It was tough trying to come up with the 10 best Prog instrumental albums.
I didn't want to hijack the thread, so let's see your list of the 10 best Prog instrumental TRACKS.
It was tough trying to come up with the 10 best Prog instrumental albums.
I didn't want to hijack the thread, so let's see your list of the 10 best Prog instrumental TRACKS.
Henry Cow-Teenbeat Reprise
Soft Machine-Slightly All The Time
Egg- Enneagram
Quiet Sun-Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil
Zappa- Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar Some More
Dungen-Blandband
Eric Malmberg-Milda Doden Hamtar Oss Alla Till Slut
John McLaughlin-Dragon Song
Eno-The Big Ship
The Science Group-Timelines-Timelines 6
Last edited by walt; 09-28-2014 at 05:21 PM.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
The best instrumentally inclined bands of all time.
Plus:
KC - "Fracture" and "Groon"
Maneige - "Le Rafiot"
Dün - their whole fucking album
Tortoise - "Djed"
Don Caballero - everything they ever did
Ahleuchatistas - everything
Upsilon Acrux - everything
Guapo - yeah.
And so on.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Rush- La Villa Strangiato
King Crimson- Discipline
Dixie Dregs- Odyssey
Porcupine Tree- Nil Recurring
Eric Johnson- Victory
Mahavishnu Orchestra- Meeting of the Spirits
Flower Kings- Retropolis
Metallica- Orion
Trey Gunn- Kuma
Steve Howe- Turbulence
I have listened it just couple times on last three decades,but.
Excluding Zappa and fusion, because there are too many to choose from... and these ten could easily change, just off the top of my head:
Änglagård - Jordrök
PFM - La Terra Dell’Acqua
Gryphon - Checkmate
Genesis - Unquiet Slumbers/In That Quiet Earth
Le Orme - Ritorno Al Nulla
Thy Serpent - Wine From Tears (technically a 'black metal' band but this is a beautiful piece which has nothing to do with metal)
Yes - Have We Really Got To Go Through This (demo track but I love it!)
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues In Aspic Part I
The Flower Kings - Circus Brimstone
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days
... bonus 'hidden' 11th. track:
Peter Gabriel - The Feeling Begins
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I drop another one
Bozzio Levin Stevens - The Sun Road
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Rush - YYZ
Anglagard - Jordrok
Astra - Ouroboros
The Flower Kings - Circus Brimstone
Fripp/Eno - The Heavenly Music Corporation
ELP - The Barbarian
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets (live Ummagumma version)
I'm a sucker for electric sitar.
Great idea...and thanks for not hijacking my thread
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
King Crimson - The Sailors Tale, Fracture (tie)
ELP - The Barbarian
Camel - Rhayader Goes to Town
Genesis - After the Ordeal
Zappa - Strictly Genteel
Schick, Furs & Frohling - Tao
Shadowfax - The Shape of a Word
Thinking Plague - Les Etudes d'Organism
Steve Hackett - Clocks, the Angel of Mons
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Le Orme: Danza Del Vento
Keith Emerson/ELP: Another Frontier/Changing States
Dixie Dregs: Cruise Control (Free Fall version)
The Flower Kings: Theme For A Hero
The Flower Kings: Pioneers Of Aviation
Neal Morse: Overture No. 1 (from Testimony 1)
Steve Morse Band: On The Pipe
Dixie Dregs: Road Expense
Banco: Evoluzione
Martin Orford: Power and Speed
Last edited by AZProgger; 09-28-2014 at 02:01 PM.
Had a list of about 45. Pretty tought to get it to 10.
10. Riverside - Back To The River
9. Dixie Dreggs - Cruise Control
8. Camel - Dunkirk
7. IZZ - Star Evil Gnoma Su
6. Genesis - Los Endos
5. Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regailia
4. Pink Floyd - One Of These Days
3. Rush - La Villa Strangiato
2. ELP - Karn Evil 9, Second Impression
1. Frost* - Hyperventilate
Jerseyband - "Shave Your Shelf"
Dr. Nerve - "Spy Boy"
Manfred Mann Chapter III - "Sometimes"
MoI - "It Must Be A Camel"
Henry Cow - "Ruins"
Jade Warrior - "Mountain of Fruit and Flowers"
Matching Mole - "Flora Fidgit"
GG - "Boys In the Band"
Art Bears - "Moeris Dancing"
Univers Zero - "Dense"
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I'm pretty much going with Scrotum on this one
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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There are so many...
Here is my #1 pick:
Here is #2:
#3:
Number Four:
Number five shows Frank Zappa's brilliance.
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