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.
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.
Give us a list to pick from please.
MDK for me.
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
Crimson's "Lizard."
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Pleasure Dome, Big Top...
... can't make up my mind.
The first side of Recycled.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray
"It's such a fine line between stupid and... clever" -- David St. Hubbins & Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap
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)
Cross-eyed Saveta it is then.
Favourite prog suit! (extended spelling remaster)
My Progressive Workshop at http://soundcloud.com/hfxx
Pity about the lifeless hair. Should use Head and Shoulders.
David Sancious: Suite (For The End Of An Age)
Streetmark - Nordland
That's It For The Other One (as far as I know the first such "suite")
Lizard
King King
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.
No no - that's not a suite, that's a medley!
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
ELO - Symphony for a rainy day
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