The Greatest Prog Songs Ever?

Question

So what are the greatest Prog Songs ever?
My list would include
Starship Trooper by Yes (Wurm...AMAZING Bass)
And You And I by Yes
The Necromancer by Rush
Cygnus X-1 by Rush
Epitaph by King Crimson
Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea by Genesis
Touch & Go By Emerson Lake & Powell
But what are Your Choices?

Chunga...
Awe-Inspiring as usual
Sarah
Yes I consider floyd to be one of the fathers of prog
Good List to both of You

Big Props to Ben for mentioning
Asia &
The Alan Parsons Project
Awesome!

Every answer was GREAT
You people ROCK

Answer 1

Oh man, you know I can't resist this...here goes!

Camel - Lady Fantasy
Greenslade - Little Red Fry-up
Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Caravan - Winter Wine
Coupla Prog - Death is a Great Gambler
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic pt 1
Focus - Eruption
Supersister - Dona Nobis Pacem
Happy the Man - Mr. Mirrors Reflection on Dreams
Gong - Flying Teapot
Yes - Close to the Edge
ELP - Tarkus
Beggars Opera - Passacaglia
Comus - Drip Drip
Rarebird - As Your Mind Flies By
Hatfield and the North - Shaving Is Boring
Solution - Circus Circumstances
Khan - Driving to Amsterdam
Egg - A visit to Newport Hospital
Matching Mole - Smoke Signal
Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping?
Quiet Sun - Mummy Was an Asteroid...
Jethro Tull - Back-Door Angels
Raw Material - Ice Queen
Genesis - The Musical Box
PFM - Four Holes in the Ground
Samurai - Saving It Up For So Long
Curved Air - Vivaldi
Flash - Dreams of Heaven
FM - Black Noise
Gentle Giant - The Runaway

There's definitely some essentials that I've left out, but I've gotta go to bed...I think you get the idea!
Goodnight progheads!
If it was earlier, I'd list many more.

Answer 2

Yes' Close to the Edge is more or less considered the quintessential prog rock song (& album). So that goes up on my list.

Hemispheres, The Necromancer, Cygnus X-1, By-Tor & the Snow Dog- Rush (yes, immature lyrics & all. Love em all!)

VdGG- Scorched Earth, Sleepwalkers, Pioneers, Killers, La Rossa

ELP- Karn Evil 9, Tarkus, Knife edge, Trilogy

Genesis- Stagnation, Battle of Epping Forest, Musical Box, Supper's ready, Cinema Show, Firth of Fifth

Tull- Thick as a brick

King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King, Starless & Black Bible

Answer 3

ELP- Tarkus
King Crimson- Moonchild
Pink Floyd- Echoes (if you consider Floyd prog)
Yes- Close to the Edge
Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
Van Der Graaf Generator- Plague Of The Lighthouse Keeper

I'm not gonna bother completing this list... I'm just waiting for Chunga's Revenge's list.

Answer 4

Yes-Gates of Delerium
Yes-StarshipTrooper
Yes-Close To The Edge
Yes-Siberian Khatru
Genesis-Suppers Ready
Genesis-Firth of Fifth
Genesis-Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Rush-Cygnus X-1 & X-2
Rush-Xanadu
Rush-La Villa Strangiato
Rush-2112
Rush-natural Science
ELP-Karn Evil 9
ELP-Tarkus
ELP-Take A Pebble
Supertramp-Hide In Your Shell
Supertramp-From Now On
Supertramp-School
Supertramp-Rudy
Dream Theater-Change of Seasons
Dream Theater-Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Jethro Tull-Thick As a Brick
Jethro Tull-A Passion Play
Pink Floyd-Echoes
Pink Floyd-Interstellar Overdrive

Answer 5

Asking me to choose between any of Floyd's three is like asking me to choose a favorite kid(if I had them...) Echoes has by far the best climax in a song, the build up at 14 minutes does not stop for like five minutes and then bam, last verse. Shine on You crazy Diamond, all parts, obviously a great song. And the underrated Atom Heart Mother Suite, I love that song so much. Especially when it goes into "silence in the studio" right before the end. If only Dogs had been 3 minutes longer.

Answer 6

Well, my knowledge of Prog is somewhat limited, but my music collection just wouldn't be complete without :~

ELP ~ Fanfare for the Common Man
ELO ~ Mr Blue Sky
Camel ~ Sahara
Genesis ~ Home By the Sea & Second Home By the Sea

Pink Floyd : ~

Dark Side of the Moon {album}
Shine On You Crazy Diamond {parts I - XI}
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Echoes
One Of These Days
Astronomy Domine

Jethro Tull :~

Thick As A Brick {album}
War Child {album - with extra tracks}
Teacher
Alive and Well and Living In
Mother Goose {oh alright, all of Aqualung!}
No Lullaby
Dark Ages

Mike Oldfield :~

Tubular Bells {album}
Hergest Ridge {album}
Ommadawn {album}
Incantations {album}
Platinum {album}
Nothing But / Bridge to Paradise
Wild Goose Flaps Its Wings
Tubular Bells II {album}
Tubular Bells III {album}

Answer 7

Jethro Tull - The Entire "Passion Play" album
Kansas - Song For America, Icarus (Born On wings Of Steel)
Camel - Rhayader / Rhayader Goes To Town, The Snow Goose
Asia - Time And Time Again
Rush - Vital Signs, YYZ, The Trees, The entire 2112 Overture
Yes - Heart of The Sunrise, Starship Trooper, Perpetual Change

I could go on, but gotta run, Oh yeah, I love love Yes' remake of Paul Simon's "America". If you never heard it check it out.
Listen to the original then Yes' version.
They are both good though. Though not prog, Simon was great in his own right. You could say he was a very progressive songwriter for his day.

Answer 8

Cans and Brahms ~Yes
Interstellar Overdrive ~ Pink Floyd
21st Century Schizoid Man ~ King Crimson
Pull Me Under ~ Dream Theater
The Light Dies Down on Broadway ~ Genesis
Still...You Turn Me On ~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Thick as a Brick ~ Jethro Tull
Yours is No Disgrace ~ Yes
Dawn is a Feeling ~ The Moody Blues

Answer 9

"Lift Me Up" by Yes.
"It Can Happen" by Yes.
"Here Comes the Feeling" by Asia.
"Too Close to the Sun" by Alan Parsons.
"Way of the World" by Genesis.
"Tell Me Why" by Genesis.
"From Now On" by Supertramp.

Answer 10

I don't really listen to much prog but i love dream theatre.