Ten Best Album Closers

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  • @gardenjester1260
    @gardenjester1260 10 місяців тому

    Epic's galore! Here is a playlist with all the songs, as voted by the participants. the Prog Corner's Best Album Closers, the playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLHEFh6rnrK-Cn3moVedZV43OynQ9sV9r9.html

  • @MelkerJohanssonRexner
    @MelkerJohanssonRexner Рік тому +7

    Supper's ready

  • @arnaudb.7669
    @arnaudb.7669 Рік тому +1

    1- David Sancious : Matter of Time
    2- UK : Carrying Cross
    3- Happy the Man : New York Dream's Suite
    4- The Muffins : The Adventures of Captain Boomerang
    5- Return to Forever : The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant
    6- Dixie Dregs : Night Meets Light
    7- The Underground Railroad : Through and Through
    8- Jean-Luc Ponty : The Struggle of the Turtle to the Sea
    9- Neal Morse : The Conclusion
    10 - Bellaphon : Firefly

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      UK!!!! Neal Morse!!! Happy The Man!!!

    • @arnaudb.7669
      @arnaudb.7669 Рік тому

      @@TheProgCorner \o/

    • @wendellwiggins3776
      @wendellwiggins3776 9 місяців тому

      Here WE GO. A person with taste on the same p[ath as me!!! PURE PROG, FUSION and the combo of both!

  • @grahamharley4895
    @grahamharley4895 Рік тому +4

    Thanks guys. I'm nowhere near your depth of knowledge but at random, here goes... Snow 'Wind at my back', Dark Side 'Brain damage' /'Eclipse',... Renaissance 'Mother Russia', S'Tramp 'Crime of the Century'. Prob. the only Genesis fan who doesn't put 'Supper's Ready' as a pinnacle, but the ending is magnificent! Also, I'd put 'Dukes Travels' at the very top if they'd finished the album with Guide Vocal?

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому

      All excellent choices!!!

    • @AllMediaReviewsPodcast
      @AllMediaReviewsPodcast Рік тому

      yes, Mother Russia and Crime of the Century especially, fantastic album closers.
      Also Duke Travels is so great!

    • @grahamharley4895
      @grahamharley4895 Рік тому

      Forgot The Beatles, never thought of them as prog... but obviously they were.

  • @terrencereardon6374
    @terrencereardon6374 Рік тому +3

    Mine are as followed :
    1) High Hopes on Pink Floyd's The Division Bell/Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 6-9 on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here (tie) (Echoes is honorable mention)
    2) The Garden on Rush's Clockwork Angels and Cygnus X-1 on Rush's A Farewell to Kings
    3) Title cut on Supertramp's Crime Of the Century
    4) Fading Lights on Genesis' We Can't Dance/Duke's Travels and Duke's End on Genesis' Duke
    5) Memoirs Of an Officer and a Gentleman on ELP's Love Beach
    6) Open Your Eyes on Asia's Alpha
    7) Heart Of the Sunrise/We Have Heaven Reprise on Yes' Fragile
    8) Elegy on Jethro Tull's Stormwatch
    9) Pieces of Eight and Aku-Aku on Styx's Pieces of Eight
    10) Love Reign O'er Me on The Who's Quadrophenia

  • @bobsala7780
    @bobsala7780 Рік тому +3

    I’m surprised no one commented about the fact that one of Cody’s honorable mentions was “God Save the Queen”. That Queen could sure use some saving! Save her, boys and girls!

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      If only Sex Pistols sequenced their album differently!!!

  • @MelkerJohanssonRexner
    @MelkerJohanssonRexner Рік тому +2

    Heart of the sunrise

  • @PJprog
    @PJprog Рік тому +4

    Wishing you and yours all the very best for the year ahead Scot !! On the Silent wings of freedom my friend... it's been an amazing year of Prog. Life is great , even greater with the Prog Stream as well !! Another fantastic show to end the year !! 🥳

    • @jeffschielka7845
      @jeffschielka7845 Рік тому +1

      Well said!👍😎

    • @PJprog
      @PJprog Рік тому

      Not sure if that YES classic was mentioned Jeff... love it myself. Underrated album IMO.​@@jeffschielka7845

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      Thanks, Peter!!!!

  • @therealtwiggyleaf
    @therealtwiggyleaf Рік тому +3

    Great fun time spent at the end of 2023. Thanks Scot, Wayne, Cody and Kyle. Some great choices, and a whole loada fun! 😎😎 Happy New Year!

  • @robvickers2126
    @robvickers2126 Рік тому +2

    Hi Scot. Great choiçes for closers. My absolute favourite closer is only 3 minutes long, but for me it's perfect. "Three Friends" by Gentle Giant, gets me every time I hear it.

  • @geoffdennis8382
    @geoffdennis8382 Рік тому +2

    I was hoping Kyle would get a new micro phone for Christmas or at least lose that hideous sounding headset. Lol .Kyle this ain't no airplane, this ain't no fooling around. 😉

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +2

      Hear that, Kyle??!!! Ha ha!!! His wisdom is worth the subpar audio…

  • @vmacart
    @vmacart Рік тому +2

    fountain of salmacis, genesis. magnus opus, kansas, perpetual change, yes. echos, pink flyod. as i feel i die, caravan. egocentic molecules, JLP. crime of century, supertramp. i lost my head, gentle giant. little green rosetta, FZ. wind up, JT. great topic. thank you!!

  • @stephanevillatte5970
    @stephanevillatte5970 Рік тому +1

    it's been a great ride this year with you,a lot of fun...I wish you a happy new year Scot,a good solid health and a heart full of passion.A "freak"..."punk"...french faithfull follower😂

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому

      Thank you for everything!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍

  • @georgemathie8123
    @georgemathie8123 Рік тому +3

    Some of my faves are Yes awaken, genesis suppers ready, marillion forgotten sons, king crimson starless and Jethro Tull baker Street muse there are so many great ones but these are a few that came to mind

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      Sweet!!!

    • @AllMediaReviewsPodcast
      @AllMediaReviewsPodcast Рік тому

      I totally forgot about Baket St. Muse, probably when I think of Tull, it's Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play.

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      Baker St is a great call.

    • @georgemathie8123
      @georgemathie8123 Рік тому

      @@TheProgCorner minstrel in the gallery is my favorite Jethro Tull album a perfect album

    • @georgemathie8123
      @georgemathie8123 Рік тому

      @@AllMediaReviewsPodcast it's one of their best and the last of their great long epics

  • @toddhill7483
    @toddhill7483 Рік тому +1

    Great episode.
    Give me Chalkhills and Children by XTC.

  • @jelk1188
    @jelk1188 Рік тому +2

    Entertaining episode guys, thanks! I have to go for Starless as my number one for not only musical reasons but also for the historical and sentimental context: not only was it the album closer, at the time it was supposed to be final chapter in the band’s history. To also have Ian McDonald back for a role makes it extra moving to me.
    Happy New Year to you all.

  • @greghansell5115
    @greghansell5115 Рік тому +3

    I absolutely adore Weathercock off Heavy Horses as an album closer and a great song generally.

  • @michaelbaucom4019
    @michaelbaucom4019 Рік тому +2

    Well done gents. Could have gone on even more, but, the real world intercedes, sadly
    Happy New Year to all

  • @BSomme
    @BSomme Рік тому +1

    Happy New Year Scot! Sorry I haven't commented on your channel for a while! Still watch every video! You are the best prog channel on UA-cam! Thank you for all the great videos you are greatly appreciated my friend! Peace and love! :) 🎇⭐🎈✨🎉

  • @chrisboerger465
    @chrisboerger465 Рік тому +2

    Scot, I'm surprised you didn't pick Travels in Nihilon from XTC. IMO it's a much better song than Complicated Game, and also a lot more proggy. Plus, no When the Levee Breaks? More blues than prog, granted, but on the whole Zep IV is a fairly proggy album.

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      Two excellent examples of how to close an album (yes, I considered both!!!)

  • @sambates490
    @sambates490 Рік тому

    Just able to watch this and all great picks! I'm a Kansas, Genesis, Spocks Beard, Neal Morse (Band) disciple...one of my all time favorite modern prog bands is Frost* Milliontown is probably too long to qualify for this list, but I wanted to at least mention it as well as so much other incredible Frost* songs. Happy New Year!!

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому

      I love Frost* and Milliontown is a stone cold masterpiece!!!

  • @BenTevikMusic
    @BenTevikMusic Рік тому +1

    Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
    Natural Science - Rush
    Broken Sky / Long Day - NMB
    Blackwater Park - Opeth
    The Perfect Element - Pain of Salvation
    Octavarium - Dream Theater
    Stranger in Your Soul - Transatlantic
    Hallowed be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
    Collapse the Light into Earth - Porcupine Tree
    The Odyssey - Symphony X

  • @asdatescosains700
    @asdatescosains700 Рік тому +3

    Did my own personal ranking and found that Klaatu's Little Neutrino made the top! Gives me chills every time

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +2

      Excellent tune!!!

    • @marxnutz
      @marxnutz Рік тому

      A very nice track from a low-key legendary band.

  • @TheD4VR0S
    @TheD4VR0S Рік тому +1

    Echoes - Pink Floyd

  • @cletusbeauregard1972
    @cletusbeauregard1972 Рік тому

    "Here Comes The Feeling" from that first Asia album. Brilliant song, and a perfect summation of the album.

  • @ilabelle1
    @ilabelle1 Рік тому +1

    So many good closers Scot.
    We could be here for hours.
    Admittedly it’s a lot harder for me to come up with
    killer closers for newer bands as I don’t know those
    albums as intimately as I do the tried and true.
    But as always it was a lot of fun.
    Lot’s of enthusiastic people in the chat.
    Nice to know I’m not the only one.
    It was also nice to see Pete pop in.
    You’re respected Scot.
    Happy New Year Scot.
    🤘😳🤘
    🛟🤴🛟

    • @BrockwaysVinylBytes
      @BrockwaysVinylBytes Рік тому +1

      Scot is one of the most respectable people out there doing it. I am honoured to be a part of this with him. Happy New Year!

    • @ilabelle1
      @ilabelle1 Рік тому +1

      Consider yourself lucky to be involved in the community.
      Happy New Year to you as well brother.
      🤘😳🤘

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому

      Thank you, Captain!!!

    • @jeffschielka7845
      @jeffschielka7845 Рік тому +1

      Great job Cody!👍😎🎉​@@BrockwaysVinylBytes

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +2

      @jeffschielka7845 Cody rocks.

  • @brettstrausser3846
    @brettstrausser3846 Рік тому

    Love Mew! Where are they now???

  • @marxnutz
    @marxnutz Рік тому

    9:40 One of my favorites as well!

  • @jordiplanas631
    @jordiplanas631 Рік тому

    Hi Scot, from the electronic side of prog: Tangerine Dream's "White Eagle" and JM Jarre's "Souvenir of China". Happy new prog year to you all!

    • @ilabelle1
      @ilabelle1 Рік тому +1

      I’m a big fan of Tangerine Dream’s Virgin years.
      I also love JMJ going back to Oxygene.
      Those two and Kraftwerk were the ones that
      got me going in my love of electronica.
      For me electronic music isn’t a big stretch from prog.
      And I don’t mean all that titty bum, titty bum stuff
      that you hear in clubs. Mind I do like some Psy-Trance.
      Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Four Tet.
      You get the picture.
      Happy New Year!
      🤘😳🤘

  • @AllMediaReviewsPodcast
    @AllMediaReviewsPodcast Рік тому

    A ton of fun again. I will have to watch the Progradio playlist this Friday for some of these.
    I was showing some of those epics/honorable mentions which maybe those can be saved for another show? The Mars Volta's Cassandra Gemini and stuff like The Ivory Gates of Dreams from Fates Warning. Or even stuff like Green Carnation's "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" is 1 60 minute song (like Thick as a Brick or A Passion Play), lol. So it's both an album opener and closer (and middle track/section? if there is such a thing, lol).

  • @MattCarter67
    @MattCarter67 Рік тому

    The Everso Closely Guarded Line. It’s just wow.

  • @peerayuthcharnsethikul5122
    @peerayuthcharnsethikul5122 Рік тому +1

    Uriah Heep have other great closers after Salisbury !! such as The Spell/Paradise, The Magician’s Birthday, Pilgrim, Dream and their latest one in 2023, Freedom to be free.

  • @jeffschielka7845
    @jeffschielka7845 Рік тому +2

    Hey Scot! First, I thought this episode was cool and would have the most in the chat. Not to be. Only hit 49 at that was early in. Numbers lost steam throughout. That was disappointing. I must say I liked your top 10 not just because AWAKEN was #1. It had to be. Was happy to see Kansas, The Who, Rush, BBT, Genesis, and of course YES. I picked Endless Dream without thinking because I knew Awaken would win. It's my favorite Yes song 5 or 6 days out of the week. This episode was good, fun, and very enjoyable. Like every week I am in and out 20 times to mod for Aly. No comparisons today, The Prog Corner just keeps bringing it! Happy 24, see you next year! Love and Light my brother. ❤🌅👍☮️👑😎

  • @dennispope1355
    @dennispope1355 Рік тому

    I think another honerable mention is "Singring and the Glass Guitar" from Utopia's Ra.

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      Day of infamy
      Someone’s captured Singring

  • @robertschobesberger6300
    @robertschobesberger6300 Рік тому

    i've got a feeling (from let it be) was also a split song between john and paul.. .and there were some early cowrites...

  • @kenl2091
    @kenl2091 Рік тому

    Someone mentioned it in the chat but one of the excellent Lennon/McCartney true collaborations was We Can Work it Out (McCartney verses, Lennon chorus) and I don't think it's a coincidence that that and A Day in the Life are both in my top 10 Beatles' tracks. All of my 'best closers' were mentioned and most are the epics, though Starless is an exception.

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      I hear you!!! I just wanted to save the epics for a later episode!!!

  • @wendellwiggins3776
    @wendellwiggins3776 9 місяців тому

    SONGS & BANDS I LUV specific to the topic of fantastic resolutions to wonderful sonic journeys:
    1- Siberian Khatru or To Be Over (YES - CTTE & Relayer)
    2- Etika > Soft Machine (Softs)
    3- Happy the Man > New York Dream's Suite (1977)
    4- P F M > Traveler (Jetlag)
    5- Valedictory or The Power and the Glory > Gentle Giant (tP&tG / alternate bonus track)
    6- Piece of Mind > Curved Air (Second Album)
    7- Fitter Stoke Has A Bath > Hatfield & The North (1978)
    8- Checkmate > Gryphon (Red Queen to Gryphon Three)
    9- Safe (Canon Song) > Chris Squire .
    10- Aftaglid > Steve Hillage (Fish Rising)
    11- Starless > King Crimson (Red)
    12- Eclipse > Pink Floyd ( Dark Side of the Moon)

  • @jackpittens796
    @jackpittens796 Рік тому

    For me the number one closer, for which I do not include side long epics, would be Starless off of Red by KC. One of my all time favourite songs. I always need to pause and reflect after hearing that song.

  • @MelkerJohanssonRexner
    @MelkerJohanssonRexner Рік тому +1

    Plague of lighthouse keepers

  • @NigelSmith66
    @NigelSmith66 Рік тому

    I am excluding side long tracks - while the studio version of "Supper's Ready" is technically NOT side long I am excluding it as such - and single suite albums. My top 10 as of today is:
    1. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)
    2. Yes - Awaken
    3. Genesis - The Fountain Of Salmacis
    4. Renaissance - A Song For All Seasons
    5. Marillion - Fugazi
    6. King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King
    7. Supertramp - Fool's Overture
    8. Steven Wilson - Staircase
    9. Big Big Train - Hedgerow
    10. The Pineapple Thief - The Game

  • @MelkerJohanssonRexner
    @MelkerJohanssonRexner Рік тому +2

    Octavarium

  • @kevinbutler3665
    @kevinbutler3665 Рік тому

    i'll throw ten from random genre's
    1.Yes---On The Silent Wings Of freedom.
    2. Pulp---Davids Last Summer.
    3. Stranglers, ----Down In The Sewer, or School Mam.
    4. Greenslade----Chalkhill
    5, Sneaker Pimps---Wife By 2000
    6. Generation X---Youth Youth Youth.
    7. Tori Amos------Little Earthquakes, Yes Anastasia, Carry, Toast, Oscars Theme.
    8. Jethro Tull----Further On
    9. The Damned----Curtain Call.
    10. Nine Inch Nails-----Hurt, Right Where It Belongs.

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому

      The Damned!!!!

    • @kevinbutler3665
      @kevinbutler3665 Рік тому

      One of the best three track album enders ever for me------13th Floor Vendetta, spooky cool, Therapy, decent fast clever track, we do covers albums and we covered that and it was a testy guitar line, and then Curtain Call---if you've never heard it, get on you tube, get a cup if tea, and put your feet up. I used to listen that in the dark 18 years old, it's a decent journey. If i'm reading you wrong and you know it already my mistake, but if you have never heard it give it a shot, i'd be surprised if you regret it. great channel by the way. @@TheProgCorner

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      I’m a big fan of Captain Sensible and Dave Vanian!!! My old lead singer replaced Dave on vocals a few years back for some UK shows…

    • @kevinbutler3665
      @kevinbutler3665 Рік тому

      Ah ok i was reading you wrong. i'm north England and was one of a few rockers who hung around with a gang of mainly punks back in the day and when The Black Album was released i loved crowing the Damned had gone prog with Curtain Call.@@TheProgCorner

  • @andreichivu7653
    @andreichivu7653 Рік тому

    Queen "Innuendo" The Show Must Go On...

  • @billdubilier
    @billdubilier Рік тому

    On the way home to earth- Mahavishnu Orch.

  • @OurFamilyInMotion
    @OurFamilyInMotion Рік тому

    The Last Straw by Marillion.

  • @greghansell5115
    @greghansell5115 Рік тому

    I think Electric Light Orchestra's ELO 2 closer 'Kuiama' would qualify as prog.

  • @grenmatze
    @grenmatze Рік тому +1

    "Decades" by Joy Division.

  • @miccarbo7911
    @miccarbo7911 Рік тому +2

    The acoustics from Kyle's mike is really annoying!

  • @MelkerJohanssonRexner
    @MelkerJohanssonRexner Рік тому +1

    N er gee Chris blues

  • @mikedonoghues4018
    @mikedonoghues4018 Рік тому +1

    Best album closer? Rock and Roll Suicide. Bowie defines a generation.

  • @tullfan2560
    @tullfan2560 Рік тому

    Thick As A Brick 🤣🤣🤣

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      It’s also the best album opener!!!
      (The last 90 seconds of Side Two: the best 90 seconds of music ever recorded…)

    • @tullfan2560
      @tullfan2560 Рік тому

      @@TheProgCorner Agree, it's fantastic. The first 150 seconds of Can You Understand by Renaissance with that climbing progression is pretty damn exciting too. Coming just after in 1973, Renaissance might even have been influenced by Thick As A Brick.

  • @FrankRobacker-t4n
    @FrankRobacker-t4n Рік тому

    Kyle needs to be banned until he can use audio that doesn't destroy the otherwise high quality of these broadcasts.

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому

      Another vote for Kyle being placed on “administrative leave.” It’s a tough one because Kyle has A LOT to offer the panel…

  • @noheamike5036
    @noheamike5036 Рік тому

    Just One Victory from Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star. And also Kyle needs a new microphone. It is horrible sounding and annoying. I skip through his talking because of it. Anything else would be better.

    • @TheProgCorner
      @TheProgCorner  Рік тому +1

      We are working on Kyle’s situation!!!!

  • @lemming9984
    @lemming9984 Рік тому +1

    Wondering from World Record - VdGG.