Your top ten symphonic and Prog rock songs

[Blazer]

This one is for the musicians among us, let's all name those long epic "Music-for-musicians" songs that you love to hear.

In random order mine are...

1. Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
2. Focus - House of the king
3. Genesis - Abacap
4. Yes - Roundabout.
5. Focus - Hamburger concerto
6. Yes - Yours is no disgrace
7. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
8. Genesis - Breakfast is served
9. Focus - Hocus Pocus
10. Kayak - Wintertime.

[Rob W]

Again,
in no order...


1. Firth of Fifth - Genesis
2. Level Five - King Crimson
3. Awaken - Yes
4. Tarkus - ELP
5. Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull
6. Musical Box - Genesis
7. And You and I - Yes
8. Passion Play - Jethro Tull
9. Starless - King Crimson
10. Mike Rutherford - At The End of the Day

[Peter Squire]

Not to be unkind, but this one has been done - check out the search!

[carrythatweight]

Originally Posted by southpaw1

Not to be unkind, but this one has been done - check out the search!

Well, it won't hurt to do it again...

10)The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus
9)Yes - Starship Trooper
8)The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
7)Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite
6)The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
5)Yes - Roudabout
4)Pink Floyd - Echoes
3)Radiohead - Paranoid Android
2)The Beatles - A Day In The Life
1)Pink Floyd - All of Dark Side of the Moon

[Matt Till]

Still you turn me on by Emerson Lake and Palmer... THATS IT!

[Peter Squire]

Awrighty then....

1. YYZ - Rush
2. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
3. Going for the One - Yes
4. Antenna - Cave In
5. Cygnus - Mars Volta
6. Home By The Sea - Genesis
7. Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
8. Red Barchetta - Rush
9. Metromania - Eloy
10. Anything else by Rush......

[Caeros]

1. King Crimson - Starless
2. Rush - La Villa Strangiato
3. Opeth - The Moor
4. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray/Still Remains (whichever one counts)
5. Rush - Cygnus X-1
6. Yes - The Ancient
7. Porcupine Tree - Trains
8. The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
9. Yes - Gates of Delerium
10. King Crimson - Red

[amused2KAOS]

1. yes-gates of delerium
2. can-halleluwah
3. tool-third eye
4. pink floyd-atom heart mother
5. frank zappa-billy the mountain
6. frank zappa-king kong
7. yes-the revealing science of god
8. genesis-suppers ready
9. king crimson- red
10.yes-close to the egde

[Jherrera]

1. Strictly Genteel
2. Alien Orifice
3. Black Napkins
4. OCLT Medley from the '88 tour
5. Easy Meat
6. Keep It Greasy
7. King Kong
8. Baby Snakes
9. Watermelon In Eastern Hay
10. The Torture Never Stops Medley from the '88 tour

Yes these are all zappa tunes, but there is nothing wrong with that. Although if you wanted more I would start dipping into King Crimson.

[SlavaF]

Originally Posted by amused2KAOS

7. yes-the revealing science of god
10.yes-close to the egde

YES! 2 of the best Yes songs in existence

previously mentioned Yes songs
Yes - And You And I
Rush - Red Barchetta
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - Natural Science
PF - Money
PF - Us And Them
Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons
DT - 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence (42 minutes long... doesn't get much more prog than that )