Prog-Rock appreciation thread

[* jack *]

Fine. With all these music genre threads starting up, I'm going to start my own!

Progressive Rock, Kraut Rock, Bloated Pretentious Crap Rock... whatever you want to call it,
what are your favorite albums, songs, or people in this brief and much-maligned musical movement?

My top albums:

Pretty Things | S.F. Sorrow
King Crimson | Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Genesis | Nursery Cryme
Can | tie : Tago Mago | Ege Bamyasi
Yes | Fragile

[timwat]

I gotta post to THIS thread! BTW, you realize prog wasn't that "brief"; it's still going on. In no particular order:

Neal Morse | Testimony, One
ELP | Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show that Never Ends, Works, Vol. 1
Yes | Relayer, Close to the Edge
Genesis | Foxtrot
Van Der Graaf Generator | Pawn Hearts, Godbluff
King Crimson | Lark's Tongues in Aspic, Discipline, USA
Happy the Man | Crafty Hands
Camel | The Snow Goose
Spock's Beard | The Light, V
UK | UK
Bill Bruford | One of a Kind
Rick Wakeman | Six Wives of Henry VIII
Peter Gabriel | 1st, 2nd, 3rd eponymous albums, Security
Anthony Phillips | The Geese and the Ghost

[nick burns]

Here's three I like:

Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway


This site streams some pretty tasty prog cuts:

http://www.auralmoon.com/html/

[jeff williams]

Eno\ David Byrne :My life in the bush of ghosts. Eno :Before and after science
Gong :Live floating anarchy, Expresso
Hawkwind :PXR5, Sonic Assasins.
Amon Duul II :Viva la Trance, Wolf City.

Not sure if any of these fit in the bill.

Neat to see VanDerGraaf Generator mentioned, they were wild.

A note -you guys MIGHT like something called Future Sound of London -F.S.O.L.
Recent, prog -but not 'rock'.

I kinda forget what I used to collect, I'm a music neopyle.

[SirScott]

Anglagard -- Hybris
Porcupine Tree -- In Absentia
Gordian Knot -- Gordian Knot
Jellyfish -- Spilt Milk
Spock's Beard -- The Kindness of Strangers

[* jack *]

http://www.sapere.it/tc/img/Musica/Grandi_del_rock/Peter_Gabriel/gabriel_genesis.jpg

[skitbraviking]

90 Day Men: Panda Park and To Everybody

[dooley]

Really, prog? I never thought of them in that way before.

Not a prog fan myself, the first King Crimson record and early Genesis aside. I did know some of the guys from iQ though, does that get me prog cool points? (if that's not an oxymoron I don't know what is)

[Feldman]

What about all of Bill Nelson's work--Northern Dream, BeBop Deluxe, Red Noise, and albums under his own name from @190 on. Melody, drive, some good guitar noise, and he avoids blues and R&R cliches pretty well. Depending on whether you call it "quoting" or "ripping off" Bill has influenced a whole lot of other bands and musicians.
A good introduction would be BBD's "Drastic Plastic."

[timwat]

Despite the fact that prog is the genre equivalent of a pocket protector, you still get cool points for knowing some of the guys in iQ.

In my humble opinion, Be Bop Deluxe called it quits before they achieved real prog greatness. They showed fleeting glimpses of inspiration with, for instance, the arch humour of Sunburst Finish, or the long version of Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape (on the live record, not the studio version), but it felt to me like a case of always being "just that close" to pulling things together but never quite getting there. So for me, the hard left turn of "Drastic Plastic" seemed at the time to spell the demise of BBD, which it sadly did. Still dig them, though.

[Poppaspoke]

Glad people still remember Pretty Things and Happy the Man. UFO 2 remains a guilty pleasure for me. A great 90's prog rock album is "Suspension and Displacement" by Djam Karet: it's well worth the the trouble to find it.

[* jack *]

Glad people still remember Pretty Things <snip>
I'm not old enough to remember the Pretties; but when I discovered them, S.F.Sorrow became one of my 'desert island' must-haves... I love that album. (or any album featuring a mellotron, for that matter: )

http://www.bandatolfa.it/foto%20strumenti/mellotron.jpg


Speaking of mellotrons, I brought Genesis | Trespass to work with me today, maybe I'll listen to that right now ;)

[lala]

Lard Free, Heldon/Richard Pinhaus, Kraftwerk, Pierrot Lunaire, Can, Neu, Amon Duul II, Faust, Agitation Free, Ash Ra Temple, Aphrodite's Child, The Cosmic Jokers,

[* jack *]

OK, all you Prog-Rockers:

Tonight I will be hosting a one-hour specialty show on the local radio station where I am a DJ.
The "Mystery Show" airs every Sunday night from 10:30-11:30 pm EST, with a different DJ & genre/theme each time.

I will be exploring late 60s, early 70's psych/prog/kraut - check it out online: www.wxdu.org/listen

featuring:
The Soft Machine
Gong
Matching Mole
Egg
Nektar
Faust
Gentle Giant
Amon Duul II
Hatfield & the North
etc.

[-=£em in Pa=-]

Jack...do you do the show every week ?

I saw Adrian Belew King Crimson and even as only a
sideline fan of ProgRock I was amazed by the sounds he got
out of his guitar. He made his guitar sound like a soundtrack
to a show on the Nature channel or something, with animal
noises, tornado sounds, etc... !! Very bizzare !

My wife's car CD's....Nina Hagen ??

[randya]

Nina Hagen is not prog-rock in my opinion. More towards post-punk. She was on the west coast recently, doing some recording, and came to Portland for a couple of shows. I caught one of them, quite excellent! Have you heard her version of The Lord's Prayer?

[Boatdesigner]

I thought I was the last prog fan! My favorites (not in any order):

Gentle Giant, Renaissance, Porcupine Tree, Little Atlas, Magenta, Karnataka, Dream Theater

OK, I'll stop now.:D

[gonesh9]

OK, all you Prog-Rockers:

Tonight I will be hosting a one-hour specialty show on the local radio station where I am a DJ.
The "Mystery Show" airs every Sunday night from 10:30-11:30 pm EST, with a different DJ & genre/theme each time.

I will be exploring late 60s, early 70's psych/prog/kraut - check it out online: www.wxdu.org/listen

featuring:
The Soft Machine
Gong
Matching Mole
Egg
Nektar
Faust
Gentle Giant
Amon Duul II
Hatfield & the North
etc.

Wow, I was reading this thread and was about to mention Soft Machine, Gong, Hatfield & the North, Gentle Giant, etc. There's some really good bands there.

[Braighs]

I'm new to prog and I came in the back door skipping the "big" prog acts. idkw
here is a list of stuff I can't get enough of.

artist - favorite album
Gentle Giant - Aquiring the Taste
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
The Strawbs - Ghosts
Kansas - Leftoverture
Opeth - Morningrise (I dont know if you count this)

bands i'm getting into: Egg, Paatos

[* jack *]

Tonight I will be hosting a one-hour specialty show on the local radio station where I am a DJ.
here is a link to the actual setlist (http://destoria.bootp.duke.edu/djspace/plmanager/world/printplaylist.php?show_id=2888)

When I did the show^, I also played a few cuts from this Rhino box set, released in 97:

http://perso.orange.fr/lp-covers/DEAN%2072%202000/sft.jpg

I've also been talking with a few other DJs about doing a Prog Hour every week.
It seems like there are a few prog-heads at the station.

[classic1]

Progressive Rock, Kraut Rock, Bloated Pretentious Crap Rock... whatever you want to call it,
what are your favorite albums, songs, or people in this brief and much-maligned musical movement?



The phrase is 'deservedly maligned'.:p

Damn there is some horrible sheeyt listed here.

[* jack *]

The phrase is 'deservedly maligned'.:p

Damn there is some horrible sheeyt listed here.

haha. like 'Legalize It' is a work of art...

thanks for your contribution to this 'appreciation' thread.

[classic1]

haha. like 'Legalize It' is a work of art...

thanks for your contribution to this 'appreciation' thread.

I appreciate it for what it is;)