Favorite Prog Song
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Topic: Favorite Prog Song
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Subject: Favorite Prog Song
Date Posted: May 12 2011 at 17:21
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Ok, this might be really hard for some, but I want to know what your guy's favorite prog song of all times! I know it really is hard to pick one favorite, and I know to some it can be easy, but then changes. That is totally fine! If picking one song is hard to do, pick your top three that seems to cycle around for you, so try to pick those 3 songs that are your absolute favorite! Or maybe top 5! But nothing past 5 please. I think my number one favorite prog song is: (1) Moon In June, Soft Machine. but if I had to choose three, it would be: (1) Moon in June, Soft Machine (2) Future Days, Can (3) Histoires Sans Paroles, Harmonium Have fun! |
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 12 2011 at 18:00
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1. Gates of Delirium
2. Cassandra Gemini
3. Cygnus X-1
It is very difficult for me to choose my top songs, but i ended up with these for now.
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Posted By: bowlingisfun
Date Posted: May 14 2011 at 17:16
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3) Natural Science - Rush
2) Close to the Edge - Yes 1) Domino - Genesis
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Posted By: Mista-Gordie
Date Posted: May 14 2011 at 19:33
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1-Ommadawn part 1-Mike Oldfield 2-Histoires sans paroles-Harmonium 3-Supper's ready-Genesis 4-Starless-King Crimson 5-The gates of delerium-Yes
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Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: May 14 2011 at 20:20
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1. Gentle Giant - Cogs in Cogs 2. Moon Safari - Methuselah's Children 3. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick Progressive rock is very album oriented, so I don't really like thinking of "songs", but this is as close as I can get
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 14 2011 at 20:46
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1. Baker St. Muse - Jethro Tull
2. The Night Watch - King Crimson
3. Dance on a Volcano - Genesis ------------- ...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: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: May 14 2011 at 21:50
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1. Starless - King Crimson 2. Close to the Edge - Yes 3. Supper's Ready - Genesis |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 01:17
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Supper's Ready
Roads to Moscow - Al Stewart
Yours is no Disgrace - Yes
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 01:28
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Firth Of Fifth - Genesis Jacob's Ladder - Rush The Barbarian - ELP |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 01:31
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Tarkus Suppers Ready Further Away (IQ)
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 08:05
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Only 3? Ouch. I love so many! At the moment it would have to be: Thick as a Brick-Jethro Tull Supper's Ready-Genesis The Runaway-Gentle Giant
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Posted By: Garden of Dreams
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 08:35
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Garden of Dreams-The Flower Kings Awaken-Yes Fountain of Salmacis-Genesis Supper's Ready-Genesis In The Court Of The Crimson King-King Crimson Choosing my Genesis songs was very hard.
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 08:37
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Impossible. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 08:40
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Opeth - Serenity painted death (from Still life).
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 08:43
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"The Revealing Science of God" by Yes. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 09:27
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Yes - Heart of the Sunrise Rush - Jacob's Ladder King Crimson - Fracture Van der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man Genesis - The Musical Box |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 09:29
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1. Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd 2. A Louse Is Not A Home - Peter Hammill 3. Cogwheel, Crutches and Cyanide - Spirogyra
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Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: May 18 2011 at 12:55
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This is incredibly tough, but I'll give it a shot.
1. "Hamburger Concerto" by Focus
2. "The Pinnacle" by Kansas
3. "The Sleepwalkers" by Van der Graaf Generator
4. "Mei" by Echolyn
5. The "Atom Heart Mother" Suite by Pink Floyd
The order of numbers 3, 4, and 5 change on a daily basis, but the first two are fairly constant.
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Posted By: izquemia
Date Posted: May 19 2011 at 01:39
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is impossible to say that , but i'll try ok jaja it is so hard! 1.- Shine on your crazy diamond by Pink Floyd 2.- Triumph of our tired eyes by A silver Mount Zion 3.- Ice by Camel 4.- six days at the bottom of the ocean by explosions in the sky 5.- Formentera lady by King crimson this songs come to my head at this moment  ------------- blessings are not just for the ones who kneel... luckily |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: May 19 2011 at 04:15
if I ever visit Raeford I'll buy a huge beer for you  |
Epignosis wrote:Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: May 19 2011 at 04:46
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Hhai - Magma Starless - King Crimson Close to the Edge - Yes Musical Box - Genesis Free Hand- Gentle Giant Robert Wyatt - Soap Song |
Posted By: OT Räihälä
Date Posted: June 05 2011 at 16:10
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Songs in only one of these, but still Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Gentle Giant - Pantagruel's Nativity
------------- http://soundcloud.com/osmotapioraihala/sets" rel="nofollow - Composer - Click to listen to my works! |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: June 05 2011 at 16:44
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I'm sure I will be missing something because I didn't take too long to think about this. But here are three that are certainly up there at the top: 1. Why Don't You Eat Carrots? - Faust 2. Stranded - Khan 3. In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
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Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: June 06 2011 at 06:50
| Do you mean tracks or songs? Most of these responses relate to musical compositions that aren't songs. |
Posted By: MattGuitat
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 19:03
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1. Suppers Ready-Genesis 2. Close to the Edge-Yes 3. The Camera Eye-Rush
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Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 22:07
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Three huh? Gates of Delirium Supper's Ready Close to the Edge But not necessarily in that order. ;) |
Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 00:01
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"Dies Irae" - Devil Doll (specifically, my leather-bound, fanclub-only edition) "The Undercover Man" - Van Der Graaf Generator "Työläisten Laulu" - Circle ------------- "You must go beyond the limit of the limit of your limits!" - Mr. Doctor "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 07:20
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close to the edge
lady fantasy
l'evoluzione
epitaph
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 08:32
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 08:34
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my favourite songs are all powerfull
King Crimson - Fallen Angel
Genesis - All in a Mouses Night
for now -------------
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Posted By: tux
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 19:32
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"Favorite prog songs"? Now that's masochistic. I mean, that's like "What is your favorite sentence of any book you know?" - it is possible, but it doesn't make sense. ------------- I am the passenger; I ride and I ride ... |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 21:29
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I don't like prog songs -------------   
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 21:37
Who does? ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Myztyrio
Date Posted: June 11 2011 at 15:53
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1) Black Dahlia - PPT 2) My Ashes - PPT 3) Blackest Eyes - PPT
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Posted By: Myztyrio
Date Posted: June 11 2011 at 15:57
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Edit: 4) Red Barchetta - Rush 5) Epitaph - King Crimson
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Posted By: Denisthemenace11
Date Posted: June 13 2011 at 11:56
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amazing flight - Ayreon transmigration of souls - Micheal Harris circles - Fates Warning |
Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: June 13 2011 at 12:28
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Stairway To Heaven. I've always found it to be a similar more mature and developed version of Supper's Ready -------------  
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 13 2011 at 12:36
How?
 They're nothing alike and Stairway is much less developed.Anyways, I can't choose. My favourite changes daily. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 13 2011 at 14:51
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Does Genesis Turn it on Again count as prog?
two and three would be...
Yes - Roundabout
Yes - Awaken ------------- 
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Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: June 15 2011 at 04:21
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If I had a gun to my head: Animale Senza Respiro - Osanna The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson The Same Old Rock - Roy Harper ------------- We are men of action. Lies do not become us. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - JazzMusicArchives. |
Posted By: Frederik
Date Posted: June 19 2011 at 10:53
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1. Supper's Ready
2. Tarkus
3. Starship Trooper
honorable mention: Starless
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Posted By: notesworth
Date Posted: June 19 2011 at 13:51
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King Crimson - Starless Yes - Close to the Edge Yes - And You and I
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Posted By: criticdrummer94
Date Posted: June 23 2011 at 23:58
| Hmm that's tough but in no order: Xanadu (Rush), In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson), Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea (Genesis), South Side of the Sky (Yes) and Natural Science (Rush) |
Posted By: Xaxaar
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 13:56
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1. The Manifold Curiosity - Kayo Dot
2. Earth Day - Devin Townsend 3. Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder) - maudlin of the Well
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Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 15:11
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Prog really isn't about good songs, but if I had to choose 3, it would be:-
1) Watercolour Days - Clouds
2) In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
3) OK Computer - Radiohead
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Posted By: EchidnasArf
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 16:22
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^^ OK Computer is an album. Maybe you meant "Paranoid Android" from said album. Impossible to name just one, so the first few that come to mind are (in no order): "In the Court of the Crimson King" - KC "Echidna's Arf" - Zappa "Echoes" - Pink Floyd "Happiness is a Warm Gun" - The Beatles "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" - TMV "Bundles" - Soft Machine "Peaches en Regalia" - Zappa "Close to the Edge" - Yes All of those would pretty much tie for my number 1. But honestly, after reading my list just now, I have to say that "ItCotCK" and "Peaches en Regalia" probably trump the others by a hair as far as what I consider to be the quintessential "prog" song. ------------- http://didyouseethosebats.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Did You See Those Bats? (a few songs from my band's live radio show) 
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Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 16:27
| Yes, sorry, you're right. I meant 'Paranoid Android'. |
Posted By: EchidnasArf
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 16:34
^^ Love that song and album.
 ------------- http://didyouseethosebats.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Did You See Those Bats? (a few songs from my band's live radio show)
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 16:34
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 00:22
What an annoying statement. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: DiamondDog
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 03:48
| maybe because prog is for musicians not songs? |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 08:27
No single genre exists solely to be listened to by musicians. There are plenty of people on this site who aren't musicians. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: DiamondDog
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 08:56
| I'm not a musician either, I meant the people who perform Prog. Sorry, I should have made that clearer. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 09:06
Ah, that's what you meant. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: moszaic
Date Posted: September 14 2011 at 23:46
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1.Passion Play 2.Happy Family 3.The revealing science of god (dance of the dawn) 4.Dancing with the Moonlit Knight 5.Three of a perfect pair
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Posted By: emty6
Date Posted: September 15 2011 at 05:23
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1. I Lost My Head- Gentle Giant 2. Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled- Porcupine Tree 3. Cogs in Co- Gentle Giant 4. Vicarious- Tool 5. Tank- Emerson, Lake and Palmer 6. Paranoid Android- Radiohead
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 15 2011 at 07:52
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Suppers Ready - Genesis
Dogs - Pink Floyd Awaken - Yes La Villa Strangiato - Rush Tuesday afternoon - Moody Blues ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: September 15 2011 at 08:11
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Crime of the Centrury, Three Friends
Fallen Angel
Seven Stones
and You and I
Grand Hotel -------------
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Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: September 15 2011 at 11:02
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Thick As A Brick... I think....
------------- Let the maps of war be drawn ! 
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Posted By: Algonquin_John
Date Posted: September 16 2011 at 19:34
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1. Rush - Cygnus X-1 2. Tangerine Dream - Madrigal Meridian (Many people skip over Cyclone and miss this amazing piece) 3. Egg - A Visit to Newport Hospital |
Posted By: kevin4peace
Date Posted: September 18 2011 at 18:12
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I'm gonna be predictable and say Thick As A Brick, Close To The Edge and Dogs. Advent Of Panurge And Starless close behind... But I'm sure my opinion will completely change by tomorrow. ------------- Nothing to say here. Nothing at all. Nothing is easy. |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: September 19 2011 at 00:29
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The Manifold Curiosity- Kayo Dot Lateralus- Tool Shine On You Crazy Diamond- Pink Floyd Sleep- Godspeed You! Black Emperor Dark Matter- Porcupine Tree For today.. |
Posted By: voliveira
Date Posted: September 19 2011 at 16:04
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Not exactly in this order -Close To The Edge/The Gates of Delirium/And You and I(Yes) -Metropolis pt. 1:The Miracle and the Sleeper(Dream Theater) T-ime(Pink Floyd) ------------- "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be" Matthew 6:21 |
Posted By: Hober Mallow
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 13:33
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Today: Nine Feet Underground Close to the Edge Baker St. Muse ------------- “When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.” John Kennedy Toole |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 18:09
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At the moment- De Futura - Magma
To Be Over - Yes
Out-Bloody-Rageous - Soft Machine ------------- 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 18:16
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Gates of Delirium and Casandra Gemini. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 20:48
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Hemispheres, La Villa Strangiato, 2112, Hymn43, TAAB, Gates, Revealing/God, Firth/Fifth, Entangled, Carpet Crawlers......
ok my brain hurts now...... -------------
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Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 21:04
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1. Gentle Giant - Proclamation 2. Moon Safari - Other Half of the Sky 3. Tull - Thick as a Brick Or something like that... ------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 21:09
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This week :
Mystery - Snowhite Big Big Train - Victorian Brickwork VdGG - The Emperor In His War-Room ------------- |
Posted By: MattGuitat
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 21:13
| Your list is mine, but backwards |
Posted By: MattGuitat
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 21:14
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1. Supper's Ready 2. Close to the Edge 3. Starless
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 21:22
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All Time :
Yes - The Revealing Science of God Genesis - Firth of Fifth ELP - Tarkus ------------- |
Posted By: Proggernaut
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 23:14
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1. Trains - Porcupine Tree
2. Vicarious - Tool
3. Roundabout - Yes -------------  Proggernaut (Noun) - one who is exploring the endlessly expanding universe of progressive music.
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: November 11 2011 at 00:19
I was going to pass on this as being too hard, but I think "Fracture" may be my all time favorite. So amazing!!
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: November 16 2011 at 15:46
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Posted By: theRunawayV
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 09:29
^ Amazing taste in music,man. My favorite song I've heard thus far would have to be "Song Within a Song" by Camel.. Such a beautiful prog song. I'm sure that will change as I discover more prog every day.. Top 3: Song Within a Song On Reflection Thick as a Brick
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Posted By: Ideology
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 06:32
| deep purple-april |