Best short prog song from before prog even existed:
The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun. You get an awful lot for your 2:43 in that one...
Best short prog song from before prog even existed:
The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun. You get an awful lot for your 2:43 in that one...
Slapp Happy - "Some Questions About Hats"
Henry Cow - "Bittern Storm Over Ulm"
Family - "Crinkly Grin"
5uu's - "Comeuppance"
Soft Machine - "Pig"
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
A little secret - Tickmeyer had come up with that great drum part which we all liked but it wasn't really Chris' sort of thing. So I played the drums but let Chris play the hi hat, and then we came with a funny combination of our names (something like Chrob Cutrake) on the album credits.
Bob
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Family most definitely mastered the short-tune concept. "From Past Archives" is yet another fave.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Procol Harum - Nothing But the Truth
Limiting myself to 5 ½ minutes & 1 track per artist:
Blood on the Rooftops - G
Hunting Girl - JT
The Company - Fish
Peaches en Regalia - FZ
Julia Dream - PF
Long Distance Runaround - Yes
Midas Vision - Arena
He Knows You Know - Marillion
Burning For Me - Strawbs
The Advent of Panurge - GG
The Great Pretender - Eno
The Voyager - MO
Oxygene Part IV - JMJ
In the beginning......
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Screw all these 1 and 2 minute epics.
Speaking of Procol Harum, how about "skip softly my moonbeams." That's maybe the first genuine short prog tune.
I have no problem considering "Whiter Shade of Pale" a prog tune. But the whole "Shine on Brightly" album seems to be the blueprint for everything Genesis did until 1974.
Blood on the Rooftops.
Tempus Fugit by Yes. Should've been a hit single.
Gentle Giant-So Sincere
Mike Keneally-Looking For Nina
Zappa-Moggio
A Day in the Life - The Beatles
Tomorrow Night and Devil's Answer - Atomic Rooster
Better By You, Better Than Me - Spooky Tooth
Silver Machine - Hawkwind
Soon - Yes
Fighting Windmills - Golden Earring
Syliva and Hocus Pocus - Focus
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Speed the Plough - Horslips
Bike - Pink Floyd
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