Your favourite Prog Rock Band and album

[Icy Gull]

Yes, the genre so despised by punks so probably a fair proportion of NSC

Anyway I will plump for Peter Gabriel's Genesis and particularly the fantastic Sellimg England by the Pound which still sounds as good today as it did in 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rn9tzirks4

 

[whitelion]

Script For A Jester's Tear - Marillion

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Dark Side of the Moon

 

[Bold Seagull]

Dark Side of the Moon

I'll second. Perhaps the most obvious, but it is still the most bloody awesome album to listen to. Got to say, also love The Wall. I think I've come to understand that differently with age.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I named my German Shepherd after this song.

 

[marlowe]

(As per the first word of your post): Yes : "Close to the Edge"

https://youtu.be/GNkWac-Nm0A

 

[Blazing Apostle]

Yep another vote for Yes Close to the Edge

 

[studio150]

Dark Side of the Moon

I'll second. Perhaps the most obvious, but it is still the most bloody awesome album to listen to. Got to say, also love The Wall. I think I've come to understand that differently with age.

2 votes for the 1972 Medicine Head album as opposed to the brilliant THE Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd released in 1973.

 

[maltaseagull]

Yes, the genre so despised by punks so probably a fair proportion of NSC

Anyway I will plump for Peter Gabriel's Genesis and particularly the fantastic Sellimg England by the Pound which still sounds as good today as it did in 1973







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rn9tzirks4

Great choice. Also liked "And then there were three"

 

[theroyal]

A Trick of the Tail, for me. Closely followed by Wind and Wuthering.

I adore Genesis including their work with Gabriel but there's something about those 2-3 albums with Collins before they turned the pop corner* that are magical, especially the ones with Hackett.

*Duke is a good album however.

 

[studio150]

Going to go for Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

 

[jakarta]

Dark Side of the Prog. Allegedly the last Album Kurt Cobain listened to before he ventilated his head... Not a Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, in retrospect I'm amazed Fripp didn't forbid John Wetton to smile on the Cover Photo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6_V91fG8

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Michael Quatro In collaboration with the Gods. Although several of the above are well up there in my list

 

[KVLT]

Track would be A Fair Judgement from the Deliverance album by Opeth



Album would be Blackwater Park by Opeth



Prog Rock fused with Metal.

 

[moggy]

Pink floyd
"Wish you were here"

 

[Icy Gull]

(As per the first word of your post): Yes : "Close to the Edge"

https://youtu.be/GNkWac-Nm0A

I loved all their album sleeves but for whatever reason musically I just found them TOO self indulgent and I wasn't a fan of Jon Anderson's voice (I'll make an exception for Owner of a Lonely heart though). I know they are probably recognised as the definitive Prog rock band though.

I also have a soft spot for the Court of the Crimson King, again a fantastic album sleeve too.

Pink Floyd until the Wall are quite possibly my all time favourite band and I have heard those early albums so often that I don't even think of them as Prog Rock, schoolboy error there.

Uriah Heap or Caravan anyone?

 

[jakarta]

Prog Rock fused with Metal.

Oi - the mighty King Crimson did that it 1969!

 

[Icy Gull]

Oi - the mighty King Crimson did that it 1969!

And jazz fused it as well

 

[half time scores]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5iX9YhCCp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTjYzOVWUJ0

 

[KVLT]

Oi - the mighty King Crimson did that it 1969!

Blimey I didn't know it was a competition.

While similar in places (and an obvious influence on them) I think you'd find Opeth rather different to King Crimson to be fair.