What's Your Favorite Prog Rock Song?

[General Zod]

Here's mine:

[olddots]

1. The Majestry of Rock by Spinal Tap

I think of prog rock as listening to the whole recording like king Crimson and stuff

[Dr. Strange]

33. It's "The Majesty of Rock."

I can't believe you'd insult the Tap like that. But I'm sure they'll rise above it, since they're professionals.

[Tom Ripley]

2. "Starship Troopers" or "21st Century Scizoid Man"

[cyberswede]

3. Too hard to pick...

so I'll go with Tubular Bells, because I play it on the piano (my older brother bought the sheet music when I was 7 or 8).

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[bluesbassman]

4. Yes-Long Distance Runaround/The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)

[cyberswede]

5. Hmm...a song with a particularly good bass part...who would've thought?

[bluesbassman]

7. I'm so transparent.

[Initech]

6. Steven Wilson - "Index"

Such an epic song.

[Tabasco_Dave]

8. I'm using this song for motivation lately

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. This whole album -- for almost 30 years now. I bought it in Germany (having no idea...

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Second only to "Dark Side of the Moon", this album was my lullaby on hundreds, if not
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[nomorenomore08]

20. Yeah! That one is really cool!

And I remember you posting it before, that's how I first heard it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. A more obvious choice

I wish I had something more obscure but frankly this has always been my favorite since the album came out. Unfortunately, I can't find the complete version on youtube.

[MannyGoldstein]

35. Great Album

One of my faves.

[Arcanetrance]

11. Can't really narrow down one song

But Dream theater Metropolis 2. Also Iron Maiden Seventh Son album

[talkingmime]

12. SHIT! That was number one on my list!!!

"The Knife", "Watcher of the Skies", "Firth of Fifth", and "Supper's Ready" - in that order.

[OriginalGeek]

13. Since all the really great traditional prog songs are already mentioned

(and I love most all of them) I thought I'd throw in some prog metal

These guys are still classified by most as death metal but I don't buy it. They did start out more that way (I have some of their demos from before their first album in 1990) but even then they were just slightly out of phase with standard death metal.

ETA - another fun fact: Usually, at some point during Cynic concerts Paul Masvidal (singer, lead guitar) will stop for some yoga. He shows everyone how to do some stretches and proceeds to lead everyone in a very relaxing mini-yoga session. It's kind of hilarious to see a couple hundred metal guys in all their leather and spikes and tattoos and mohawks and beer bellies pause the mosh pit and do some yoga stretches. One of my favorite parts of a Cynic show.

[ok_cpu]

14. Lot of good ones picked already

Especially the Genesis choices. How about this one?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. at this very moment --

[opiate69]

16. Thick... as a brick

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[opiate69]

17. Or... Third Eye

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[dawg]

18. Yes - Starship Trooper is my all time favorite.

Here, in no particular order, are the runners-up:

Genesis - Firth of Fifth
King Crimson - Starless
Yes - And You And I
Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (the whole thing)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Yes - Turn of the Century
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Marillion - Brave (the whole thing)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
King Crimson - Fallen Angel
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Oh, I could keep this up all day ...

[WCGreen]

32. When I was playing out with a band in the late 80's...

We played Locomotive Breath and it always went really well...

We also did a reggae version of Love the One Your With, Mon

[onehandle]

19. Close To The Edge - Yes. I've seen them in concert ten times.

But not in their current incarnation with the fake Jon.

[nomorenomore08]

21. Magma - "Kohntark"

They like, created their own genre, man!

[Pool Hall Ace]

22. Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card

[OriginalGeek]

28. Highlight of the show a couple weeks ago

I saw APLP in a small theater and he introduced the song by saying (paraphrasing) "We had this album and this next song kind of takes up most of the one side so we're just gonna play the whole side..." and it was terrrrrrrrrrrific.

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Do As Infinity~Fukai Mori

[Doc_Technical]

24. Yes- "We Have Heaven"

This is how my brain is on a good day.

[harmonicon]

25. Oh, man... that's a tall order.

I'm a nerd. When all of the other kids were into Nirvana, I was into King Crimson. Prog was basically my life for a fair number of years. Now one of the only things like that I ever listen to is early Genesis (which I didn't listen to much in the 90's, because I was more into the contemporary bands putting out new material).

So, I'm going to cheat and post two that were huge for me about 20 years ago.

[TM99]

26. Huge Prog fan here!

Well, so many great ones have been shared from ELP, King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, etc.

So here are a few more Prog acts that seem to rarely receive the credit they deserve that are definitely favorites of mine.

Kayak - Starlight Dancer

Eloy - Fatal Illusions

Fish - A Gentleman's Excuse Me

Peter Hammill - Betrayed

Le Orme - Amico di ieri

Porcupine Tree - Way out of Here

Saga - Don't Be Late

Mythos - June

Osanna - Milano Calibro 9 which is one of my favorite prog albums.

[CBGLuthier]

27. Klaatu's Little Neutrino

[Iggo]

29. Going For The One -- Yes

[ArnoldLayne]

30. Pink Floyd-Echoes, ELP-Karn Evil 9 and Genesis-Suppers Ready.

[WCGreen]

31. My favs were King Crimson and Triumvirat and early Genesis....

Unfortunatly, all versions of Illusions on a Double Dimple are blocked on You Tube.


Lamb Lies Down On Broadway just blew me away...

[TrogL]

34. ELP Karn Evil 9

[MannyGoldstein]

36. Red, King Crimson

Although KC's "Cat Food" seems to be appropriate these days...

[ornotna]

37. Porcupine Tree "Fear Of A Blank Planet"

[progressoid]

38. Yeah - Also Steven Wilson's solo stuff.