Mondo Bungle

Amon Düül II are essential. I'd reccomend listening to Yeti and Tanz der Lemminge. ELO is another one I really enjoy.

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Key

So that means you enjoyed Close To The Edge and Fragile. Not bad at all, honestly. Especially for being new to the band. Those two albums I mentioned are my two faves probably, along with 90125 being 2nd or 3rd favorite. Union isn't an album I like at all, honestly. It just never really did it for me, and I've given it 3 or 4 listens.

NEWGUY562

i just checked out 90125 and it's definitely one of their most accessible albums for someone that was'nt into progressive rock. I can imagine a regular listener checking it out, it's pretty good..The one I'd have to say that i really did'nt like at all was "Tormato".

Trollheart

Mind if I ask what age you are? Whether you're into or know of prog rock you MUST have heard of Genesis, at least in passing! There are lots of bands whose music I'm not into, but even as a confirmed not-liker (I won't say hater, as there's little I truly hate) of jazz, I still know OF the greats, the same with punk or ska or whatever. Just cos you're not into a genre doesn't mean it can't pass you by and have a near-miss, scraping off some paint as it goes by.

But if you're serious, and you enjoyed early Genesis, then you need to check out Marillion's first four albums, as well as their lead singer Fish's solo stuff. Try also Rush, Pendragon and Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard and Gazpacho, not forgetting Peter Gabriel's solo work (early at any rate) and if you can get hold of a band called Twelfth Night's "Fact and fiction" I'd say you'd enjoy that.

As a quick list then, these, not necessarily in any order:
MARILLION
Script for a jester's tear
Fugazi
Misplaced childhood
Clutching at straws

FISH
Vigil in a wilderness of mirrors
Internal exile
Sunsets on empire
Raingods with zippos

RUSH
Caress of steel
2112
A farewell to kings
Hemispheres

PENDRAGON
The world
The window of life
The masquerade overture
Believe
Pure
Kowtow
Passion

GAZPACHO
Missa Atropos
March of ghosts

PETER GABRIEL
First four albums, all called Peter Gabriel (1977/78/80/82)
So
Us

SPOCK'S BEARD
V
The kindness of strangers
Day for night
X
Octane

PORCUPINE TREE
Fear of a blank planet
In absentia
Coma divine
Stars die
The incident
The sky moves sideways
and many more

STEVEN WILSON (Porcupine Tree)
Grace for drowning

TWELFTH NIGHT
Fact and fiction

Loads more, but that will give you some sort of grounding in some of the best prog rock out there. Anyone else, feel free to add or comment.

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NEWGUY562

Let's just put it like this i was born in the 90's :[
I never heard of them, one day I was watching vh1 greatest artist of all time and i seem a few people talk about Genesis and I loved the song they were playing (land of confusion) and the performance they showed (Peter Gabriel dressed up as a flower). So I checked out their music and was completely blown away(their 70's stuff was the best imo)...I've been into everything they did since so i had 2 get everything that I could by them.
Ok I'm going to check out the albums you just listed
let's start this off with Marillion

Unknown Soldier

You listened to all those Yes albums in the space of a day and fully absorbed them, and you think they're just decent!!!. I think you need to listen to them again and a lot more slowly to fully absorb them.

You'll like Marillion, they sound like a 1980s reincarnation of Peter Gabriel era Genesis.

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Power Metal

Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History

Trollheart

Well, let's be honest here: chances are you'll like early Marillion, who did sound very like, again, early, Genesis, but after Fish left (post "Clutching at straws") they changed their sound fairly radically, moving slowly away from prog rock into a more mainstream rock field and occasionally too close to pop for comfort. However, Fish's solo albums mostly retain the prog elements, especially in songs like "Plague of ghosts" from "Raingods" and "The perception of Johnny Punter" from "Sunsets".

You might enjoy later Marillion --- you seem to suggest you liked "Invisible touch", and yet make the point that Genesis's best music was in the seventies --- which it absolutely was --- but the way Genesis went from about "And then there were three" onwards is kind of, but not exactly of course, how Marillion have gone. I still love everything they've done though, and "Brave" is a great example of a post-Fish Marillion album that reeks of their early prog roots but with an updated sound.

Anything else you want to know about Marillion, just ask! Or check the review of "Script for a jester's tear" in my journal, "The playlist of life"....

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Guybrush

I think the easiest way to find good prog albums for a newcomer to the genre is just to head on over to progarchives.com and check out their dynamic list of greatest prog albums ever. It's in the column on the right on the front page. Just scroll down a little.

Incidentally, Yes' album Close to the Edge is currently #1 on that list

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Itunesucks

Here you go buddy:
Close to The Edge- Yes Obviously
Milliontown- Frost
Dark Matter- IQ
Gentle Giant- Gentle Giant

That's all you need to get into Prog Rock, then ask AntEater haha

Trollheart

Of course you know that's not true (the bolded part): personally, I've had a hard time getting into IQ --- still haven't managed it despite several tries --- and though I've heard one of the Frost* albums I wouldn't necessarily consider them as vital to someone getting into prog for the first time.

I think my list is a little more rounded, though you really can't go wrong with the Holy Trinity: Genesis, Yes and Rush. There's a whole lot more though, both new and old --- have you listened to Gazpacho?

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