Your favourite Prog Rock Band and album

[theroyal]

Metal, not Rock, but this album should still be essential listening to prog fans.

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

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Toss up between this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHIQkfp0s68

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwsb5kaLh00&feature=youtu.be

 

[timco]

 

[timco]

I also think this lot are Prog if others think they are HM Welsh wizards Budgie

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Ooohhh best thread ever!

Right:

High Tide - s/t
...

I have both of the first two albums on vinyl. Worth a few bob, apparently.

Well done for your progness, especially at such a tender age.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

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

When I first saw the thread title, This was what immediately sprang to mind. Wonderful album.

But I also have a soft spot for Foxtrot, especially the 20 minutes of "Supper's ready".

 

[GT49er]

If it's going to be Genesis, it's Nursery Cryme for me.

Then I'll add a vote for:
Soft Machine - Third;
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One;
Amon Duul - Phallus Dei.

 

[BBassic]

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



Album would be Blackwater Park by Opeth



Prog Rock fused with Metal.

And now I have to listen to Blackwater Park again.

Heritage is a great album too. They drop all the metal and go full prog.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Uriah Heap or Caravan anyone?

Caravan, First saw them at Brighton Poly in about 73. Last saw them in Canterbury about 5 years ago. I adore the early albums, but hugely underated is the more recent stuff (10 years ago) with Dougie Boyle on guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmA4VS0ywM

 

[jakarta]

Soft Machine - Third;.

Finest piece of music ever written: Moon in June...

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

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

One of my absolute favourite albums. Starless and Fallen Angel ...

 

[GT49er]

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.

Well of course John Wetton was smiling - he was a very lucky boy! He was a very basic bass guitarist blessed with a decent voice who time and time again managed to surround himself with top class musicians who did all the clever stuff, while the bass often did not much more than boom out the bass note of the chord being played at the beginning of the bar. Listen to Asia (Steve Howe on guitar, Geoff Downes on keyboards and Carl Palmer on drums - I'd fancy myself on bass with those three doing the business round me!) and you'll see (hear) what I mean.
Good luck to him (sadly not any more though) - he made the best of his talent. How many of us have achieved that?

 

[Mental Lental]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQR6e_wpeiY

 

[bobbysmith01]

https://youtu.be/7bf0x9fOULs

Was playing that very recently my old friend.


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[Not Andy Naylor]

Well of course John Wetton was smiling - he was a very lucky boy! He was a very basic bass guitarist blessed with a decent voice who time and time again managed to surround himself with top class musicians who did all the clever stuff, while the bass often did not much more than boom out the bass note of the chord being played at the beginning of the bar. Listen to Asia (Steve Howe on guitar, Geoff Downes on keyboards and Carl Palmer on drums - I'd fancy myself on bass with those three doing the business round me!) and you'll see (hear) what I mean.
Good luck to him (sadly not any more though) - he made the best of his talent. How many of us have achieved that?

Without wishing to suggest that you don't know what you're talking about, I'd have to say that dealing with some of the time signatures in U.K. alone qualifies him as more than decent. Eddie Jobson rated him.

 

[jakarta]

Well of course John Wetton was smiling - he was a very lucky boy! He was a very basic bass guitarist blessed with a decent voice who time and time again managed to surround himself with top class musicians who did all the clever stuff, while the bass often did not much more than boom out the bass note of the chord being played at the beginning of the bar. Listen to Asia (Steve Howe on guitar, Geoff Downes on keyboards and Carl Palmer on drums - I'd fancy myself on bass with those three doing the business round me!) and you'll see (hear) what I mean.
Good luck to him (sadly not any more though) - he made the best of his talent. How many of us have achieved that?

Fripp booted out anyone he didn't rate as musicians in King Crimson so can't agree with this - had more than a decent voice as well...

 

[Barry Izbak]

The whole Genesis back catalogue, up until Abacab, would qualify.
But if you forced me to choose one it has to be The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
Not only a prog band at the very height of their game, but a concept album with an unfathomable story on the sleeve.
Absolutely brilliant.

 

[Superphil]

Camembert Electrique - Gong

 

[blue'n'white]

https://youtu.be/9nan0n8H2Jw

https://youtu.be/oD9B3AtUW24

And still producing great music

 

[rocker959]

Was playing that very recently my old friend.


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Excellent matey .