Prog Fans! Top 10 Yes, ELP, and Genesis songs (plus honorable mentions)

I've been re-listening to these three bands a lot lately and it gets me thinking about my 10 favorite songs from each of them. What about you?


Yes:
1. Awaken
2. Starship Trooper
3. South Side of the Sky
4. Heart of the Sunrise
5. Roundabout
6. Perpetual Change
7. Close to the Edge
8. I'm Running
9. The Revealing Science of God
10. Going for the One

Honorable mentions: Long Distance Runaround, The Fish, All Good People, Siberian Khatru,
The Gates of Delirium, Does it Really Happen, Tempus Fugit, Into the Lens, Machine Messiah, Leave It, Hearts, Lift Me Up, Endless Dream, Mind Drive, Lightning Strikes, Magnification, In the Presence Of, Into the Storm


Emerson Lake and Palmer:
1. Karn Evil 9, First Impression (Part 1/Part 2)
2. The Endless Enigma
3. Tarkus
4. Trilogy
5. From the Beginning
6. Take a Pebble
7. Knife-Edge
8. Fanfare for the Common Man
9. The Old Castle/Blues Variations
10. Touch and Go (the one with Powell)

Honorable mentions: The Barbarian, The Three Fates, The Sage, The Sheriff, Still You Turn Me On, Karn Evil 9 Second Impression, Tiger in a Spotlight, C'est La Vie, Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman


Genesis:
1. The Musical Box
2. Turn it on Again
3. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
4. The Cinema Show
5. The Knife
6. Domino
7. Watcher of the Skies
8. Mama
9. In The Cage
10. Back in NYC

Honorable mentions: Stagnation, Looking for Someone, Supper's Ready (great but just sooooooo long), Can-Utility and the Coastliners, Time Table, Firth of Fifth, Lilywhite Lilith, Entangled, Mad Man Moon, Follow You Follow Me, Duchess, Abacab, Silver Rainbow, Home by the Sea, Land of Confusion, Tonight Tonight Tonight, Driving the Last Spike

 

Yes:

Turn of the Century
Time and a Word
Harold Land
Survival
Close to the Edge
And You and I
Siberian Khatru
Future Times
The Revealing Science of God
Wonderous Stories

(If Soon could stand on its own, it would be top three)

Honorable mentions: most of The Yes Album, and some of Fragile, beginning with Heart of the Sunrise

ELP:

Jerusalem
Endless Enigma and Fugue
Lend Your Love to Me Tonight
C'est La Vie
Closer to Believing
Lucky Man
Hoedown

Actually I'm not that familiar with ELP's catalogue ...

Genesis:

Winter's Tale
In Hiding
Supper's Ready
The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Firth of Fifth
The Fountain of Salmacis
Watchers of the Skies
Seven Stones
Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Fireside Song
- - - - - - - - - - - -
The Light Dies Down on Broadway
Carpet Crawlers
Time Table
Can-Utility and the Coastliners
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Eleventh Earl of Mar
Behind the Lines
Visions of Angels

Close enough.

 

YES
1. Yours Is No Disgrace
2. Roundabout
3. Close To The Edge
4. Siberian Khatru
5. Awaken
6. Heart Of The Sunrise
7. Starship Trooper
8. The Revealing Science Of God
9. The Gates Of Delirium
10. Into The Lens

Honorable Mentions: Every Little Thing, Owner Of A Lonely Heart, Homeworld, I've Seen All Good People, Survival, On The Silent Wings Of Freedom, Soon, Machine Messiah, Mind Drive, Wonderous Stories

ELP
1. Tarkus
2. Fanfare For The Common Man
3. The Endless Enigma
4. Trilogy
5. Hoedown
6. Karn Evil 9, First Impression
7. Lucky Man
8. From The Beginning
9. Knife Edge
10. Jerusalem

Honorable Mention: Touch & Go, Pictures At An Exhibition, Pirates,

GENESIS
1. Squonk
2. Mama
3. Dance On A Volcano
4. The Cinema Show
5. I Know What I Like
6. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
7. Home By The Sea
8. Supper's Ready
9. Carpet Crawlers
10. Abacab

Honorable Mention: Behind The Lines, Follow You Follow Me, Turn It On Again, Man On The Corner, Dance With The Moonlit Knight, Land Of Confusion

 

I forgot about Homeworld! Love it

I'm glad other people are favoring "The Endless Enigma" -- I've never heard it talked about or mentioned in reviews, but when I heard it the first time it was an instant classic.

 

Yes:
Perpetual Change
Starship Trooper
Roundabout
South Side of the Sky
Heart of the Sunrise
Close to the Edge
And You and I
Siberian Khatru
Gates of Delirium
To Be Over

Emerson Lake and Palmer:
Take a Pebble
Lucky Man
Tarkus
Bitches Crystal
The Only Way
The Endless Enigma
From the Beginning
Trilogy
Karn Evil 9, First Impression (Part 1/Part 2)
Karn Evil 9, Third Impression

Genesis:
Stagnation
The Musical Box
Watcher of the Skies
Supper's Ready
Firth of Fifth
The Cinema Show
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Back in NYC
The Chamber of 32 Doors
Riding the Scree/It

 

Yes:
1.Close To The Edge
2.And You And I
3.The Gates Of Delirium
4.Heart Of The Sunrise
5.Starship Trooper
6.Time And A Word
7.Roundabout
8.The Revealing Science Of God
9.Endless Dream
10.Awaken

Honorable mentions: Starship Trooper, I Am Waiting, Shoot High Aim Low, Hearts, Ritual, To Be Over, Siberian Khatru, Turn Of The Century, Parallels, Beyond And Before, Sweet Dreams, Perpetual Change, I've Seen All Good People, Long Distance Runaround, South Side Of The Sky, The Remembering, Sound Chaser, Going For The One, Survival

ELP:
1.Tarkus
2.Knife Edge
3.Karn Evil 9
4.Lucky Man
5.The Endless Enigma
6.Take A Pebble
7.Still You Turn Me On
8.From The Beginning
9.Trilogy
10.Jerusalem

Honorable mentions: C'est La Vie, The Barbarian, Fanfare For The Common Man, Hoedown, Bitches Crystal, Canario, Pirates, Memoirs Of The Officer And A Gentleman

Genesis:
1.The Musical Box
2.The Fountain Of Salmacis
3.Supper's Ready
4.Ripples
5.The Kinfe
6.Watcher Of The Skies
7.Carpet Crawlers
8.Afterglow
9.Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
10.Enatngled

Honorable mentions: Driving The Last Spike, Fading Lights, Back In NYC, Deep In The Motherlode, Looking For Someone, The Return Of The Giant Hogweed, Seven Stones, Harlequin, Time Table, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, One Man's Fool, Get 'Em Out By Friday, Can Utility And The Coastliners, One For The Vine, The Cinema Show, Mama, Abacab, White Mountain, The Colony Of Slippermen, Calling All Stations, Heathaze, Duke's Travels, The Battle Of Epping Forest, Dance On A Volcano

 

The song that started "Progressive Rock" ... Nights in White Satin
And nine other songs from the Moody Blues classic 7 would do it for me.

I am thinking Whiter Shade of Pale should get a nod too.

I like almost the entire catalog of Yes as well as much of Genesis 80s 0utput, much of ELPs catalog,
and some other hit and miss prog stuff.

But the MBs definitely top the list for me. It is tough to pick out ten songs because I listen to them as albums.

The same applies to most of Yes.

 

Yes

Starship troopers
Yours is no disgrace
Roundabout
Close to the Edge
And You and I
Siberian Khatru
The Revealing Science of God
The Gates Of DeliriuEm
Owner of a lonely heart
Wonderous Stories





ELP

Take a pebble
Lucky man
Tarkus
Bitches crystal
Still .. you turn me on
Karn Evil
The Endless Enigma
I believe in Father Christmas
The great gates of Kiev
From the beginning
C'est La Vie

Genesis

The Knife
Watcher of the skies
Supper's ready
Firth of fifth
The cimema show
In the cage
Counting out time
The carpet crawlers
Lilywhite Lilith
Behind the lines
Duchess
Turn it on again
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

 

I notice that The Revealing Science of God has five votes, and the other three sides of Tales From Topographic Oceans have only two votes between them ...

 

Genesis:

The Cinema Show
Calling All Stations
The Musical Box
Domino
Tonight Tonight Tonight
The Lamia
Blood on the Rooftops
Heathhaze
Dodo / Lurker
Visions of Angels

 

Genesis:

Stagnation
Blood on the Rooftops
Supper's Ready
Anyway
The Lamia
Entangled
Dusk
The Cinema Show
The Chamber of 32 Doors
Mad Man Moon
The Fountain of Salmacis

King Crimson:

Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One
I Talk To The Wind
The Letters
Prince Rupert Awakes
Frame By Frame
Starless and Bible Black
The Night Watch
The Sheltering Sky
Pictures of a City
In the Wake of Poseidon
Starless

Yes:

Awaken
Heart of the Sunrise
The Gates of Delerium
And You and I
Everydays (also favorite Yes video)
Yours Is No Disgrace
Starship Trooper
Turn of the Century
South Side of the Sky
Close To The Edge

Footnotes: Too many Genesis choices. Can't help it, they were my favorite band. No ELP favorites. Sorry. And if the Moody Blues are prog then so are the Hollies and whoever else I feel like calling prog. (sarcasm) (I should add that I love the Moodies and consider them a guilty pleasure, but prog they ain't.)

 

I can understand that...Part 1 of Tales is great but I never cared for Parts 2-4 :/

 

"Turn of the Century" ... Fans on Yes threads seem to love that song but it would probably rank as one of their 10 worst songs for me. I wonder what I'm missing?

Also...thanks to someone for voting "Mad Man Moon". Couldn't quite fit it in the top 10 but love it!!!

 

Genesis:

Supper's Ready
The Cinema Show
The Carpet Crawlers
Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats
Entangled
One for the Vine
Blood on the Rooftops
It's Yourself (2007 Remix)
Heathaze
Fading Lights

Yes:

Starship Trooper
Heart of the Sunrise
Close to the Edge
And You and I
The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun)
The Gates of Delirium
Awaken
On the Silent Wings of Freedom
Tempus Fugit
Changes

Emerson, Lake & Palmer:

Knife-Edge
Tarkus
The Endless Enigma
From the Beginning
Trilogy
Jerusalem
Toccata
Still... You Turn Me On
Karn Evil 9
Fanfare for the Common Man

(King Crimson):

I Talk to the Wind
Epitaph
Cadence and Cascade
Lady of the Dancing Water
Easy Money
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II
The Great Deceiver
The Night Watch
One More Red Nightmare
Starless

(Gentle Giant):

Edge of Twilight
Schooldays
The Advent of Panurge
River
An Inmate's Lullaby
Aspirations
Playing the Game
Time to Kill
His Last Voyage
Memories of Old Days

Not that big on ELP... But I do enjoy certain songs more and more. Very recently got into Trilogy after having owned it for nearly 5 years... Some things take time.

 

Yes (my first prog love)

Awaken
Revealing Science of God
Close To The Edge
And You And I
Starship Trooper
Yours Is No Disgrace
Heart Of The Sunrise
Turn Of The Century
Gates Of Delirium
Wondrous Stories

Genesis

Suppers Ready
Cinema Show
In The Cage
The Carpet Crawlers
Firth of Fifth
Ripples
Sqonk
One For The Vine
Dukes Travels/End
Domino

ELP

The Endless Enigma
Great Gates Of Kiev
Jerusalem
Karn Evil 9 (whole thing)
Pirates
Fanfare For The Common Man
Tarkus
Knife Edge
Trilogy
From The Beginning

 

YES
And You And I
Awaken
Close To The Edge
Heart Of The Sunrise
Roundabout
Siberian Khatru
Starship Trooper
That, That Is
To Be Over
Yours Is No Disgrace

ELP
Burning Bridges
Canario
Changing States
Fanfare For The Common Man
Hoedown
Jerusalem
Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression
Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression
Lucky Man
Pirates

GENESIS
Can-Utility And The Coastliners
The Cinema Show
Driving The Last Spike
Fading Lights
Firth Of Fifth
The Fountain Of Salmacis
In The Cage
One For The Vine
Supper’s Ready
Watcher Of The Skies

 

I need a do-over on Genesis. I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I completely left out Trick of the Tail ...

Winter's Tale
In Hiding
Supper's Ready
The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Firth of Fifth
The Fountain of Salmacis
Mad Man Moon
Watchers of the Skies
Entangled
Seven Stones
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Fireside Song
The Light Dies Down on Broadway
Carpet Crawlers
Time Table
Can-Utility and the Coastliners
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Eleventh Earl of Mar
Behind the Lines
Ripples
Squonk
Visions of Angels
Trick of the Tail

 

E.L.P:
Pirates (Live)
Tiger In The Spotlight (Live)
Karn Evil 9
Tarkus
From the Beginning
Knife-Edge
Fanfare for the Common Man (Live)
Hoedown
Lucky Man
Great Gates Of Kiev

Honorable mention: I Believe in Father Christmas