The Prog Education Thread (genre, album, discography, solo, quote)

~~hiu~~ · 05-05-2006, 02:25 AM

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.

Macstevey · 05-20-2006, 04:04 PM

Prog rock is simply crazy

boo boo · 05-20-2006, 04:15 PM

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.

freaky_sarvesh · 06-08-2006, 11:07 AM

ya great post.............

cardboard adolescent · 06-08-2006, 05:52 PM

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.

boo boo · 06-08-2006, 09:29 PM

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.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-08-2006, 09:44 PM

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

tdoc210 · 08-12-2006, 11:37 PM

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)

boo boo · 08-13-2006, 01:26 AM

Sunhillow is difinetely the best Anderson album to start with.

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

Lesbian crime spree · 09-07-2006, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the death of capitilism

bump

My favourite sub genre of prog is symphonic prog..

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

06-08-2006, 11:07 AM	#54 (permalink)
freaky_sarvesh Groupie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2	ya great post............. __________________ Audioslaves

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I have a weird relationship with Queen. I can go from liking them to loathing them in the space of one album. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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tdoc210 ashes against the grain Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: new hampsha Posts: 2,617	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) __________________ We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

05-05-2006, 02:25 AM	#51 (permalink)
~~hiu~~ Account Disabled Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,174	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.

05-20-2006, 04:04 PM	#52 (permalink)
Macstevey Groupie Join Date: May 2006 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 15	Prog rock is simply crazy

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cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	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.