Time for another poll. This one is for your favorite Prog Rock song of all time.
Send an e-mail, or a comment, and list your favorite 5 songs, and the band that performed them. We may even play them on the air on the 7th of February.
The Great Gig In The Sky or Us And Them - Pink Floyd This Strange Engine - Marillion Close To The Edge - Yes Supper's Ready - Genesis Arriving Somewhere But Not Here - Porcupine Tree
hi here from Conny, netherlands 5 songs, is very difficult, but 1 try Yes - Awaken Rush - The camera Eye Knight Area - Mortal Brow Pink Floyd - set the controls for the heart of the sun Porcupine Tree - Anesthetise
Seen All Good People - Yes Skating Away (on the Thin Ice of a New Day) - Jethro Tull The Judgment - Salem Hill Keep It Dark - Genesis Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
Karn Evil/ Emerson, lake, And Palmer The Sky Is Falling/ The Rocket Scientists The Sun Is In Our Eyes/ Tangent Limelight/ Rush Veteran Of The Psychic Wars/ Blue Oyster Cult
RUSH - Hemispheres or Camera Eye LED ZEPPLIN - Stairway to Heaven or No Quarter YES - Closer to the Edge GENESIS - Supper's Ready PINK FLOYD - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt.1&2 QUEEN - Bohemian Rhapsody
PROG METAL:
QUEENSRYCHE - Roads to Madness AYREON - Isis and Osiris SYMPHONY X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy or The Odyssey DREAM THEATER - Octavarium or In The Presence of Enemies Pt.1&2 PAGAN'S MIND - Prophecy of the Pliedes CIRCUS MAXIMUS - Mouth of Madness
King Crimson - Epitath Genesis - Supper's Ready Yes - Close To The Edge Gentle Giant - Knots Jethro Tull - Passion Play ELP - Karn Evil 9, First Impression
Echidna's Arf Of You/Did You Ever Wash That Thing - Frank Zappa & The Mothers Appena un po' - Premiata Forneria Marconi The Musical Box - Genesis The Gates Of Delerium - Yes La femme ailée - Pollen
The Great Nothing - Spock's Beard Catch the Rainbow (Live from ON STAGE) - Rainbow Kiss - Black Diamond ;-) A pleasant shade of grey - Fates Warning Roads to madness - Queensryche
1--PINK FLOYD--Comfortably numb ............... .2--RENAISSANCE--Ashes are Burning.............. 3-- GENESIS--Selling England by the Pound....... .4--CAMEL--Ice.................................. .5--NEAL MORSE--The Separated Man
Marillion - This Strange Engine Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Marillion - This Town / The Rakes Progress Sylvan - Posthumous Silence Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
Jurgen from the netherlands: 1: Marillion- This strange engeine 2: Porcupine tree- evenless 3: Marillion- The man from planet marzipan 4: Saga- Carefull where you step 5: Genesis- Firth of fifth arghhh i need more time and more songs...
1- Close To The Edge - Yes 2- Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 3- Karn Evil #9 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 4- Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas 5- Passion Play - Jethro tull
*NOTE: Pretty close to impossible to pick 5 songs and oder them(cant do it almost), but top 5 albums easier: 1-Close To The Edge - Yes 2-Point of Know Return - Kansas 2-Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 3-Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 4-Fragile - Yes 5-Saga - Worlds Apart
A passion play - Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull Tarkus - ELP In a Glass House - Gentle Giant Moonlit Knight - Genesis
(I know it seems I'm picking albuns instead of songs, but not really; it's not my fault if my favorite songs have the same name as the albuns) ouch, there are too few - pretty unfair not to includ Close to the Edge - Yes or Dove...Quando - Premiata Forneria Marconi
It's impossible to pick only five, so I will list 15 great songs. The top three being best of all time. The others in no particular order. Some aren't purely in the prog genre, but they do "crossover".
Awaken - Yes The Gates of Delirium - Yes Hemispheres - Rush
Freewill - Rush Queensryche - Promised Land King Crimson - Red King Crimson - Epitaph Pink Floyd - Dogs Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize Spock's Beard - Time Has Come Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing Spock's Beard - Jaws of Heaven Tool - Third Eye Dream Theater - Metropolis
1. Song Within a Song - Camel 2. Time - Pink Floyd 3. The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson 4. For Today - Camel 5. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight - Genesis
Great lists, Anonymous and chad, though a bit late for the radio show which aired in February 2010. I may do another in the not so distant future, so keep them coming.
1. SYLVAN - Posthumous Silence
ReplyDelete2. MOONRISE - Empty Lines
3. RIVERSIDE - Second Life Syndrome
4. PENDRAGON - Indigo
5. SHADOW GALLERY - Haunted
The Jig of Life - Kate Bush
ReplyDeleteHappiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles
Dance on a Volcano - Genesis
Hemispheres - Rush
The Invisible Man - Marillion
The Great Gig In The Sky or Us And Them - Pink Floyd
ReplyDeleteThis Strange Engine - Marillion
Close To The Edge - Yes
Supper's Ready - Genesis
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here - Porcupine Tree
darrin
the gates of delirium - yes
ReplyDeletethe cinema show - genesis
21st century schizoid man - king crimson
octavarium - dream theater
just the same - gentle giant
hi here from Conny, netherlands
ReplyDelete5 songs, is very difficult, but 1 try
Yes - Awaken
Rush - The camera Eye
Knight Area - Mortal Brow
Pink Floyd - set the controls for the heart of the sun
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetise
Seen All Good People - Yes
ReplyDeleteSkating Away (on the Thin Ice of a New Day) - Jethro Tull
The Judgment - Salem Hill
Keep It Dark - Genesis
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
yes/close to the edge
ReplyDeletegenesis/suppers ready
focus/Eruption
king crimson/Cirkus
gentle giant/advent of panurge
Todd Dillingham
Karn Evil/ Emerson, lake, And Palmer
ReplyDeleteThe Sky Is Falling/ The Rocket Scientists
The Sun Is In Our Eyes/ Tangent
Limelight/ Rush
Veteran Of The Psychic Wars/ Blue Oyster Cult
i think of new music i have heard,
ReplyDeleteI Could Be God by Galahad is a great song.
And you and I-Yes
ReplyDeleteShine on you crazy diamond-Pink Floyd
The Musical Box-Genesis
Aqualung-Jethro Tull
21st Century Schizoid man-King Crimson
PROG ROCK:
ReplyDeleteRUSH - Hemispheres or Camera Eye
LED ZEPPLIN - Stairway to Heaven or No Quarter
YES - Closer to the Edge
GENESIS - Supper's Ready
PINK FLOYD - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt.1&2
QUEEN - Bohemian Rhapsody
PROG METAL:
QUEENSRYCHE - Roads to Madness
AYREON - Isis and Osiris
SYMPHONY X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy or The Odyssey
DREAM THEATER - Octavarium or In The Presence of Enemies Pt.1&2
PAGAN'S MIND - Prophecy of the Pliedes
CIRCUS MAXIMUS - Mouth of Madness
Ok, that's six in each category...
:-)
*Valarien*
YES - Sound Chaser
ReplyDeleteMAGENTA - White Witch
IQ - Harvest of Souls
YES - Close to the Edge
NEKTAR - Remember the Future (yes the whole album)
King Crimson - Epitath
ReplyDeleteGenesis - Supper's Ready
Yes - Close To The Edge
Gentle Giant - Knots
Jethro Tull - Passion Play
ELP - Karn Evil 9, First Impression
Echidna's Arf Of You/Did You Ever Wash That Thing - Frank Zappa & The Mothers
ReplyDeleteAppena un po' - Premiata Forneria Marconi
The Musical Box - Genesis
The Gates Of Delerium - Yes
La femme ailée - Pollen
The Great Nothing - Spock's Beard
ReplyDeleteCatch the Rainbow (Live from ON STAGE) - Rainbow
Kiss - Black Diamond ;-)
A pleasant shade of grey - Fates Warning
Roads to madness - Queensryche
Greetings from Joe/Germany
Supper's Ready - Genesis
ReplyDeleteSiberian Khatru - Yes
The Web - Marillion
Starless - King Crimson
Hemispheres - Rush
1--PINK FLOYD--Comfortably numb ............... .2--RENAISSANCE--Ashes are Burning.............. 3-- GENESIS--Selling England by the Pound....... .4--CAMEL--Ice.................................. .5--NEAL MORSE--The Separated Man
ReplyDelete1. Super's ready-GENESIS
ReplyDelete2. Close to the Edge-YES
3. The Musical Box-GENESIS
4. Starless-KING CRIMSON
5. Can Utility and Coastliners-GENESIS
Too few choice...
Marillion - This Strange Engine
ReplyDeletePink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Marillion - This Town / The Rakes Progress
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
Kansas - Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel)
ReplyDeleteRush - 2112
Yes - Close to the Edge
King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic, Part One.
ELP - Karn Evil 9
In no particular order...
ReplyDeleteMilliontown--Frost
Songs from the Wood--Jethro Tull
The Life in a Year--Pinnacle
Afraid of Sunlight--Marillion
The Big Money--Rush
YES - Awaken
ReplyDeleteGenesis - Supersready
King Crimson - Level five
Gentle Giant - Pentagrual's Nativity
YES - Close to the Edge
and so much more....
Yes - Awaken
ReplyDeleteDiscipline - Crutches
Echolyn - Shades
Rush - Xanadu
Kansas - Song for America
The Gates of Delerium - Yes
ReplyDeleteMilliontown - Frost*
Up The Downstair - Porcupine Tree
Firth Of Forth - Genesis
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Cheers
Hemispherical Walter
Jurgen from the netherlands:
ReplyDelete1: Marillion- This strange engeine
2: Porcupine tree- evenless
3: Marillion- The man from planet marzipan
4: Saga- Carefull where you step
5: Genesis- Firth of fifth
arghhh i need more time and more songs...
GENESIS=SUPPER'S READY
ReplyDeleteYES=CLOSE TO THE EDGE
HARMONIUM=HISTOIRES SANS PAROLES
PINK FLOYD=ECHOES
MIKE OLDFIELD=TUBULAR BELLS
1- Close To The Edge - Yes
ReplyDelete2- Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3- Karn Evil #9 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4- Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
5- Passion Play - Jethro tull
*NOTE: Pretty close to impossible to pick 5 songs and oder them(cant do it almost), but top 5 albums easier:
1-Close To The Edge - Yes
2-Point of Know Return - Kansas
2-Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3-Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4-Fragile - Yes
5-Saga - Worlds Apart
Tough Poll !!
Kansas ( Dust in The Wind )
ReplyDeletePink Floyd ( Comfortably Numb )
Focus ( Hocus Pocus )
Led Zeppelin ( Stairway To Heaven )
Red Sand ( Cradle )
1. Marillion King
ReplyDelete2. Rush La Villa Strangiato
3. Rush Xanadu
4. Queensryche Suite Sister Mary
5. Gazpacho Sea of Tranquility
Tough one, Chris in Dallas
Supper's Ready - Genesis
ReplyDeleteClose To The Edge - Yes
Karn Evil - ELP
Histoires Sans Paroles - Harmonium
Experience - Gentle Giant
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull ( the whole album)
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Eruption - Focus
The Snow Goose - Camel ( the whole album)
Genesis - Supper's Ready
ReplyDeleteYes - Close to the Edge
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Genesis - The Musical Box
King Crimson - Epitaph
A passion play - Jethro Tull
ReplyDeleteThick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Tarkus - ELP
In a Glass House - Gentle Giant
Moonlit Knight - Genesis
(I know it seems I'm picking albuns instead of songs, but not really; it's not my fault if my favorite songs have the same name as the albuns)
ouch, there are too few - pretty unfair not to includ Close to the Edge - Yes or Dove...Quando - Premiata Forneria Marconi
It's impossible to pick only five, so I will list 15 great songs. The top three being best of all time. The others in no particular order. Some aren't purely in the prog genre, but they do "crossover".
ReplyDeleteAwaken - Yes
The Gates of Delirium - Yes
Hemispheres - Rush
Freewill - Rush
Queensryche - Promised Land
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - Epitaph
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Spock's Beard - Time Has Come
Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing
Spock's Beard - Jaws of Heaven
Tool - Third Eye
Dream Theater - Metropolis
1. Song Within a Song - Camel
ReplyDelete2. Time - Pink Floyd
3. The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
4. For Today - Camel
5. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight - Genesis
Great lists, Anonymous and chad, though a bit late for the radio show which aired in February 2010. I may do another in the not so distant future, so keep them coming.
ReplyDelete2112 - Rush
ReplyDeleteShine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Yes - Siberian Khatru