progressive rock song
C24597
concept
A progressive rock song is an extended, often concept-driven composition that blends rock instrumentation with complex structures, shifting time signatures, and diverse musical influences to create an ambitious, exploratory listening experience.
Observed surface forms (7)
- progressive rock composition ×8
- progressive rock suite ×3
- Pink Floyd song ×2
- art rock song ×2
- Dream Theater song ×1
- King Crimson song ×1
- progressive rock ballad ×1
Instances (40)
- Roundabout
- Yours Is No Disgrace
- And You and I
- Long Distance Runaround
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I’ve Seen All Good People
surface form: I've Seen All Good People
- Heart of the Sunrise
- Into the Lens
- Hold On
- 21st Century Schizoid Man
- Supper's Ready via concept surface "progressive rock suite"
- Firth of Fifth
- Brother of Mine
- Order of the Universe
- Five Per Cent for Nothing
- Perpetual Change
- The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)
- The Remembering (High the Memory) via concept surface "progressive rock suite"
- The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun) via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
- Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil)
- Qoquaq Ën Transic via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
- South Side of the Sky
- Parallels
- Awaken
- Weather Report Suite via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
- Do the Strand via concept surface "art rock song"
-
song "Close to the Edge" (with Yes)
via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
surface form: Close to the Edge
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
- Echoes
- The Gates of Delirium via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
- To Be Over via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
- That, That Is via concept surface "progressive rock suite"
- Starship Trooper
- Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
- La Villa Strangiato
- Metropolis—Part I: The Miracle and the Sleeper via concept surface "Dream Theater song"
- Suite Madame Blue via concept surface "progressive rock ballad"
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America
surface form: America (Yes song)
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Birthday
via concept surface "art rock song"
surface form: Birthday (song)
- Fool's Overture via concept surface "progressive rock composition"
- The Trial via concept surface "Pink Floyd song"