I love that tune; it's a good introduction to Toby Driver's cognitive-emotional manner of expressing auditive visions as well. That barren and deserted landscape of the opening swelling into flame, then emannating bird's view perspective and finally just... Drifting in and out of blissful oblivion. Absolutely gorgeous and completely transcendent and multi-dimensional. Kayo are everything for the current day that Krimso were for the day back then, and then some - artistically and musically.
"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
As far as I was concerned, I only heard Book of Taliesyn in 1969, not in '68, RYM says it was recorded in October '68. but released in Oct '69. That's why I chose all the tracks released in '69 in my first list. As for Black Sabbath, it wasn't a 3 min pop song and sounded as progressive as DP in Rock's Child in Time which was sharing the turntable with Sabbath. Was Iron Butterfly's Ball progressive or heavy rock, was Disciple progressive or new wave?
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Any list that does NOT have Supper's Ready on it, the song which encompasses EVERY element of what people who actually understand the true & original definition of Prog music, is a useless list..
Otherwise, it is just "somebody's" 15 favorite prog tunes and NOT the best of all time...
I know the term "epic" is rather nebulous, but I think Cinema Show, Domino Pts 1 & 2, and parts of Duke approach "epic" status. Perhaps you mean they did not do any more long songs that were subdivided, with the individual sections having titles.
Whether something appears on the track listing as one long epic track or half a dozen short ones is largely at the whim of the artist. For example many of the songs on The Lamb segue into one another, and on one level it can be listened to as a small number of long epic tracks, each with identifiable sections in the manner of Supper's Ready.
I was referring to single tracks that are listed as being 18 or more minutes. Segues and suites (with separate track listings) are not what I was talking about. "Cinema Show" is 11:04. In my mind there's a difference between a long-ish track and an epic (and Genesis had lots of the former).
The board of collective Prog councils TM decided at the 2011 joint meeting of the Prog committee core sympozia in the honourable town of Nosbark (pop. 157, alt. 156 when local barowner Jerry Fritzwepper leaves to see his sick mum in neighbouring town Dickock every third weekend), Arkansas, that the mandatory standard of the Prog epic was 15 mins or more.
"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
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