Best Progressive Hard Rock Songs

A FEW NOTES:

1) Read carefully; this is supposed to be a list of songs that are both hard rock and progressive at the same time.

2) I initially wasn't considering putting either "Bohemian Rhapsody" or "Stairway to Heaven" on this list, since even though both those songs are progressive, they aren't fully hard rock; but part of them is hard rock, so I decided why not. And it would feel weird to leave them out, don't you think?

(Also, yes, I know there are some other prog songs by both of those bands, but I think these two are better for the initial 10 entries.)

3) Clearly then, the criterion for inclusion to this list is that a song is BOTH progressive (as in, it can be divided in several "parts") AND at least one of those "parts" can be called hard rock.

4) Yes, I consider heavy metal to be a subgenre of hard rock, so metal (including the subgenres) songs are allowed too, as long as they're progressive.
The Top Ten
1 2112 - Rush
2 Child in Time - Deep Purple
3 July Morning - Uriah Heep
4 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
5 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
6 Halo of Flies - Alice Cooper
7 Fly to the Rainbow - Scorpions
8 Magnum Opus - Kansas
9 Foreplay / Long Time - Boston
10 Come Sail Away - Styx
The Contenders
11 Question - The Moody Blues
12 One More Time to Live - The Moody Blues
13 Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues
14 Cygnus X-1: Book II Hemispheres - Rush

APOLLO WAS ASTONISHED

DIONYSUS THOUGHT ME MAD

BUT THEY HEARD MY STORY FURTHER THEN THEY WONDERED AND WERE SAD

LOOKING DOWN ON OLYMPUS, ON A WORLD OF DOUBT AND FEAR

ITS SURFACE SPLINTERED INTO

SORRY HEMISPHERES

15 Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
16 Giant - Gentle Giant
17 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
18 Flying - UFO
19 Death Walks Behind You - Atomic Rooster

The first progressive metal song

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