Prog Rock General / progressive

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Is this prog?

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>>72473630
If you want it to be.
>>72473615
KC > Genesis > Rush > Yes >>> Floyd

Pic related isn't my favorite, but it's been on constant rotation for me lately. Underrated.

>>72473615
kraut

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>yfw Steven drops da AOTY again

>>72473615

Dream Theater golden years (images and words through octavariumish), especially the two Liquid Tension albums

I always forget about the woodwind duet at the end of ITCOTCK and its so beautiful every time.

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I don't particularly like progressive rock, I love Pink Floyd but then they don't sound whatsoever like Yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson etc.

I do however absolutely love Robert Wyatt who arguably falls into the genre. Any other fans here? I could listen to Sea Song on repeat without getting bored.

>>72473807
Yeah i dont get why PF is always included in prog rock. Like I guess its a bit experimental but in a totally different way. To me prog rock is fast, screaming guitars, thick bass, some keyboards, and a high pitched whiney singer. Not that I dont like prog rock... I just think of PF as being in their own category.

>>72473938
I suppose it's because of the concept album and unconventional subject matters of their albums, but then Led Zeppelin had their ridiculous attachment to medieval shit, fairy tales etc. and they're not lumped in with prog rock bands.

Ah whatever, sub-genres only known of by a few thousand pedantic smart arses don't do anyone any favours so I guess the prog rock label will have to do.

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If this counts then its my favorite prog album. Feels like I enjoy prog more as a concept than in actual practice :\

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I just listened to this for the first time recently, any other albums that are similar?

>>72473807
I love Rock Bottom.

>>72473663
kek

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>>72475458
Have you listened to this?

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>>72473686
+1 Steven Wilson
Deep Turtle
Korekyojinn
Liquid Tension Experiment

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

this is good
>>72476108
fuck off, that piece of shit doesnt even compare to the pure genius and dorkiness that is Red Queen to Gryphon Three.

>>72473938

sites like Progarchives have made people start lumping things like Kraut Rock and Psyche Rock in with progressive rock when they aren't necessarily the same

>>72476108
Nope, I'll give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation.

>>72476156
SEBTP is GOAT prog album
Shit taste kys

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>>72473615
Fite me hipsters.

New Ayreon Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFuMKdrzPqU&list=PLDp_PtuyOwCa_N556UPC1-Eycg4LJohQf

>>72476359
it's literally pop rock with organs m8

>>72476156
Ultimate pleb right here

>>72473807
Love early Soft Machine and Matching Mole.

>>72473663
>>72475954
>>>/pol/

>>72476108
I tried listening to this and didn't find it very interesting.

>>72476156
This was actually pretty damn good

Neither one was very much like Red Queen to Gryphon Three. The closest thing I can think of is probably some Gentle Giant stuff or Jethro Tull.

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if you haven't listened to this already, do it now

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>>72473615
Casual listeners hastily assume Prog Rock is an apolitical genre (of course, the more informed listener knows better, especially when considering the Rock in Opposition movement) but Italy's own Progressive scene thought differently. Some of the prominent bands from the more avant-garde wing of their Progressive music scene strongly affiliated themselves with communism, most famously Area and the Stormy Six, but others on the furthest fringes of the genre sang from entirely different hymn sheet. You know, Fascism.

Janus, formerly Janum, were affiliated to the Neo-Fascist MSI party, regularly playing live at their amusingly-named "Hobbit Camps," named after the musician fellowship's shared interest in Tolkien. The band's history is somewhat turbulent. Most of the original copies of their album were destroyed in a fire at the only bookstore bold enough to sell their work. Their original guitarist was even killed in a political riot the year this album was released.

Recorded on a low budget, Al Maestrale sounds a little crummy in terms of production so doesn't come close to matching the Mussolinian bombast of Museo Rosenbach's Nietzschean masterwork Zarathustra. But the rawness of this recording is certainly a nice antidote to the slew of self-consciously 'pretty' bands who had sprung up in the scene. There are notably few symphonic influences, opting instead for a folk-tinged fuzzy hard rock style, not a world away from the early Black Widow. And some of the guitar playing on here is very mean indeed!

When it feels like there are few genuine obscurities in Prog left, it's nice to have something like this still out there, and the political affiliations gives this band a dangerous edge a lot of Prog admittedly lacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf1ysQFG2x8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM9EdnbmGe0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX-LYZYbvHU

Why is fripp such a jew lads?

>>72476378
8/10 album, nothing more nothing less

>>72476378
Too many filler songs, it's one of their weaker albums. Only so well known because normies love Another Brick in the Wall Part 2

>>72477745
I'm only ten minutes in, but this is really fucking good, thanks anon.

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>>72477745
That whole album is intense.

Try pic related

>>72477826
>apolitical
I wouldn't say that's entirely true, even for some of the more well-known bands of the genre. There's several examples of Anglo prog having more topical lyrics. For instance:

>Genesis
Pretty much the entirety of Selling England by the Pound is about the downfall of traditional English culture and the looming threat of Americanization.

>King Crimson
"Epitaph" is a commentary on the Cold War, the fear of not knowing what the future will bring, and man's self-destructive nature in general. Not to mention that "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a scathing criticism of the Vietnam War.

>Jethro Tull
As much as the band hates the idea of a concept album, much of the album's lyrics criticize organized religion, including "My God," which is about twisting the words of Jesus Christ to fit with one's own beliefs, and "Hymn 43," about justifying oneself when committing heinous acts by claiming that God wills it.

>Pink Floyd
Roger Waters isn't exactly subtle. Even casual listeners are able to catch on to his hatred of war and Thatcher.

>>72476659
you have serious issues

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The Best.

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>>72478058
will do

here's another acid/folk rock classic

>>72477712
Try Foxtrot instead, it's the best Gabriel Genesis album.

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>>72478238
>britain getting Americanised
oy vey if only

>>72478378
Americanization is still a relevant topic even 40+ years later. It's the onslaught of American businesses and their models, media, politics, and popular culture that overshadow or even begin to replace traditional English culture and values. This was already relevant for much of the 20th century, and is arguably even more relevant now during the age of the Internet. Why do you think that even countries outside of the U.S., notably the UK, focused so much on the 2016 presidential elections, almost as if they were their own?

>>72477826
>>72478238
Not to mention:
>Genesis
Peter Gabriel is a socialist. This makes itself pretty obvious on Get 'Em Out By Friday from Foxtrot, which is pretty explicitly anti-landlord and anti-corporation/corporatism.
>King Crimson
ItCotCK's pretty explicitly political, yes. But even after that, Greg Lake's released quite a few songs with left-wing or at least anti-consumerist undertones (Fanfare for the Common Man — composed by a communist and the title being pretty communist in and of itself, I Believe in Father Christmas — a song protesting the commercialization and such of Christmas, Jerusalem — a song written by a proto-anarchist about capitalist exploitation of England). Back to King Crimson, there's also a few songs that could be construed as having a left-wing message — The Great Deceiver, being against the commercialization of the Catholic Church, comes to mind, as does Easy Money.
>Jethro Tull
Yeah, a load of their work is criticizing society from a leftist-to-leftish viewpoint. Thick as a Brick (if you choose to look for a meaning there) comes to mind.

>>72473615
That Genesis album is not prog rock you pleb. It's purely pop rock; nothing tricky or complex on that album.

Anything Genesis did after Duke can't be considered "prog".

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How about some Kangaroo Land psychedelic/prog rock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f78_Tf4Tdk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7ii3Ir-no

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How accurate would you say this chart is?

>>72480739
>Art Rock
>ELO

am I allowed to call coheed and cambria my favourite prog rock band

>>72477888
He's not. He's doing what he does to outjew the jew

>>72473615
bretty gud honestly

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>>72481423
whoops

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Pretty nice record, one of my faves.

>>72473938
Another characteristic of prog rock to me is the drums that texturally sound like that of a marching band

>>72481672
Kek

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>>72475458

>>72481429
Underated masterpiece

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>>72478058
My fuckin nig

>>72477712
>Selling England by the Pound
>Boring
It has Firth of Fifth on it for crying out loud.

>>72481516
I like the music but the vocalist makes it less enjoyable.

>>72482099
The vocalist is the best part

>>72477826
Per caso sei italiano? Sembri davvero esperto sull'argomento.

>>72476378
They have like 7 better albums

>>72473615
close to the edge is incredible, definitely one of my favorites

>>72476138
Hey, John Petrucci isn't in Liquid...?

>>72473615
>Genesis ST
>Prog
Come on bro, at least put on something like Foxtrot or Lamb

>>72476378
epic

best album in this thread

anyone who hasn't listened to this yet should check it out; secretly the best album in prog

>>72483061
^

All of them are just amazing!

>>72473807
I went into this thinking it wold be something like Third, but simply couldn't get into it for the life of me. Is there something wrong here?

>>72483547
Careful, Anon. The self-proclaimed "real" Pink Floyd fans will try to lynch you if you say you like The Wall.

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Where are my Zeuhl boys at? Just got this in the mail last week.