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I just listened to a few Gentle Giant songs that I thought might be good for this: "Knots" (Octopus) has some really crazy shit on it that might be good for sampling; "Nothing At All"'s (s/t) opening with a funky beat behind it would be nice; "Why Not?" (s/t) has a nice sample-able drum and bass bit (in the literal sense not drum 'n' bass) before the outro solo; "Alucard" (s/t) is pretty groovy and crazy; "Experience" (In A Glass House) has some nice bits; "Design" (Interview) is really cool an has a really cool drum break at about 4:27. I don't know what part of "Peel the Paint" has that one really cool bit before the guitar and sax part that leads into the chorus at about 2:04. You probably don't care about this anymore but whatever.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

remove the bit "I don't know what part of" before "Peel the Paint" for fuck's sake.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

and how could anyone forget Knots, the Gentle Giant remix album with Kid606, Blectum & Electric Company compiled by Phthalocyanine.

it actually exists. it's actually pretty good.

― (Jon L), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Herbie Hancock's "Crossings", "Mwandishi" and "Sextant" will also satisfy some funky fusion music needs.

― earlnash, Monday, 24 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dleone's suggestions in this thread are OTM i just heard AREA wow!

― chaki_burger (chaki), Monday, 24 May 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Chaki, see also:

Area/Demetrio Stratos: C or D

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Any and every King Crimson rec with Bill Bruford is a good choice: Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Starless And Bible Black, Red and their three '80s LPs wich the monochromatic red/blue/yellow covers.

Rustic Hinge's [recorded 1970, not released until '88, former Arthur Brown sidemen, almost certainly the first Trout Mask Replica-disciples] is excellent but you'll probably never find it.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

wich = with, of course. Bonehead.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Area are more than ok. Try also Magma's "Udu Vudu" - its their simpler and funkier album and couple of tracks have fantastic drums/bass sequences.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

So much "prog" is that mellow, slow stuff...

Prog that rocks...

Alan Parsons Project "Stereotomy" (leans towards pop)
Alan Parsons "Try Anything Once" (absolute rock masterpiece)

― jigue (jigue), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been listening to "Todd Rundgren's Utopia" quite a bit, and "The Ikon" from that surely has lots & lots of break sample fodder in it, if one were so inclined.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

RElayer-Yes. just dug this out recently. damn they let it go on that album. breaks-a-plenty.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Search 310's "bootleg" ep, Prague Rock for reconstructions of the funkier breaks from the mainstream progrock canon. Includes Genesis' "Riding The Scree", Pink Floyd's "Echoes" and Yes' "Heart of the Sunrise." There's also a hilarious loop from an Ian Anderson interview and the King Crimson tribute is named "Pipeless and Smoking Crack."

― doug watson (solid air), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Anyone watching the prog rock BBC archive footage, followed by documentary this evening?

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

answer to original poster's question -- Triode On n'a pas fini d'avoir tout vu (with proto-disco flutes!). it played between almost every outside set at terrastock in june and had people a little wiggly

― kamerad, Friday, 2 January 2009 20:56 (sixteen years ago)

Stuck this on in the background, we're gonna probably play Scrabble

― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:01 (sixteen years ago)

Nice barnet, Moody Blues frontman.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

Hardcore flute action, yes it's the Tull!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

Wishbone Ash sound like Polvo!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

But look like Creme Brulee.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

Hang on, I didn't think any of this kicked off till 10pm? For fuck's sake.

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

An hour of archive footage with what seem to be Steve Wright penned glib captions, followed by the docu, in which Rick Wakeman will no doubt be aloowed to drone on.

Pretty entertaining so far though!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

Ah, right. Bugger, missing the archive footage, then (and still up to eyes with work and reluctanct to give up just yet. Tits).

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

:-( sorry! First capes sighted too...

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

have any of these put in in an appearance on the archive footing of the show

John Peel / Alan Freeman / Tommy Vance

― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

...and whispering Bob Harris

― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

Not yet, but Jimmy Saville did one of the intros.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

Hmmm Emerson Lake & Palmer suck the big one, sadly.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

Soft Machine a lot better!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:41 (sixteen years ago)

lol Bob Harris!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:43 (sixteen years ago)

does Bob Harris look like a long haired hippy?

― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

love Caravan.

― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:49 (sixteen years ago)

i bet Comus are too obscure for this program

any sign of the van der graaf generator yet?

― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

Harris looking well groomed. Genesis now, I think.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:53 (sixteen years ago)

radiohead

― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Live Bern 1975

― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

Robert Wyatt on the documentary :-)

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

I'm watching the arse end of Big Brother and taping the start of the doc.

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

Pretty good set of talking heads thus far. Some of the usual "greatest era" stuff, although most contrbutors seem to be able to analyse things a bit more than that.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)

Scored 321 in a 3-player game against hapless gf's mum (142) and gf (120), who won last night's triple-header and incurred the fitting response. I am the GODLIEST, she the BARMAID. Bam. All this to a lovely soundtrack too. :)

― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)

lol you so cool prog rock and Scrabble!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

i know right it's totally happening here

― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:26 (sixteen years ago)

at least King Crimson are sounding pretty good.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:28 (sixteen years ago)

Jonathan Coe reckons Crimson is "progressive rock at its most melodic" Geir to thread!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

Or actually on second thoughts...

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

uugh "thoroughbred musical statement" fuck you ELP guy.

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:37 (sixteen years ago)

Swallowing the "punk year zero" myth wholesale. Bit of a shame, except for Wyatt being reasonable and funny!

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 23:20 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, Robert Wyatt came off very well on that.

I might actually have to download some King Crimson & Soft Machine after watching that.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 2 January 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

A little bit annoyed at constant reiteration of the canard that anything using 3 chords is unsophisticated, whereas all "prog" as narrowly defined is the epitomy of questing musicianship. Also total lack of acknowledgement that anything punk or that came after punk could be in any way considered "progressive".

― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

That's to be expected though really.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 2 January 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

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i should explore ELP but i don't know if they have any other tracks like this

"Take a Pebble", "Still... You Turn Me On" and maybe "Step Aside" from the Emerson, Lake and Powell album. The Lake side of Works Vol. 1 sometimes goes for this kind of intimate ballad, but everything is covered in bombastic reverb that makes it sound like he's singing from a Swiss mountaintop.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 28 April 2025 15:16 (two months ago)

Have been enjoying "Circle Of The Crayfish" from 1972 by nuts German organ/drums duo Sixty Nine, pretty much the exact meeting point between ELP and Brainticket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUK2eG6XhuA

― the very hungry capital-killer (Matt #2), Thursday, 1 May 2025 16:17 (two months ago)

Nothing to do with this thread. But today I misheard "My building has great progressive broadband" as "My building has a great progressive rock band" and I asked "What's their name?"

― bbq, Friday, 2 May 2025 05:04 (two months ago)

Well, yeah. What you misheard would be a much more interesting conversation.

― jeff bezoar (sawdust lagoon), Friday, 2 May 2025 09:52 (two months ago)

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