Above all genres of music, I love prog, and its long songs.

What is prog? Prog is short for progressive rock or metal, the genre of music that originated in the UK and the US with bands like Pink Floyd and Procol Harum, and with progressive albums like Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. The wikipedia page has a lovely introduction, but to briefly recount, it is a genre that constantly tries to push its boundaries, exploring novel insturmentation, time signatures, and chord progressions. 7/4 or 5/4 time signatures aren’t too uncommon, and particularly wild time signatures 11/8 appear occasionally.

My own introduction to them was technically through Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (I know, how original) on Feburary 28, 2017. It was shortly after I had discovered rock as a genre in general, and was riding high on my newly discovered bands like Radiohead, Queen, and the Rolling Stones. Besides that one album, however, I don’t believe I revisted prog until May 2, 2018, when I discovered The Ministry of Lost Souls by Dream Theater through this, admittedly snobby, YouTube video. But what it had done was unlock this whole other world of music that I had never heard before. The Ministry of Lost Souls itself was no slouch; it’s 14:57 long and has some of the most iconic, haunting guitar riffs that goes on and on, continually modulating upwards until it famously “fades” out in its outro.

I think this song definitely tinted my taste in songs permanently, since after that, I sought other songs with similarly grandiose melodies and durations. I present to you a list of all the songs in prog that I have since discovered and fell in love with. I have compiled as much as of these as I could into a spotify playlist. Please let me know if you have any long song not on this list that you would like for me to check out, I am always interested in listening to new bands and new songs. Shoot me an email or message me on any of the social media links I put in the about page and I can update this page accordingly.

We note that the number in parentheses represents their duration in min:sec.

And without further ado…

Prog Rock

  • Genesis
    • Supper's Ready (23:05)
  • Yes
    • Close to the Edge (18:41)
    • The Gates of Delirium (21:49)
    • Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) (21:32)
    • The Remembering (High the Memory) (20:38)
    • The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) (22:22)
    • Endless Dream (15:48)
  • The Flower Kings
    • Stardust We Are (25:03)
    • Numbers (25:26)
    • Monsters & Men (21:19)
    • Devil's Playground (25:26)
    • The Truth Will Set You Free (31:01)
    • Love Supreme (19:43)
    • Driver's Seat (18:20)
    • I Am the Sun, Pt. 1 (15:03)
    • Love is the Only Answer (24:28)
    • Garden of Dreams (59:25)
  • Van Der Graaf Generator
    • A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (23:12)
  • Caravan
    • Nine Feet Underground (22:44)
  • Emerson Lake & Palmer
    • Tarkus (20:37)
    • Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman (20:18)
  • Spock's Beard
    • From the Darkness (17:09)
    • The Great Nothing (27:00)
    • The Healing Colors of Sound (21:56)
    • At the End of the Day (16:28)
  • Beardfish
    • If We Must Be Apart (A Love Story Continued) (15:34)
    • Sleeping In Traffic (35:44)
    • And the Stone Said: If I Could Speak (15:07)
    • Until You Comply / Entropy (15:21)
  • Jethro Tull
    • Thick as a Brick, Pt I (22:40)
    • Thick as a Brick, Pt 2 (21.10)
  • Rush
    • 2112 (20:33)
    • Cygnus X01 Book II: Hemispheres (18:04)
    • The Fountains of Lamenth (19:57)
  • Magic Pie
    • King for a Day (27:29)
    • Change (20:06)
    • Circle of Life, Pt 4 (21:50)
    • A Life's Work, Pt. 3(A Suffering Joy) (17:09)
    • The Hedonist (22:58)
  • IQ
    • The Last Human Gateway (19:59)
    • Harvest of Souls (24:12)
    • For Another Lifetime (15:22)
  • Nektar
    • Remember the Future, Pt. 1 (16:41)
    • Remember the Future, Pt. 2 (19:00)
    • A Tab in the Ocean (16:54)
  • Moon Safari
    • Methuselah's Children (15:42)
    • Other Half of the Sky (31:44)
    • We Spin the World (24:52)
    • Lover's End PT3 (24:20)
    • Teen Angel Meets the Apocolypse (21:03)
  • Kaipa
    • Electric Power Water Notes (17:50)
    • On the Edge of New Horizons (17:10)
    • Skenet bedrar (21:43)
    • A Map of Your Secret World (15:03)
    • A Sky Full of Painters (14:43)
  • Galasphere 357
    • Barbarella's Lover (15:17)
    • The Fallen Angel (15:35)
  • Pink Floyd
    • Echoes (23:32)
    • Atom Heart Mother (23:41)
    • Dogs (17:08)
  • Marillion
    • Grendel (17:15)
  • Focus
    • Hamburger Concerto (20:20)
  • Phideaux
    • Chupacabras (20:41)
    • Snowtorch (Part One) (19:42)
    • Snowtorch (Part Two) (16:28)
  • Karmakanic
    • Dot_God the Universe and Everything Else No One Really Cares About (24:40)
    • Send a Message From the Heart (19:31)
  • Mike Oldfield
    • Taurus II (24:45)
    • Tubular Bells (48:49)
  • Roine Stolt
    • Humanizzimo (20:53)
  • Rick Wakeman
    • Journey to the Center of the Earth (31:58)
    • Catherine Of Aragon/ A Crying Heart Part 1 (18:41)
  • Big Big Train
    • London Song (34:02)
    • The Underfall Yard (22:53)
  • Karfagen
    • Birds of Passage (Part 1) (22:40)
    • Birds of Passage (Part 2) (21:11)
    • Seven Gates (28:26)
    • Seven Gates II (15:25)
    • Birds of Passage and the Enchanted Forest (Expanded Version) (19:02)
  • Brighteye Brison
    • The Rise of Brighteye Brison (23:05)
    • The Grand Event (34:44)
    • The Magician Chronicles, Pt. 2 (36:53)
  • Arena
    • The Legend of Elijah Shade (22:39)
    • Moviedrome (19:46)
  • Motorpsycho
    • Big Black Dog (17:42)
  • The Mars Volta
    • Tetragrammaton (16:41)
    • Cassandra Gemini (32:36)
  • Wobbler
    • From Silence to Somewhere (20:59)
    • Hinterland (27:32)
    • Clair Obscur (15:41)
    • Imperial Winter White (15:02)
  • The Tangent
    • A Place in the Queue (25:14)
  • Cheeto's Magazine
    • Big Boy (25:07)
    • Nova America (25:24)
  • Frost*
    • Milliontown (26:35)
  • The Tea Club
    • Creature (27:45)
  • Arabs in Aspic
    • Heaven in Your Eye (16:45)
  • Karnataka
    • Secrets of Angels (20:00)
  • Neal Morse
    • The Door (29:13)
    • Seeds of Gold (25:59)
    • World Without End (33:38)
    • Alive Again (26:46)
  • Southern Empire
    • The Bridge that Binds (28:21)
    • White Shadows
  • All Traps on Earth
    • All Traps on Earth (18:15)
  • Echolyn
    • mei (49:33)
  • 3rdegree
    • Click Away! (15:27)
  • Porcupine Tree
    • Anesthetize (17:52)
  • The Syn
    • Seventh Day of Seven (14:50)
  • The Pineapple Thief
    • Remember Us (16:09)
  • Ritual
    • A Dangerous Journey (26:32)
  • Transatlantic
    • The Whirlwind (77:54)
    • Kaleidoscope (31:54)
    • All of the Above (31:04)
    • Stranger in your Soul (30:00)
    • Duel with the Devil (26:43)
    • My New World (16:20)
    • In Held (Twas) I (16:00)
    • Suite Charlotte Pike (14:33)
  • Renaissance
    • Song of Scheherazade (24:43)
  • Triumvirat
    • Illusions on a Double Dimple (23:31)
  • Unitopia
    • The Garden (22:33)
    • The Uncertain (18:33)
  • Trace
    • Birds - suite (22:00)
  • Utopia
    • The Ikon (30:25)
  • Abacus
    • Everything You Need (20:25)
  • Supersister
    • Pudding End Gisteren - Music For Ballet (21:00)
  • Far East Family Band
    • Parallel World (30:11)
  • The Chronicles of Father Robin
    • Twilight Fields (15:24)
  • Mystery
    • Is This How the Story Ends? (19:10)
  • Nospun
    • Within the Realm of Possibility (15:23)

Prog Metal:

  • Dream Theater
    • The Ministry of Lost Souls (14:57)
    • The Count of Tuscany (19:17)
    • Octavarium (24:00)
    • A Change of Seasons (23:08)
    • Illumination Theory (22:15)
    • A Nightmare to Remember (16:12)
    • Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (42:03)
  • Haken
    • The Architect (15:40)
    • Visions (22:27)
    • Celestial Elixir (17:01)
    • Crystallised (19:22)
    • Messiah Complex (16:57)
  • Caligula's Horse
    • Graves (15:31)
  • Symphony X
    • The Odyssey (24:09)
    • The Divine Wings of Tragedy (20:42)
  • Edge of Reality
    • Into the Shadows (19:43)
  • Others by No One
    • Dr. Breacher and the Time Travel Anomaly (19:49)
    • The Impassecopedum (14:16)
  • Between The Buried And Me
    • Silent Flight Parliament (15:09)
    • Swim to the Moon (17:53)
    • Human is Hell (Another One With Love) (15:07)
  • Devin Townsend
    • Singularity (23:32)
  • Seventh Wonder
    • The Great Escape (30:21)
  • Liquid Tension Experiment
    • Three Minute Warning (28:36)
    • When the Water Breaks (16:57)
  • The Vicious Head Society
    • Analogue Spectre (18:42)
  • Theocracy
    • Mirror of Souls (22:28)
  • Galneyrus
    • Angel of Salvation (14:42)
  • Ihlo
    • Coalescence (15:14)
  • Gorod
    • Transcendence (15:24)
  • ALMO
    • Reconciliation (20:30)

Total: 160 songs.