rare prog from early 70s

[MegaMoose]

You know a Japanese band called Ruins?

Ruins kick ass.

 

[illidurit]

listen to egg

 

[Abhorsen]

Flasket is a GASket.

Here, I'll save ya the time it takes to read through umpzeen pages of the thread:

Yes: every album up to 1980
Genesis: every album up to 1977
Gentle Giant: every album up to 1977
Van der Graaf Generator: go get all of 'em
Jethro Tull: every album up to 1981
Pink Floyd: every album up to 1983
Camel: every last fucking one
Caravan: get it all up to Stunning Cunts
Renaissance: you're safe until you hit 1978
King Crimson: you're good up until 1982, and then maybe Thrak and Power to Believe
Strawbs: grab it all through 1974
Barclay James Harvest: 1978 is the year ya wanna stop
Brian Eno: pretty much everything he touches, including the peanuts in his shit. Wash 'em off.
Steve Hackett: solo albums up to Defector in 1980. To Watch the Storms 2003.
PFM: get the Italian records up to 1974
Anglagard: gotta have the two studio records
Le Orme: Contrappunti
UK: first two
Kansas: first four albums = classic american prog
Anekdoten: Gravity
Nektar: the first four
England: Garden Shed
Bo Hansson: Attic Thoughts, LoTR, Magician's Hat
Jon Anderson: Olias
Chris Squire: Fish out of Water
Steve Howe Album
Soft Machine Third
Khan: Space Shanty
Egg
Hatfield and the North

Alrighty then, them's the major players. Now read through the thread for various asundry items of interest and impeccable quality.

 

[NFU]

good list, but if you dont mind me adding a few more essentials abhorsen...


landberk - indian summer
morte macabre - symphonic holocaust
goblin - roller
extradition - hush
ragnarok - same
T2 - Itll all workout in boomland
england - garden shed
bo hansson - attic thoughts

edit: woops, read too fast. you already have england and bo hansson on your list.

 

[Jon Snow]

I heard Opeth was influenced by prog music from the '70s. Is that true? I've heard the songs that Phil Collins has done for Disney but that's the only prog I really know.

 

[illidurit]

rush - all albums
earth and fire - s/t
elp - brain salad surgery
henry cow - leg end
magma - mekanïk destruktïw kommandöh
museo rosenbach - zarathustra
procol harum - a whiter shade of pale

 

[illidurit]

I heard Opeth was influenced by prog music from the '70s. Is that true? I've heard the songs that Phil Collins has done for Disney but that's the only prog I really know.

yes quite true, for truly progressive music check out dream theater, ayreon, into eternity, pain of salvation, pain of eternity, dream salvation, into ayreon, symphony ayreon, ayreon x, pain into theater, dream of ayreon salvation of eternity, and riverside

 

[Hlfreak]

yes quite true, for truly progressive music check out dream theater, ayreon, into eternity, pain of salvation, pain of eternity, dream salvation, into ayreon, symphony ayreon, ayreon x, pain into theater, dream of ayreon salvation of eternity, and riverside

 

[NFU]

dream of ayreon salvation of eternity, and riverside

i nearly blew a gasket right there.


but its truth...just ask kenneth.

p.s. dont forget orfagged land

 

[Abhorsen]

good list, but if you dont mind me adding a few more essentials abhorsen...


landberk - indian summer
morte macabre - symphonic holocaust
goblin - roller
extradition - hush
ragnarok - same
T2 - Itll all workout in boomland
england - garden shed
bo hansson - attic thoughts

edit: woops, read too fast. you already have england and bo hansson on your list.

yep, and I forgot ALL the Rush albums! But yes, lots more great records, I just wanted to hit the bigguns.

 

[arzachel]

King Crimson: you're good up until 1982, and then maybe Thrak and Power to Believe

what's wrong w/3 of a pefect pair? Beat is probably the only album of theirs that's not worth the trouble IMHO. :Smokedev:

 

[the_3_toed_sloth]

Don't have the studio versions, but love the dvd i have with 3 of a Perfect Pair, Beat (well, not so much this...) & Discipline material. Taking you to what, 1984?

Still though, get Red. Now.

 

[NFU]

yep, and I forgot ALL the Rush albums! But yes, lots more great records, I just wanted to hit the bigguns.

ill give you the bigguns.

yea...rush...essential...derr. i forgot too

 

[Abhorsen]

what's wrong w/3 of a pefect pair? Beat is probably the only album of theirs that's not worth the trouble IMHO. :Smokedev:

3 has a few great tracks, but I hear more filler in that record and the Larks on that record is shite. It's true that there are a couple of weak tracks on Beat and neither record matches Discipline, but I think Beat is the stronger record over 3. Neal and Jack and Me!

 

[westknife]

"indiscipline" is quite possibly one of the most annoying songs i've ever heard

 

[arzachel]

I LIKE IT!

 

[Abhorsen]

Discipline is strong from start to finish. KC completely reinvented themselves in the 1980's but didn't go for the more commercial-friendly pop overkill that you see with Genesis and some other formerly great prog bands in that decade.

 

[westknife]

except for heartbeat

 

[Abhorsen]

yeah, heartbeat is a bit of an exception isn't it! Very poppy little tune. I like the guitar in that song.

 

[Don Corleone]

arzachel - thanks for bringing this lovely thread back.