Unknown Soldier

The Yes Album their third is the best place to start.

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Power Metal

Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History

NEWGUY562

ok and what album did you stop at?

Key

Stop? As in you're going to just stop listening to them? Get all the albums and just listen to them chronologically so you can get a feel for how the sound changed throughout the years. Than just listen to the ones that really stuck out to you.

Though, I would recommend Close To The Edge. It's one of the best Yes albums.

NEWGUY562

So I checked out all of Yes's work and I like everything from Yes to Relayer Everything after that was a bit of a drag for me, they are pretty decent not as great as Genesis or Pink Floyd but at least their listenable.

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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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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