Friday, January 5, 2024

VA - Track Five, Prog Rock Edition, Vol. 01 Part 1 (A Butterboy Compilation) (10 x CDs)

TRACK FIVE SERIES

VA - Track Five, Prog Rock Edition, Vol. 01 Part 1 (A Butterboy Compilation) (10 x CDs)

Have you ever wondered what track five of your albums has to offer? 

We often pay attention to the opening and closing tracks, but what about the ones in between? Could they be hidden gems waiting to be discovered?   That’s the idea behind this series of compilations, to explore the fifth tracks of various albums and genres and see what surprises they have in store. You might find some familiar tunes, some forgotten classics, or some new favorites. 

This series is based on completion albums I own, as well as tracks suggested by the amazing My compilations team. I hope to cover all kinds of music in this series and introduce you to some songs you might have missed or overlooked.

This is the SECOND offering in the series. This volume is dedicated to Progressive Rock which is characterized by its complex and elaborate musical arrangements, ambitious compositions, concept-driven lyrics, and musical virtuosity. Progressive rock is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism. Due to its historical reception, the scope of progressive rock is sometimes limited to a stereotype of long solos, long albums, fantasy lyrics, grandiose stage sets and costumes, and an obsessive dedication to technical skill. While the genre is often cited for its merging of high culture and low culture, few artists incorporated literal classical themes in their work to any great degree.

While the peak years for Prog Rock were 1971-1976, it has never died out. Progressive rock as a genre continues into the 2020s often termed Neo-Prog.

Here are 250 Prog Rock songs over 10 CD's that will make you smile and rock out. This is not your usual compilation. It’s not about the hits or the best songs. It’s about the FIFTH tracks that deserve some love and attention. Welcome to the world of Track Five!

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Track lists

CD01

01 Talk Talk - I Believe In You 6:07

02 Glass Hammer - Into Thin Air 19:15

03 Ken Hensley - Fortune 5:19

04 Ibis - Divinity (Part 1) 3:58

05 Glass Harp - Chalice 6:17

06 Candida Pax - Dark Clouds 5:06

07 Hawkwind - Dust Of Time 12:01

08 Gandalf Feat. Steve Hackett - Face In The Mirror 5:27

09 Thirty Days Out - The Sun Keeps Right On Shining 5:33

10 Camel - Fritha 1:27

11 Alquin - Don And Dewey 1:28

12 Decameron - Crows 5:00

13 Violeta De Outono - Echoes/No Quarter 17:16

14 Prudence - 14 Pages 4:24

15 Abissi Infiniti - Abissi Infiniti 1:15

16 Kaprekar's Constant - Another Man's Smile 6:02

17 The Flower Kings - City Of Angels 12:04

18 Dragon - Darkness 4:45

19 Jerusalem - Eternity 5:31

20 Frank Zappa - Blessed Relief 7:59

21 Northwind - Bystandin' 3:07

22 Savage Rose - Dear Little Mother 4:25

23 Kansas - Closet Chronicles 6:31

24 Colin Masson - Caradon's Surprise 2:34

25 Yes - Ritual-Nous Sommes Du Soleil 21:32


CD02

26 Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 16:43

27 Gracious - C.B.S. 7:06

28 Prog Collective - Buried Beneath (Feat. Billy Sherwood, Larry Fast, Steve Hillage) 8:08

29 Mostly Autumn - Evergreen 8:00

30 Comus - Diana 4:38

31 Still Life - Dreams 7:33

32 Step Ahead - Eleven Days 4:06

33 I Pooh - Fantasia 3:18

34 Martin Barre - Favourite Things 4:04

35 Raw Material - Future Recollections 3:55

36 Cosmic Jockers - Galactic Joke 6:45

37 Jane - Honestly 3:47

38 La Statale 17 And Emphasis - Allures Music Of Universe 4:41

39 Tobin Sprout - Honor Guard 1:56

40 Drowning Steps - A Perfect Day To Cry, Pt. II 7:29

41 Nektar - Cast Your Fate 5:38

42 Venetian Power - Cosi Il Mondo Finisce 4:32

43 East Of Eden - Gum Arabic - Confucius 8:17

44 Asia - I Know How You Feel 4:54

45 Maxophone - I Heard A Butterfly 5:51

46 Solution - Circus Circumstances 7:03

47 Hammer - Death Of A King 5:31

48 GTR - Hackett To Bits 2:11

49 Rick Wakeman - Catherine Howard 9:13

50 Sebastian Hardie - Rosanna 6:03


CD03

51 Triumvirat - A Cold Old Worried Lady 5:50

52 Green Carnation - 9-29-045 15:29

53 Hurdy Gurdy - Babels Tower 3:11

54 Galliard - Children Of The Sun 3:45

55 Jamie Muir, Michael Giles & David Cunningham - Cascade 3:51

56 Nektar - The Life I've Been Leading 4:35

57 Riverside - Feel Like Falling 5:18

58 Bo Hansson - Fylke 1:52

59 Lutha - Mountain Side 4:30

60 Robert Wyatt - Free Will And Testament 4:12

61 10cc - Modern Man Blues 5:32

62 Keith Tippett Group - Five After Dawn 5:15

63 Chameleon - Drool Away 4:36

64 Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Just Me, Just You 6:15

65 Rodan - Juicy Lucy 4:32

66 Bram Stoker - Idiot 4:26

67 Nebulous Sun - Interlude Ii 3:16

68 Soup - Memoirs Of An Imaginary Friend 6:41

69 Styx - Miss America 5:04

70 Think - Last Door 3:15

71 Manfred Mann Chapter Three - It's Good To Be Alive 3:32

72 Giles, Giles & Fripp - One In A Million - Stereo Album Version 2:25

73 Date Palms - Night Riding The Skyline 11:24

74 Gong - Outer Vision 3:25

75 Capability Brown - Circumstances (In Love, Past, Present, Future Meet) 20:51


CD04

76 Antidepressive Delivery - Blood Is Blood 7:17

77 Nova - Driftwood 10:00

78 Tai Phong - Fields Of Gold 7:41

79 Burnin Red Ivanhoe - Near The Sea 4:28

80 Caravan - And I Wish I Were Stoned, Don't Worry 8:18

81 Quasar Lux Symphoniae - Oblivion 7:33

82 Can - Oh Yeah 7:23

83 Van Der Graaf Generator - Ponker's Theme 1:24

84 Wigwam - No New Games 6:42

85 Goblin - Goblin 11:09

86 Museo Rosenbach - Il Tempio Delle Clessidre 2:51

87 Panna Fredda - Il Vento, La Luna E Pulcini Blu (Sole Rosso) 9:58

88 Spettri - Parte Quarta: Incubo 11:00

89 Audience - Poet 3:07

90 Love Affair - Goodbye Brother, Farewell Friend 3:40

91 Pete Brown & Piblokto! - Got A Letter From A Computer 5:49

92 Amos Key - Got The Feelin' 3:11

93 Human Beast - Reality Presented As An Alternative 5:00

94 Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under 8:13

95 Druid - Red Carpet For An Autumn 3:09

96 Abiogenesi - R.I.P. 2:30

97 Nemo - Reflets 10:39

98 Pancake - Remember 4:51

99 Popol Ace - Mr. Bigalow 4:13

100 Barclay James Harvest - John Lennon's Guitar 5:41


CD05

101 Broselmaschine - Schmetterling 9:32

102 Black Noodle Project - Rishikesh / Liverpool / Rishikesh 6:41

103 Dear Mr. Time - Prelude (To 'your Country Needs You') 3:01

104 Paladin - Fill Up Your Heart 5:40

105 Alan Parsons - Mr. Time 8:17

106 Antares - Running On The Meteors 4:58

107 Minimum Vital - Sarabande No. Ii 7:04

108 Spot - Free 4:29

109 Shaa Khan - Seasons 9:05

110 Lagger Blues Machine - Born To Be Alone On A White Desert Island 9:01

111 Second Sign - Grand Britannia 3:51

112 Procol Harum - Strangers In Space 6:08

113 Black Widow - Seduction 5:37

114 Edison's Children - Silhouette - Ii. Welcome To Your Dreamland 3:16

115 The Watch - Soaring On 4:23

116 Yuka & Chronoship - Skygazer 6:17

117 Mckendree Spring - Shoot Me 3:34

118 Battered Ornaments - Staggered 4:06

119 John & Beverley Martin - Stormbringer 4:18

120 Hostsonaten - Alan Sorrenti - Vorrei Incontrarti 5:39

122 Aktuala - Hare 2:25

123 Relayer - It Really Doesn't Matter 3:28

124 Errata Corrige - Dal Libro Di Bordo Dell'adventure 5:53

124 David Bedford - Great Equatorial (Part III) 10:27

125 Pink Floyd - Money 6:22


CD06

126 Universe - Spanish Feeling 10:38

127 Supertramp - Sooner Or Later 7:36

128 Steve Hackett - Sleepers 8:50

129 Horus - Sottoterra 3:02

130 Stud - Samurai 2:26

131 Le Orme - India 4:52

132 Lucifer's Friend - Prince Of Darkness 3:51

133 Art Boys Collection - Love 3:47

134 Big Big Train - Summoned By Bells 9:17

135 Kolibri - Take Five 8:03

136 Tim Bowness - The Great Electric Teenage Dre 4:17

137 Otis Waygood - The Higher I Go 1:41

138 Arthur Browns Kingdome Come - The Hymn 8:42

139 Den Fule - Gammel-Husin 1:47

140 Maschera Di Cera - Ritratto Di Lei 4:49

141 Delirium - Verit 3:36

142 Axis - Bad Trip 5:22

143 Ptarmigan - The Island: Main Theme 6:28

144 Amon Duul Ii - The Return Of Ruebezahl 1:38

145 Cathedral - The Search 11:28

146 Colosseum - The Valentine Suite 16:56

147 Providence - The Stream 3:02

148 Steven Wilson - The Watchmaker 11:42

149 Dear Hunter - Things That Hide Away (Green) 3:24

150 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition 15:34


CD07

151 J.Solo, J. Haslip, S.Page, P.Torpey - Us And Them 6:18

152 Cressida - Time For Bed 2:21

153 Writing On The Wall - Virginia Water 5:56

154 Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Down, Down And Down 5:51

155 Saturnalia - Traitor 4:36

156 Motherhood - Turning Around 2:52

157 Menno Gootjes - Two-Part Intervention 1:20

158 O Yuki Conjugate - Ascension 5:57

159 Alcatraz - Piss Off 3:18

160 Mad Curry - Jack Is Away 5:17

161 PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - Via Lumiere 7:23

162 Beggars Opera - Light Calvary 11:55

163 Clearlight - Shanti Lotus 8:32

164 Gryphon - And Ladders 5:11

165 Dark - Cat 5:19

166 Starcastle - 05-Sunfield 7:36

167 Kayak - Last Encore 4:01

168 Proto-Kaw - Nemesis 13:52

169 Peter Hammill - Shift 8:11

170 Sky Architect - Melody Of The Air (Explicatio) 11:14

171 Froggie Beaver - From Home 9:44

172 Moving Gelatine Plates - Cauchemar 3:49

173 Ariel - Sandwiches 3:34

174 Dog That Bit People - Me In Roses 5:19

175 Tangent - A Few Steps Down The Wrong Road 17:31


CD08

176 Genesis - The Fountain Of Salmacis 7:56

177 Stefano Testa - Difficile Chiamarti Amore 2:50

178 Julian Jay Savarin - Cycle 4:21

179 Aphrodite's Child - Of The World 3:13

180 Julian's Treatment - 5th Chapter: Aida, Dark Lady Of The Outer Worlds 3:51

181 Luciano Basso - Echo 9:21

182 I Giganti - La Ballata Delle Streghe 1:35

183 Zao - La Soupe 7:25

184 Laser - L'ultimo Canto Del Killer 2:56

185 Zyma - Wasting Time 9:41

186 Novalis - City-Nord 6:11

187 Marsupilami - Descensus Averni 9:34

188 Skin Alley - Sweaty Betty 8:00

189 The Move - The Words Of Aaron 5:27

190 Robin Williamson - Dark Dance 1:06

191 Thirsty Moon - Das Fest Der Volker 5:00

192 Algarnas Tradgard - Viriditas 2:59

193 Gentle Giant - (A) The Runaway / (B) Experience 9:32

194 Lard Free - Warinobaril 3:53

195 Nosound - Waves Of Time 2:07

196 Ozric Tentacles - Plasmoid 5:17

197 Square Set - Walkin' On The Water 5:49

198 Richard Wright - Waves 4:20

199 Asoka - Tvivlaren 4:35

200 Skywhale - Eternal Optimist (The Rat) 9:22


CD09

201 Jade Warrior - Way Of The Sun 6:02

202 John Wetton - What Can Be Done 7:45

203 Blackbirds - What Is Free 4:10

204 Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing 8:13

205 Hoola Bandoola Band - You And I 3:30

206 Tonton Macoute - You Make My Jelly Roll 8:01

207 Rare Bird - You're Lost 10:07

208 Soft Machine - 37 1/2 6:52

209 Samla Mammas Manna - Andra Satsen 5:41

210 Plum Nelly - Sail Away 8:47

211 Chris Barber - Battersea Rain Dance 2:22

212 Warm Dust - A Night On Bare Mountain 1:07

213 Eloy - Silhouette 3:30

214 Satin Whale - Reverie 2:08

215 Renaissance - Running Hard 10:03

216 Stackridge - Syracuse The Elephant 8:47

217 Marillion - The Fruit Of The Wild Rose 6:57

218 Ayreon - Cosmic Fusion 7:27

219 Beggars Opera - Dr. Carlo 6:57

220 Abiogenesi - Golem 10:01

221 Johnny Warman - War Of The Worlds 8:42

222 T2 - Questions And Answers 5:22

223 Windchase - No Scruples 6:30

224 King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King 9:28

225 Yes - And You And I 9:33


CD10

226 Dhármico - Yevide 6:44

227 Solaris - The Lion's Empire 6:39

228 Atoll - (Part 1) 5:46

229 Time - Dragonfly 8:13

230 Sogmusobil - Arabic In The Morning 4:16

231 Brain Auger's Oblivion Express - Your Head With Laughter 3:53

232 Darryl Way's Wolf - Of X 5:48

233 Eloy - Echoes 7:15

234 Focus - Concerto 20:17

235 Robert Wyatt - Alife 6:31

236 Greenslade - De Vivre 9:01

237 Peggy's Leg - Another Journey 9:43

238 Brainchild - A Time A Place 9:16

239 Omega - Omegauto 4:28

240 Underground Set - Car Driving 3:05

241 Spring - Fleece 7:01

242 John Bunyan's Progressive Pilgrims - Out 3:38

243 Yleclipse - Fiery Delirium 11:13

244 Mario Millo - Survive 5:59

245 Pavlov's Dog - Dance 4:58

246 Psychedelic Ensemble - Queen Of Sorrow 8:22

247 Alice - Valse 2:32

248 Think Floyd - For Inspiration 5:27

249 Saga - And The Night 5:16

250 SBB - Final 18:57

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9 comments:

  1. Again, thanks, but, again, CD 1 track 4 by Ibis is cut off @3:59. Possible fix? I'm only 4 songs in, so who knows...?

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    1. Hi Iceman,
      What's to fix?
      This is a Track Five only compilation. Divinity Part 1 is track five from the Sun Supreme album by Ibis, followed by Divinity Part 2 (track six) and Part3 (track seven)
      for reference - https://www.discogs.com/release/1772558-Ibis-Sun-Supreme
      Cheers.

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    2. I have this particular Ibis album & I saw the 'Part 1'. I am just at a loss to understand how anyone could possibly think it a good idea to post an incomplete song on any sort of compilation. Makes for a terrible listening experience, IMHO. Whatever. Good luck.

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    3. Hi. Iceman.
      I am at a loss as to why you can't comprehend that a compilation of "Track Five" only tracks would include more than track five tracks and that it was a bad idea. It sounds a bit precious to me.
      This track fits well in the idea of this compilation and doesn't reflect terrible listening experience at all. Also, it is listed as track five in the link I sent you.
      Saying "Whatever" is very dismissive and doesn't reflect acknowledgement of why the track was used in in the first place.
      I love the Ibis album in its entirety but using track five from it does not diminish the tracks value or put a bad light on the whole album. I guess we have to agree to disagree.
      Thanks for commenting.
      Cheers.

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    4. I hate to beat a dead horse but, of the hundreds of thousands of track 5 prog songs you had to choose from you chose an incomplete song. You have made it painfully clear what the object of this comp is, TRACK FIVE! It just doesn't make sense to me. Precious? Really? Wow Got it, agree to disagree.

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  2. Iceman You cannot disagree with a gift. Either accept it and say thank you or reject it.

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    1. This !!!! Who gets something for free that someone worked hard on and complains about it?

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  3. thanks for leading off with Talk Talk, I love the record Spirit of Eden, hadn't listened to it in several years, I appreciate you presenting it again.

    There's some ambiguity about tracking for that record, depending on which version you consult. The Japanese version of the album (I was living there shortly after it came out, that's my reference copy) combines the whole first side of the vinyl as a single track, what would be tracks 1-4 on the US version. The Japanese version does not have a track five.

    I prefer the US tracked version, because I fell in love with the song Desire, track three on the US version, something like 10 minutes into track 1 on the Japanese version, an hassle to cue up on the cd player in the era before listening to digital versions of songs.

    just wanted to say hello, your blog helps keep me alive and sane, keep up the good work

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    1. Hello, doesnt matter.
      Thank you for your kind words. I am delighted that you are enjoying this blog and what's on offer.
      Talk Talk are a great group. The first time I listened to Spirit of Edan I thought I was never going to hear a better album. I was listening to the Yessongs box set at the time and the Talk Talk album was far superior to me, then.
      I have many albums that have differing presentation of tracks from different country pressings.
      Please enjoy you visits and have fun listing to what you find.
      Cheers.

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