Your favorite underrated epic prog song
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Topic: Your favorite underrated epic prog song
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Subject: Your favorite underrated epic prog song
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 16:01
| What is your favorite underrated epic prog song? It shouldn't be Close to the Edge or Supper's Ready. My personal list in this poll. |
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Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 16:07
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Hah! Forced to choose between Procol Harum and Can... who would have thought? Procol Harum cuz it's so great! (And I have not heard many of the others. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 16:09
Yeah IMO Procol Harum is one of the pioneers of prog. |
Valdez wrote:Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 16:18
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Refugee – "Credo" ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 16:58
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Focus just over Harmonium. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 17:12
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I haven't thought of the ones I know as underrated -- don't get as much attention as various other names commonly. So underrecognised by many perhaps, but I have seen considerable recongition and respect for various of these in my time at PA. Eruption is overshadowed by Hamburger Concerto. I love both. I guess I can get who some might not like "Aumg" and thus hold it in lower regard than I would. I will give the excellent "Mumps" a vote regardless of its status. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 17:14
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From the list, Hatfield. Others... Haken - Visions Kansas - Song For America Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Tale of the Golden King Transatlantic - The Whirlwind |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 17:19
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Banco, obviously. One of my top songs. ------------- ⋆la faulx⋆ |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 18:42
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Harmonium over Supersister and the Hatfields. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 18:46
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 19:31
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Harmonium just over Focus. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 19:32
My favorite epic of 2024! (How it ended up in this poll is a bit of a mystery, however.) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 19:52
idk, I just put a bunch of epics I thought were underrated. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 14 2025 at 22:12
| Focus - Eruption ( I don't think The Nice - Rondo is a an 'epic' in any way shape or form , only Five Bridges Suite and Ars Longa Vita Brevis would count under the much used 15 minute rule, Rondo doesn't even make it to 10 minutes on the Emerlist Davjack debut and although it's longer on the posthumous release Elegy, still not an epic though) |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 10:58
Procol Harum - In Held 'Twas In I 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 11:27
| Refugee - Credo |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 11:43
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Can's Aumgn. The lyrics on this are amazing. I can't decide on whether I'm a translucent nanoemulsion or a moon made out of socks. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 12:07
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Canto nomade per un prigioniero politico ------------- 
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Posted By: JavierMiranda
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 14:17
| "A gadarai megszállott" from After Crying is awesome! |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 14:58
I agree Five Bridges Suite would be a better choice, so I changed it. Do you prefer Five Bridges Suite over Emerson's Piano Concerto n°1? Also, I f*cked up the poll and put Utopia - The Ikon as the title.  But yeah, The Ikon is part of the poll!
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 16:25
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Eruption. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 18:16
If it was, I would've voted for it. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 18:17
| Unfortunately I don't know most of these. I have the Viima cd with that epic track on it though so I suppose I should listen to it. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 19:59
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The Nice ... always. Not on the list, UK 'Carrying No Cross'. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 21:08
Not easily comparable as The Five Bridges Suite is a prog track featuring both orchestra and band (as is Ars Longa Vita Brevis) although Emerson did perform some of the Piano Concerto with The Keith Emerson Band (although no orchestra in that case). However I do prefer Piano Concerto No 1.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 21:10
Nice choice  My not on the list option would be IQ - The Last Human Gateway.
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 22:18
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Not on the list: Big Big Train: (1) The Underfall Yard (2) East Coast Racer Among fans of the band, these are not underrated. I feel they are not as well known, but stand up quite well with other top epics. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 16 2025 at 14:01
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Not an easy choice. The two that mean more to me are Histoire and 5 bridges for different reasons. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: March 19 2025 at 13:50
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Going with Procul Harum in this poll, but for an underrated epic not on this, I'd go with Marillion's Grendel. ------------- I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 19 2025 at 23:13
| ^yep that's a good one as well |
Posted By: BasedProgger
Date Posted: March 20 2025 at 09:36
| Voted for Procol Harum's In Held Twas in I, one of the earliest prog epics. |
Posted By: Rexorcist
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 15:41
| I typically listen to prog for the full album's sake, so I don't memorize most epics on a track-by-track basis. But I'd like to point out that the re-recording of Banco's metamorphosis, Milliontown and Wobbler's Foxlight are all mindblowing. |