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    Quote Originally Posted by begnagrad View Post
    Not really, I am referring to a song so good that will make you buy the album.

    I bought an album by a band called "lake" just for one song, Between the lines.

    Ahh, those were the days I agonized deciding which LP i could afford to take home, and yes, many times I got an album because one or 2 songs that never aired on the radio and there was no other way to listen to it but to buy the LP

    I have a few, for now this one ...


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    From the second Pearls Before Swine (on ESP) album, Balaklava, "Ring Thing."

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    Tori Amos - I Can't See New York (Scarlet's Walk)
    Golden Earring - Are You Receiving Me (Moontan) - I guess some might consider this album prog
    Its A Beautiful Day - White Bird (s/t)
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    Steely Dan were progressive rock band, one of the best progressive rock bands actually
    Look, I'm a huge fan and I've heard their entire discog a few hundred times or so. Steely Dan were a lot of things and some of their work was obviously 'progressive', whilst other parts of it were 'jazz' and so on - but this is actually one case where an artist truly defies general classification. If anything, they were arguably the most perfectionist and coherently eclectic pop/rock band to ever assemble on any major scale - but this still doesn't render them a "prog" unit. And luckily so, I'd say.
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    Yeah, Stargazer was the first thing that crossed my mind.
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    I'm not a big Stones fan, but this song is special, and makes the album it's on (It's Only Rock and Roll) worth my purchase.


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    The Ballad of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper. Of course, I love the rest of the album too, so its a winner all around.

    This is the case with many of my "non-prog" albums. Bohemian Rhapsody is well worth the price of admission, but you get the rest of that incredible album for free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Look, I'm a huge fan and I've heard their entire discog a few hundred times or so. Steely Dan were a lot of things and some of their work was obviously 'progressive', whilst other parts of it were 'jazz' and so on - but this is actually one case where an artist truly defies general classification. If anything, they were arguably the most perfectionist and coherently eclectic pop/rock band to ever assemble on any major scale - but this still doesn't render them a "prog" unit. And luckily so, I'd say.
    Steely Dan were vocally jazz-rock band, the best one; 90% of vocally jazz-rock in general sounds similar to pop, but it's not; even with singing, jazz-rock remains to be a part of progressive music.
    E.g. Rikki Don't Lose That Number is their huge pop hit, but e.g. Genesis recorded pop song I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) at their best (imo) album with Peter Gabriel and the song was a hit, King Crimson recorded pop song I Talk To The Wind, Caravan recorded Golf Girl, etc; pop indeed was one of ingredients of prog.

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    I like all of the Close To You album, but for this site, Carpenters' 'Another Song'...a full-on psychedelic finish on this one.

    I suppose there's also their Klaatu 'Calling Occupants...' cover on Passage, Richard liked the Klaatu album and wanted to cover that song.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yodelgoat View Post
    The Ballad of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper. Of course, I love the rest of the album too, so its a winner all around.
    Good call but 'Halo of Flies' is the obvious 'proggy' choice!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post

    As another example, if I give you Dave Crosby's Laughing on the If I could Only Remember My Name album, most of the other tracks are simply awesome as well.

    For some reason, the folks who find the Dead progressive say the same about this album.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerhard View Post
    I'm not a big Stones fan, but this song is special, and makes the album it's on (It's Only Rock and Roll) worth my purchase.

    Same here. I bought this album a few months ago just for this track.
    The funny thing is that I knew one of the guitar-theme's before from Mick Taylor's first solo-album, but it turned out to be a kind of revenge for him, because he wasn't credited enough on It's Only...
    But it's not just the guitar-playing, also the Moog-melody is very proggy and reminded me of Paul Fishman's Absolute Elsewhere.

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    ^I'm not fond of It's Only Rock N Roll as an album, but that's one of the highlights.

    'Can You Hear The Music' from Goats' Head Soup is worth checking out. That Leslie-guitar is amazing!

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    Another one came to mind: Roy Harper - The Game (from HQ)

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    Quote Originally Posted by flowerking View Post
    Another one came to mind: Roy Harper - The Game (from HQ)
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    The second half of this has a bit of a Canterbury sound. (I see JJ88 just mentioned it.)


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    Quite often, when it comes to certain threads here, I'm reminded of this scene:


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    Quote Originally Posted by StevegSr View Post
    For some reason, the folks who find the Dead progressive say the same about this album.

    Are you a closet "Dead Head" Sean?
    Why closet??

    I saw The Dead some 9 times I had to travel 8 of times to the US to see them (usually in Syracuse), because they weren't exactly really welcome in Canada, because of the band's kling-ons.
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ88 View Post
    ^I'm not fond of It's Only Rock N Roll as an album, but that's one of the highlights.

    'Can You Hear The Music' from Goats' Head Soup is worth checking out. That Leslie-guitar is amazing!
    From Goat's Head , I tend to retain Angie, Star Star and my fave TRS track ever : dooo dooo dooo (Heartbreaker)

    And from It's Only, I retain the t/t and Dance Little Sister

    That's why I like that Made In The Shade compilation so much. Never needed the Taylor-era albums

    Just like with Hot Rocks, I never needed a Brian Jones-era album or with Sucking in the 70's, I never needed a Ron Wood era album

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    citing three tracks from the same album kinds of defeats the purpose of this thread
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    I heard this one and I knew I wanted the album

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