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View Poll Results: What's your favorite album from my favorite band?
Time & A World 0 0%
The Yes Album 6 4.44%
Fragile 32 23.70%
Close to the Edge 56 41.48%
Yessongs 4 2.96%
Tales From Topographic Oceans 8 5.93%
Relayer 4 2.96%
Going For the One 4 2.96%
Drama 4 2.96%
90125 6 4.44%
Magnification 2 1.48%
Other (what's wrong with you?) 9 6.67%
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Old 07-31-2022, 01:42 PM   #1 (permalink)
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No not real proper prog what ever that means LOL.

All the above you mentioned aren not Prog albums. LOL. Just because say Sgt peppers was full of experimentation does not make it progressive, you are just assuming it fits the bill However they are more related to Psychedia than anything, Only the years from then to near the back end of the 60's thru Proto prog bands into Crossover prog did major labels create offshoots such as EMI Harvest & Swirl Vertigo. Styles in music are very short before they morph into other things as were the longevity of Swirl Vertigo & RCA Neon.

The Pink Floyd & Soft Machine were doing things in 1967 that were not disimular to What Tangerine Dream were doing at the Zodiac club , Berlin around the same time, No way on earth is it Progressive Rock.
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Old 07-31-2022, 02:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 07-31-2022, 02:42 PM   #3 (permalink)
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No just someone that knows what good & naff Prog is LOL
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Old 07-31-2022, 02:42 PM   #4 (permalink)
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The funny thing about that album is people dont like it yet Some of Steve Howe & Rick Wakeman best playing is within the album. Jon Anderson solo LP: 'Olias Of Sunhillow' should be attractive to Topographics fans because its it very simular atmosphere to it.
I think Tales is a great album that falls just short of being a masterpiece because it is a bit padded out in places, there was too much good material for a single LP but not quite enough for a double LP, a victim of the limitations of vinyl, also the production of the original album was a little murky and the 2016 Steven Wilson remaster is a big improvement.

Olias of Sunhillow is a lovely underrated gem of an album, definitely needs more recognition.
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Old 07-31-2022, 03:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
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As not an insufferable prog nerd I don't care if it's padded. The heights it reaches are unmatched.
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Old 07-31-2022, 10:09 PM   #6 (permalink)
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No not real proper prog what ever that means LOL.

All the above you mentioned aren not Prog albums. LOL. Just because say Sgt peppers was full of experimentation does not make it progressive, you are just assuming it fits the bill However they are more related to Psychedia than anything, Only the years from then to near the back end of the 60's thru Proto prog bands into Crossover prog did major labels create offshoots such as EMI Harvest & Swirl Vertigo. Styles in music are very short before they morph into other things as were the longevity of Swirl Vertigo & RCA Neon.

The Pink Floyd & Soft Machine were doing things in 1967 that were not disimular to What Tangerine Dream were doing at the Zodiac club (TD were not a synth band originally) , Berlin around the same time, No way on earth is it Progressive Rock.
Sorry but this is nonsense. I've been a prog head since 1980 or thereabouts and while a lot of what's said to be prog is not, Moody Blues (to an extent but really only with the next album), Floyd and Procol Harum are definitely prog. Fight me.
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Put it this way. Prog is everything i live for in music but i wouldnt be seen dead with any prog album past 1972.
REALLY fight me now. So no Lamb, no Script, no Octane, no ABWH? Get outta here!

Edit: I also find that phrase "wouldn't be caught dead with..." hilarious. Imagine the scene.

Cop 1: "Looks like someone worked him over real good. Lot of anger there."
Cop 2: "Sick mother all right. What's that in his hand there?"
Cop 1 (hunkering down - stands up and runs to the corner making retching noises): "Jesus ****ing Christ!"
Cop 2: "What is it? What is it?"
Cop 1 (indicating behind him without turning, continuing to retch): "Look! Just ****ing LOOK at it!"
Cop 2: "Looks like... oh my god! A - I - I don't believe this! A PROG ALBUM FROM AFTER 1972! I - I think I'm gonna be sick!"
Cop 1 and 2: "Bastard got everything he deserved! Looks like, uh, suicide to me."
Cop 1: "Best thing for him. Sick ****er."
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Old 08-01-2022, 12:29 PM   #8 (permalink)
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so true, turned that bullcrap off fast
And You and I and Siberian Khatru are outstanding songs that need the title track as a bit of contrast, but I can understand not having the patience to get through it.

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Old 08-01-2022, 05:08 PM   #9 (permalink)
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so true, turned that bullcrap off fast
Best post in this entire thread! Good one, Mindfulness.

As a keen Yes fan for the albums from Time And A Word through to Relayer, I'd say my fave was Fragile. Having bought Tales Of Topographic Oceans on the basis of brand loyalty, I was very disappointed with it. Still, to justify my outlay, I persevered and came to really love about 2 and a half of the four sides.

In terms of popularity, Time And a Word is always the unloved runt of the litter; perhaps that's why I have a special affection for it - or because of tracks like this, where Yes sound like the band they were to become, but embedded in a sound that is like a road untaken:-

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Old 08-01-2022, 06:15 AM   #10 (permalink)
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You been a prog head since 1980 make you an expert well quite clearly you are far from it

ABWH! Now you are having a laugh. Are you sure you wernt born in 1980 maybe a typo
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