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    Your favorite progressive 2nd track on side two (pick more than one!)

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    Only two?

    You need to up your game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    Only two?

    You need to up your game.
    Where are YOUR picks? BTW, two is all I need here.

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    1. Yes - To Be Over (Relayer)
    2. Gong - Fohat Digs Holes in Space (Camembert Electric)
    3. Faust - Picnic on a Frozen River (Faust IV)
    4. VDGG - Sleepwalkers (Godbluff)
    5. Gentle Giant - Funny Ways (Live: Playing the Fool)
    6. ELP - Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression (Brain Salad Surgery)

    Why do you need only 2? Isn't 6 better?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jake View Post
    1. Yes - To Be Over (Relayer)
    2. Gong - Fohat Digs Holes in Space (Camembert Electric)
    3. Faust - Picnic on a Frozen River (Faust IV)
    4. VDGG - Sleepwalkers (Godbluff)
    5. Gentle Giant - Funny Ways (Live: Playing the Fool)
    6. ELP - Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression (Brain Salad Surgery)

    Why do you need only 2? Isn't 6 better?
    Not necessarily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by philsunset View Post
    Where are YOUR picks?
    Alas, I am usually only an observer of the list threads.

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    King Crimson: Starless
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    1. Gentle Giant, "His Last Voyage", Free Hand

    2. Genesis, "Blood on the Rooftops", Wind and Wuthering

    3. Roy Harper, "Me and My Woman, Stormcock

    And these:
    Quote Originally Posted by philsunset View Post
    Genesis-Supper's Ready
    Quote Originally Posted by jake View Post
    Yes - To Be Over (Relayer)
    ELP - Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression (Brain Salad Surgery)
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    Kansas- Dust In The Wind
    Jethro Tull- Bungle In The Jungle
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    Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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    The first 10 favorites I thought of:

    Starless - KC
    Dance of the Maya - Mahavishnu
    Gumbo Variations - Zappa
    Siberian Khatru - Yes
    Blood on the Rooftops - Genesis
    The Court of the Crimson King - KC
    Baker Street Muse - Jethro Tull
    The Love in Your Eye / To Catch Me a Brother / Subsultus / Debouchement / Tilbury Kecks - Caravan
    Soup - Can
    Fohat Digs Holes in Space - Gong

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    To Be Over
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    Siberian Khatru
    Ripples
    Supper's Ready
    Fracture
    Starless
    Wish You Were Here
    Sheep
    Hymn 43
    Mister Class And Quality?
    Apercu
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    No one's mentioned the track 2, side 2 test yet, so it might be just a European thing.
    I first came across it in the 90s, but apparently it's been in use since at least the 70s, according to some of the old heads I know. Quite simply if you liked track 2, side 2, and you thought it was good, then it was safe to buy the album.

    Reasoning? Well, lots of people used to test a record to see if it was good or if they liked it using one of the following listening methods:
    A) all of side 1
    B) track 1 on both sides
    C) first & last track on both sides.

    AND record companies knew this.

    Which was why at some point the old heads started judging albums by track 2, side 2.
    At some point however, probably 70s, record companies must have got wise because there is an over representation of great quality in track 2, side 2, especially on prog and hard rock albums.

    And some Genesis albums provide a fantastic track 2, side 2

    Supper's Ready
    Ripples
    Blood on the Rooftops
    Domino

    But with PF it isn't until DSOTM that they turned in a great track 2, side 2, with Us and Them. Their greatest album? Coincidence?
    And then they did it again on WYWH, with WYWH.
    And guess what they did it again on Animals, with Sheep.

    YMMV, but whenever I listen to vinyl (old and new) in secondhand music shops I always ask for track 2, side 2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    No one's mentioned the track 2, side 2 test yet, so it might be just a European thing.
    I first came across it in the 90s, but apparently it's been in use since at least the 70s, according to some of the old heads I know. Quite simply if you liked track 2, side 2, and you thought it was good, then it was safe to buy the album.

    Reasoning? Well, lots of people used to test a record to see if it was good or if they liked it using one of the following listening methods:
    A) all of side 1
    B) track 1 on both sides
    C) first & last track on both sides.

    AND record companies knew this.

    Which was why at some point the old heads started judging albums by track 2, side 2.
    At some point however, probably 70s, record companies must have got wise because there is an over representation of great quality in track 2, side 2, especially on prog and hard rock albums.

    And some Genesis albums provide a fantastic track 2, side 2

    Supper's Ready
    Ripples
    Blood on the Rooftops
    Domino

    But with PF it isn't until DSOTM that they turned in a great track 2, side 2, with Us and Them. Their greatest album? Coincidence?
    And then they did it again on WYWH, with WYWH.
    And guess what they did it again on Animals, with Sheep.

    YMMV, but whenever I listen to vinyl (old and new) in secondhand music shops I always ask for track 2, side 2.

    With respect aligning this query with the "side 2 track 2" test, I guess track 2's that are also the last song on the album should be disqualified, since it's already presumed that an album's final track should be one of its best (as you point out).

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    The Flower Kings - IKEA By Night
    Good one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oreb View Post
    1. Gentle Giant, "His Last Voyage", Free Hand
    Oh yes !

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    The Flower Kings - IKEA By Night
    Quote Originally Posted by miamiscot View Post
    Good one.
    I was actually seeing if this would get past the censors. It's the 2nd track on the second disc of a 2CD set, and according to Wikipedia it's only 4 seconds long! I can't even remember it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    according to Wikipedia it's only 4 seconds long! I can't even remember it.
    That would qualify it for another thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    I was actually seeing if this would get past the censors. It's the 2nd track on the second disc of a 2CD set, and according to Wikipedia it's only 4 seconds long! I can't even remember it.
    Actually, it's the 20th track on the first disc.

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    Hatfield & The North - Mumps
    Genesis - Supper's Ready, After The Ordeal, Dusk, Ripples, Blood On The Rooftops (they often had a strong 2nd song on side 2)
    Gentle Giant - No God's A Man, His Last Voyage, Empty City (love those verses, bummer about the chorus), Memories of Old Days
    Yes - To Be Over, Siberian Khatru, Awaken
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