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Poll Question: Please choose up to five options that you like.
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I chose 25 well-known classic bands included in PA as Prog, and then used Rate Your Music's top ranked song for each band.

Please list and vote for up to five of these tracks (only one vote per song).
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I must have different tastes to RYM, but still a great list. I would vote for 9, so had to whittle it down a bit.

Yes - Roundabout
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
KC - Starless
Rush - Spirit of Radio

I almost went with ELP Tarkus but instead went with Supertramp The Logical Song
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The list features some of my all time favorites, how could I choose one?
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-desert island picks (and voted for)
King Crimson - Starless      
Gong - Master Builder
Magma - De Futura
Camel - Lady Fantasy
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
-more desert island candidates really
Amon Düül II - Soap Shop Rock
Yes - Roundabout
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Appena un pò
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - L'evoluzione
-love these bands (and songs) as much-or more than the ones above, but I have another handful of "top songs" for sure
Can - Halleluwah
Van der Graaf Generator - Killer
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Area - Arbeit Macht Frei
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (1-5)
-more great bands and songs, but these are even further from my personal choice of top songs
Le Orme - Sospesi Nell'incredibile
Gentle Giant - Proclamation
The Mothers of Invention - Inca Roads
Renaissance - Song of Scheherazade
Focus - Hocus Pocus (not into Focus at all, but enjoy this for what it is)
-I do not care for any of the remaining five*
Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles
Supertramp - The Logical Song
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Rush - The Spirit of Radio
Kansas - Dust in the Wind

*I enjoy a selected few songs by Rush & Supertramp, but not the ones in the poll. Try Again and Xanadu would have done much better.
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^ Very nice, thanks. :)

Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

I must have different tastes to RYM, but still a great list. I would vote for 9, so had to whittle it down a bit.

Yes - Roundabout
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
KC - Starless
Rush - Spirit of Radio

I almost went with ELP Tarkus but instead went with Supertramp The Logical Song


Thanks. I often would have different top picks too (from your list, Pheadra and Starless would be my top ranked, and Fragile is my favourite Yes album), but the ranking also comes down to the algorithm being used to calculate the rankings based on the collective ratings. The one with the highest rating may not be the highest ranked. If I'd gone for the list right on the artist page at RYM, then say with Yes, the top ranked would be Close to the Edge. With Rush it would Tom Sawyer... I think I should have gone with those lists from RYM. Oh well. It's just calculated a little differently. Change the algorithm (how things are weighted) and you change the results despite the data being the same. That's a funny thing with charts often, it's not just how much a combined set of people like things, it's how the data is calculated.

Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

The list features some of my all time favorites, how could I choose one?


While I asked for up to five, I knew that would be a challenge too.

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These would be my personal choices for each band (I could go for others in many cases):

Amon Düül II - Soap Shop Rock (same)
Area - MIRage? Mirage!
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - R.I.P. (Requiescant in pace)
Camel - La Princess Perdue
Can - Mother Sky
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky man
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Genesis - In the Cage
Gentle Giant - Pantagruel's Nativity
Gong - Master Builder (same)
Harmonium - Histoires sans paroles (same)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (same)
Kansas - The Spider
King Crimson - Starless (same)
Le Orme - Maggio
Magma - Nauk Ektila
The Mothers of Invention - Inca Roads (same methinks)
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Via Lumière
Renaissance - Scheherazade (off Live at Carnegie Hall)
Rush - The Trees
Supertramp - Try Again
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (same)
Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise

As for my top five from the poll (in same order):

Amon Düül II - Soap Shop Rock
Can - Halleluwah
Gong - Master Builder
King Crimson - Starless
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Edited by Logan - 14 hours 7 minutes ago at 23:52
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These may be my picks (* = same):

King Crimson - Starless*     
Gong - Master Builder*
Magma - Naü Ektila (yep, something so magical about it)
Camel - Lady Fantasy*
Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares (or Fly and Collision of Comas Sola)
Amon Düül II - Eye-Shaking King
Yes - Roundabout*
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Impressioni di Settembre
Jethro Tull - To Cry You A Song
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Metamorphosi
Can - Mother Sky
Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Genesis - The Musical Box
Area - Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (Nero)
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Le Orme - Sguardo Verso Il Cielo (or Maggio actually)
Gentle Giant - Pantagruel's Nativety
The Mothers of Invention - Big Swifty
Renaissance - Rajah Khan (a lot of candidates. They are so... even)
Focus - Hocus Pocus (I'm not really qualified to have a favorite)*
Harmonium - none
Supertramp - Try Again
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Take a Pebble
Rush - Xanadu
Kansas - none
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Camel - Lady Fantasy
King Crimson - Starless
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (1-5)
Van der Graaf Generator - Killer
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Genesis
Pink Floyd
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Harmonium
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As was to be expected, there are far more than 5 tracks worth to be voted for. I try to avoid voting for my "usual suspect" bands this time - even this is difficult because there are so many of them here, but no, no Can, Amon Düül II, Tangerine Dream, King Crimson, VDGG, Camel votes this time.

I love some straight songs, the magic of a melody that speaks to me, and I've always loved Dust in the Wind and Logical Song, so that'll be two votes. I like much Magma but vote rarely for them as they tend to appear in polls where there is something I like even more, but De Futura will get a vote here. Fourth vote goes to Arbeit Macht Frei, and the fifth one to Scheherazade - not exactly dark horses admittedly but what can I do?   
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My five:
Genesis - Supper's Ready
King Crimson - Starless
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (1-5) [this is better if it's all 10 parts]
Renaissance - Song of Scheherazade
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - L'evoluzione

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Wow! Impressive Logan. For Camel, I’d probably go with Rhyader or Lunar Sea. Rush would most likely be Xanadu. The others I’d have to ponder more.
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Genesis
Pink Floyd
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
King Crimson
Camel
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ELP, Zappa, Genesis, Floyd, TDream
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"Phaedra"
"Tarkus"
"The Spirit of Radio"
"Starless"
"Roundabout"
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