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Prog rock recommendations, please :)
I've recently started getting into the prog rock genre. I've been listening to a lot of early Pink Floyd, Focus, Unicorn, and Syrius but I'm not sure who to check out next and was hoping some more seasoned prog rock fans could point me in a good direction. Music that is easy to find either for free or not too much money is a must.
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Genesis - Trick Of The Tail
Genesis - Seconds Out Genesis - Selling England By The Pound Pink Floyd - Meddle Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Yes - The Yes Album Yes - Fragile Yes - Close To The Edge King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King The Nice - Live At Fillmore East, December 1969. Not a great fan of Yes, but they are loved by many proggers and those 3 are albums are considered as Yes at their peak. |
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ELP: any album up to an including Brain Salad Surgery but nothing after.
King Crimson: Lark's Tongue in Aspic. |
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I bought a couple of 'prog' LPs when I was a young man......
One has already been mentioned - King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King The other one was - Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink this is the title track.............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmFzGTxod4 |
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Genesis Peter Gabriel era, Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb
Two Phil Collins era, Trick of the Tail & Wind and Wuthering . These were best prog eras. Later albums have the odd track but more pop tunes crept in. Rush, Fly By Night, Caress of Steel, 2112, A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres. All of these are good. The later albums are less prog but still very good. Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures especially Yes, Yes and TIme and a Word are ok. The Yes Album (different to the debut), Fragile and Close To The Edge are excellent. Relayed and Going For The One also very good. Tales From Topographic Oceans, is too long and overblown but some people love it. Ritual (nous somes du solies) is the best track. Pink Floyd, Meddle, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall are the best. Piper is ok. Other albums are good but can be an acquired taste. |
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The Flying Teapot trilogy by Gong is well worth a listen . Gentle Giant were a great band and well worth checking out . Some of the early Hawkwind albums are classics (Warrior on the Edge , In Search of Space , Hall of the Mountain Grill). The Yes album Tales From a Topographic Oceans is one of my favourite albums ever .
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I'm not the greatest Prog rock fan but I did like PFM's L'isola di niente (1974) (English version: The World Became The World, 1974). Great record.
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I don't think In The Court Of The Crimson King has really aged very well and the long improv section of Moonchild is irritating in the extreme. I far prefer Red, although apart from the brilliant Starless (not to be confused with Starless And Bible Black), the rest of it might be more accurately described as straight rock.
Although I disowned Yes in the punk/new wave era, I think the three Yes albums mentioned could well be the best three consecutive albums ever released and have actually stood the test of time remarkably well. I'd include Relayer as a "must listen to" album as well, as the sheer audacity of it is mind-boggling. I'm afraid I thought ELP were carp at the time and doubly so now. Totally pretentious, embarrassing and unlistenable. I do thank them for causing punk to happen, almost by themselves. Does Steve Hillage count as prog rock? I'd say Motivation Radio is a good place to start. |
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You might like Marillion. I used to love this song.
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I don't think In The Court Of The Crimson King has really aged very well
King Crimson - One Time |
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Same. I think Thrak is their best album... if only because this is their best song:
King Crimson - One Time This is my favourite due to its bonkers tempo and total weirdness. I had to choose a live version because all the album clips are preceded by Vroom, which is okay in a way, but not a patch on what follows. Coda: Marine 475 The album version's probably the best and I have heard a better live version, but it doesn't seem to be on YouTube. |
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Most of the above posters have covered the 'classic' stuff - I'd personally recommend any Gabriel era Genesis, any Pink Floyd, Yes with Jon Anderson. Aqualung and Thick as a brick by Jethro Tull, If you like wierd, there's Gong and I suppose you could include Hawkwind, although they are more 'space rock' if you insist on genres.
There are some good modern prog bands around these days. Big Big Train are really good. If you like Floyd, try Mostly Autumn. Also worth a listen are Magenta, Porcupine Tree, Pineapple Thief, Karnataka, Pendragon, IQ and Glass Hammer. There's a very little known band called Lyrian, who have released two tremendous albums called 'Nightingale Hall' and 'The tongues of men and angels' which I would highly recommend. You can probably find most of the above cheaply, or indeed free if you look in the right places! |
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Another couple of bands worth a mention: Van Der Graaf Generator , Camel , Caravan and Soft Machine .
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I'm afraid I thought ELP were carp at the time and doubly so now. Totally pretentious, embarrassing and unlistenable. I do thank them for causing punk to happen, almost by themselves.
Punk was a reaction to the chart music of the time, Glam Rock, Middle Of The Road, etc. Punk cetainly never "killed" Prog, despite what magazines such as NME liked to claim at the time. Quote:
Most of the above posters have covered the 'classic' stuff - I'd personally recommend any Gabriel era Genesis, any Pink Floyd, Yes with Jon Anderson. Aqualung and Thick as a brick by Jethro Tull, If you like wierd, there's Gong and I suppose you could include Hawkwind, although they are more 'space rock' if you insist on genres.
There are some good modern prog bands around these days. Big Big Train are really good. If you like Floyd, try Mostly Autumn. Also worth a listen are Magenta, Porcupine Tree, Pineapple Thief, Karnataka, Pendragon, IQ and Glass Hammer. There's a very little known band called Lyrian, who have released two tremendous albums called 'Nightingale Hall' and 'The tongues of men and angels' which I would highly recommend. You can probably find most of the above cheaply, or indeed free if you look in the right places! The Reasoning, Touchstone, TesseracT, Flying Colours, Dream Theater, 25 Yard Screamer, Aerogramme, Amplifier, Anathema, Anna Phoebe, Antimatter, Panic Room, Bigelf, Blackfield, No-Man ,Steven Wilson, Breathing Space, Diagonal, Enochian Theory, Sanguine Hum, Frost*, Jurojin, Karakanic, Leafblade, Luna Rossa, Mermaid Kiss, Moon Safari, Lazuli, MultiFuse, Phideaux, Quidam, Riverside, Russian Circles, Sound Of Contact, Sylvan, Von Hertzen Brothers, etc. I could go on but it's fair to say Progressive Music is in a pretty healthy state at the moment!
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Are Pink Floyd Prog Rock?
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I find it remarkable that in 2015 people still perpetuate this myth.
Punk was a reaction to the chart music of the time, Glam Rock, Middle Of The Road, etc. Punk cetainly never "killed" Prog, despite what magazines such as NME liked to claim at the time. Quote:
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The Reasoning, Touchstone, TesseracT, Flying Colours, Dream Theater, 25 Yard Screamer, Aerogramme, Amplifier, Anathema, Anna Phoebe, Antimatter, Panic Room, Bigelf, Blackfield, No-Man ,Steven Wilson, Breathing Space, Diagonal, Enochian Theory, Sanguine Hum, Frost*, Jurojin, Karakanic, Leafblade, Luna Rossa, Mermaid Kiss, Moon Safari, Lazuli, MultiFuse, Phideaux, Quidam, Riverside, Russian Circles, Sound Of Contact, Sylvan, Von Hertzen Brothers, etc. I could go on but it's fair to say Progressive Music is in a pretty healthy state at the moment! ![]() I was a Yes fan then (Joy Division and Siouxsie changed all that) but I find it hard to really recommend any of that music now. I listened to my original copy of Anderson's 'Olias of Sunhillow" recently and I thought it had its moments but that's all. I like Radiohead and Sigur Ros these days, both of whom have clear prog influences. |
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I remember seeing Porcupine Tree support The Cure about twenty years ago. I would never have classed them as progressive, although that term is meaningless now anyway. It was originally used mainly to describe bands who wrote their own songs in ways other than verse, verse, chorus, etc and arranged them to take advantage of multi-instrumental line-ups.
I don't see how you can have progressive rock at all these days as it finished progressing years ago. In truth, it mainly came about due to trained musicians getting fed up with being unfavourably to those playing classical music, so they deliberately tried to make it complicated. I think Rick Wakeman helped punk along nicely by staging that ridiculous King Arthur On Ice show. Johnny Rotten wore a "I hate Pink Floyd" T-shirt, yet he was a fan of Van de Graaf Generator. Glen Matlock must have been too, because both Anarchy In The UK and God Save The Queen borrow heavily from Peter Hammill's Nadir's Big Chance. |
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Are Pink Floyd Prog Rock?
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Just found this, which is far better quality than anything from that era that I've ever seen before.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDKJcKRP71E |
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Thanks so much for all the replies! You're all incredibly helpful and I'm going to have fun checking out these recommendations.
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Are Pink Floyd Prog Rock?
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For me....recent releases that I have managed to get have been.... The Neal Morse Band, Flying Colors, Fish On Friday, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, all blooming marvelous! Up next, I have some Big Big Train on the way as well as the brilliant new Sanguine Hum double CD..... One absolute top tip though, is Dave Kerzner with New World - you can get a single disc or double disc version and it is one of the best Prog albums for many a year....features a cast of top names too....you really need to investigate this one! https://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/album/new-world Go and look up a few of the many Prog radio shows as well, I have found so much great new stuff via these....for example, The Prog Mill on Stafford Radio and Prog Rock Files on Wolverhampton FM .... |
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They're as prog rock as say, Deep Purple. Prog rock can be commercial and even groups like Supertramp who were mostly AOR were very much influenced by prog as seen in songs like Fools Overture
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Focus.
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