Prog rock - Any connoisseurs?

Another for Caravan - Land Of The Grey and Pink
Audience - Friends Friends Friends and their other albums.
Van Dr Graaf Generator
The Nice
The original Nirvana
Barclay James Harvest
ELP
Curved Air
 
Malaguena said:
Barclay James Harvest : Time Honoured Ghosts and Berlin - Concert for the People

.... and anything, absolutely anything by Utopia / Todd Rundgren ...... but if you had to pin me down to one, Ra
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Singring and The Glass Guitar is possibly one of the greatest Prog ideas. How they never sued Queen for ripping off their storyline I'll never know.
 
You have ALL got it wrong
First there was Sgt Pepper
THEN The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed ... both in 1967

Well worth a blast plus their next 6 or so albums.
Very underrated band but superb nevertheless
 
STAFFORDA4 said:
You have ALL got it wrong
First there was Sgt Pepper
THEN The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed ... both in 1967

Well worth a blast plus their next 6 or so albums.
Very underrated band but superb nevertheless
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True but they were prog embryos and like embryos, were not fully formed.

The birth of prog (as most people know it) came with the arrival of this baby.

Prog. DOB:10 October 1969

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Konrad_the_Barbarian said:
Similar to early Rush ?

Yes 90125. Trevor Rabin & Jon Anderson o_Oo_Oo_O


Or Drama. Unfairly criticised because of The Buggles (Downes and Horn) joining Yes. It is still an excellent album... and both were superb !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzxZzIiO84Y
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I like the album Drama. Very underrated and as you say because Horn and Downes were involved.

I didn’t like Rabin so much. I thought Yes fell away and apart from the track Owner of a Lonely Heart I quite disliked 90125. They came be back to form with probably their most underrated album in the early 2000s. Magnification. A really superb album for me.
 
Zoophonic said:
I like the album Drama. Very underrated and as you say because Horn and Downes were involved.

I didn’t like Rabin so much. I thought Yes fell away and apart from the track Owner of a Lonely Heart I quite disliked 90125. They came be back to form with probably their most underrated album in the early 2000s. Magnification. A really superb album for me.
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I know what you mean. Like Drama, 90125 seems to divide opinion as it is their most commercial album. I think fans saw them going down the same route as Genesis. Personally I like it and Rabin although he's no Steve Howe.
 
Konrad_the_Barbarian said:
I know what you mean. Like Drama, 90125 seems to divide opinion as it is their most commercial album. I think fans saw them going down the same route as Genesis. Personally I like it and Rabin although he's no Steve Howe.
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I saw Rabin, Anderson and Wakeman at the Stone Free Festival at the O2 two years ago. It was great but as you say Rabin is no Steve Howe.
 
Good thread this, listened to Caravan-In The Land of Grey and Pink last night and it was brilliant, looking forward to listening to some more of these suggestions.
 
Just having a listen to Ten Years After's "A Space in Time" - Great Album!! If you listen to one track, listen to "I'd love to change the world"
 
Lots of choice's so far and my favourite album of all time already mentioned in The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed. But there are literally hundreds of albums and artists to choose from so i will mention some of the artists worth listening to not already mentioned:

Renaissance
Bread
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jeff Wayne
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Procul Harem
Jethro Tull
Marillion
The Strawbs
Styx
Vangellis
The Alan Parsons Project
Prelude
Mike Oldfield
Neil Young
Peter Frampton
Rick Wakeman
Rodger Waters

and of course some of the early stuff by the likes of:

David Bowie and Heart.
 
This live version of Singring and the Glass Guitar makes me smile a lot. A fine example of ideas running ahead of available technology. Todd Rundgren hurling himself into space trusting his harness is great.

 
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