What's the single greatest progressive rock song of all time?

[Steve1956]

I'll kick us off ...
House with no door..Van Der Graaf Generator

[Grimsdale]

Focus - Hocus Pocus

[Steve1956]

I'll kick us off ...
House with no door..Van Der Graaf Generator

And the album it came from ..H to He is one of the greatest prog rock albums if all time...not a bad track on it

[longhair]

Thick as a brick Jethro Tull

[kindonesque]

Steve I'm right with you on that choice. Plague of Lighthouse Keepers is another spine tingling track from Pawn Hearts.

[Clovius Boofus]

What's the single greatest progressive rock song of all time?

Oxymoron by Paradox

[Hipper]

Are Pink Floyd considered progressive......?

If so surely it has to be one of their epics:

Atom Heart Mother (my favourite) - the album version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fku7hi5kI-c&t=71s

And an interesting non Floyd cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeuB8Xil_kA&t=168s

Echoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk

or Astronomy Domine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM

[Claretmisterg]

Another vote for Echoes. Magnificent.

[dougcollins]

Cinema Show.

Though I could probably have chosen any track off 'Selling England by the Pound'.

[Cirrus_Minor]

Another vote for Echoes. Magnificent.

Ditto

[BobbyBoucher]

Me too , Echoes live at Pompei is b***** awesome

[Stan Tastic]

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis.

[RighteousClaret]

The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

[dermotdermot]

Steve I'm right with you on that choice. Plague of Lighthouse Keepers is another spine tingling track from Pawn Hearts.

Oh my god! Here we go again. VDGG fans emerging from self imposed hibernation. “Plague of Lighthouse Keepers”! I ask you! It’s PANTS, I tell you. PANTS!

[ElectroClaret]

Meddle is a masterpiece.
Echoes just a brilliant track.

[Middle-agedClaret]

Lucky Man - ELP
IMHO, of course
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdZTmzTYFU

[Vincent'sCap]

King Crimson's
21st Century Schizoid man

[the_magic_rat]

For me "Close To The Edge" by Yes.

[IanMcL]

I looked up the 'progresive' listed bands (whatever that means) and The Strawbs featured.

On that basis, it has to be 'Part of the Union'

They won't get me I'm part of the Union!

[Hipper]

I looked up the 'progresive' listed bands (whatever that means) and The Strawbs featured.

On that basis, it has to be 'Part of the Union'

They won't get me I'm part of the Union!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ock_groups

There are some odd selections in the Wiki list - The Animals for example.

The outstanding bands must be the likes of Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Genesis, Hawkwind, Yes, ELP, Moody Blues, maybe ELO, Rennaisance, Traffic, The Enid. I also like Wally, Rare Bird and Barclay James Harvest. I think of Focus as progressive too, and some of those German and French groups from around that time. And there's things like John Mclaughlin mahavishnu Orchestra.

[Hipper]

What's so good about those musical times - 1966 to mid to late 70s - is that record companies would give bands a lot of free reign to make this sort of experimental music. Incredible really and we are lucky to still be able to hear much of it, some of which passed us by at the time.

[kindonesque]

Taxi ffor dermotdermot

[PoshClaret]

Xanadu by Rush

[Volvoclaret]

King Crimson's
21st Century Schizoid man

Seconded.

[Claret knight]

Rush 2112

[TheOriginalLongsider]

Script For a Jester’s Tear by Marillion

[SalisburyClaret]

Another vote for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Passion Play - Jethro Tull was excellent too

[Joeandy1920]

Suppers Ready-Genesis

[timshorts]

For me "Close To The Edge" by Yes.

Beautifully crafted. Faced with a single choice from the yes blacklist, I'd pick "the gates of delirium" of the yesshows live album. The studio version doesn't flow as well as the studio version of close to the edge, though.

[Eyesofblue2]

Suppers Ready-Genesis

Hard to argue with that, but I'd have it just 2nd to The Court of the Crimson King.

[Gaia]

VDGG
Pilgrims. Peter Hammill the best prog lyricist for me. Love his solo stuff too.

[boatshed bill]

Genesis "Supper's Ready"

[Ziggy Stardust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWl-ZGMwkQ

[Shaggy]

Depends whether you can class Devo as prog rock but mongaloid is a tune and a half.

[Bosscat]

Loads on here

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 977-41843/

[BabylonClaret]

Stonehenge - Spinal Tap

Seriously though difficult to not pick Genesis - Supper's Ready is the obvious but I think The Musical Box, Cinema Show or Firth of Fifth possibly beat it.

Shout out for Opeth too - heavily prog influenced (some serious mellotron vibes on quite a few of theirs .. Eternal Rains will Come is fantastic

[Shaggy]

Depends whether you can class Devo as prog rock but mongaloid is a tune and a half.

[Juan Tanamera]

For me "Close To The Edge" by Yes.

And You And I
https://youtu.be/y5BXBJstDN4?si=xB69yg23YCOwzOIs

[Quicknick]

Close to the Edge: Yes