Prog Rock

IT'S THE YES EPICS POLL

so you got there in the end AA!

"this is the worst thread. are you guys all british?"

I'm Italian. I got prog in my blood.

That said, even if I'm not an avid fan of Genesis and Yes, I totally love King Crimson and VDGG, and all those semi-forgotten acts like Catapilla and Curved Air.

Yes! Yes I did.

(hur, YES, get it)

No.

(j/k)

I do think it's funny how some people don't care for early genesis but claim to be a prog fan. I bet those people are more fans of The Mars Volta side of the spectrum of prog music.

I'm not sure if you're referring to me but I love Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme (and Wind & Wuthering), so it's just one patch that I don't care for.

as long as you like some early genesis you're okay in my book

I mean, using three chords is unsophisticated, really

Tell that to Neu!, they made do with one for a lot of the time

Anway, I enjoyed this prog prog., even tho I kinda agree with whoever upthread said "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" was the best tune on it

Ever since this went out I've been getting I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE AND I BRING YOU in my head at spontaneous intervals ~20 times a day.

Tell that to Neu!, they made do with one for a lot of the time

One of the worst things about krautrock.

Finally got round to watching Prog Britannia on IPlayer today and was pleasantly surprised, given how condescending it could have been. One thing no-one really mentioned was the influence of Broadway musicals on prog, which had grown out of light opera which in turn was a more accessible version of "serious" classical music. I'm sure these guys all grew up hearing West Side Story etc (they played The Nice version of America a lot in the doc admittedly), and it seems like the big unacknowledged influence to me, probably because it's so astoundingly uncool.

Songs Of West Side Story Soundtrack Album Track Listing
14. Rumble, The - Chick Corea's Elektric Band Vs. Steve Vai Monsters

they also didn't mention (although i think i saw clips of it) rick wakeman's king authur on ice thing and his great anecdote about the time when, due to illness, one side had more members than the other...

Come to think of it, were there any women in this show at all?

Or in this entire series of programmes? Oh, I think I saw Anne Nightingale introducing King Crimson.

holy nerd! BBC's Prog Rock Britannia in three parts on youtube

The 25 Best Progressive Rock Songs of All Time
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/141547-best-25-rock-songs-of-all-time/P0

There are likely a song or two that some readers won’t recognize, but I endeavored to not make this an exercise in obscurity (a person willing to rank prog-rock songs does not—or should not—need to further bolster his ambiguous street cred by listing songs nobody is remotely familiar with).

Seems to me a cop out just cuz dude was too half-assed to bother checking out Van Der Graaf Generator, Gong, Gentle Giant, etc. So it should be qualified as best populist prog choons or something. I made a playlist of the ones I have of above, but it's begging for an additional 25....

that list is rope tbh

Dunno if this has been posted somewhere yet but this 5-part Slate series on prog is really nice

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/prog_spring/features/2012/prog_rock/history_of_prog_the_nice_emerson_lake_palmer_and_other_bands_of_the_1970s_.html

Man, I can't believe I wrote off Mahavishnu upthread.

y'all have checked out this, right? http://everygreatsongever.tumblr.com/tagged/UK-prog
extensive series of UK prog mixes. I haven't even made it through the first five and he's up to vol. 17. fun stuff.

there were so many errors in that slate series

it's definitely not entirely accurate but it's still a good read

Man, I can't believe I wrote off Mahavishnu upthread.

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Yeah, I thought that Slate piece was a mess. Errors, too much pride in liking ELP while still sort of making fun of the genre/the author himself, a poor job pointing out how different, say, King Crimson was from Genesis, or Gentle Giant from Yes, etc.

Mahavishnu is incredible. Not sure how prog it is. To my ears it is sort of Crimson-heavy.

I'm just glad to see The Nice get some credit; they weren't really a great band or even really a good one, but the fact that they're unheard of is ridiculous

mahavishnu is fusion not prog IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXVnXVuj4Ps

fusion as well but whatvr

mahavishnu is fusion not prog IMO

funny because my jazz snob dad wrote them off as too prog. obv they are "fusion" as far as record store bins are concerned, but imo they are only about 11% less prog than 1974 era king crimson

i have this thread to thank for my new name.

i'm not really sure how to classify Mahavishnu either but it's clear that prog fans are like their #1 audience and that jazz dudes aren't really keen on them

yeah but marsalis/crouch jazz snobs think everything after bitches brew and ornette is basically insane clown posse

y'all have checked out this, right? http://everygreatsongever.tumblr.com/tagged/UK-prog
extensive series of UK prog mixes. I haven't even made it through the first five and he's up to vol. 17. fun stuff.

Seconding this, the writeups are really good too.

This seems like the closest to a general prog thread here, so . . .

If this started in LA I just might do it.

Cruise to the Edge

you'd have to hurry -- looks like the progtanic is filling up

http://cruisetotheedge.com/pricing-availability

Excellent liveblog ILM thread op too

I silently ridiculed this concept when it first appeared but watching it continue each year, I'm thinking it could well become the more successful type of festival for the North American prog audience (see the recent death of NearFest.)

Also, I wonder if Marillion's presence this time would make it slightly less of a middle-aged sausage fest?

that is the first and only time in history i expect to come across that sentence

My point being that one is likely to find more women at a (current) Marillion show than at one headlined by Yes, UK or homages to Gentle Giant, etc. All numbers very relative, of course.

i know what you meant dude, i was just joshing. don't think i've heard a note of Marillion since Fish left.

dark side of the honeymoon package includes grilled schindleria praematurus

every meal served with two complimentary scoops of and you and ice cream

I love when people bill themselves as part of a singular person (i.e. "Tony Levin of Peter Gabriel"). I know it means of his touring band, but that's always funny to read.

it's like he's squire to a knight of the prog table

The cruise organizers should've gone one further and linked every act on the poster in some way to Genesis.