USA prog epics: pick only one

jane's addiction -- "three days"

all night with wings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OgrMMQZf1c

the adventures of captain boomerang

"Mei" by Echolyn

Not the longest song of their classic era (that would be the 12:12 "Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman" from Song for America) but the longest Kansas song title is definitely...

"Magnum Opus: Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat/Howling at the Moon/Man Overboard/Industry on Parade/Release the Beavers/Gnat Attack" (from Leftoverture)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8xqtu6mj0

terrapin station

ooh good one

Marcus - "Rise Unto Falcon". Kind of an outlier on the album but you can't fail with a title like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eoet2y5fIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyXfbEKZqeo

this is probably my favorite American prog album though. when all is said and done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbk9tJadkw

definitely bookmarking this thread I've liked everything so far

Tortoise- “Djed”

I blurted out "Echolyn's Mei" when I first read this thread title but before seeing that frogbs had, not surprisingly, already listed it. Off to play it now, thanks for the reminder...

i've been loving this lately. technically jazz-funk fusion, but plenty of prog moves. their last album was on Motown. this is from 1976.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL6WMJH-1eA

Crack the Sky "Nuclear Apathy"

"Freak Parade" by Utopia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DitwakvT7hw

One of the long jams on Music to Eat, Hampton Grease Band

are we really allowed only one? i have several

Chew chew gum chew gum gum chew chew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d09KbXhPyQc

omitting prog-metal, which is a HUGE omission, because the number of incredible US progressive metal compositions i know is in the dozens,

deluge grander - inaugural bash
extra life - diagonal power
the mars volta - any one of about 20 songs

are all completely fucking essential

and then this that came out yesterday. it's by a friend of mine so be nice, but it's so good you won't even have to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJKg1xNMS-A

this is an OPO cos i only linked one thing lol