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?
Incantations
rcarlberg: Is there anything sadder than a song that has never been played?
Plasmatopia: Maybe a song in D minor that has never been played?
bob_32_116: That would be a terrific triple bill: Cyan, Magenta and Yello.
trurl: The Odyssey: "He's trying to get home."
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?
Queen Bo Rhap
Eagles Journey of the Sorcerer
Lyn Skyn Freebird
LZ Stairway
NY Cortez the Killer
PF SOYCD
TL Black Rose
Supper's Ready, and Yes follows Close To the Edge.
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.
Close to the Edge
Always and forever, folks.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Super's Ready
The Revealing Science of God
The Dabsong Conshirtoe
"The Bill of Rights says nothing about the freedom of hearing. This, of course, takes a lot of the fun out of the freedom of speech." - Pat Paulsen
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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
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
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.
Robert Wyatt-Las Vegas Tango(from The End Of An Ear)
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
"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
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.
Supper's Ready
Echoes
The Musical Box
"When I allow it to be... It has no control over me. I own my fear... So it doesn't own me" (Peter Gabriel)
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?
"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
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?
Gong, side two of You... Perfect Mystery into Isle of Everywhere into You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever.
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