Prog classics that you never tire of ?

[KGHofSF]

Most of the Yes Classics (exception being Roundabout) I still find remarkably uplifting and get revisited fairly often.



I'm not sure I could ever wear out John Coltrane Atlantic years either. Especially Coltrane plays the Blues. . .



I also am reasonably happy to hear Red & / or Discipline every so often too.

but I since I do a lot of shuffle on Ipod listening, I get fairly constant dose of the classics mixed in with newer space rock, Jazz, and all manner of odds and ends.

regards
KGH

[Tangram]

Phaedra thru Tangram.

edit: heh, I didn't even realize I was following a post by Tangram.

Big time fan but I probably gave that away by my name . Definitely TD's sweet spot but there are other albums that I don't tire over. Logos, Poland and especially Underwater Sunlight.

[Tangram]

And when I say discovering new stuff, it doesn't mean necessarily from the present or previous decade... I also missed loads of stuff in the 90's, 80's, 70's and 60's....

[Yellow Jester]

I'll never get tired of these albums;
Yes-"The Yes Album", "Fragile", "Close To The Edge", "Topographic", "Relayer", "Going For The One"
Genesis-"Nursery Cryme", "Foxtrot", "Selling England", "Lamb", "Trick Of The Tail", "Wind & Wuthering"
King Crimson-"Court", "Lark's", "Starless", "Red", "THRAK"
Rush-"Permanent Waves", "Moving Pictures", "Clockwork Angels"
ELP-"ELP", "Tarkus", "Trilogy", "Brain Salad Surgery"
UK-"UK", "Danger Money"

In short, I never get tired of listening to classic prog!

[willyswing]

I'm loathe to say this on this site, but the first song I instantly know fills the bill for me is "Yours Is No Disgrace". Still not sick of it.

Bingo! This one never gets old for me!

[CLOSE TO THE EDGE]

Relayer
Court of the crimson king
Seconds Out
Quadrophenia

[Rufus]

I'm loathe to say this on this site, but the first song I instantly know fills the bill for me is "Yours Is No Disgrace". Still not sick of it.

Ditto but for me it's the various live versions I have . The band always stretch it out with some improvion , especially Howe . It's for those reasons i never tire of hearing it . I tend to revisit most live albums on a more regular basis than studio .

[Dana5140]

Echoes- Floyd
BSS- ELP
All Magma
ITCOTCK
Phaedra
One of These Days
Gates of Delerium
Silver Machine

[DGuitarist]

I can't get sick of playing these songs because they're too difficult to actually play yourself - on an instrument.
Just passively listening to them may get boring, but performing them for an audience is an entirely different progiverse!

Those who do play these songs know exactly what I'm talking about.
We talk about this in our prog tribute band - how it's just a totally different level of discipline to really nail this music, and many bands don't even really try.

And there's my all-time faves that I can't get burned-out on - they're just too damned good.

[arabicadabra]

Black Dog by Led Zeppelin

[progguy]

IQ -- "Sacred Sound"
Hawkwind -- "Assault and Battery"

I can't get enough of these two songs!

[Digital_Man]

Seventies albums by the big five or six. Pick one. I can't listen to something like say "Fragile" or "Selling England by the pound" every day but eventually I'll want to hear these magical albums.

[Musitron]

Prog classics that you never tire of ? Not possible for me. For Example, I love the best albums from Strawbs. So I take a spin of them once a year to keep it as classics.

[cavgator]

I have listened to the followinig cuts a gazillion times and will listen to them for another gazillion times (prog genre):

The Barbarian
Jerusalem
Lucky Man
Karn Evil 9
Take A Pebble
Tarkus
Infinite Space/The Only Way
The Endless Enigma
Trilogy
Pictures At An Exhibition (album)
Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman
Principles of Lust/Sadeness
Supper's Ready
(I Know What I Like) In Your Wardrobe
The Musical Box
The Knife
Return Of The Giant Hogweed
Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Firth of Fifth
Cinema Show (Second's Out)
Dance On A Volcano
Entangled
Thick As A Brick (all of it)
A Passion Play (even the blind rabbit)
Minstrel In The Gallery
Baker Street Muse
Chateau D'isaster tapes
In The Court of the Crimson King
Epitaph
Lizard
Lark's Tongue in Aspic
Fracture
Starless And Bible Black
Red
Fallen Angel
One More Red Nightmare
Starless
Vision Is A Naked Sword
Eternity's Breath
Dogs
Pigs
Sheep
Shine On You Crazy Diamond/Welcome To The Machine/Shine On (end)
Echoes
Can You Understand
Ashes Are Burning
Alchemy Of The Heart
London
Phaedra
Rubicon
Alaska/Time To Kill
Nevermore
Mental Medication
Thirty Years
Carrying No Cross
Sister Andrea (live)
Perpetual Change
Close To The Edge
And You And I
South Side of The Sky
Long Distance Runaround/The Fish
Heart Of The Sunrise
Sound Chaser
To Be Over
Awaken
Ritual
Judas Iscariot
Anne of Cleves (more like swinging rock)
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Dante Period
Everything on Bruford's One Of A Kind

[PeterG]

Not many I'm afraid:

JT - SFTW, Benefit, Christmas Album
PF - DSOTM, Piper, The Final Cut
Genesis - Trick, W & W, Abacab
Mike Oldfield - Crises, Five Miles Out
Kate Bush - first 5 albums
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds
Roger Waters - Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking, Radio KAOS

[simon moon]

YES - Gates of Delirium, Close to the Edge, Awaken
ELP - Tarkus, Trilogy, BSS
Genesis - most of The Lamb
PFM - Most of the first 3 albums
Banco - all of Io Sono Noto Libero, Il Giardino del Mago, Di Terra
Il Balletto di Bronzo - all of YS
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Zappa - Inca Roads, many, MANY others
National Health - almost all of the S/T and Of Queues and Cures
Gentle Giant - almost everything up to, and including, Interview
Arti E Mestieri - Tilt
KC - too many to list
Happy the Man - most of the first 2 albums

[Vic2012]

Octopus ~ GG
Pawn Hearts ~ VDGG
Trick of the Tail ~ G

[happytheman]

Hard to get tired of the "classics"... obviously I go in cycles..

[polmico]

Going in cycles seems to be the key for me.

Crimson listening, however, happens at least 2-3 times a week. I still have all Crimson days here and there.

[NogbadTheBad]

I'm slowly working my way back into Crimson after burning out on them for a couple of years

[arabicadabra]

I'm actually burned out on Fragile (more Yes' fault than radio's fault) for the time being but that could change with enough time away. Revently replayed all of Aqualung and loved it. Most other Yes and Tull is still wonderful to my ears, as are most KC and Genesis (but getting burnt out on Selling England I'm afraid)

[Yaman Aksu]

King Crimson: Vrooom, Vrooom Vrooom, Thrak, Dinosaur
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells, Five Miles Out, Foreign Affair
Eloy: Impressions
Marillion: first five studio albums through Seasons End (plus B'Sides Themselves)
Fish: first two studio albums (Vigil, Internal Exile)
and many more

[WytchCrypt]

I tend to listen to complete albums rather than individual songs so I'm always ready to go back to these 70's classics at any time...

VDGG - Pawn Hearts, The Least we can do, Aerosol Gray Machine
Yes - Relayer, Tales
Tull - TaaB, Passion Play
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Three Friends
Floyd - Piper at the Gates
Crimso - Lizard, Islands
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Greenslade - s/t
Ange - Caricatures, La Cimitierre de les Arlequins
Pulsar - Halloween, Strands of the Future
PFM - Photos of Ghosts
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Even though I've heard them all over 100 times each, these are the Prog albums I can still listen to and enjoy time and time again:

PFM -Per Un Amico
Return To Forever - (any of the 4 electric quartet albums)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Camel- The Snow Goose
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
King Crimson - Larks
Mingo - Flight Never Ending
Bruford - One Of A Kind
Happy The Man - Crafty Hands

[davis]

Floyd - Meddle; Set the Controls..., CWTAE
Renaissance: AAB, ToTC, ASFAS