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What are your favorite prog rock albums?
Posted on 4/1/14 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 1:15 pm
You know stuff like Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Genesis, etc.
Been doing some listening lately and have decided there is a very thin line in the genre between an album being amazing, and an album just being the most unlistenable overindulgent garbage ever.
Anyway I've been listening to A LOT of Genesis the past couple of months and I was just seeing if I could get some ideas for some new stuff to check out.
Some of my favorites:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Yes - Fragile
King Crimson - Discipline
Genesis - Abacab
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
whatcha got MB?
Been doing some listening lately and have decided there is a very thin line in the genre between an album being amazing, and an album just being the most unlistenable overindulgent garbage ever.
Anyway I've been listening to A LOT of Genesis the past couple of months and I was just seeing if I could get some ideas for some new stuff to check out.
Some of my favorites:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Yes - Fragile
King Crimson - Discipline
Genesis - Abacab
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
whatcha got MB?
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Posted on 4/1/14 at 1:22 pm to danman6336
2112 for the title track alone
Posted on 4/1/14 at 1:38 pm to danman6336
Dream Theater - Awake
Posted on 4/1/14 at 1:56 pm to danman6336
I like a lot of your list. On some days, Wish You Were Here is my favorite album of the 70s.
As far as Yes - I know it is probably just my age, but as fond as I am of Steve Howe (Asia probably remains my favorite Supergroup, with all due respect to Cream) as a musician, I liked the Trevor Rabin era a little better - 90125 and Big Generator were departures from Yes' roots (more glossy, more commercial, more radio friendly), but it also brought a more traditional rock vibe to the sound.
But do those count as prog rock albums? I'm not sure.
For that matter is Asia prog rock? If so, Asia and Alpha have to be way up there - just monstrously good.
And, what about ELP's debut album? 1970 - way ahead of it's time, equal parts hippie rock and prog rock, with one of the best drummers of all time.
What's not to like?
As far as Yes - I know it is probably just my age, but as fond as I am of Steve Howe (Asia probably remains my favorite Supergroup, with all due respect to Cream) as a musician, I liked the Trevor Rabin era a little better - 90125 and Big Generator were departures from Yes' roots (more glossy, more commercial, more radio friendly), but it also brought a more traditional rock vibe to the sound.
But do those count as prog rock albums? I'm not sure.
For that matter is Asia prog rock? If so, Asia and Alpha have to be way up there - just monstrously good.
And, what about ELP's debut album? 1970 - way ahead of it's time, equal parts hippie rock and prog rock, with one of the best drummers of all time.
What's not to like?
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 2:12 pm to danman6336
Good list, but I would delete Abacab and sub Selling England by the Pound
ETA: Also add ELP, Brain Salad Surgery
ETA: Also add ELP, Brain Salad Surgery
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 2:33 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
quote:I'll check it out. I've only listened to Moving Pictures by them.
2112
quote:I just checked out a few songs on youtube. A little too metal for me.
Dream Theater - Awake
quote:I'll check it out. What's the best one to start with, the self-title?
Asia
quote:I have this one downloaded but have never listened. I don't know why but I've never really tried to get into them as much as some of the others.I like that Pictures in Exhibition album by them though.
ELP, Brain Salad Surgery
Posted on 4/1/14 at 2:37 pm to danman6336
quote:
I'll check it out. What's the best one to start with, the self-title?
Yeah - the best 2 Asia albums, IMHO, are the first 2, Asia and Alpha.
Astra is alright, but they'd already started to shift personnel, quite a bit. Effectively Asia was a combination of King Krimson, Yes and the P in ELP. A prog rock "supergroup" if there ever was one.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 2:55 pm to danman6336
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:06 pm to danman6336
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Mastodon - The Hunter
these are probably all too metal for you though
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Mastodon - The Hunter
these are probably all too metal for you though
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:08 pm to danman6336
Classical prog era:
Any Genesis album from Trespass to Wind & Wuthering (particularly Foxtrot), ELP up to Works Vol. 1, any Pink Floyd prior to Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking, Aqualung, Even in the Quietest Moments, most Yes from that era, UK, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Brand X, King Crimson.
Modern prog era:
Umphree's, Jordan Rudess, John Petrucci, Black Light Syndrome, Liquid Tension Experiment, Steve Hackett's Genesis Revisited albums.
Edited to add Porcupine Tree (thanks MDS). And yes, Abacab still sucks.
Any Genesis album from Trespass to Wind & Wuthering (particularly Foxtrot), ELP up to Works Vol. 1, any Pink Floyd prior to Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking, Aqualung, Even in the Quietest Moments, most Yes from that era, UK, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Brand X, King Crimson.
Modern prog era:
Umphree's, Jordan Rudess, John Petrucci, Black Light Syndrome, Liquid Tension Experiment, Steve Hackett's Genesis Revisited albums.
quote:
Genesis - Abacab
Edited to add Porcupine Tree (thanks MDS). And yes, Abacab still sucks.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 10:27 am
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:29 pm to MountainTiger
quote:? Abacab is awesomequote:
Genesis - Abacab
Do you even Dodo/Lurker bro?
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:33 pm to danman6336
quote:
King Crimson - Discipline
One of my favorites.
Rush - Hemispheres
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
dredg - El Cielo
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
Battles - Mirrored
It's so hard to define progressive music these days.
ETA:
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:38 pm to Brosef Stalin
quote:
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
This is actually the only album he's made that I don't have. No idea why.
I'd actually have to throw in Terria, as well. It has it's more droning moments, but I think it definitely fits with the prog definition.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:48 pm to MountainTiger
quote:
Brand X
Love'em. Masques and Unorthodox Behaviour are classics.
As to the OP, try Chimera and II=I by the band, Andromeda.
Planets; Ocean; or Dawn, by the German prog group, Eloy.
I love Tarkus and Trilogy by ELP
Free Hand, by Gentle Giant, is very good.
Script for a Jester's Tear, Misplaced Childhood, and Clutching at Straws by Marillion are unbelievable.
Dilemma on Earth, by Ticket to the Moon. Very good, and only $5 on Amazon digital downloads.
Earth---Ticket to the Moon
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:51 pm to tigermeat
Also check out Mars Volta, Frances the Mute, and Masters of Reality, Pine/Cross Dover.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:53 pm to MountainTiger
quote:
Umphree's
I hate that band
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:57 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
really, I bought you a ticket for the april 17 @ civic show.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 3:58 pm to MountainTiger
quote:
Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Nice
Posted on 4/1/14 at 4:09 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
quote:
really, I bought you a ticket for the april 17 @ civic show.
He only wants to go if he can keep the headphones
Posted on 4/1/14 at 4:47 pm to danman6336
quote:
Some of my favorites:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Yes - Fragile
King Crimson - Discipline
Genesis - Abacab
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
no Porcupine Tree = thread fail
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