Art & Progressive Rock

[Caecius]

I've never really explored this genre. I thought there was a Non-Metal Rec Forum but I guess not. Anyways, I need some stuff besides Rush and Pink Floyd I've listened to pretty much everything from them.

EDIT: Please suggest albums also please

 

[|55555|]

Try porcupine tree.

 

[Caecius]

What album?

 

[|55555|]

In Absentia

 

[Dem0n0id]

Lets see...
The genres keep varying, but just a few that immediately comes to mind. It's all definitely progressive.

Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy.(Vol. 1 - Flying Teapot, Vol. 2 - Angel's Egg & Vol. 3 - You. Three separate albums)
Camel - Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness.
Eloy - Ocean, Planets.
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King, Red, Lizard, Larks' Tongues in Aspic.
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink.
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick.
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time, Hall of the Mountain Grill.
Emerson Lake & Palmer - S/T, Tarkus.
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh.
Can - Tago Mago.
Ash Ra Tempel - S/T.
Goblin - Roller.
Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff.

 

[razoredge]

Crack the Sky - Self titled, Animal Notes and Satety in Numbers, pretty much out of print but they can be found on ebay. Not totally tech progressive as ELP would be, a bit avant-guard perhaps as well, sometimes quirky Beatle-esk, sometimes pretty heavy and rockin for the times which was mid/late 70's, sometimes Floydish. CTS was progressive for having no stylistic boundrys and some interesting but short musical passages, great live jams. Hard to describe them really. Self titled rules, Safety in Numbers has their most awesome piece of mine, Nuclear Apathy and other interesting songs. Animal Notes is a more beatle-esk, quirky, kind of a concept album about being heart broken and becoming a Canadian Mounty... lol, with other politically motivated songs like - We dont want your money (we want mine), and Animal Skins, a very political & social subject band. Avoid later stuff like "White Music". They have never totally disbanded and actually have a new release but I have yet to hear it.

Kansas - Masque & Leftoverature, excluding fusion musicians possibly one of the most technical bands of the 70's

Tull! Tull! Tull! - never disappointed me

 

[ramses]

It all depends what kind of prog you're looking for. Some bands lean heavily towards jazz, others ambient, atmospheric, classical. Some are guitar oriented, or keyboard....I have a big collection of various prog bands from pretty much all genres, and decades.
Yes
Greenslade
Genesis (from 1970-1978)
Lemur Voice (Rush musically, with a Steve Perry-esque vocalist)
Ice Age (Rush with a Dennis Deyoung style vocalist)
Shadow Gallery
PFM (to me, the best Italian prog band)
Goblin
Tangerine Dream
Renaissance (folkish music with classical orchestra, and female vocalist)
Triumverat (ELP -like musically)
Gentle Giant (quirky lyrically, with renaissance type musical moments)
Tiles (the Best Rush sounding band there is)
Dixie Dregs (Razoredge will tell ya' how good they are!)
Enchant
Marillion
Ozric Tentacles
Under the Sun (at times sound like 1980-era Yes, with a little Rush influence)
Spock's Beard (the first 5 albums)
Brand X
Cairo
Cast
Just a few besides the others already mentioned.....

 

[razoredge]

The Dregs (Dixie Dregs) Freefall and What if are essential to my tastes

 

[Belligerent]

A few of these might have been mentioned already but i'll post what i know and like.

Porcupine Tree (The Sky Moves Sideways, Stupid Dream, Lightbulb Sun, In Absentia...you can't go wrong with ANY of their albums tbh.)
Ozric Tentacles
King Crimson
Camel
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Gentle Giant

 

[Einherjar86]

Pretty much everything I would suggest has already been mentioned; but I'll reinforce the following:

Jethro Tull- Thick As a Brick, Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery
Genesis- Trespass, Selling England By the Pound, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (check out their five song live album too)

 

[ramses]

I'll mirror that! Genesis was so fucking good from '70-'78!!

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I need to listen to more Gentle Giant. A friend of mine played me some compilation album of theirs, and it fucking ruled. They're so unique.

 

[ramses]

Like Genesis, and a few other 70's prog bands, stay away from Gentle Giant albums past '78. The just "went through the motions" on their last few. They tried to go "mainsteam" in lyrical/musical approach.

 

[razoredge]

Indeed, for the most part nearly all musicians of the earlier 70's went all to hell with the commercialism that took place later in the 70's. Rock became a sad state of affairs for the most part which is what led to the NWOBHM. There were a few bands that still rocked pretty hard and/or put the effort of self expression into their music

 

[ramses]

It's like that with me with the band Yes. I love both era's. Trevor Rabin is one of my top 10 favorite guitarists. He's such a great (underrated) guitarist, great arranger. And people don't seem to realise that late in his tenure with Yes, he did a few long, epic songs. He taught himself how to play guitar from his classical piano playing, at age six! His whole family were classicaly trained.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Indeed, for the most part nearly all musicians of the earlier 70's went all to hell with the commercialism that took place later in the 70's. Rock became a sad state of affairs for the most part which is what led to the NWOBHM. There were a few bands that still rocked pretty hard and/or put the effort of self expression into their music

Actually it led to Punk, which in turn greatly influenced NWOBHM.

 

[razoredge]

Actually it led to Punk, which in turn greatly influenced NWOBHM.

actually, wasnt punk in its hey day in 75/76, as was Nugent and Kansas, by mid/late 70's we had Van Halen, UFO, Scorpions, AC/DC to name a few. Punk was irrelevent though a handfull try to proclaim it was. The new wave of heavy metal bands were inspired by the old "heavy metal bands", progressive rock or hardrock bands that fell to commercialism or just ran their course. Punk was more responsible for "new wave" if anything. Its said the thrash bands had some punk influence but thats not the only kind of metal and not really connected to the NWOBHM. Myself I dont hear a shred of "punk" in Iron Maiden, Sabbath, Dio, Savatage, Fates Warning, Helloween or even Metallica for that matter. (I know only Maiden is considered NW metal) Punk was both a rebellion against pop music, disco and complexity, for the life of me I dont see how that correlates with metal due to the complexity and effort put into the music by metal bands. Punk was anti effort.... anti everything.

 

[BloodSword]

Joy Division was one of the most influential bands of our time, 1978-80 they inspired many bands with their "post-punk" music and crushing lyrical content.

 

[ramses]

Alder returrrrrrrnssss.....

 

[zabu of nΩd]

actually, wasnt punk in its hey day in 75/76, as was Nugent and Kansas, by mid/late 70's we had Van Halen, UFO, Scorpions, AC/DC to name a few. Punk was irrelevent though a handfull try to proclaim it was. The new wave of heavy metal bands were inspired by the old "heavy metal bands", progressive rock or hardrock bands that fell to commercialism or just ran their course. Punk was more responsible for "new wave" if anything. Its said the thrash bands had some punk influence but thats not the only kind of metal and not really connected to the NWOBHM. Myself I dont hear a shred of "punk" in Iron Maiden, Sabbath, Dio, Savatage, Fates Warning, Helloween or even Metallica for that matter. (I know only Maiden is considered NW metal) Punk was both a rebellion against pop music, disco and complexity, for the life of me I dont see how that correlates with metal due to the complexity and effort put into the music by metal bands. Punk was anti effort.... anti everything.

Metal did not start getting aggressive serious-sounding until speed and thrash, which were hugely punk-influenced. If you don't hear a punk influence in Metallica, you need to invest in some new ears.