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Rahdley
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Here is the criteria:

Pleasing musical phrasing you can listen to repeatedly

Outstanding Vehicle for displaying vocal and instrumental (soloing) talent.

(feel free to add criteria)

I'll start it off:

Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys- Traffic
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WaspManwMetalWings
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Montana. Driving beat, good bass lines, cool lyrics, blistering guitar solo, funkadelicious background vocals, horns and vibes. It's just a great song ... the whole package,

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Crazy Horses. Driving rhythm, great solo, fantastic lead vocal. And a message to boot! Might as well go ahead and close this thread.

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KillUgly
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Plook wrote:
Utopia - The Martyr

Hey, Plook! I'll say "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" from the same album. "Oops!..." is definitely in my top ten albums of all-time.
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Mr_Green_Genes
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Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix

My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - MoI

Beauty and the Beast - David Bowie

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Gwonam
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Child In Time -Deep Purlpe (the Made in Japan version gives me the chills)
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Philmore
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Shambala - 3 Dog Night

Cretin Hop - Ramones

That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly

Memphis - Chuck Berry

Ballad of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper

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Moshkito
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Hi,

I can list a few ... but I'm not sure that any of you have heard them ...

Can -- Bel Air

Amon Duul 2 -- Apocaliptyc Bore (and please play Scorpions song "Fly to the Rainbow" from the same album right after it!)

Ange -- Ego et Deus (Emile Jacotey)

Mike Oldfield -- Amorok

Gong - You (the two long cuts back to back)

Carmen - The Gypsies (3rd album) (the bass player went on to Jethro Tull until he passed away!)

PFM -- Opening cut to "The World Became the World"

Magma -- Khontarkhoz -- in its entirety

Too much of the other stuff is just a pop song by comparison ...
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Moshkito,

"Bel Air" and "Kohntarkosz" are at the top or very near the top of my all-time favorites. In fact, the only ones on your list I don't know and love are the Oldfield track and the Carmen track. I have Ange's "Emile Jacotey" album, but never quite learned the track names, so I'll need to go back and see which one was "Ego et Deus".

Cool choice with Apocalyptic Bore (ADII) also - I've been playing the Vive La Trance album a lot lately. I'm personally hooked on "A Morning Excuse", which I'm convinced was ripped off by Bauhaus for "Bela Lugosi's Dead".

Shouldn't surprise you that I've been on ProgArchives as well (by a different name - I'm not a "regular"), and remember seeing you there in fact. Prog rock fans need to stick together.

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FalseDichotomy
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Bauhaus -- Bela Lugosi's Dead :wink:

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Nice segue!

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WaspManwMetalWings
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XTC - Respectable Street.
Ramones - Cretin Hop (second vote for this gem)

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Prole Art Threat - The Fall

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Mr_Green_Genes
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Focus - Hocus Pocus
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare [Not reallt perfect, but plain awsome]

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