Havent had time to listen to EVERY album....but what i have heard was all up to my expectations...starless and black bible is a brilliant album

Starless is fantastic...The 72-74 period with John Wetton is my favorite, but Descipline and THRAK from the Belew years are also great.

I have heard all their studio works, my order of favorites go as follows.

1. In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) - Best tracks: 21st Century Schiziod Man, I Talk To The Wind, Epitiath, In The Court Of The Crimson King.
2. Red (1974) - Best tracks: Red, Fallen Angel, One More Red Nightmare, Starless, Providence.
3. Lizard (1970) - Best tracks: Cirkus, Indoor Games, Happy Family, Lizard, Lady Of The Dancing Water.
4. Starless And Bible Black (1974) - Great Deceiver, The Night Watch, Trio, Lament, Fracture, We'll Let You Know.
5. THRAK (1994) - Best tracks: Dinosaur, VROOOM, Inner Garden I, Walking On Air, People, One Time, Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream.
6. In The Wake Of Poseidon (1970) - Best tracks: Cat Food, Cadence And Cascade, Pictures Of A City, In The Wake Of Poseidon, Peace: A Theme.
7. Discipline (1981) - Best tracks: Thela Hun Ginjeet, The Sheltering Sky, Elephant Talk, Frame By Frame, Matte Kudasai, Indiscipline, Discipline.
8. Islands (1971) - Best tracks: Letters, Prelude: Song Of The Gulls, Ladies Of The Road, Sailors Tail, Formentera Lady.
9. Larks Tongues In Aspic (1973) - Best tracks: Easy Money, Exiles, Book Of Saturday, Larks Tongues In Aspic Part II.
10. Power To Believe (2003) - Best tracks: Level Five, Eyes Wide Open, Facts Of Life, Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With, Power To Believe: The IV Coda.
11. Three Of A Perfect Pair (1984) -Best tracks: Model Man, Industry, No Warning, Sleepless.
12. ContruKction Of Light (2000) - Best tracks: ConstruKction Of Light, Into The Frying Pan, FraKctured, The Worlds My Oyster Soup, Larks Tongues In Aspic Part IV.
13. Beat (1982) - Best tracks: Neal Jack And Me, Artori In Tangier, Waiting Man, Two Hands, The Howler.

Every KC album has something good to offer, even the worst ones.

Man that is rad...my next favourites after starless are Red and In the court of the crimson king

Yeah, ITCOTCK is one of the best debut albums i have ever heard, its a shame they only did one album with Greg Lake on bass. :(

I also ask that everyone who is reading this right now click my signature.

i got pink floyds piper at the gates of dawn today. i have all the yes albums on vinyl but foe some reason no one has them on cd, and i have jethro tull aqualung, and thick as brick ( great concept album) and crest of a knave(dont know if youd consider this prog) and i got a bunch of good stuff but execellent inf o boo boo

Right now Progressive Classic Rock is my favorite genre. A few of my top bands at the moment:

ELP
Genesis
King Crimson
Triumvirat
Yes

EDIT: And by the way, that's one hell of a write-up you wrote too man!!

Anyone who hasnt heard Mr Bungle needs to check out their self titled album, its a top canidate for weirdest album ever made, its really good though.

I have California on my other computer.

I find "Disco Volante" to be more "weird" thn their S/T. Mr. Bungle's a great band though.

i jsut like too say prog sounds better on VINYL

I only just read this and you did a very good job, I enjoyed reading it even though I knew most of it I wouldn't be able to put it into words. I'm a big fan of Krautrock in particular.

Prog rock is simply crazy

A lot of times yes, but a lot of it is very disiplined in it's approach.... Frank Zappa for example refused to let any of his musicians use drugs, and of course, his musicians were always top of the line in terms of pure ability... Freak Out is one of the most important influences on the genre along with Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Days Of Future Past, in fact, many would argue that it is the "first" prog album.... Sure it dosent sound very prog, but it introduced many of the elements that defined progressive rock.... Frank Zappa in many ways created the blueprint for prog, bands like King Crimson simply took Zappa's philosophy and developed it much further, abandoning Zappa's more "rock" oriented tendencies for something that was closer to free form jazz, folk and classical than blues, r&b and gospel like most rock music was at the time, eventually leading to prog as we know it today.

ya great post.............:beer:

I don't see how anyone could listen to A Night At The Opera and deny that Queen were a prog band. Or at least, ventured into prog domain on more than one occasion.

That's true, though they are obviously more well known for their pop songs, they did their share of prog with their early work, and Night At The Opera has Bohemian Rhapsody and The Prophets Song of course.

I have a weird relationship with Queen. I can go from liking them to loathing them in the space of one album.

bump

My favourite sub genre of prog is symphonic prog... My fave band.. Wakeman era Yes.

ive got lots of bands though :) and i jsut got TFTO by YES, and im getting some solo wakeman and jon anderson ( sunhillow)

Sunhillow is difinetely the best Anderson album to start with.

I was never a big Vangelis fan, but he and Anderson have good chemistry.

Indeed, this is very much where it's at. Camel and Gentle Giant (who i believe were a Pompey band) et al.

my ears are bleeding

i have teh gentle giant discography

i bet your friends don't take the piss out of you at all

i dont have friends


cept for the tabers.. but.. other than that.. i have aquintances who dont know me.lol rofl

Which one's your favorite so far?

>> aquiring the taste

Kewl.

Mine is torn between Octopus and Three Friends.

nice.. octopus is sweet

Thanks a bunch for this!
I'm now adding many more bands to my "to listen to" list.

Camel is godly. They put the badass in flute rock. :D

One of my favourite bands ever - I possibly like them even more than King Crimson (if that's possible).

I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but check out Anglagard, Anekdoten, Liquid Scarlet, Wobbler, and Paatos for great modern scandinavian vintage sounding prog.

Hybris by Anglagard, check it out.