10 Ultimate prog SONGS
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Topic: 10 Ultimate prog SONGS
Posted By: disastercasper
Subject: 10 Ultimate prog SONGS
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 05:19
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Since this forum features a "10/25/100 ultimate prog albums" thread about every week, I thought to make something different: a 10 ultimate prog SONGS topic. I'm fairly new to the genre, so my list may not be all that interesting, but what do you think, are the 10 best prog songs ever made? My list:
1. Yes - Close to the Edge
2. Pink Floyd - Echoes
3. Yes - Awaken
4. Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond (if counted as one song)
5. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways - (if counted as one song)
6. Camel - Lady Fantasy
7. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
8. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (if counted as one song)
9. Genesis - The Musical Box
10. Genesis - Supper's Ready
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 05:41
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To me it is difficult task, to selecting 10 ultimate prog songs. sorry |
Posted By: Tasartir
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 05:43
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Not bad disastercasper, I would only change The Sky Moves Sideways for Rush's 2112 or La Villa Strangiato. ------------- ...Histoires Sans Paroles... |
Posted By: OT Räihälä
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 05:50
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It is impossible to name just 10 best songs, I'm afraid. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/osmotapioraihala/sets" rel="nofollow - Composer - Click to listen to my works! |
Posted By: CrazyDiamond
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 05:54
ok, we all know the genesis, yes, king crimson thing. 
these are 10 unconventional songs which can define "prog" in an alternative way:
or, if you want, a neo - prog - metal chart:
of course, this is not "classic" prog, but it's ok!
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Posted By: pero
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 06:09
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1. Echoes - Pink Floyd
2. Man erg - VDGG
3. 21 century - KC
4. One word - Mahavishnu orchestra
6. Anonymus II - Focus
7. In a glass house - Gentle giant
8. Super's ready - Genesis
9. Close to the edge - Yes
10. Barbarian - EL&P
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Posted By: disastercasper
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 06:09
Never been much of a Rush fan
 Porcupine Tree may be the only non-cliché choice on my list, but I just love the song and that's what it's all about, isn't it?I understand that it's hard to make a list with just 10 songs and that this list changes all the time, but the least you can do is try.
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Tasartir wrote:Posted By: CrazyDiamond
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 06:09
and uh, for the classics: 
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Posted By: crucify_the_ego
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 09:21
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For me personally? 10. Echoes - Pink Floyd 9. Supper's Ready - Genesis 8. Cassandra Gemini - Mars Volta 7. Ghost of Perdition - Opeth 6. Close to the Edge - Yes 5. Lateralus - Tool 4. Gates of Delerium - Yes 3. 21st Century Schitzoid Man - King Crimson 2. Paranoid Android - Radiohead 1. Dogs - Pink Floyd |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 09:42
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jethro tull-thick as a brick
gentle giant-the runaway
camel-uneven song
caravan-winter wine
yes-yours is no disgrace
genesis-dance on a volcano
king crimson-pictures of a city
rush-the trees
pink floyd-sheep
elp-bitches crystal
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 10:13
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My personal favorites are:
Spock's Beard: "The Great Nothing" Marillion: "This Strange Engine" Marillion: "The Invisible Man" Rush: "Hemispheres" Neal Morse: "Reunion" Neal Morse: Parts IV and V from Testimony Dream Theater: "Octavarium" Transaltlantic: "Duel With The Devil" Transatlantic: "Stranger In Your Soul" The Flower Kings: "Stardust We Are" Yes: "Soundchaser" A bit over 10. E spinning: "By The Light Of The Day" from U.K.'s first ------------- 
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Posted By: Marwin
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 10:16
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King Crimson - 21 Century Schizoid Man Camel - Lady Fantasy Yes - Heart Of Sunrise Dream Theater - Another Hand The Killing Hand Supertramp - Crime of The Century Opeth - The Drapery Falls Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini Pink Floyd - Carefull With That Axe Eugene Genesis - Musical Box Rush - Different Strings |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 10:19
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Utimate ten for today: Can - Mother Sky Peter hammill - A Louse is Not A Home VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Gentle Giant - Pantagruels Nativety Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - La Conquisita Posizione Eretta Tangerine Dream - Fly and Collision of Comas Sola Curved Air - Over and Above King Crimson - Starless Magma - Udu Wudu Il Balletto di Bronzo - Epilogo Very close, maybe next week: Comus: Diana (or any five first songs) Gong - Master Builder Hatfield and the North - Halfway Between Heaven and Earth Genesis - The Musical Box Gnidrolog - Snails Alphataurus - La Mente Vola And choosing one song on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom is just impossible. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 10:27
I'd choose "Sea Song", my favourite...with the great RS on bass... BTW, it's way too tough to think about 10 ultimate prog tracks. There are far too many I love, and I agree with many of Rocktopus's choices. Maybe later I'll find my inspiration... |
Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 10:35
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My list has a couple of Fusion elements to it:
1. YES - Close to the Edge
2. KING CRIMSON - Lark's Tongue in Aspect I, II, III
3. DREAM THEATER- A Change of Seasons
4. SYMPHONY X - The Odyssey
5. RUSH - Cygnus X-1, Book 1 and 2 (Hemispheres)
6. JEAN LUC PONTY - Imaginary Voyage
7. X JAPAN - Art of Life
8. RUSH - 2112
9. PAT METHENY - The Way Up
10. JETHRO TULL - Thick as a Brick
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Posted By: eloii
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 10:40
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Harmonium - Histories Sans Paroles !!! Yes - The Gates Of Delirium Anglagard - Sista Somrar VDGG - A Plague of Lighthose Keepers King Crimson - Starless Camel - Lady Fantasy Caravan - Nine Feet Underground Gnidrolog - Lady Lake Gentle Giant - Free Hand Genesis - Firth of Fifth ! |
Posted By: amprog91
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 12:22
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Genesis-Supper's Ready
Yes-Close to the Edge KC- Red Gentle Giant-Free Hand VdGG-A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers The Mars Volta- Cygnus Vismund Cygnus Tool-Lateralus Yes-Gates of Delirium Genesis-Dancing With the Moonlit Night Gentle Giant-On Reflection |
Posted By: Deadwing12
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 12:23
Oooo, really hard to choose. I suppose a top ten prog songs changes almost daily for most of the readers here. Anyways, here's some classics (in my mind  ) mixed with some more recent stuff i've been into:
1.) Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways (full 34-minute version)
2.) The Flower Kings - The Truth Will Set You Free
3.) Tool - 10,000 Days
4.) Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
5.) Yes - Close to the Edge (obviously)
6.) King Crimson - Starless
7.) The Mars Volta - Cassandra Geminii
8.) Symphony X - The Odyssey
9.) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Part I
10.) Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well II
As you can see, the list is OF COURSE dominated by epics, as they seem to be able to clearly define every aspect of the band playing it. This thread asks for a seemingly impossible answer...I had to leave off Pink Floyd, Pain of Salvation, Spock's Beard, Genesis, Opeth, The Tangent, Sigur Ros, etc etc....
Besides, most prog bands write ALBUMS, not SONGS ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Deadwing008/?chartstyle=Basquiat"> 
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Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 12:44
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Posted By: tarkus2112
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 13:06
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The Gates Of Delirium-Yes Close To The Edge-Yes Supper's Ready-Genesis Tarkus-ELP Pictures at an Exhibition-ELP A Change of Seasons-Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence-Dream Theater 2112-Rush Odyssey-Symphony X Hemispheres-Rush ------------- Seasons change and so can I Hold on Boy No time to cry Untie these strings I'm climbing down I won't let them push me away |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 13:28
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Mine Are:
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Gates Of Delirium
Yes - Awaken
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick [all parts as one]
Rush - 2112
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond (all parts as one)
KC - Epitaph
Renaissance - Song Of Scheherazade
Genesis - Supper's Ready |
Posted By: Mr. Krinkle
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 13:54
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mine are Jethro Tull - thick as a brick Yes - siberian khatru Yes - Starship Trooper King Crimson - in the court of the crimson king Pink Floyd - echoes Pink Floyd - pillow of winds ELP - trilogy Jethro Tull - life is a long song Gentle Giant - experience Gong - love is how you make it those are the ones that comes first to my mind, have loads more |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 14:24
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I don't really have ten all-time favourites, and
my favourites du jour change, well, pretty much daily as I'm exposed to
new-to-me music.... I know far too little prog to come up with a really ultimate
list. Currently I'm totally hung-up on Le Orme... Still, I'll try, and this is kind of
arbitrary and in no particular order..
Le Orme - Maggio
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Camel - La Princesse Perdue
Anglagard - Jordrok
Gentle Giant - Experience
Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps
Caravan - Nine Feet Underground
ELP - Trilogy
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Genesis - Firth of Fifth
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Posted By: Nasalspray
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 15:00
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1. The Devin Townsend Band - Pixillate 2. Mike Oldfield - Amarok 3. Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone 4. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Storm 5. Van Der Graaf Generator - Man-Erg 6. Tool - 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2) 7. King Crimson - Starless 8. Pink Floyd - Dogs 9. Genesis - The Musical Box 10. Sigur Rós - Starálfur |
Posted By: ismo
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 15:14
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In no particular order and from the top of my head: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Rush - YYZ Genesis - Supper's Ready Genesis - Squonk Genesis - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight Pink Floyd - Sheep King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic Salem Hill - Stolen by Ghosts ELP - Karn Evil 9 Mr.Bungle - Violenza Domestica ------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. |
Posted By: bruin69
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 17:11
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In no particular order, and with many more waiting in the wings:
Yes - Gates of Delirium
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Genesis - Cinema Show
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Martha's Madman - especially the live versions
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
Yes - Awaken
King Crimson - Lizard
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Camel - Unevensong
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Metamorfosi
Pretty obvious "classic" selection... but then I am an old fart...
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Posted By: zekism
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 19:28
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* 21st century- KC
* A day in the life- the beatles
* la villa strangiato- RUSH
* close to the edge- YES
* a change of seasons- DT
* karn evil 9- ELP
* echoes- PINK FLOYD
* THick as a brick- JT
* Muffin man F. ZAPPA
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Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 22:28
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For classic prog songs:
Close To The Edge - Yes
Supper's Ready - Genesis
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Starless - King Crimson
In A Glass House - Gentle Giant
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
2112 - Rush
Magnum Opus - Kansas
Tarkus - ELP
Lady Fantasy - Camel
For neo/metal prog songs:
A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater
The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X
Script For A Jester's Tear - Marillion
The Sky Moves Sideways - Porcupine Tree
Cassandri Gemini - The Mars Volta
Lateralus - Tool
Rime of the Ancient Marinier - Iron Maiden
At The End of the Day - Spock's Beard
Stranger In Your Soul - Transatlantic
When The Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment ------------- Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can |
Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 23:11
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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.  Question is: What list would YOU choose? Gaston -------------  
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Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 00:13
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Faaip_De_Oiad
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 00:40
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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 By: video vertigo
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 02:20
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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 ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 02:31
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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 By: White Duck
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 03:32
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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
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Posted By: mghiotti
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 10:00
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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!  )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. |
Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 15:23
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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
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: June 03 2006 at 16:22
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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 |
Posted By: Kars
Date Posted: June 04 2006 at 18:09
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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 |
Posted By: thecool
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 01:33
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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
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Posted By: Kord
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 08:05
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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)
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Posted By: CVoss
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 13:11
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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" |
Posted By: thetick
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 14:11
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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 |
Posted By: AcostaFulano
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 14:21
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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 |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 00:49
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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
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Posted By: Negru Voda
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 12:08
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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 |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 12:42
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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 13:54
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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 By: thegrandvizier
Date Posted: June 18 2006 at 22:15
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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)
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