This should be interesting.
Possible contenders:
"Close To The Edge"
"Echoes"
"Supper's Ready"
This should be interesting.
Possible contenders:
"Close To The Edge"
"Echoes"
"Supper's Ready"
"It was a cruel song, but fair."-Roger Waters
Your copy of Foxtrot is missing Horizons if Supper's Ready is side-long.
It may sound sacrilegious, but my choice is none of the above :-)
"The Ikon" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia.
2112
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
"Cinema" by Aqsak Maboul
"A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" by VdGG
"Le Rafiot" by Maneige
"Les Cycles de Thanatos" by Vortex
"Facelift" by Soft Machine
"Krigssång" by Trettioåriga Kriget
"Bel Air" by Can
"Minorisa" by Fusioon
"Erk Gah" by Henry Cow
"Long Piece no. 3" by Egg
Just 10 of my faves.
"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
Echoes remains to this day my favourite ever piece of music. I never tire of listening to it plus live versions have considerable variety that help to keep it interesting.
CttE, Gates of Delerium, Supper's Ready, Tubular Bells Part 1, TaaB Part 1, Nine Feet Underground are all worthy contenders though.
Out-Bloody-Rageous-Soft Machine..well..all four tracks on "Third".
Nine Feet Underground-Caravan
Echoes-PF
Last edited by walt; 12-24-2014 at 08:50 AM.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
T A R K U S
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
Echoes
Tubular Bells - side 1
Ommadawn - side 1
Innagaddadavida
I've got a bike you can ride it if you like
Midnight Mushrumps - Gryphon
Hemispheres
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
An Index of Metals - Fripp & Eno ( not greatest, I just like it a lot sometimes )
The Ikon - Rundgren's Utopia
Nine Feet Underground - Caravan
CttE - Yes
2112 - Rush
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Nine Feet Underground
Revealing Science of God
The Remembering
Ritual
Facelift
Out-Bloody-Rageous
Symphony#2 (Egg)
Echoes
Illusions of a Double Dimple
I like Close to the Edge as much as the next progger, but I think 33 years of regular listening have just made that piece irrelevant over time.
Focus had a nice on on Moving Waves.. Eruption.. Karnevil 9.. SOYCD pts1-9..
There are not many I am familiar with, so I would probably pick CTTE by default. Eruption is another good one. So are a couple from Australian band Sebastian Hardie: Four Moments, and Windchase.
Lots of good choices stated already.
Echoes for me.
After having played it live many times myself, that has a deeper grasp on my soul.
CttE would probably be 2nd.
JG
"MARKLAR!"
This one is great. But it's *almost* a cheat, seeing how it wasn't initially written for or intended as an album track (IIRC) but rather for a stage play of The Tempest by Shakespeare. Henry Cow did a piece in that regard as well, used for Jon Chadwick's rendition of it.
Of course, "Midnight Mushrumps" DOES cover the lot of an album side.
"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
Gates of Delirium
Runners up:
Close to the Edge(if we can count it otherwise the S.O. version )
Supper's Ready
Honorable mentions:
Revealing S.O.G.
Ritual
Echoes
Tarkus
Eruption
Nine Feet Underground
2112
Hemispheres
Last edited by Digital_Man; 12-27-2014 at 07:47 PM.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Not mentioned yet:
Rare Bird- As Your Mind Flies By
Anyone's Daughter- Adonis
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