must have prog rock albums

[A Darkness Coming]

hi everybody
i am new to this genre and if u people could recommend me some albums i would be grateful a 10 must have would be great and i am already a big fan of porcupine tree, pain of salvation and riverside and thanx in advance

 

[Tubbs]

OMG RUSH!!!

Lol I don't think that's what you meant by "prog rock" is it?

- sorry listening to Rush right now got excited

BTW, this same exact thread was created last week.

 

[Dreadful]

King crimson - in the court of the crimson king
yes - close to the edge
camel - mirage
genesis - selling england by the pound
emerson lake and palmer - brain salad surgery
van der graaf generator - pawn hearts
PFM - per un amico
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
steve hackett - voyage of the acolyte
gentle giant - octopus
radiohead - ok computer
paatos - kallocain
anekdoten - gravity

 

[OpethNZ]

to quote NFU

i will do the inevitable "staple band" and sub genre prog thread right now, so that noobs and people looking for some good starting points have something to get them going:


symphonic prog - Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Camel, PFM

canterbury prog - Caravan, Hatfield And the North, Soft Machine, Egg

jazzy/jam prog - gilgamesh, national health, beggars opera, host

folk/acoustic/prog - fuschia, tudor lodge, spirogrya, comus, linda perhacs

psychadelia/prog - pink floyd, arzachel, donovan, locomotive, traffic

space/atmosphere prog - gong, magma, hawkwind, tangerine dream

krautrock prog - can, NEU!, birth control, pan, novalis, triumvirat

misc. prog - gracious, cressida, renaissance, van der graaf generator

scandanavian prog - bo hansson, flasket brinner, trettioariga kriget

worldwide prog - carmen, aquila, goblin, celeste, aphrodites child

classic rock/prog - uriah heep, led zeppelin, deep purple, black sabbath

new vintage/prog - landberk, anekdoten, wobbler, anglagard, dungen

prog metal - opeth, enslaved, arcturus, noekk, cynic, atheist

new era of prog - radiohead, the mars volta, porcupine tree, paatos

 

[paradoxile]

Rush are great.

Prog albums that are must...lets see.

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of The Moon,Wish You were Here,Animals
Camel-Camel,The Snow Goose,Mirage
King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King,Islands,Three of a perfect pair
The Beatles -Abbey Road
Neil Young-Harvest
Led Zeppelin-I,II,III,IV(these are the 4 albums not a name of one)

these are pretty much the cornerstones of prog-rock
I can't believe I forgot YES

 

[Tumn]

Prog influenced music with death vocals!

Dan Swanö - Moontower

 

[vampyrouss]

BTW, this same exact thread was created last week.

And the one before, and the one before that and so forth and so on forever and ever

 

[Dreadful]

yeah lets keep the recommendations going of course, but don't list the same that have already been mentioned.

 

[Dreadful]

Rush are great.

Prog albums that are must...lets see.

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of The Moon,Wish You were Here,Animals
Camel-Camel,The Snow Goose,Mirage
King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King,Islands,Three of a perfect pair
The Beatles -Abbey Road
Neil Young-Harvest
Led Zeppelin-I,II,III,IV(these are the 4 albums not a name of one)

these are pretty much the cornerstones of prog-rock
I can't believe I forgot YES

pretty good, I think the most essential Beatles album from a prog standpoint is of course:

Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band.

 

[BrandonS]

Glass Hammer - Shadowlands

The Flower Kings - Adam & Eve

Rainwound - Shrouded Destiny Demo (hehe it's true though)

Dreamscape - End of Silence

Ayreon - Dream Sequencer, or Human Equation, etc..

I guess all I can say is, good prog rock is hard to find.

 

[Confessor of Tragedy]

BTW, this same exact thread was created last week.

i think that the redundancy we are seeing is a result of the crackdown on off-topic chatter. i think that is why we are seeing all the recycled threads. now i dont feel so bad for making everyone suffer through my tired poll.......

 

[Tubbs]

We seriously need to come up with a plan, and soon. This forum is turning into ruin. (I'm only saying that because probably every thread anyone comes up with now has already been made, and we can't have off-topic stuff either.)

Regardless of all the assholes on this board, they are all cool assholes nonetheless; I want to be able to come back here in like, 1 year or so and see if it's still any good. Yeah, I'm worried.

- we need a plan, seriously

 

[R0l0]

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
if there was only ONE you could check out, this should be it. get it first if possible

 

[dcat]

For your listening Pleasure Way ahead of it's time...

Iron Butterfly, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida = "In the garden of eden," or HEAVY.

This pre-date's all of the above.

Iron Butterfly were the American version of Black Sabbath.

http://www.ironbutterfly.com/

Lyrics below...

http://lyrics.rockmagic.net/lyrics/iron_butterfly/

Enjoy but, Play it LOUD !

 

[Fredy_Brown]

No one mentioned TOOL yet?

 

[in limbow]

King Crimson- Red

 

[NFU]

children of bodom
woods of ypres
orphaned land
subteranean masquerade
dimmu borgir
wintersun
kamelot

 

[Mr. Josey Wales]

children of bodom
woods of ypres
orphaned land
subteranean masquerade
dimmu borgir
wintersun
kamelot

 

[Abhorsen]

children of bodom
woods of ypres
orphaned land
subteranean masquerade
dimmu borgir
wintersun
kamelot

You crack me up Joey!

 

[FuneralPortrait]

Glass Hammer - Shadowlands

The Flower Kings - Adam & Eve

Rainwound - Shrouded Destiny Demo (hehe it's true though)

Dreamscape - End of Silence

Ayreon - Dream Sequencer, or Human Equation, etc..

I guess all I can say is, good prog rock is hard to find

Really? There's LOTS of good prog... though IMO I wouldn't include The Flower Kings or Glass Hammer in a list of good prog.

Rush are great.

Prog albums that are must...lets see.

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of The Moon,Wish You were Here,Animals
Camel-Camel,The Snow Goose,Mirage
King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King,Islands,Three of a perfect pair
The Beatles -Abbey Road
Neil Young-Harvest
Led Zeppelin-I,II,III,IV(these are the 4 albums not a name of one)

these are pretty much the cornerstones of prog-rock
I can't believe I forgot YES

What about Genesis? ELP? Jethro Tull?

Anyway 10 albums I'd consider essential would be....

1) Close to the Edge- Yes
2) In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson
3) Moonmadness- Camel
4) Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
5) Days of Future Passed- Moody Blues
6) Moving Pictures- Rush
7) In Absentia- Porcupine Tree
8) Scenes from a Memory- Dream Thetater
9) V- Spock's Beard
10) Blackwater Park- Opeth

That's just having one of each band... it'd be a lot easier doing seperate 10 essential lists of the different sub-genres of prog..