"Prog Homage"

The human mind has a natural tendency, some say even a need, to try to accommodate incoming sensory data within compartments or categories. Data that has some degree of familiarity is easier to interpret and accept. There has long been a tendency for musicians to learn their craft by imitating the musics and musicians that they like and admire. Some of these musicians may even form or join bands that initially gel by practicing other people's songs. These bands may even get the courage up to try to perform live--often as a "cover band"--playing only songs that are familiar and therefore enjoyable and/or danceable to their audiences. Often these cover bands, if they are successful and inspired enough, may try to inject some of their own burgeoning ideas into their music--either within their interpretations of pre-existing songs that they are covering or in the form of "original" music, i.e. their own compositions. With some bands or individuals within bands this drive to create their own songs may be so strong that they either propel their fellow band members into doing more of this, eventually even doing only original music. In many cases, the drive to create new will meet with resistance from those content with playing other people's music or the desire to perform and record original songs may lead to a rift in the band between those with grander aspirations (like "fame") and those members who are more content with their involvement with music being local, part-time, and less consuming of their life.
     There has long been a tendency in progressive rock music to imitate, emulate, or be inspired by the work of other musician/artists that have preceded or are even concurrent with one's own existence. The imitative bands can go to such extremes as trying to play only one band's music, even performing as tribute bands. This group most often includes out-right replicators of the "Big Four," Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, and King Crimson, such as, Fragile, Off The Wall and Pink Floyd Legend, ReGenesis and The Musical Box, Schizoid King and 21st Century Schizoid Band, respectively. Others may be more likely to explore reproduction of a particular sound or style from the past.
     There can often be seen in progressive rock music a kind of evolution within a band's formation and evolution in which there is a leap from imitator to emulator to and sometimes, to innovator. 
In Prog World a term has been devised to try to compartmentalize artists whose work imitates or emulates the work of one or even a fusion of one or more bands from the past. We call this Neo Prog. There has grown a proclivity to create totally new music using a sound or style that is familiar to the listener that we can easily accommodate this music into a direct comparison to the old music of one particular band. I am choosing to call this music "Prog Homage." The music coming from these bands is so carefully and blatantly culled from a predecessor as to make the listener think that this could be music or songs that were "lost" or kept from publication by the originator of this sound or style. These are the kinds of albums or bands that have mystified or confused critics and reviewers, that have received high commendations for the quality of their contributions to the music world--even made us pine for the loss or lack of content from the originals. We're talking bands like KLAATU, DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR, MR. SIRIUS, THE FLOWER KINGS, CITIZEN CAIN, THE WATCH, WOBBLER, AIRBAG/J RIIS, and even ANEKDOTEN, CICCADA, ROB READ/MAGENTA, TONY PATTERSON, and NAD SYLVAN.
     This has been bugging me for some time. Every time I hear an album or song that is so clearly created in a particular style and sound of another "Classic" era band--especially when the song is so flawlessly composed, recorded by virtuosic performers, as to make one think of what song or era of the predecessor's discography it may have come from. The amazing albums produced by Norwegian bands WOBBLER and AIRBAG in this past decade has really spurred this on. The devotion to sound and production detail in their wholly original compositions is simply mind-boggling. In some cases I find myself thinking that these new, modern songs might even be superior to the songs that informed and inspired them. 
     Welcome to a new sub-genre of progressive rock music: Prog Homage.

Let me know what you think. I'd love to hear your own feelings and/or terminologies and means for categorizing these master mantle-usurpers.

Comparing ProgArchives' Top Albums from the 1960s & 1970s

Here is the list of the Top 30 Progressive Rock Albums from the 1960s and 1970s--including the "classic era" of prog--according to the ratings system of the world's leading database on progressive rock music, ProgArchives.com:

The 60s & 70s:

1. Yes – Close to the Edge

2. Genesis – Selling England by the Pound

3. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

4. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King

5. Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick

6. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

7. Genesis - Foxtrot

8. King Crimson - Red

9. Pink Floyd - Animals

10. Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff

11. Yes - Fragile

12. Genesis – Nursery Cryme

13. Van Der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts

14. King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic

15. Camel - MIrage

16. Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) – Per un amico

17. Camel - Moonmadness

18. Yes - Relayer

19. Rush – Hemispheres

20. Jethro Tull - Aqualung

21. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin!

22. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

23. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso – Io sono nato libero

24. Harmonium – Si on avait besoin d’une cinquième saison

25. Frank Zappa – Hot Rats

26. Rush - A Farewell to Kings

27. Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) – Storia di un minuto

28. Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

29. Pink Floyd - Meddle

30. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue *

* a slight aberration here as Kind of Blue was released in 1959--well before the consensually agreed upon date of the "birth" of progressive rock music. However, once a band is admitted into the database at ProgArchives, each and every album release by that artist is automatically included within the database and, accordingly, is open to receive ratings and reviews. While a GREAT and seminal jazz album, Kind of Blue is NOT a prog album. However, it has managed to earn its way onto the PA Top Albums lists due to Miles' discography dating back into the 1950s.

My own list would have to include the following albums:

1. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kömmandöh
3. Yes - Relayer
4. Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
5. Anthony Phillips - The Geese and The Ghost
6. AREA - Crac!
7. Todd Rundgren’s Utopia - Adventures in Utopia
8. Gentle Giant - Free Hand
9. Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d’une cinquième saison
10. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
11. Yes - Close to the Edge
12. UK—UK
13. Flairck - Gevecht met de engel

14. Egg - The Polite Force
15. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
16. King Crimson - The Court of The Crimson King
17. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un amico
18. AREA - Arbeit Macht Frei
19. Steely Dan - Aja
20. Pink Floyd - Animals

21. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
22. Picchio dal Pozzo––Picchio dal Pozzo 

23. Alan Stivell - Renaissance of The Celtic Harp
24. Yes - Fragile
25. Flairck - Variaties Op Een Dame
26. Arti E Mestieri - Tilt - Immagini per un orecchio
27. Klaus Schulze - X 

28. Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
29. Island - Pictures
30. Spirogyra - St. Radigunds

31. Laurent Thibault - Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps
32. Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge

33. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
34. The Who - Quadrophenia
35. Genesis - A Trick of The Tail
36. Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am The Only One
37. Renaissance - Turn of the Cards
38. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Io sono nato libero 

39. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
40. Ptarmigan - Ptarmigan

41. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake & Palmer

42. Gentle Giant - Octopus
43. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
44. Focus - Hamburger Concerto
45. Santana - Caravanserai
46. Agitation Free - Malesch
47. Renaissance - Novella
48. Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror 

49. Focus - Moving Waves
50. Genesis - Foxtrot

51. Mike Oldfield - Incantations
52. Herbie Hancock - Crossings
53. Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery
54. Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
55. Caravan - For Girls Who Plump in the Night
56. SBB - Pamiec
57. Soft Machine - Bundles

58. Deodato - Prelude
59. Nektar - A Tab in The Ocean
60. Babylon - Babylon

61. Cos - Viva Boma
62. Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water
63. Soft Machine - Third
64. Rocky's Filj - Storie di uomini e non
65. Nucleus - We'll Talk About It Later
66. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
67. Lenny White - Venusian Summer
68. Khan - Space Shanty
69. Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories
70. Cervello - Melos

71. Khan - Space Shanty

72. Eberhard Weber - The Following Morning
73. Harold Budd - The Pavillion of Dreams
74. Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink
75. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1)
76. Focus - III
77. Franco Battiato - Sulla Corde de Aries
78. Eden - Erwartung
79. Maxophone - Maxophone
80. Nektar - Remember The Future

81. Mother Gong - Fairy Tales
82. Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
83. Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination
84. Il Rovescio Della Medaglia - Contaminazione
85. Anyone's Daughter - Adonis
86. Miles Davis - On the Corner
87. Il Paese Dei Balocchi - Il Paese dei Balocchi
88. King Crimson - Red
89. Pollen - Pollen
90. Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi

91. Shakti - Natural Elements
92. Todd Rundgren - Initiation
93. Atoll - L'araigné-mal
94. Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
95. Egg - Egg
96. Pulsar - Halloween
97. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
98. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
99. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
100. Comus - First Utterance

Also Considered:

Santana - Abraxas
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards 

Soft Machine - Two
Celeste - Principia de un giorno
Genesis - Trespass
Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North
National Health - National Health
Premiata Forneria Marconi - L’isola di niente 

Hoelderlin - Hoelderlin's Traum
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Atila - Reviure 

Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Maneige - Maneige
Al DiMeola - Elegant Gypsy
Bruford - One of a Kind
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Alphataurus - Alphataurus
Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps
Can - Future Days
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Klaus Schulze - Timewind
John Martyn - Solid Air
Yes - Going for the One
Todd Rundgren - Todd
Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger 

Strawbs - Ghosts
Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Picchu
Cherry Five - Cherry Five
England - Garden Shed
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Fermata - Huascaran
Strawbs - A Grave New World
Supertramp - Even in The Quietest Moments
Camel - Moonmadness
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Nektar - Recycled
Ahora Mazda - Ahora Mazda 

Finch - Beyond Expression

Comparing ProgArchives' Top Albums from the 80s & 90s

Here are the Top Albums from the "Middle Decades" of the prog era, the 1980s and 1990s, according to the ratings system of the world's foremost database for progressive rock music, ProgArchives.com:

The 80s & 90s:

1. Rush – Moving Pictures

2. Änglagård -  Hybris

3. Opeth – Still Life

4. Dream Theater – Metropolis Part 2 – Scenes from a Memory

5. Dream Theater – Images and Words

6. Rush – Permanent Waves

7. Bacamarte – Depois Do Fim

8. Marillion – Misplaced Childhood

9. Marillion – Script for a Jester’s Tear

10. Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime

11. Univers Zero - Uzed

12. Dün – Eros

13. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 3 (aka “Melt”)

14. SBB – Memento Z Banalnym Tryptykiem

15. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

16. Death - Symbolic

17. Discipline – Unfolded Like Staircase

18. Voivod - Nothingface

19. Cardiacs – Sing to God

20. Eskaton – 4 Visions

21. Solaris – Marsbéli Krónikák (Martian Chronicles)

22. Gorguts – Obscura

23. Thinking Plague – In Extremis

24. Marillion – Clutching at Straws

25. Death – The Sound of Perseverance

26. Cynic - Focus

27. Los Jaivas – Alturas de Machu Picchu

28. Atheist – Unquestionable Presence

29. Cardiacs – A Little Man and A House and The Whole World Window

30. Dream Theater – Awake

My own prog-exclusive list for the same period would look something like this:

1. FLAIRCK Gevecht Met De Engel (1980)
2. ESKATON 4 Visions (1981)

3. MR. SIRIUS Barren Dreams (1987)
4. PAT METHENY Secret Story (1992)
5. SIGUR RÓS Ágætus Byrjun (1999)

6. HÖYRY-KONE Huono Parturi (1997)

7. AFTER CRYING Overground Music (1990)
8. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)
9. SBB Memento z banalnym triptykiem (1980)
10. KING CRIMSON Discipline (1981)
11. UNIVERS ZERO Ceux du dehors (1981)

12. UNIVERS ZERO Uzed (1984)
13. KATE BUSH The Dreaming (1982)
14. THE PAT METHENY GROUP Still Life (Talking) (1987)
15. DAVID SYLVIAN Gone to Earth (1986)
16. PÄR LINDH PROJECT Mundus Incompertus (1997)
17. AFTER CRYING Megalázottak é Megszomorítottak (1992)
18. OZRIC TENTACLES Jurassic Shift (1993)
19. GALADRIEL Muttered Promises from an Ageless Pond (1988)
20. SOLARIS Marsibéli Krónikák (1984)
21. PAZZO FANFANO DI MUSICA Pazzo Fanfano di Musica (1989)
22. KINGSTON WALL III - Trilogy (1994)
23. DISCIPLINE Unfolded Like Staircase (1997)
24. PORCUPINE TREE Sky Moves Sideways (1995)
25. LANDBERK Indian Summer (1996)
26. COLLAGE Moonshine (1994)
27. ÄNGLAGÅRD Epilog (1994)
28. ECHOLYN Suffocating the Bloom (1992)
29. SOLSTICE Silent Dance (1984)
30. THE FLOWER KINGS Flower Power (1999)

Honorable Mentions:
IN THE WOODS Omnio (1997)
KATE BUSH The Sensual World (1989)
AFTER CRYING Föld És Ég
(THE CURE Disintegration)
(THE MOON AND THE MELODIES The Moon and the Melodies)
AFTER CRYING De Profundis
DEAD CAN DANCE Aion
DAVID SYLVIAN Brilliant Trees
ANTHONY PHILLIPS 1984
BARK PSYCHOSIS Hex
LANDBERK One Man Tells Another
JANE SIBERRY The Walking
FATES WARNING A Pleasant Shade of Grey
ART ZOYD Häxan
ÄNGLAGÅRD Hybris
KATE BUSH Hounds of Love
UNIVERS ZERO Ceux de dehors
SHUB-NIGGURATH Les mortes sont vites
LOS JAIVAS Alturas de Machu Picchu
STEVE TIBBETTS Yr
CONVENTUM Le bureau central des utopies
ASIA MINOR Between Flesh and Divine
ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER Behind the Gardens - Behind the Wall - Under the Tree...
JEAN-LUC PONTY Individual Choice
DAVID SYLVIAN Secrets from the Beehive
PROPAGANDA A Secret Wish

The Best LP Prog Epics and Mesmerics from The 1990s

The 1990s' Best

Long-Playing Prog Epics (14 + mins.)

These are my top-rated long-playing prog songs from the decade of the 2000s, songs longer than 14 minutes. I'm sure I haven't heard everything released during the decade, but I'm working on it--which means I'll be adding to the list as I discover new masterpieces!

PROG PERFECTION:

1. "The Sky Moves Sideways - Phase 1"

(18:37)

by PORCUPINE TREE 

(40/40) = 10.0 

from the 1995 album The Sky Moves Sideways

NEAR PERFECTION:

2. "Glissements Progressifs Du Plaisir (extraits)"

(30:44)
by ART ZOYD
(59/60) = 9.83
from the 1997 album Häxan


3. "The Real Thing"

(18:02)

by KINGSTON WALL

(34/35) = 9.71 

from the 1994 album III - Trilogy

4. "A Suite for The Everyman"
(28:13)
by ECHOLYN
(58/60) = 9.67
from the 1992 album Suffocating the Bloom

5. "The Garden of Dreams"

 (59:34) 

by THE FLOWER KINGS

(114.75/120) = 9.5625

from the 1999 album Flower Power

6. "Slow Dance, Part Two"
(26:27)
by ANTHONY PHILLIPS
(47.75/50) = 9.55
from the 1990 album Slow Dance

Other LP Prog Epic Masterpieces:

7. "The Cathedral"

(19:33)

by PÄR LINDH PROJECT

(38/40) = 9.5 

from the 1994 album Gothic Impressions

8. "Before The Storm/The Storm"

(15:51)

by DISCIPLINE

(28.5/30) = 9.5 

from the 1997 album Unfolded Like Staircase

9. "299 796 km/s"

(14:46)

by IN THE WOODS

(28.5/30) = 9.5 

from the 1997 album Omnio

10. "A Change of Seasons"

(23:09)

by DREAM THEATER
(42/45) = 9.33 

from the 1995 EP A Change of Seasons 

11. "Terminal Man"

(15:15)

by BONDAGE FRUIT

(28/30) = 93.33

from the 1996 album II

https://guysegers1.bandcamp.com/track/terminal-man-bondage-fruit

Terminal Man - Bondage Fruit II - bandcamp

Other GREAT LP Prog Epics:
12. "Jack Luminous" (17:28) 
by VOIVOD (32/35) = 9.143 
from the 1993 album The Outer Limits




13. "The Nile for A While" (21:29)
by MR. SIRIUS (36.5/40) = 9.125
from the 1990 album Dirge



14. "Humanizzimo" (20:53)
by ROINE STOLT (36.5/40) = 9.125
from the 1994 album The Flower King



15. "Mundus Incompertus" (26:43)
by PÄR LINDH PROJECT (45.5/50) = 9.1 
from the 1997 album Mundus Incompertus



16. "Stardust We Are" (25:02)
by THE FLOWER KINGS (45.5/50) = 9.1 
from the 1997 album Stardust We Are




17. "Madrigal Love" (21:57)
by AFTER CRYING (41/45) = 9.1
from the 1990 album Overground Music

18. "A Pleasant Shade of Gray" (53:46)

by FATES WARNING (95/105) = 9.05

from the 1997 album A Pleasant Shade of Gray

19. "Kingdom Come" (13:45)
by THINKING PLAGUE (27/30) = 9.0 
from the 1998 album In Extremis



20. "The Last Man on Earth" (14:45)
by PENDRAGON (27/30) = 9.0 
from the 1993 album The Window of Life



21. "Höstsejd (Rites of Fall)" (15:34)
by ÄNGLAGÅRD (27/30) = 9.0 
from the 1994 album Epilog



22. "Further Away" (14:30)
by IQ (27/30) = 9.0
from the 1993 album Ever




23. "Book of Prophecies" suite (20:35)
by SOLARIS (36/40) = 9.0 
from the 1999 album Nostrodamus: Book of Prophecies

24."The Divine Wings of Tragedy"(20:43) 

by SYMPHONY X (36/40) = 9.0

from the 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy

25. "Omnio?" (26:04)
by IN THE WOODS (45/50) = 9.0
from the 1997 album Omnio



HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"A Mind Beside Itself" - DREAM THEATER (35.75/40) = 8.9375 from the 1994 album Awake
"Slow Dance, Part One" - ANTHONY PHILLIPS (44.5/50) = 8.9 from the 1990 album Slow Dance
"Joosan Lost / The Fate" (21:42) by FRENCH TV (40/45) = 8.89 from the 1999 album The Violence of Amateurs
"When the Water Breaks" - LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT (31/35) = 8.857
"Refractions in the Plastic Pulse" (17:32) - STEREOLAB (31/35) = 8.857 from the 1997 album Dots and Loops
 "Mooloop" (17:04) - PORCUPINE TREE (31/35) = 8.857 from the 1995 album The Sky Moves Sideways
"Vagabonds Home" - U TOTEM (26.5/30) = 8.833 from the 1990 album U Totem
"Les Études d'Organisme" - THINKING PLAGUE (26.5/30) = 8.83 from the 1998 album In Extremis
"In Your Eyes" - COLLAGE (26.5/30) = 8.833 from the 1994 album Moonshine
"Los Angeles 2026" (23:21) by SOLARIS (44/50) = 8.8 from the 1990 album Solaris 1990
 (22:25)
"A gadarai megszállott" (22:14) by AFTER CRYING (39.5/45) = 8.78 from the 1992 album Megalázottak És Megszomorítottak
"Walk with Me" (14:20) - THE TEA PARTY (26.25/30) = 87.50 from the 1995 album The Edge of Twilight
"The Sky Moves Sideways - Phase 2" (16:46) - PORCUPINE TREE (30.75/35) = 87.86 from the 1995 album The Sky Moves Sideways
"Symphonic Holocaust" (17:51) by MORTE MACABRE (30.5/35) = 87.14 from the 1998 album Symphonic Holocaust
"One Nail Draws Another" - U TOTEM (26/30) = 8.67 from the 1990 album U Totem



ALSO REVIEWED:
"Omnio" - IN THE WOODS (43.25/50) = 8.65
"Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful..." (19:01) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR (34.5/40) = 8.625
"Somewhere But Yesterday" - CITIZEN CAIN (21.5/50) = 8.6
"The Narrow Margin" - IQ (34/40) = 8.5
"How to Measure a Planet?" - THE GATHERING (51/60) = 8.5
"Into The Dream" - DISCIPLINE (38/45) = 8.44
"Épreuves d'Acier" (17:56) by ART ZOYD (29.5/35) = 84.29 from the 1997 album Häxan
"Nervous, Sad, Poor..." (20:55) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR (33.5/40) = 8.375
"Sono-bank"- BONDAGE FRUIT (33/40) = 8.25
"Récit" - BONDAGE FRUIT (46.5/60) = 7.75
"Amarok" - MIKE OLDFIELD (84/120) = 7.0


As Yet Unreviewed:
"Eyes of a Seer" (21:13) by KALABAN from the 1993 album Resistance Is Useless
"Hotash Slay" (14:01) by KALABAN from the 1993 album Resistance Is Useless
"Jag, Änglamarks Bane" - SINKADUS (26.5/30) = 8.833  
"Snalblast" - SINKADUS (/40) = 
"Agren" - SINKADUS (/35) = 
"The Limping Little Girl" - PRESENT (/30) =
"Ceux d'un Bas" - PRESENT (/40) =
"Queen of Hearts" - PENDRAGON (1991 The World) (/45) = 

The Best Mid-Length Prog Epics and Mesmerics of the 1990s

The 1990s' Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics
(9 to14 minutes in length)

Here are my top-rated long-playing prog songs from the 1990s. I haven't been able to find as many as there are from the last two decades, and I'm sure there are some that I've missed, but there are a few choice ones to get excited about.

PROG PERFECTION:

1. "Isis and Osiris"
(11:11)

by AYREON
(20/20) = 10.0 

from the 1998 album Into The Electric Castle

2. "Hole"
(11:08)

by ANEKDOTEN
(20/20) = 10.0 

from the 1999 album From Within

3. "The Truth Will Always Be"
(9:15)

by PAT METHENY
(20/20) = 10.0 

from the 1992 album Secret Story

4. "Jurassic Shift"
(11:05)

by OZRIC TENTACLES
(20/20) = 10.0 

from the 1993 album Jurassic Shift

5. "Matthew - The Man" 
(11:53)
by IONA 
(20/20) = 10.0
from the 1992 album The Book of Kells

6. "The Awakening"
(9:39)
by PAT METHENY GROUP
(20/20) 
from the 1997 album Imaginary Day

NEAR PERFECTION:

7. "Kétezer Év"
(13:21) 

by AFTER CRYING
(29.5/30) = 9.833 

from the 1994 album Föld És Ég

Other Mid-Length Prog Epic Masterpieces:

8. "Baroque Impression No. 1"

(9:13)

by PÄR LINDH PROJECT

(19/20) = 9.5

from the 1997 album Mundus Incompertus

9. "Skogsranden (Eaves of the Forest)"

(10:47)
by ÄNGLAGÅRD

(19/20) = 9.5

from the 1994 album Epilog

10. "Big Puzzle"

(13:36)
by THE FLOWER KINGS

(28.5/30) = 9.5 

from the 1995 album Back in The World of Adventures

11. "Shining (...to the Powers of Fairyland)"

(10:45)
by AFTER CRYING

(19/20) = 9.5 

from the 1990 album Overground Music

12. "Svefn-G-Englar"

(10:04)

by SIGUR RÓS

(19/20) = 9.5 

from the 1999 album Ágætus Byrjun

13. "Carolina IV"
(10:23) 
by ANGRA
(19/20) = 9.5
from the 1996 album Holy Land

14. "How Fortunate the Man with None" 

(9:15) 

by DEAD CAN DANCE

 (19/10) = 9.5

from the 1993 album Into the Labyrinth

15. "Sista Somrar (The Last Summer)"

(13:10)

by ÄNGLAGÅRD

(23.5/25) = 9.4 

from the 1994 album Epilog

16. "Megalázottak És Megszomorította"

(11:46)

by AFTER CRYING

(23.5/25) = 9.4

from the 1992 album Megalázottak És Megszomorította

17. "Storm Bird Storm Dreamer"

(11:51)

by BONDAGE FRUIT

(23.5/25) = 9.4 

from the 1999 album Bondage Fruit IV

18. "Trial of Tears"

(13:06)

by DREAM THEATER

(23.5/25) = 9.4 

from the 1997 album Falling Into Infinity

19. "Jordrök (Earth Smoke)"

(11:11)

by ÄNGLAGÅRD

(18.75/20) = 9.375 

from the 1993 album Hybris

20. "A Gift of Wings"

(9:48)

by OZRIC TENTACLES

(18.75/20) = 9.375

from the 1990 album Erpland

21. "Scarred"

(10:59)

by DREAM THEATER

(18.75/20) = 9.375 

from the 1994 album Awake

Other GREAT Mid-Length Prog Epics:

22. "Third Eye" (13:54)

by TOOL (28/30) = 9.33

from the 1996 album Ænima

23. "Butterfly" (9:21)

by PSYCHOTIC WALTZ (18.5/20) = 9.25

from the 1992 album Into the Everflow

24. "Finding and Believing" (10:00)

by PAT METHENY (18.5/20) = 9.25

from the 1992 album Secret Story

25. "Lines in the Sand" (12:05)
by DREAM THEATER (23/25) = 9.2
from the 1997 album Falling Into Infinity



26. "The Moor" (11:25) 
by OPETH (18.25/20) = 9.125 
from the 1999 album Still Life



27. "Struggle For Life" (9:12)
by AFTER CRYING (18.25/20) = 9.125 
from the 1997 album 6 



28. "Travel" (9:11)
by THE GATHERING (18.25/20) = 9.125 
from the 1998 album How to Measure a Planet?



29. "Mail Order Quarks" (10:27) 
by FRENCH TV (18.25/20) = 9.125 
from the 1999 album The Violence of Amateurs


30. "Stalker" (12:21)
by AFTER CRYING (22.75/25) = 9.1 
from the 1996 album De Profundis



31. "Canto IV" (13:44)
by DISCIPLINE (27.25/30) = 9.083 
from the 1997 album Unfolded Like Staircase






HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Kung Bore (King Winter)" (12:57) - ÄNGLAGÅRD (22.5/25) = 9.0  from the 1993 album Hybris
"Weeping Willow" (11:40) - IN THE WOODS (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1997 album Omnio
"Sur les flots verticaux" (10:01)by PATRICK GAUTIER (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1993 album Sur les flots verticaux
"Moonlapse Vertigo" - OPETH (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1999 album Still Life
"De Profundis"  by AFTER CRYING (22.5/25) = 9.0 from the 1996 album De Profundis
"Junk And Donuts" - CITIZEN CAIN (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1994 album Somewhere But Yesterday
"Crutches" - DISCIPLINE (22.5/25) = 9.0 from the 1997 album Unfold Like Staircase
"The Accolade" - SYMPHONY X (18/20) = 9.0
"World of Adventure" - THE FLOWER KINGS (27/30) = 9.0 from the 1995 album Back in The World of Adventures
"Learning to Live"(11:30) by DREAM THEATER (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1992 album Words and Images
"After The Flood" - TALK TALK (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1991 album Laughing Stock
"Tabula Rasa" - ABRAXAS (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1996 album Cykl obraca się. Narodziny, dzieciństwo pełne duszy, uśmiechów niewinnych i zdrady... 
"Mutants Over Miami" (12:17) - KALABAN (22.5/25) = 9.0 from the 1990 album Don't Panic
"Pushit" - TOOL (18/20) = 9.0 from the 1996 album Ænima
"Chewbacca" - LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT (26.75/30) = 8.9167 from the 1999 album Liquid Tension Experiment 2
"Vandringar I Vilsenhet (Wanderings in Confusion)" (11:53) - ÄNGLAGÅRD (22.25/25) = 8.9 from the 1993 album Hybris
"Serenity Painted Death" - OPETH (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1999 album Still Life
"Wings in The Night" - COLLAGE (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1994 album Moonlight
"The Flower King" - ROINE STOLT (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1994 album The Flower King  
"Sanktuarium" - QUIDAM (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1996 album Quidam
"Nurses Whispering Verses" - CARDIACS (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1992 album Sing to God
"Scene Four: Beyond This Life" - DREAM THEATER (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1999 album Scenes from a Memory
"Another Dimension" - LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1998 album Liquid Tension Experiment 2
"Pushit" - TOOL (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1999 album Ænimus
"The Heat of the Day" (9:45) - PAT METHENY GROUP (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1997 album Imaginary Day
"Procyon's Demise" (9:52) - KALABAN (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1990 album Don't Panic
"Imaginary Day" (10:11) - PAT METHENY GROUP (17.75/20) = 8.875 from the 1997 album Imaginary Day
"Moonshine" - COLLAGE (22/25) = 8.8 from the 1994 album Moonshine
"Masters Of Illusion" - PENDRAGON (22/25) = 8.8 from the 1996 album The Masquerade Overture
"You" - KINGSTON WALL (17.5/20) = 8.75 from the 1993 album II
"Feng Shui" - OZRIC TENTACLES (17.5/20) = 8.75 from the 1992 album Jurassic Shift
"Baśnie (Fairy Tales)" - COLLAGE (17.5/20) = 8.75 from the 1991 album Baśnie  
"Metropolis - Pt. I "The Miracle And The Sleeper" - DREAM THEATER (17.75/20) = 8.75 from the 1992 album Images and Words
"Ajudah" - ABRAXAS (17.5/20) = 8.75 from the 1996 album Cykl obraca się. Narodziny, dzieciństwo pełne duszy, uśmiechów niewinnych i zdrady... 
"30 Seconds of Weightlessness" (11:02) by CHEER ACCIDENT (17.75/20) = 8.75 from the 1996 album Not a Food
"Strange Barbarians" - CITIZEN CAIN (21.75/25) = 87.0

ALSO REVIEWED:
"Night on Bare Mountain (incl. Black Stone)" - PÄR LINDH PROJECT (13:50) (26/30) = 8.67 from the 1994 album Gothic Impressions
"The Walls of Babylon" - PENDRAGON (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Jonny Had Another Face" - CITIZEN CAIN (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Amazing Flight" - AYREON (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Even Has a Half-Life" (9:34) by CHEER ACCIDENT (17.25/20) = 8.625 from the 1996 album Not a Food
"Goodbye to All That" - MARILLION (21.5/25) = 8.6
"Midnight Comet Dreams" (12:56) - KALABAN (21.5/25) = 8.60 from the 1990 album Don't Panic
"Deaf, Numb and Blind" - THE FLOWER KINGS (17/20) = 8.5
"Mysticum Arabicola" - OZRIC TENTACLES (17/20) = 8.5
"Breaking the Spell" - PENDRAGON (17/20) = 8.5
"Desert Song" (13:08) by CHEER ACCIDENT (21.25/25) = 8.5 from the 1997 album Enduring the American Dream
"Frost and Fire" - BONDAGE FRUIT (21.25/25) = 8.5
"Niespełnienie" - QUIDAM (17/20) = 8.5
"Time Will Tell" - ROYAL HUNT (17/20) = 8.5
"Souls at Zero" - NEUROSIS (17/20) = 8.5 
"The Butterfly Effect" (9:38) by CHEER ACCIDENT (17/20) = 8.5 from the 1992 album Babies Shouldn't Smoke
"The Shadow" - PENDRAGON (16.75/20) = 8.375
"Clouded" - GORGUTS (16.75/20) = 8.375
"White Cluster" - OPETH (16.75/20) = 8.375
"Calling Home" - THE FLOWER KINGS (16.75/20) = 8.375
"Sand and Mercury" - THE GATHERING (16.75/20) = 8.375
"Tiger Tea" - FRENCH TV (20.75/25) = 8.3
"Psychedelic Postcard" (9:50) - THE FLOWER KINGS (16.5/20) = 8.25
"Prayer" - BONDAGE FRUIT (16.5/20) = 8.25
"The Bends" - MR. BUNGLE (16.5/20) = 8.25
"Guardian Of My Soul" - PENDRAGON (20.5/25) = 8.2
"A Chronology for Survival " - NEUROSIS (16.25/20) = 8.125
"The Darkest Hour" - IQ (16.25/20) = 8.125

"Godhead's Lament" - OPETH (16/20) = 8.0
"To Dance The Enamel-Faced Queen" - CITIZEN CAIN (16/20) = 8.0

"Odd-Job" - BONDAGE FRUIT (15/20) = 7.5

As Yet Unreviewed:

"In The Eyes Of The World" (10:38) - THE FLOWER KINGS 1997 Stardust We Are

"Church Of Your Heart" (9:10) - THE FLOWER KINGS 1997 Stardust We Are

"Circus Brimstone (12:03) - THE FLOWER KINGS 1997 Stardust We Are
"Il Passo del soldato" - NUOVA ERA (/25) = from 1995 album Il Passo del soldato
"Scene Six: Home" - DREAM THEATER (/25) =  from the 1999 album Metropolis 2: Scenes from a Memory
"Scene Nine: Finally Free" - DREAM THEATER (/25) =  from the 1999 album Metropolis 2: Scenes from a Memory

"The Pilgrim's Inn" - ROINE STOLT (/20) =

"Dissonata" - ROINE STOLT (/20) =
"Through Silver In Blood" - NEUROSIS (/25) =  
"Purify" - NEUROSIS (/25) =   
"Strength Of Fates" - NEUROSIS (/20) =  
"Aeon" - NEUROSIS (/20) =  
"Enclosure In Flame" - NEUROSIS (/20) =
"The Garden of Emotions" - AYREON (/20) =
"Liquid Dreams (10:48)" - LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT (/20) =
"Il Passo del Soldato" - NUOVO ERA (/25) =
"Lawrence" - CAMEL (/20) =
"Sad Rain" - ANEKDOTEN (/25) =
"Book of Hours" - ANEKDOTEN (/20) =
"Merry Go Bye Bye" - MR. BUNGLE (/25) =
"These Empty Places" - SIEGES EVEN (/20) =
"Kodomo No Guntoi" - BONDAGE FRUIT (/20) =  
"The Judas Goat" - U TOTEM (/20) = 
 "Valkyria" - SINKADUS (/20) = 
"Ulv I Farakläder" - SINKADUS (/20) =
"Manuel" - SINKADUS (/20) = 
 Attestupan" - SINKADUS (/25) = 
"Júdás" - AFTER CRYING (/20) =
"V - Conclusion: "(Tribute to Keith Emerson) (10:45)" - AFTER CRYING (/20) = 
"Hey Joe" - OZ MUTANTES (/25) =
"Detras dal Umbral" - NEXUS (/20) =

"Eterno y Fugaz" - NEXUS (/20) =
"New Grass" - TALK TALK (/20) =
"The Siren of The Woods" - THERION (/20) =
"The Voyager" - PENDRAGON (1991's The World) (/25) =
"Kingdom Come" (13:45) - THINKING PLAGUE
"Les études d'organism" (14:00) - THINKING PLAGUE