The Prog & Psychedelic Rock Recommendations Thread

[TheNiceGuy]

Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

Alright all, I need some help.

My little brother has recently discovered a love of progressive rock and has been listening to almost nonstop Yes and Rush. I like the bands, but my gosh I am sick of hearing them and hear my brother rave about the bass tone and my gosh listen to the guitar distortion on this part and I love Geddy Lee's voice here and etc etc etc.

Anyway!

I need some more prog rock bands! Lots more! Maybe with styles similar to Yes and Rush, maybe not... I'll suggest anything to him.

Also, jazz influences are welcome and would be well received, since he is basically a jazz musician who plays rock... hence, enjoying prog. So yeah.

Thanks ahead of time.

It's good to see new young prog fans.
Anyway ELP perhaps? Their album Tarkus has a jazzy feel at times to it so they may be a good one to start him off with.

[Unknown Soldier]

Originally Posted by TheNiceGuy

It's good to see new young prog fans.
Anyway ELP perhaps? Their album Tarkus has a jazzy feel at times to it so they may be a good one to start him off with.

The excesses of ELP are enough to put anybody off prog for good

I kind of classify 70`s prog into two categories and they are the more robust exuberant stuff like Yes, King Crimson and ELP etc. or the more whimisical Canterbury inspired style of bands like Soft Machine, Jethro Tull and Genesis. Sure their is also a mixing of both styles by a lot of these bands as well but prog more or less fell into these two camps.

Some of the best prog stuff ever was put out by Kansas on their first 6 studio albums along with the mid 70s to late 70s releases by Styx. All of these albums are gems.

Also some of the best prog albums were put out by non-prog bands such as Wishbone Ash and the album Argus.