Your top ten instrumental prog tracks

[Digital_Man]

Since some people didn't want to include instrumental tracks in the song list thread I started I figured I would start one focusing just on instrumental tracks. If it has wordless vocals(oohs and ahhs or yodling as in the case of Focus)that's ok too we can still count it as instrumental. Just like with the other one you can do ten(or even five if you can't think of more than that)or up to 20 if your heart desires. Yes, you can pick fusion or any other subgenre tracks if you want.

In no order:

1. Alan Parsons Project -Irobot
2. Focus -Sylvia
3. Genesis - After the Ordeal
4. Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme One (yes I know they didn't write it but their version is the best)
5. Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
6. PFM - Generale
7. Camel- Earthrise
8. Camel- Lunar Sea
9. Genesis - Hairless Heart
10. Banco - Traccia 2

Honarable mentions(instead of posting a second list later):

Focus - Hocus Pocus
Yes - Cinema (one of their few instrumentals)
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic part 2
Camel - Three Wishes
Genesis - Los Endos

[markwoll]

In No Particular Order:
first come first served, list subject to edit at any time as I ponder the inexorable progress of my musical listening experience

1. Liquid Tension Experiment - Biaxident
2. Camel - Lunar Sea
3. Camel - The Snow Goose
4. National Health - Shining Water
5. National Health - The Bryden Two Step (for Amphibians) Part 1
6. Bill Bruford - Hell's Bell's
7. Brand X - Nuclear Burn
8. David Torn - 3 Minutes Of Pure Entertainment
9. Helmet of Gnats - Chimps in Space
10. ELP - Fanfare for the Common Man

[BravadoNJ]

in no order.......

Mood For A Day- Yes
La Villa Strangiato- Rush
Howdown- ELP
Fire On High- ELO
Lucifer- Alan Parson's Project
Prelude 12- Styx
The Talking Drum- King Crimson
Tramatane- Foreigner
Horizons- Genesis
Musicatto- Kansas

[Digital_Man]

Darn, I forgot to put RUSH in my list. I also forgot Steve Hackett's "spectral mornings." Oh well. I think part of it is although I do think RUSH had a prog period they aren't usually the first band I think of when I think of prog even though they are in my top five.

[bob_32_116]

You never said only one per artist:

Genesis - After the Ordeal
Tony Banks - From the Undertow
Tony Banks - Forever Morning
Tony Banks - Waters of Lethe
Mike Oldfield - Incantations (either of the parts that has no vocals)
Anthony Phillips - 1984
Focus - Le Clochard
Pink Floyd - the instrumental bits of Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Pink Floyd - most of The Endless River
David Gilmour - Castellorizon
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
Porcupine Tree - Burning Sky
Steven Wilson - Collecting Space

That'll do for now.

P.S. I am tempted to include Elton John - Funeral For a Friend.

[Trane]

I can't complain that this would be too easy (or too tough, because of the width of choice) so I'll eliminate JR/F & RIO bands that are all too instrumental.


Focus - Anonymous (1, 2 & III)
Jethro Tull - Bourée and Serenade For A Cuckoo
Genesis - After the Ordeal, The Waiting Room (yes, I really Love it) and Los Endos
Van Der Graaf Generator - Not sure what's it name on Trisector
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia and Big Swifty
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
King Crimson - The Talking Drum and The Battle Of The Glass Tears (in the Lizard suite)
Santana - Caravanserai (the whole album)
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live (the whole live album)
Coloseum - Valentyne Suite
Floyd - Careful With That Axe, One of These Days and Atom Heart Mother
Harmonium - Histoire Sans Parole
Gong - Sprinkling of Clouds



Mentions to
Elton John - Funeral For A Friend
Edgar Winter - Frankenstein

Tramontane- Foreigner

It's about a French winter wind

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

H'mmmm. This is off the top of my head, and I might pick a different set on a different day...and it's in no particular order other than the order I thought of them in...

Tull, "The Pine Marten's Jig"
Tull, "Bouree"
Crimson, "Discipline"
Crimson, "FraKctured"
The Who, "Quadrophenia" (the track)
PFM, "Alta Loma Five Till Nine"
ELP, "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Gentle Giant, "The Boys in the Band"
Rush, "YYZ"
Rush, "La Villa Strangiato"

[Rune Blackwings]

not a total of ten yet, as I have to sit down and think about it a bit more, but my list so far:

Knut M Valle, Sebastian Gruchot, Tom Rudi Torjussen-"Folksvong"
Ozric Tentacles-"Half Light in Thallai"
Steve Hackett-"Spectral Mornings"
The Enid-"Sheets of Blue"
Hawkwind-"Space is Their (Palestine)"
Ozric Tentacles-"Strangeitude"
Arcturus-"The Journey"

[Garden Dreamer]

Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Rush - YYZ
Horslips - Daybreak
Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift
Liquid Tension Experiment - Biaxident
John Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss
Maximum Indifference - Client Weasel Tactics
Bozzio Levin Stevens - Black Light Syndrome
Flower Kings - Retropolis
Karmakanic - Hindby

[Digital_Man]

[You never said only one per artist:]

Nope. I didn't think that would be an issue unless you only list instrumental bands and artists. It seems when there are hard and fast rules there's always going to be a few threadpoopers who deliberately try to break those rules. If there are no real rules then there are no rules to break and that's no fun for few on here who deliberately try to be pains in the asses.

[Digital_Man]

[Van Der Graaf Generator - Not sure what's it name on Trisector]

The first track on the album? I don't remember the name either but I like it too.

[Duncan Glenday]

P.S. I am tempted to include Elton John - Funeral For a Friend.

I would definitely include it.

I actually arranged for it to be played at a friend's funeral, as the coffin was being wheeled in. There wasn't a dry eye in the place...

[Rick Robson]

There is so much music still to be known that I'd rather call them my month's top instrumental (just PROGRESSIVE) tracks:

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Keith Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Barbarian
Keith Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Three Fates (clotho_lachesis_atropos)
The Keith Emerson Band - The Endless Enigma Suite (fantastic!!)
Rick Wakeman - Judas Iscariot
Forgas Band Phenomena - Double-Sens
Holderlin - Traum
Stephen Caudel - Wine Dark Sea
Marco Antônio Araújo - Entr' Act I & II
Marco Antônio Araújo - Abertura No. 2
Gong - Bambooji
Steve Hackett - The Red Flowers of Tachai Blooms Everywhere
Steve Hackett - Two Faces Of Cairo
Steve Hackett - Celebration
Steve Hackett - Lyra
Neuschwanstein - Zartlicher Abschied
Triumvirat - Dance on the Volcano
Triumvirat - The Capital Of Power (live)
Triumvirat - A Day In A Life
Vangelis - Pulstar
Vangelis - Deliverance
Vangelis - Movement VIII (El Greco)
Amenophis - Notre Dame Tres Honorable
Rush - YYZ

[Jubal]

Picking only 10 is pretty tough.
Here they are:
1. Frost - Hyperventilate
2. 7 For 4 - Rushian
3. Eccentric Orbit - Sputnik
4. Dave Bainbridge - Over The Waters
5. ELP- Karn Evil 9_2nd Impression
6. Martin Orford - Fusion
7. Camel - Dunkirk
8. Rush - La Villa Strangiato
9. Riverside - Back To The River
10. Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia

[markwoll]

Oh yeah, and
Happy The Man - Knee Bitten Nymphs In Limbo
Happy The Man - Service With A Smile
Happy The Man - Carousel
Oblivion Sun - March Of The Mushroom Men
Heldon - Bolero
Fripp & Eno - Evening Star
Mc Hacek - Liebe, Jazz, Übermut
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Hymn To Him
Gösta Berlings Saga - Island

It was top ten per day, Right?

[Digital_Man]

[was top ten per day, Right?]

Whatever makes you happy.

[grego]

King Crimson Larks Tongues in Aspic pt 1
King Crimson Providence
King Crimson Fracture
ELP Barbarian
ELP Toccata
Focus Focus II
Focus Le Clochard
Focus Eruption
Gentle Giant Boys in the Band
Finch Pisces

[Digital_Man]

^Although it somehow didn't make my list, Boys in the Band is one of my favorites too. Same thing with the Babarian.

[Garden Dreamer]

Oops, forgot about ELP's "Hoedown", that would be in my top 10.

[Bake 1]

Not necessarily a gun to the head or else list, just a few faves I haven't seen yet:
If / What Did I Say About The Box Jack
Solid Gold Cadillac / Elephant's Tale
Edgar Winter / Frankenstein
Toto Blanke / Lady's Bicycle Seat Smeller
Jukka Tolonen / Windermere Ave.
Pekka Pohjola / Mathematician's Air Display
Alain Renaud / Opening Opus
Can / Vernal Equinox
Darryl Way's Wolf / Saturation Point
Tipographica / The Turf Have Disordered Gravity

[whatwherewhywhen]

There is so much music still to be known that I'd rather call them my month's top instrumental (just PROGRESSIVE) tracks:

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Keith Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Barbarian
Keith Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Three Fates (clotho_lachesis_atropos)
The Keith Emerson Band - The Endless Enigma Suite (fantastic!!)
Rick Wakeman - Judas Iscariot
Forgas Band Phenomena - Double-Sens
Holderlin - Traum
Stephen Caudel - Wine Dark Sea
Marco Antônio Araújo - Entr' Act I & II
Marco Antônio Araújo - Abertura No. 2
Gong - Bambooji
Steve Hackett - The Red Flowers of Tachai Blooms Everywhere
Steve Hackett - Two Faces Of Cairo
Steve Hackett - Celebration
Steve Hackett - Lyra
Neuschwanstein - Zartlicher Abschied
Triumvirat - Dance on the Volcano
Triumvirat - The Capital Of Power (live)
Triumvirat - A Day In A Life
Vangelis - Pulstar
Vangelis - Deliverance
Vangelis - Movement VIII (El Greco)
Amenophis - Notre Dame Tres Honorable
Rush - YYZ

Stephen Caudel - good choice but I'd love to hear a re-recorded version with updated synths or orchestra. At times the keyboards are a bit weak. Apparently there was a live version recorded maybe for TV or radio but I've never heard it.

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[Zeuhlmate]

Univers Zero - Dense has not been mentioned yet, so I just did that.

[Jubal]

While we're at it, here's one for giggles, courtesy of Jem Godfrey:
https://www.facebook.com/johnchristi...4249944258320/

[Rick Robson]

Stephen Caudel - good choice but I'd love to hear a re-recorded version with updated synths or orchestra. At times the keyboards are a bit weak. Apparently there was a live version recorded maybe for TV or radio but I've never heard it.

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The recording I own was made at the Victoria Palace during an anual music festival, Stephen was supported by a (superb!) orchestra conducted by Louis Clarke, as far as what is told by the radio broadcast presentation. Unfortunately I can't recall anymore where I found out this only recording I have of Wine Dark Sea...

[bill g]

Tony Banks - Spring Tide (keyboard version from the box set)
Tony Banks - City of Gold (ditto)
Hatfield & The North - Lobster in Cleavage Probe
National Health - The Bryden 2-Step
Genesis - After The Ordeal
Genesis - Do The Neurotic
Anthony Phillips - The Geese & The Ghost
Anthony Phillips - Sisters of Remindum
King Crimson - Bolero-The Peacocks Tale
Advent - The Uncharted Path

Then there's all kinds of greatness from the likes of Kenso, Anglagard, etc... this could end up being a very long list