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    Quote Originally Posted by sergio View Post
    70's...!
    Oh sorry. Guess that just leaves Queen.

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    Mandrill - Amani Na Mapenzi
    Pink Floyd - Echoes
    Return To Forever - Celebration Suite
    PFM - Dove Quando
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    bob_32_116: That would be a terrific triple bill: Cyan, Magenta and Yello.

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    Incantations!
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Queen Bo Rhap
    Eagles Journey of the Sorcerer
    Lyn Skyn Freebird
    LZ Stairway
    NY Cortez the Killer
    PF SOYCD
    TL Black Rose

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    Supper's Ready, and Yes follows Close To the Edge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Personally I'd rather read through posts that weren't at all time solely concerned with the object of self-confirmation.
    Wow. You could cut the irony with a knife.

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    I started this in order to praise Karn Evil 9 as my favorite of all the prog epics of the 70s - I was laughing at the fact that it was excluded by the side-long, album long, less than sidelong categories - so I thought I'd make it all about composition. Have to say though that I'm loving seeing some unexpected (by me, anyway) entries like Cortez The Killer and Stairway To Heaven.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob_32_116 View Post
    Richard Harris - Macarthur Park
    I prefer Donna Summer's version.

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    OK, now that the gloves are off, here's my best "extended" works of the decade

    Pink Floyd - Echoes, Shine on You Crazy Diamond
    Led Zeppelin - Kashmir, No Quarter, When the Levee Breaks
    Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick, Passion Play
    Kansas - The Pinnacle, Song for America
    Yes - Close to the Edge, Heart of the Sunrise, Starship Trooper
    Genesis - Supper's Ready, The Musical Box, Firth of Fifth, Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
    Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
    The Who - Doctor Jimmy/The Rock, Won't Get Fooled Again
    Steely Dan - Aja, Deacon Blues
    Black Sabbath - War Pigs (and yes, I am quite serious)
    Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding in the Sand
    Traffic - The Low Spark of High-heeled Boys
    Deep Purple - Child in Time, Strange Kind of Woman
    KC - Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt. 1, Starless, Fracture
    Rainbow - Stargazer, Light in the Black
    Caravan - L' Auberge du Sanglier, Nine Feet Underground
    Camel - Lady Fantasy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerjo View Post
    Camel - Lady Fantasy
    good one!
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    No love for Zappa? Not saying any of these should top the list, but let's throw them in the following for consideration:

    Billy the Mountain
    Adv of Greggary Peccary
    Joes Garage (all 3 albums worth of it)

    With that said, my vote goes for Lamb if I can pick a full album, and Supper's Ready if not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taliesin View Post
    Wow. You could cut the irony with a knife.
    Haw-haw. Let's write some more about Yes, ELP and Genesis now. And King Crimson if we're rrreeeaaally bold. Or someone as close to those ones as possible. And then please bitch about the R&RHoF.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gilawi View Post
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    I absolutely, 100% agree!!! (But Supper's Ready is right behind them at #3)
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    Steppenwolf - Monster (about ten minutes, not a sidelong cut, but pretty epic nonetheless)

    Steppenwolf - The Pusher from the Early Steppenwolf album; a sidelong psychedelic freak out that's nightmarish and revelatory. An epic if ever there was one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Haw-haw. Let's write some more about Yes, ELP and Genesis now. And King Crimson if we're rrreeeaaally bold. Or someone as close to those ones as possible. And then please bitch about the R&RHoF.
    That pretty much completely missed the point - the irony is you complaining about other peoples' self-confirmation posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taliesin View Post
    That pretty much completely missed the point - the irony is you complaining about other peoples' self-confirmation posts.
    Wow, was THAT the point - for real? And I didn't comment specifically on that exquisite point? Guess I *MUST* have missed it then. Here's what YOU missed, perhaps: my specific point of "self-confirmation" might not exactly comply with your understanding of it. You see, what I was pointing to was the precise occurance of sameness in argumentation and the lack of dynamic to balance that. In other words: just what the hell is the point of these threads supposed to be as long as it's all so to-detail predictable? For instance: WHY are these same titles drilled into perpetual states as idiomatic axioms? Is there even a point to making new or more fucking music in the first place? "Bestness" has already been decided, hasn't it? Should we have another thread real soon?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Wow, was THAT the point - for real? And I didn't comment specifically on that exquisite point? Guess I *MUST* have missed it then. Here's what YOU missed, perhaps: my specific point of "self-confirmation" might not exactly comply with your understanding of it. You see, what I was pointing to was the precise occurance of sameness in argumentation and the lack of dynamic to balance that. In other words: just what the hell is the point of these threads supposed to be as long as it's all so to-detail predictable? For instance: WHY are these same titles drilled into perpetual states as idiomatic axioms? Is there even a point to making new or more fucking music in the first place? "Bestness" has already been decided, hasn't it? Should we have another thread real soon?
    Wow, sounds like someone had a rotten 2014. Hope your 2015 is better.

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    I guess I overdosed on the usual suspects back in the day.

    The ones I get a lot out of these days:

    Roy Harper, 'The Game'

    National Health, 'Tenemos Roads'

    Bo Hansson, 'Born in the Gentle South'

    Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?

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    Gong, side two of You... Perfect Mystery into Isle of Everywhere into You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever.

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