The Prog Rock Thread

[twistor59]

Just came across this one - Mr Emerson in black and white. No synths those days, so if you wanted some weird noises, you could:
1 crank your organ up and wave it around in front of the speakers
2 turn the power on and off so the tonewheels slowed down and speeded up
3 slam the organ so the springline reverb unit went CRASHSHSHSHSH!

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[redwhine]

Moondog, anyone?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJi3l1DPWk[/youtube]

[redwhine]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yO7l6TmIRI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OXflE7ZdzA[/youtube]

[redwhine]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kECrkMpGNBM[/youtube]

Nice (...the adjective; not the band ...) pictures, too.

[Paul]

Just seen an ad on tv for this 4 disk CD set ..



The track listing brings includes a few names not mentioned so far in this thread (and a few I hadn't heard of) ..

Disc 1

1. Season Of The Witch - Sam Gopal
2. Walking In The Park - Colosseum
3. Song For The Bearded Lady - Nucleus
4. Darkness (11/11) - Van Der Graaf Generator
5. Diana - Comus
6. Aqualung (Live) - Jethro Tull
7. Devil's Answer - Atomic Rooster
8. Evil Woman's Manly Child - Dr. Z
9. Mice And Rats In The Loft - Jan Dukes De Grey
10. Back Street Luv - Curved Air
11. Roundabout - Yes
12. Golf Girl - Caravan
13. The Four Horsemen - Aphrodite's Child

Disc 2

1. From The Beginning - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
3. Oily Way - Gong
4. Epic Forest - Rare Bird
5. Macarthur Park - Beggars Opera
6. In A Glass House - Gentle Giant
7. Lord Of The Ages - Magna Carta
8. Opening Move - Gryphon
9. The Seventh Secret - Fruup
10. School - Supertramp
11. Merlin The Magician - Rick Wakeman
12. Child Of The Universe - Barclay James Harvest

Disc 3

1. Wondrous Stories - Yes
2. Hurdy Gurdy Man - Steve Hillage
3. Air Born - Camel
4. Fanfare For The Common Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
5. A Farewell To Kings - Rush
6. The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
7. Some Are Born - Jon Anderson
8. Mocking Bird - Barclay James Harvest
9. Sasquatch - Camel
10. Five Miles Out - Mike Oldfield
11. Pussy Willow - Jethro Tull
12. Touch And Go - Emerson, Lake & Powell
13. I Know You're Out There Somewhere - The Moody Blues
14. Jigsaw - Marillion

Disc 4

1. Eyes In The Night (Arrive Alive) - Pallas
2. The Weapon - Rush
3. The Old Man And The Angel - It Bites
4. The Moment Is Here - World Trade
5. Pull Me Under - Dream Theater
6. I Am I - Queensrÿche
7. The Drapery Falls - Opeth
8. Stranger In A Strange Land - Spock's Beard
9. Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) - Coheed and Cambria
10. Awakening - The Reasoning
11. Since We've Been Wrong - The Mars Volta
12. Going Home - Eureka
13. Frequency - IQ

[j.mills]

I like that that list comes all the way up to the present day. Lotsa good names. Poor choice for the Jon Anderson track - pleasant but unexceptional song.

Strange omissions: Floyd, Crimson. Strange inclusions: Supertramp. But maybe I'm just pig-higorant.

[Matt_B]

I like that that list comes all the way up to the present day. Lotsa good names. Poor choice for the Jon Anderson track - pleasant but unexceptional song.

Strange omissions: Floyd, Crimson. Strange inclusions: Supertramp. But maybe I'm just pig-higorant.

Supertramp are loosely connected to prog via Richard Palmer-James who was in King Crimson.

[j.mills]

Aha. Nobody is more than 6 handshakes from Robert Fripp. Or 60 feet from a rat. (Or is it the other way around? )

[tnjrp]

Supertramp are classified as "crossover prog" in ProgArchives, which roughly means they are "prog-influenced" and there are indeed some longer, proggier efforts among their usually radio-play-friendly "sophisto-rock".

There's a few other bands there that are fairly marginally prog and/or not very important to the genre, and a lot of tracks from bona fide prog bands that aren't really top-of-progs material either. I suppose they had to go for shorter tracks in order to make them fit on the disc

[Paul]

I've always considered Supertramp up to Crisis What Crisis as 'prog'.
After that they became much more 'AOR', pandering to a wider market.

[tnjrp]

Well, I'd count Even In The Quietest Moments... as more prog-oriented than not as well, and Brother Where You Bound saw a return to rather the same form. Most post-CWC stuff is pretty AORish tho.

It's a good band anyhow, tho rather massively depressing lyrics-wise.

[Paul]

Well, I'd count Even In The Quietest Moments... as more prog-oriented than not as well, and Brother Where You Bound saw a return to rather the same form. Most post-CWC stuff is pretty AORish tho.

It's a good band anyhow, tho rather massively depressing lyrics-wise.

Yep! Crime of the Century appealed very much to me as a depressive 17 year old. I thought they'd written Hide in Your Shell and Rudy just for me!

[Astreja]

I probably wouldn't buy that 4-CD set. in no particular order, this is what Disc 1 of my compilation would look like:

Autumn Suite - The Strawbs
Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
Take a Pebble - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Wind Him Up - Saga
Everyday - Steve Hackett
Bourrée - Jethro Tull
Hope - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Yours is No Disgrace - Yes
I Think of You - Renaissance
The Cinema Show - Genesis
Peaches in Regalia - Frank Zappa

[tnjrp]

In related news... "Britain's best kept [progrock] secret" The Enid has now, finally and after all there long years officially released the original EMI records versions their two first albums, In The Region of The Summer Stars and Aerie Faerie Nonsense on CD (the previously available CDs where either more or less partial re-recordings or inferior quality bootlegs).

According to the sales pitch

The original quarter inch master tapes were carefully transferred to 96 KHz 24 bit digital by Christian Curtis at Abbey Road in June 2010. The tracks were mastered for CD by Max Read at The Lodge Recording Studio. The CD Artwork is taken from the original releases and incorporated into an eight page booklet

The CDs went on sale today via the band's online shop.

Glad I never got around to investing in the vinyl version of the ITROTSS...

Coming up next should be the pre-Enid Robert John Godfrey Solo effort The Fall of Hyperion, similarly rescued from EMI master tapes. Even more hard to find on vinyl as I recall.

[Audley Strange]

I probably wouldn't buy that 4-CD set. in no particular order, this is what Disc 1 of my compilation would look like:

Autumn Suite - The Strawbs
Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
Take a Pebble - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Wind Him Up - Saga
Everyday - Steve Hackett
Bourrée - Jethro Tull
Hope - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Yours is No Disgrace - Yes
I Think of You - Renaissance
The Cinema Show - Genesis
Peaches in Regalia - Frank Zappa

Some good choices there.

[stijndeloose]

I probably wouldn't buy that 4-CD set. in no particular order, this is what Disc 1 of my compilation would look like:

Autumn Suite - The Strawbs
Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
Take a Pebble - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Wind Him Up - Saga
Everyday - Steve Hackett
Bourrée - Jethro Tull
Hope - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Yours is No Disgrace - Yes
I Think of You - Renaissance
The Cinema Show - Genesis
Peaches in Regalia - Frank Zappa

Some good choices there.

Yes, but I wouldn't have picked bourree for Tull.

I'd probably have picked Thick as a Brick, actually.

[tnjrp]

One thinks that might take CD#1 over the maximum lenght tho... How about Aqualung?

BTW got me the aforementioned The Enid CDs. They are very nice overall, the remastered sound is very good and the music, especially on ITROTSS, is imbued with a certain amount raw enegy one finds lacking in the 1980's reworkings. AFN has been changed less but I do think the most original version of The Fand is slightly superior to 1985 version previously on CD. One wishes they'd re-release the 1983 version as well at some point tho as I think it might be the best of the lot (and in the case of The Fand, it's a big lot -- of different versions, that is).

But anyway, at £10 a pop these come recommended to progheadz everywhere

[stijndeloose]

Aqualung's good, but not my favourite. I prefer the acoustic songs from that album, actually.

For a short song, I'd pick Hunting Girl. Or Budapest. Budapest's ace.

[j.mills]

+1 on Budapest.

She didn't speak much English language
Didn't speak much anyway
She wouldn't make love but she could make a good sandwich
She poured sweet wine before we played.

[tnjrp]

Stuart John "Woolly" Wolstenholme, a talented if troubled keyboardist best known as the man responsible for the proggiest efforts of the long running second league rockers Barclay James Harvest, took his own life yesterday

http://www.woollywolstenholme.co.uk/biog.htm

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