Which is the Best Pre-1985 Prog Epic?

boo boo · 02-15-2010, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

That was more the criteria for the comp than the actual poll. I guess we can add more songs per band to the poll

If you want, I can add Lizard or Gates of Delirium and change your vote for you if you've already spent it!

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Added both!

I haven't voted, I wasn't gonna vote for either of them I just think they deserve to be added to the poll.

I'll probably vote for CTTE but that compilation you made is a goldmine of great prog epics and definetely worth checking out for the casual listener who has already checked out the more accessible stuff and is now ready for the more hardcore sh*t.

Oh yeah, a compilation like this would have to be made into a boxset of like 12 CDs, with 2 or 3 songs on each disc.

Comus · 02-25-2010, 11:30 AM

Lizard, hands down for me.

But I am a Lizard fanboy

Captain Awesome · 02-25-2010, 02:01 PM

Mike oldfield or pink floyd I can't make my mind up lol

crash_override · 02-25-2010, 02:22 PM

Has to be 2112, that song single handedly got me into prog. Although I would like to see another Rush song on the list. Cygnus X-1 or The Necromancer perhaps? Maybe even Fountain of Lamneth. But 2112 is by far their most popular and probably the best song to represent their entire epic works in a poll such as this.

B More Melo · 03-14-2010, 10:00 PM

Close to the edge is fabulous. Although I have not heard a ton of stuff on this list.

Terrible Lizard · 03-14-2010, 10:07 PM

I am outraged this underrated masterpiece of progressive rock was ignored.

mccres · 03-23-2010, 07:05 PM

I chose Supper's Ready, but a close second was Lady Fantasy by Camel. Kind of surprised there are no votes for Camel, but there aren't a lot of votes total anyway.

duga · 04-11-2010, 11:12 PM

I'm glad to see the love for Yes in here. I was all set to go for 2112, but then I ran into Close to the Edge. I love Rush and 2112, but in all honesty, it is really just a really long rock song. They do a lot more later on in their career (I saw Hemispheres mentioned...very nice). Close to the Edge has it all when you think about prog. It's long, it's catchy, and it is very original. I can't think of many other artists that sound like Yes.

boo boo · 04-16-2010, 05:06 PM

I'm curious over how many people who have voted downloaded the compilation.

I haven't downloaded it because I have most of these, though there's a few I still need to check out.

duga · 04-23-2010, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by inagaddadavida

dude what about....in-a-gadda-da-vida

That album is hardly progressive. It's more along the lines of psychedelic rock.

Plus it's absolute crap.

View Poll Results: Which is your favourite 1985-Prog epic? (* = not in compilation)
Camel - Lady Fantasy	2	2.17%
Capability Brown - Circumstances	0	0%
Caravan - Nine Feet Underground	0	0%
Egg - symphony2	0	0%
Eloy - Poseidon's Creation	0	0%
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus	1	1.09%
Focus - Anonymus II	0	0%
Genesis - Supper's Ready	12	13.04%
Harmonium - Histoire Sans Paroles	0	0%
Hatfield and the North - Mumps	1	1.09%
Jan Dukes de Grey - Sun Symphonica	0	0%
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick	7	7.61%
Kansas - Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman	0	0%
King Crimson - Starless	5	5.43%
Lucifer's Friend - Sorrow	0	0%
Magma - Na Ektila	0	0%
Marillion - Grendel	1	1.09%
Mirthrandir - For Four	0	0%
Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean	0	0%
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind	0	0%
Renaissance - Song Of Scheherazade	1	1.09%
Rush - 2112	19	20.65%
Samurai - King Riff and Snow Flakes	0	0%
Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous	1	1.09%
The Nice - Ars Longa Vita Brevis	0	0%
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers	2	2.17%
Yes - Close To The Edge	20	21.74%
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells *	5	5.43%
Pink Floyd - Echoes *	11	11.96%
King Crimson - Lizard *	2	2.17%
Yes - Gates of Delirium *	2	2.17%
Voters: 92. You may not vote on this poll

02-25-2010, 02:01 PM	#23 (permalink)
Captain Awesome On A Rampage Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 317	Mike oldfield or pink floyd I can't make my mind up lol __________________ "If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage, the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page, I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air, from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair." "Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

03-14-2010, 10:00 PM	#25 (permalink)
B More Melo Groupie Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 41	Close to the edge is fabulous. Although I have not heard a ton of stuff on this list. __________________ Chill Out

03-14-2010, 10:07 PM	#26 (permalink)
Terrible Lizard **ER OF HOLES Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Butt**, Nebraska Posts: 1,211	I am outraged this underrated masterpiece of progressive rock was ignored. __________________ “YOU ARE SCUM SLUT.” -John Martyn

04-11-2010, 11:12 PM	#28 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	I'm glad to see the love for Yes in here. I was all set to go for 2112, but then I ran into Close to the Edge. I love Rush and 2112, but in all honesty, it is really just a really long rock song. They do a lot more later on in their career (I saw Hemispheres mentioned...very nice). Close to the Edge has it all when you think about prog. It's long, it's catchy, and it is very original. I can't think of many other artists that sound like Yes. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

03-23-2010, 07:05 PM	#27 (permalink)
mccres Groupie Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 8	I chose Supper's Ready, but a close second was Lady Fantasy by Camel. Kind of surprised there are no votes for Camel, but there aren't a lot of votes total anyway.