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    Your favourite prog suite ever? (pick one!)

    My fav is A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by Van Der Graaf Generator






    Dark, emotional, powerful, lyrically deep, the band's finest work in my opinion.

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    Give us a list to pick from please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    Give us a list to pick from please.
    yup, so we can avoid semantics like in the sidelong epic thread
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    yup, so we can avoid semantics like in the sidelong epic thread
    There's no semantics involved with that. "Side Long" is not an ambiguous term.

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    Crimson's "Lizard."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    Give us a list to pick from please.
    Does this count???

    The Pleasure Dome
    B1 The Wave 3:14
    B2 Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever (Running) 5:20
    B3 The Sphinx in the Face 5:58
    B4 Chemical World 6:10
    B5 The Sphinx Returns 1:12

    Only kidding...

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    Pleasure Dome, Big Top...



    ... can't make up my mind.

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    The first side of Recycled.
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    Rush - 2112 (Side 1 of 2112)
    Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres (Side 1 of Hemispheres)
    John Miles - Nice Man Jack (i. Kensington Gardens ii. Mitre Square iii. Harley Street)
    Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (Side 1 of Hounds of Love)
    Kate Bush - The Ninth Wave (Side 2 of Hounds of Love)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    Give us a list to pick from please.











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    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    There's no semantics involved with that. "Side Long" is not an ambiguous term.
    Right - what could it mean other than one full side of a CD!

    My favorite prog suite? The one I had at the Comfort Suites for NEARfest 2010.

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    Cross-eyed Saveta it is then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (Side 1 of Hounds of Love)
    I see where you're coming from, but I don't consider that a "suite." Just an album side that has a name.

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    Favourite prog suit! (extended spelling remaster)

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    David Sancious: Suite (For The End Of An Age)


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    Quote Originally Posted by hFx View Post
    Favourite prog suit! (extended spelling remaster)

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    That's It For The Other One (as far as I know the first such "suite")
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    The reason the prog rock "suite" exists was because record royalties were based on the number of titles that appeared on albums. If you had ten or twelve songs, you got paid accordingly, but if your record had only 3 or 5 songs on it, you got paid significantly less.

    Apparently, though, there was a loophole in the word of such contracts that dictated that "movements" consisted individual "songs". So if you had a long, multi-section piece of music, you gave a separate title to each section, and presto! Now, as far as the record/publishing company was concerned, your 8-22 minute single track just turned into 3-8 individual songs. This why the Grateful Dead presented That's It For The Other One accordingly, and Robert Fripp has says that's why the first four King Crimson albums have all those "including" titles (eg "21st Century Schizoid Man, including Mirrors"), and one suspects it's also why Genesis, Yes and VDGG.

    I read once the Grateful Dead eventually negotiated a contract where their royalties were paid on the basis of how long the pieces were. Once suspects similar wording was eventually including in new contracts that the other bands signed as well, as you'll notice that the movement title thing went away in later releases by them, eg there's no movement titles on Selling England By The Pound, Red, Godbluff, or Relayer.

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    No no - that's not a suite, that's a medley!
    Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
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    Oooh, good choice. I just played on last week's Journey Of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

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