)

6) One Word (Mahavishnu Orchestra)

7) The Gates Of Delirium (Yes)

8) Cinema Show (Genesis)

9) 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson)

10) In A Glass House (Gentle Giant)

Progger

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Posted: June 06 2006 at 13:54

I'll try!

And You And I-YES

Perpetual Change-YES

Shine On You Crazy Diamond-PINK FLOYD

Pilgrim-URIAH HEEP

Pirates-ELP

Karnevil 9-1st impression-ELP

Suppers Ready-GENESIS

Wind In My Back-SPOCKS BEARD

Stardust We Are-FLOWERKINGS

The Journey-RICK WAKEMAN

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Posted: June 06 2006 at 12:42

R o V e R wrote:

To me it is difficult task, to selecting 10 ultimate prog songs.

sorry

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Posted: June 06 2006 at 12:08

My list (in no particlar order):

Pink Floyd - Echoes
Pink Floyd - Dogs
King Crimson - Starless
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Gentle Giant - Schooldays
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Rush - 2112
Genesis - Super's Ready
VDGG - Man-Erg
ELP - Tarkus

Mongo

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Posted: June 06 2006 at 00:49

As usual I'm gonna go alittle off track here and list somgs I can't stop playing, songs which could definitely vie for my ultimate list, maybe 10 years down the road.

Everon - Men of Rust

IQ - The Seventh House

Mostly Autumn - Half the Mountain

Jadis - Sleepwalk

Journey - Look Into the Future

IQ - You Never will

Marillion - Neverland

"The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish

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Posted: June 05 2006 at 14:21

lady fantasy
close to the edge
thick as a brick
suppers ready
gates of delirium
a change of seasons
the musical box
the advent of panurge
childhoods end
heart of the sunrise

thetick

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Posted: June 05 2006 at 14:11

How do you answer such a tough question. I will however give it a shot (this types of lists are fun). Here they are in no particular order:

1. DT - Scenes from a Memory (all of it)
2. Yes - The Gates of Delerium
3. Rush - Xanadu (that's how I learned to play drums)
4. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
5. Dreamscape - When Shadows are Gone
6. Yes - Starship Trooper (one of the first prog tunes I got into)
7. Jethro Tull - Baker Street Muse (wierd I know but I love that song)
8. DT - Under a Glass Moon (its a drum thing)
9. Rush - A Farewell to Kings (see Xanadu)
10. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome (it still has that new car smell, awesome tune).

Handing sanity to a faceless mind
I step though the void into this blind
Memory where I see life, death and purity
Clocks dream tolls endlessly

CVoss

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Posted: June 05 2006 at 13:11

Wow that is a tough one...a very tough one...I'll have to come back on that, since many of these selections are too good...also, it all depends on who considers what to be prog.

"No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun"

Kord

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Posted: June 05 2006 at 08:05

1 Musical Box

2 In the land of grey and pink

3 21st schizoid man

4 Time (pink floyd)

5 Heart of the Sunrise

6 O Caroline

7 Overture 1928 (Dream Theater)

8 a day in the life (beatles)

9 Master of the universe (hawkwind)

10 Sympathy (by Rare Bird)

thecool

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Posted: June 05 2006 at 01:33

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

Yes - Siberian Khatru

ELP - Karn Evil 9

Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight

Gentle Giant - Black Cat

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

Pink Floyd - Pigs

Camel - Lady Fantasy

VDGG - Lemmings

Rush - Xanadu

Kars

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Posted: June 04 2006 at 18:09

1. Peter Hammill - A Louse is Not a Home
2. Yes - Gates of Delirium
3. Devin Townsend - Earth Day
4. VdGG - Refugees
5. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
6. Taal - Coornibus
7. ELP - Karn Evil 9
8. Yes - Close to the Edge
9. Genesis - Firth of Fifth
10. Sigur Ros - Just pick one

I'd like to add that 'A louse is not a home' is ahead by about a mile, the pinnacle of prog for me.

Maybe I should de-louse this place;
Maybe I should de-place this louse;
Maybe I'll maybe my life away

omri

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Posted: June 03 2006 at 16:22

We did it few times in the past but ut's allways fun. My extra rule is just one song per artist. The first 2 I allways mention, the rest can change with mood and memory.

1. King crimson - Starless

2. Robert Wyatt - Alifib (for me it is the absolute peak of rock bottom)

3. Pink floyd - Dogs

4. Genesys - Canutility & the coastliners

5. ELP - Tarkus

6. Renaissance - Song of Scheherezade

7. VDGG - Pioneers over C

8. Focus - Birth

9. Jethro Tull - My god

10. Aphrodite's child - Aegain sea

11. Talk talk - Ascension day

12. Kansas - Cheyene anthem

13. Yes - Heart of the sunrise

Could'nt stop in 10 as you see !

omri

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Posted: May 31 2006 at 15:23

Peter Hammill- A Louse is Not a Home

Genesis- The Musical Box

King Crimson- In the Wake of Poseidon

Gentle Giant- Experience

Jethro Tull- A Passion Play

Yes- Gates of Delirium

Pink Floyd- Echoes

Comus- Song to Comus

VDGG- Lemmings

Man-Erg

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (Let's just pretend that's all one big song)

VDGG- The Undercover Man

Scorched Earth

Arrow

The Sleepwalkers (That too

)

Your life or your lupins!!!

mghiotti

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Posted: May 31 2006 at 10:00

As somebody else has said on this topic, I would go for "unconventional" songs

1) Arbeit Macht Frei - Area
2) Smoke and Mirrors - Symphony X
3) Medio Oriente 249000 tutto comrpeso - Il Volo
4) Luglio, Agosto Settembre Nero - Area
5) Bangkok - Steve Vai
6) Wish you where here - Vanden Plas
7) Pleasent Shade of Grey part V - Fates Warning
8) What Need Have I For This - Shakti With John McLaughlin
9) Metropolis part I - Dream Theater (sorry about that! Cry

)
10) Passage To Paralysis - Explorers Club

I'm not generally very keen on "super groups" but I think in this forum too little is said about Explorers Club.

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Posted: May 31 2006 at 03:32

Thick as a brick-Jethro Tull

Supper´s ready-Genesis

Baker Street Muse-Jethro Tull

The musical box-Genesis

Hamburger concerto-Focus

Firth of fifth-Genesis

Velvet green-Jethro Tull

Larks tongues in aspic pt.1-King Crimson

On reflection-Gentle Giant

Shine on you crazy diamond-Pink Floyd

richardh

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Posted: May 31 2006 at 02:31

Yes - And You And I

Genesis - Cinema Show

ELP - Take A Pebble

IQ - Further Away

Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes

Pink Floyd - Sheep

Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure

Rush - Xanadu

Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera

King Crimson - Epitaph

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Posted: May 31 2006 at 02:20

okay, but I'm sticking to epics mainly:

Cygnus X-1 Book II : Hemispheres by Rush

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by Van der Graaf Generator

Dogs by Pink Floyd

Close to the Edge by Yes

Supper's Ready by Genesis

Depuis L'Automne by Harmonium

Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull

L'Via L'Viaquez by The Mars Volta

Go the Way you Go by Spock's Beard

This Strange Engine by Marillion

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Posted: May 31 2006 at 00:40

Hmm

1. Lateralus - Tool
2. Third Eye - Tool
3. Fracture - King Crimson
4. 10,000 Day's (wings pt 2) - Tool
5. Starless - King Crimson
6. Reflection - Tool
7. Cassandra Gemini - The Mars Volta
8. The Grudge - Tool
9. Rosetta Stoned - Tool
10. Merkaba - Tool

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Posted: May 31 2006 at 00:13

Top 10 as of now, ALWAYS subject to change.

In no particular order:

1. Stardust We Are (Flower Kings)
2. Thick as a Brick (Tull)
3. Echoes (Floyd)
4. The Gates of Delirium (Yes)
5. Starless (KC)
6. The Cinema Show (Genesis)
7. Stranger In Your Soul (Transatlantic)
8. The Isle of Everywhere (Gong)
9. Ensimmäinen Aamu (Pekka Pohjola)
10. Pudding En Gisteren (Supersister)

With honorable mention going to Spanish Key by Miles and A Love Supreme by Trane as they really arent prog, but share in the same spirit of innovation.

Edited by Nipsey88 - May 31 2006 at 00:13

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Posted: May 30 2006 at 23:11

LIST ONE:                                                LIST TWO:
Close to the Edge                                      Gates of Delirium
La Villa Strangiato                                        YYZ
Firth of Fifth                                                Supper's Ready
   Karn Evil                                                    Tarkus
    Echoes                                                         Comfortably Numb
     21st Century Schizoid Man                                Red
      Inca Roads                                                    Peaches En Regalia
       Knots                                                            Cogs In Cogs
    Thick As A Brick side 1                                        Thick As A Brick side 2
         Cassandra Gemini                                                 Eriatarka

I know, best lists ever, you don't have to tell me. I know I rule so hard sometimes it hurts.

Big smile

Question is: What list would YOU choose?

Gaston

Edited by Gaston - May 30 2006 at 23:11

It's the same guy. Great minds think alike.