C90: Prog that does not suck

peter hammill, beefheart, and damo suzuki to thread!

(the real fans aren't buying the shtick anyway.)

""That was pathetic, [because] I couldn't be half as ignorant, moronic, violent, destructive...as they wanted to promote me".

I sez lets suck, in a count dracula like fashion, all of the best in each 'genre'.

...irrelevant, as well

although the double albums with pop-up spaceship inserts and the like do sort of suggest otherwise....

actually i'm not too sure whether half the things on your list are prog, but as this pretty much coincides with the half that i like i may well constitute proof of your brainwash theory.

I'd say the whole of Yes's Drama album ownz.

Are Radiohead prog? If so, they rock too. If not, they still rock, but in a way totally irrelevant to this thread.

David Gilmour claims that J. Rotten once told him he never really hated Pink Floyd and was "actually a bit of a fan."

All amazing songs, go get 'em.

Yes - Starship Trooper

Genesis - Harold the Barrel

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers

The Plastic People Of the Universe - Samson

5UU's - One Nail Draws Another (excerpt) (This has lovely moments but an excerpt is all anyone needs)

Rush - Natural Science

Rush-Basically all of it until moving pictures but especially "farewell to kings" and "2112"

Yes- "fragile"(for heart of the sunrise) and "close to the edge"

Roxy music-"for your pleasure"

Pink Floyd-"live at pompeii"

PROG IS THE NEW PUNK

Discipline, Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair - King Crimson

Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch - Jethro Tull

And then there were Three, Duke, Abacab - Genesis

The First Day, Damage, Redemption/Approaching Silence - Sylvian / Fripp

Genesis, Invisible Touch, We Can't Dance - Genesis

Exposure, Peter Gabriel II, Sacred Songs - Fripp, Gabriel, and Daryl Hall respectively

Asia, Alpha, Astra (just joking...anything with a crappy rhythm section like Wetton and Palmer just has to suck, doesn't it?)

Art Zoyd: "Sangria" (has pretty much nothing to do with the band as they are known, but it's fantastic)

Brand X: "Sun in the Night", "Nuclear Burn", "Euthanasiz Waltz". Phil Collins was cool?

Camel: "Rhayader" from The Snow Goose (of course), "Lunar Sea", "Hymn to Her", I'm also a pathetic sucker for "Rose of Sharon" off of Dust and Dreams.

Can: "Pinch" de Ege Bam.

Caravan: "Love To Love You", "Winter Wine"

ELP: "Tocatta", "Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression", "The Three Fates"

Genesis: "Stagnation", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "Mad Man Moon", "Dance on a Volcano", "...Unquiet Slumbers/In That Quiet Earth"

Gong: "Magick Mother Invocation/Master Builder", "A Sprinkle of Clouds"

Happy the Man: first three albums are loaded with classics, for me, anyway: "Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in Stencil Forest", "Knee Bitten Nymphs in Limbo", "Befrost (Upon the Rainbow", "Carousel", "Morning Sun", "Footwork", "While Chrome Yellow Shine"...

Hatfield and the North: How 'bout "Share It" from The Rotter's Club

Heldon: "Marie Virginie C" from Un Reve Sans Consequence. Molten.

Kansas-II (before they were Kansas): "Greek Structure Sunbeam"

King Crimson: "Exiles", "Easy Money" (only versions with the "Well I argued with the judge..." line), "Starless"

Magma: "Kohntarkosz", "Zess", "Hhai", "Lihns", "The Last Seven Minutes", "Spiritual", "Dondai", to name but a few.

And if you like them...
Zao: "Marochsek", "Atart"
Weidorje: "Vilna", "Booldemug"
Eskaton: "Eskaton", "Attente", "Ecoute"

Mahavishnu Orchestra: "The Meeting of the Spirits", live version of "Sister Andrea" on Between Nothingness and Eternity, "Dance of Maya", "I Wonder"

Sally Oldfield: "Water Bearer", "Night Song/Wampum Song/Nenya/Land By the Sea", "Weaver"

Popol Vuh: "Aguirre", "Letzte Tage - Letzte Nachte", "Agape Agape"

Renaissance: "Island", "Running Hard", "A Song for All Seasons"

Ruins: "Praha in Spring" and "Thebes" off of Symphonica

Shakti: "Natural Elements", "The Eagle and the Daffodil", "Get Down and Sruti"

Soft Machine: "Teeth" from SM4 is a monster. "Riff" from 6.

Tangerine Dream: "Mysterious Semblance at the Strands of Nightmares"

Univers Zero: "Triomphe des Mouches", "Emmanations", "Heatwave"

U Totem: "Ginger Tea"

Van der Graaf Generator: "Refugees", "The Undercover Man", "Manerg"

Robert Wyatt: "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road"

Yes: "Sound Chaser", "To Be Over", "Turn of the Century", "Ritual" (live 1976 version)

Zappa: "Inca Roads", "Alien Orifice"

"good things come in threes"...
...then I suggest this as well

Gong - Radio Gnome Trilogy

It's pretty consistent (apart from the church organ bit and the dodgy lyrics).

James.

La Dusseldorf - "Viva"

The whole album

Caravan's "Nine Feet Underground" is a cool epic track. It's groove reminds me a bit of some Traffic and it definitely is spacey as some Soft Machine.

ELO is considered prog?!

I grabbed that Weidorje album today and it's freakin' amazing. That 11-year old Joe post rules.

lol former dog latin

james larcombe of stars in battledress itt! very exciting. their new album is some stellar chamber-prog-pop-lullaby action

nice!! I just happened upon the 1st LP and it's very good. Will have to grab the 2nd as Kavus seems so hellbent on praising the thing.

right now I'm big into albums by Echolyn and Glass Hammer - mei and Shadowlands respectively. mei is one 50-minute track which is kind of funny coming from Echolyn, who I've always considered to be fairly down-to-earth. It's a great, great piece though, very hardworking and not very reliant on jamming, it's all good music all the way. Shadowlands is just really fun; Glass Hammer is easy to dislike but this is such a goofy and well-meaning disc, and the musicianship is often top notch. There's one song about a horse that murders people, a cover of Fogelberg's "Longer" that's actually quite good, and a 20-minute suite that's full of classical and baroque influences. Plus I really dig "Farewell to Shadowlands" which is like really good minute-long bit in a prog epic stretched out and taken all the way, really cool stuff.

Steven Wilson – The Raven that Refused to Sing

Druckfarben - Second Sound: maybe prog album of the year. Granted I'm only on the second track but damn does this thing smoke.