In the Prog Seat: Is This Album Prog?
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- Join Pete Pardo, Chuck Alvarez, George Lamie, Anthony Ferraro, and Martin Popoff as they discuss albums that 'might' be prog, or, might not.
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Chuck's picks:
1. Stranded-Roxy Music
2. Rain Tree Crow-Rain Tree Crow
3. Kimono My House-Sparks
Honorable Mention
*Animal Notes-Crack The Sky
Pete's picks:
Angel-Angel
Journey-Journey
Max Webster-High Class in Borrowed Shoes
Honorable mentions:
Santana-Caravanserai
ELO-Eldorado
Toto-Hydra
Gamma-2
George's picks:
Mercyful Fate - Melissa/King Diamond - Abigail
Tension - Breaking Point
Toxik - Think This
Honorable mentions:
Muse - Absolution
Mr. Bungle - s/t
Slauter Xstroyes - Winter Kill/Free the Beast
gr8 picks pete.
Sparks is anything and everything. Great picks by Chuck.
Rain Tree Crow everyday!
@@jeff_obscured Glad you like that pick my brother.
@@chuckazeee Loved that pick too. Have you heard Steve Jansen's Slope, or Tender Extinction ? Amazing albums as is the Exit North album. And can't not mention Thomas Feiner.
In the Prog Seat has become maybe my favorite show on SOT. My only complaint is please tell the guys to say the name of the albums, not just hold it up. Love the show because I really love prog and your panel of guys are great and so knowledgeable. Very entertaining.
Ditto. So enjoyable
It would also be nice to have a list of albums in the description.
@@stephenkraft609 yes, but I suppose Pete feels that's like a spoiler and if you don't see any titles you like or recognize, you may not bother watching the video.
Bonus points for mentioning Caravanserai by Santana, The Dreaming by Kate Bush & the first Journey album. Let me add Chicago Transit Authority, Romantic Warrior by RTF, which I always thought was more of a prog album than a fusion album
Rick, excellent choice with Golden Earring. Moontan is one of the greatest albums of the 70's
Totally agree
One of the best episode of the year on this channel !! Great comments by Rick Labonté !
Great show. A small correction: It's Jerry Marotta (and not his older brother Rick) playing on the Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel albums Martin picked. I guess I have to get Fripp's "Exposure" album now.
I’ll add BOC - Secret Treaties (the way the songs seque into each other, plus the likes of Astronomy and Subhuman), XTC - Apple Venus, Zep - Physical Graffiti (Kashmir, In The Light, Ten Years Gone, In My Time of Dying).
- Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards/The Magician’s Birthday
- Queen’s Early Albums 1973-1976
I'd say they have "tinges" of prog.
Awesome show! Chuck for bringing up Mick Karn and also Talk Talk whose album Color of Spring could be seen as prog! Great mentions:Sparks,Kate Bush,Todd Rundgren,Adrian Belew! Just Super!!
My favorite episode of the Prog Seat so far so many great picks. I would add one that I’m surprised was overlooked. The debut of Captain Beyond!! A strong case can be made that this album was the first Prog/Metal album. Complex songs with shifting dynamics and time signatures. A masterwork one of the best albums of the seventies.
It’s Prog to me. Sufficiently Breathless not so much. Dawn Explosion is kinda Prog.
I agree
@@shyshift Got the debut on Xmas, 1972. Sufficiently Breathless on Xmas, 1973. So disappointed! Years later, though, came to appreciate it...some of it has an early Santana-vibe.
@@jazzpunk Agree, though I"ve never been a Santana fan. CB came thundering back with "Dawn Explosion" in the midst of punk and disco. Simply love that LP from start to finish. Too bad it was their last.
@@SkeltonKnaggsLives Those 1st 3 Santana albums are burned into my DNA. :-)
Abraxas, Led Zep III, J5's ABC were my very 1st 3 LPs. Still have them. :-)
some great choices and a few bands I have to check out. My picks:
Chicago II (or I could have picked III). Early Chicago was a heady mix of jazz-rock, jazz-fusion, classical elements, country even (on III especially), hard rock, experimental rock, they basically had it all.
Queen II. Again I could have picked any of their early albums.
Metallica - And Justice for all - I think this album particularly is quite proggy while remaining very much a metal album. Lots of epic tracks, with complex arrangements, time and tempo changes.
Queen II - My favorite album of all-time should qualify for this topic. Very hard to categorize, and glad about it, if truth be told, as I tend to gravitate towards albums (and artists, in general) that defy neat and easy categorization (not to mention that I was never too big on labels.)
Queen 2 is an absolute masterpiece
@@jamiefawcett1089 Agree wholeheartedly!
In The Prog Seat shows never fail to bring up a recording that needs to be tracked down and heard. This episode was an excellent topic and Rick’s brief history near the end was a great commentary. But special props to Anthony for including Todd Rundgren’s AWATS - a favorite album for me since its release from an artist followed now for more than 50 years. Hoping each of the panelists will list their choices and honorable mentions in the comments. Thanks everyone for a great show and thanks again to you, Pete, for adding this show to the SoT ongoing episode series.
Chuck continues to slay with his picks. Sparks are phenomenal - the fact that they continue to put out interesting music after so many decades truly astonishes. Roxy Music and Japan are cool, too.
Great episode - nice to see many of the artists I hold in high regard get a mention.
My choices before watching the video:
- first 2 Angel albums
- all Be Bop Deluxe albums
- Horslips - The Book of Invasions
- first 3 Chicago albums
Great show, thanks!
- Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush "World Anthem" (1977)
- Royals "Out" (1977, a finnish band)
- Kate Bush "The Dreaming" (1982, also "Hounds of Love", especially "The Ninth Wave". "Aerial" is an epic too)
Cheers from Finland!
Fantastic concept guys! Always wanted you folks to cover this topic. Some really spot on picks that echoed my thoughts like mercyful fate! Anyway these are my picks
David bowie-ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars (since it's a concept album with a lot of beatlesque elements and the variety along with the instrumentation makes it prog)
Gojira-from mars to sirius (lots of time changes, tricky moments and dynamically very prog. Also common themes across songs sounds quite epic as times too)
Megadeth-countdown to extinction (extremely tricky and off kilter parts with really complex songs compostion wise like an extra chorus or a few solos/harmonies here and there. Ashes in your mouth is the embodiment of what prog thrash means)
Casopiea-self titled (jazz fusion band from Japan that was extremely eclectic with elements of smooth jazz, funk and even rock. Very dynamic and groovy)
Bo hansson-music inspired by lord of the rings (an album often ignored during prog discussions. Extremely cinematic and more like a Swedish version of Mike Oldfield. Really cool artist and albums that were definitely inspired by the prog movement. This came in 1972)
This may be the best SOT episode of the year (so far). Interesting perspectives!
Talk Talk - “Spirit Of Eden” and “Laughing Stock”
Radiohead - “Ok Computer” and “Kid A”
Talk Talk, the production on The Colour of Spring is beautiful.
It makes me sad that these guys don't dig Radiohead. Such a brilliant band!
@@hellbee105 Iven It's My Life is proggy synth music. But yes Colour of Spring, Eden, Laughing stock redefined art rock, then post-rick.
@@ffsf739 I agree 100%! I love prog AND I think that Radiohead is the greatest band since the 1970s.
Blown away by George's picks! definitely going to check out Tension and Toxic
Dark - 'Tamna Voda' (Crimson fans would love this), any early Alan Parsons Project, Be Bop Deluxe, Godley & Creme - 'L' or 'Freeze Frame', Nicky Skopelitis - 'Ekstasis', mid-70s Tangerine Dream, and a few 90s era post-rock bands like Tortoise, Do Make Say Think, UI (all very prog at heart)
Tears for Fears. Sprinkled a bit through their entire catalog but mostly parts of The Seeds of Love and some of Raoul and the Kings of Spain.
1- David Sancious : Forest of Feelings
2- Return To Forever : Romantic Warrior
3- Jean-Luc Ponty : Engimatic Ocean
Saga 'World's Apart' for sure... I also think Triumph 'Never Surrender' to be a prog album, although loud, is loaded with elements like insane playing that make it a candidate.
'The Blinding Light Show' on the debut is still one of their best and most progy song imo.
A great topic and super show - thank you gents! So many great choices from everyone! Please keep them coming!
Great episode!!..Marvelous Ted talk from Rick, and everytime he went to his filing cabinets, I giggled😁..that Journey debut is one of my favorite albums of all time, it's so good!!..and I agree with the comment about Judas Priest also.
Great show guys! I know a lot of these albums and truly need to revisit them. I also have some to check out now too. I look forward to this show every week and it's really becoming one of my very favorites! I will look forward to next week.
Glad to see Sparks in the conversation, great band. If it is possible to define them, I would say Power Pop or Art Rock. Like Pete, I lost track until a couple years ago but I love going back through their entire discography.
Mickey Mouse and Nicotina are great, as is the title track from Angst in my Pants
Wow. After the Hudson Valley Squares and the Monsters Den, "In The Prog Seat" is becoming one of my most anticipated times of the week. These guys are great - and their suggestions are leading me down music corridors for more discovery and enjoyment. I love Rick's filing cabinets for his music. Awesome...
My fave SOT vids. Great noms esp George Lamie, and full respect for each other's thoughts.
Some cool, outside the box selections here. Great combination of influences and view points from the panel.
- It Bites - Once Around The World
- Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
- Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea(prob the most curious case of 'is this prog?')
Good choices, but I would choose Talk Talk’s last two albums, “Spirit Of Eden” and “Laughing Stock” which are far more esoteric than “Colour Of Spring” which is still a great album.
Good call on Cardiacs. They're like Devo meets Gentle Giant. There's never been another band like them. R.I.P. Tim Smith
@@fw72 very true, did Tim die? I knew he had a bad stroke, but didn’t know he passed.
@@sspbrazil Yeah, passed about a year ago
@@fw72 I see that now, sad. Great band.
Excellent content, guys. Every prog fan needs to be watching this show.
Even with the 70’s being my most listened to decade by nearly 100 records more than the next decade, this video is another reminder of how stacked that era was and how much I still have to fully discover from it.
Thanks for these, becoming one of my favorite SoT traditions.
Another gold medal performance by Anthony, George, Chuck, Rick, Martin and Pete. Could 'prog' be as pervasive in music as the blues or jazz? I would have to say anything or any project George Clinton touched had strong prog elements, I can't think of one Parliament/Funkadelic record that doesn't apply. Such a good show with entertaining guests and a lot of good music choices. Thanks to all.
Fantastic show guys honestly
Some amazing albums gentleman, knew most of them, but have a few hours of exploring to do, and that is all we can ask for, everyone stay safe.
A good call on Max Webster , Pete . Their stuff is great . Here's a couple of albums from a group that , in their early days , were probably considered folk rock . Nobody ever seems to mention them when talking about prog ( even though Rick Wakeman played with them for awhile ) . The Strawbs . Their albums : Hero & Heroine , and Ghosts are two of my favourite prog albums . If you haven't heard these albums , you need to !!! Cheers !
Security is very Frippy. Love it.
Countdown to Ecstasy by Steely Dan has some proggy moments on Boston Rag, Your Gold Teeth and King of the World.
Great idea for a prog show! You should do this again. My main choice would be Madder Mortem, who have basically evolved from Gothic Metal to Progressive Rock (see last 3 albums).
Some others-
The Decemberists: The Crane Wife, The Hazards of Love
Crack the Sky: Crack the Sky
Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time
" OK Computer " - Radiohead
" Houses of the Holy ": Led Zeppelin. Difficult to put a label. Prog or hard rock ?
I think that those albums would be more prog in my opinion. Prog to me means bands that are diverse and bands that like to do something different. Radiohead did something different so they are prog so are led zeppelin. Also both of those bands did do some odd time signatures and stuff like that so it is prog in my opinion
I have a lot for this topic (maybe because I have a broad sense of what prog is?).
Toto - Hydra
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (most people talk about Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock being proggy, but The Colour of Spring for me is definitely a prog-pop album)
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (and Aja too)
A lot of Ulver stuff, Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Wars of the Roses are the two that have a lot of prog elements and more from a conceptual perspective, not musical.
Led Zeppelin - Presence (most complex stuff from LZ and my favourite LZ album)
Black Sabbath - Sabotage (although Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die might be even more daring)
The Who - Who's Next (probably all their works from Tommy to It's Hard are to some extent proggy).
Jefferson Airplane - Long John Silver (at this point I think JA is still a psychedelic band, but proggy elements are starting to dominate in their music... and sadly that's their last classic era album)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown self-titled (psychedelic but has early prog elements and you can say that Arthur had interest into making prog music and went on to found Kingdom Come)
Megadeth - Rust In Peace is kinda proggy to me.
Metallica - And Justice For All is also kinda proggy, but without a bass :D
Faith No More - Angel Dust or even King For A Day
Many albums by Manfred Mann's Earth Band (from Messin' to Watch)
A Forest of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See (from all of experimental psych black metal they do, this one is the proggiest)
And I consider ALL of Asia albums prog. And for me Asia is far more prog than GTR. And I don't understand why Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and sometimes even Wishbone Ash and The Alan Parsons Project are even questioned to be prog. For me they are 100 percent prog.
so glad Pete mentioned Journey -- love all their stuff but those first three albums are gems, Hydra too!
I almost jumped out of my shoes when Animal Notes was held up. One of my all time favorites. The only possible weak spot is Animal Skins and I even like that . Tight intricate guitar stylings , jaunty piano, an amazing rhythm section of great drums and fantastic bass, Topped off with satirical humor laced vocals. A completely wonderful album.
Muse and Procol Harum are two bands that skirt the genre of prog too. The Family album is "Music in a Doll's House" and it is solidly psychedelic, which of course is a predecessor or prog.
I've become officially obsessed with obscure Mexican band El Ritual's self-titled debut, and came to the conclusion it's early prog, not particularly busy or complex but instrumentally-elaborate. I like the mystique of the occult imagery, the haunting organ and the whole mystery surrounding a band with no information or history available to discover since there is practically none on the entire internet.
ok , i was sixteen when these lps come out , we regarded them as prog,
black sabbath vol4,
deep purple, fireball,
led zeppelin , houses of the holy,
ground hogs , who will save the world,
uriah heep, demons and wizzards
My Picks:
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead (Complex arrangements, good concept, orchestra, great voice arrangements...)
Queen - Queen II (March of the black Queen, for example)
The Beatles - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (could also choose Rubber Soul or Revolver)
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (3 minute songs aren't really prog, but the arrangements might have influenced a lot of 70s Prog bands)
Metallica - And Justice for all (as complex, as Lars could play :-) )
Rainbow - Rising (lots of Prog Metal and Power Metal bands wouldn't exist without this)
all of the Savatage albums with Zak Stevens I see as Prog Metal albums.
Damn Pete - you and this lineup rocks - great content from you 6 - Awesome !!!!!!
Argent - All Together Now
I feel Roxy Music simply had proggy elements combined with a variety of styles such as punk and glam, especially on the first two records. Ladytron is a prime example of their proggy tendencies.
Cheers to Chuck for throwing in Rain Tree Crow. I'm a huge fan of that record.
Every time Max Webster gets mentioned I say thank you...a special band!
Fantastic choices - Loved Rick's treatise on the origins of Prog. As he said his version of Moontan has 6 tracks on it it will be the original Dutch version that is now the standard CD release, whereas the US/UK version had an updated version of Big Tree Blue Sea - which I think makes it even more prog - in place of Suzy Lunacy and Just Like Vince Taylor - the 1987 MCA CD has that version as well and has a different cover with a close up picture of a golden earring (wonder how whoever did that cover thought of that one?) Props to Anthony for mentioning Iron Maiden - you could take one or two songs, maybe more, from all their albums that have prog DNA running through them up to the present day - a lot of Dance of Death and what about Empire of the Clouds on Book of Souls?
Nice to know that I've got most of what was discussed as well, though a few I'll need to track down , however if Anthony is the Chris Alo, George is the Ryan Skow of this group with those great more obscure bands that he mentions - and for which You Tube can be a godsend - just listened to both the Toxic and Tension albums, and I can see what he means about them.
I'd add in the first couple of City Boy albums, more so Dinner at the Ritz, and their fifth , and to me best, album The Day the Earth Caught Fire; I'd also add all of Queen's albums up to A Day at the Races.
What a great crew, Pete. You guys have alerted me to so much fabulous music. Also, the passion & erudition of all the guests is incredibly life-affirming & makes me feel like I’m part of a vibrant (& opinionated) neighbourhood. Like Sesame St for prog nerds. Keep on rockin’!🤟🏻🧛🏻♂️👁💀⚓️🎸🎼⚡️
Any Steely Dan album qualifies....jazz/ jazz-rock fusion with occasional prog
Traffic, Supertramp, and ELO too
The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album
Dire Straits: Love Over Gold
1) Pavlovs Dog
2) Gypsy - rare psyche prog band from Midwest released a superb double album in 1970 soaring vocals, guitar solos, long keys, Hammond
3) Roy Buchanan - Blues guitarist released a spacey pink Floyd prog sounding album called your not alone
4) the cure - Bloodflowers
5) it's a beautiful day - SF based psyche violin electric guitars
Alan Parsons project. Any album
Thank you Martin for turning me onto two great CD's on your first two choices! Ordering them both from Amazon.
Mercyful Fate/King Diamond was the first thing that came to my head
This is entertaining. The group is more in their wheelhouse here than Power Pop. My jaw is still on the ground at the omission of Rockpile and even Fountains of Wayne. UK is my pinnacle for prog rock. Genesis' Trick of the tail comes close. IMO, a great prog rock album need an element of fusion. Tot actually mad a decent prog rock album - Hydra. LOVE the Roxy Music pick.
Split Enz, guys! Pete, I'd love to see you do something on Split Enz.
I’m not sure if the guys are fans, yet I love them.
Rick raises an excellent point about the beginnings of progressive rock with the Beatles and others. My view is that every genre of rock had an "earlier beginning". Many many people credit King Crimson as the inventors of prog rock, and I agree, but the earlier beginnings included work done by the Beatles and the Moody Blues, and as Rick points out, A Quick One While He's Away by Pete Townshend of the Who, was its own mini rock opera and arguably "prog”. Another example of what I am talking about as "earlier beginnings" to a genre: In my book, David Bowie, Brian Eno, and Roxy Music were the "earlier beginnings" of New Wave.
Great to see Chuck give some love to Japan, Sparks and Roxy Music ❤️ and completely agree. Along with Avalon, Stranded is my favourite RM album. I also think that David Sylvian’s post Japan Brilliant Trees has proggy elements as well as Gone to Earth., and Peter Gabriel’s eponymous particularly in his catalogue - love Moribund the Burgmeister.
Great call with Powerslave!
I was thinking the same thing! Grand Illusion would be on my list as well.
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Great quote from Martin: the punk rock of King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Exposure... excellent album and pick. Love this show.
Great show! May I suggest Godley & Creme and even a couple of the 10cc albums!
Very cool show! Thanks guys! Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is for sure the first prog-metal album. Great pick!
Interesting fact about Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, it was recorded in same studio as Tales from Topographic Oceans, Rick Wakeman reportedly got bored with Tales, and went to work with Sabbath
@@stephenkraft609 I can understand Wakeman's move - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is TMO the better album.
Just started watching... Some of mine: Metallica - ...and justice , King's X - Gretchen goes to Nebraska, Peter Gabriel - So. and many more
Prairie Prince was actually the founding drummer of Journey, but he did not last long, as he went back to where he came from, lol.
@SOAL broke that down to us.
I tried, but i never liked the early Genesis. First albums with Phil Collins on vocals are my favorite albums
A Trick of A Tail is an outright masterpiece.
Sparks did a run of gigs in London 3 or 4 years back where they played a different LP every night for something like 20 consecutive nights!
Juian Cope has some great proggy albums and Steve Wilson's "The Raven That Refused to Sing" is a modern prog delight.
I love the deput of, “Angel.”🎤🎸🎵🥁
Journey's debut album is a great choice. My favorite album of theirs. I consider this album to contain Neal Schon's best work. Very intense, fiery axe playing, especially on "Kohoutek" and "Topaz". Two brilliant jazz fusion instros. I wish he had done more stuff like that. And I'll add a another one not mentioned. I'd say Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" is pretty proggy at times.
Great vid.
George please state band name and album title when you’re up🙂
Wishbone Ash-Argus..most people say it's classic prog but what I hear is just an excellent rock music deeply rooted in folk and blues.
I agree with you - it’s not classic prog, it’s inflected with prog alongside as you say folk/blues rock and it’s this special combination that makes it so fantastic. I have an original pressing and was a one of my records that I selected to take to my hi-fi specialist Graham’s in North London to hear it on high-end decks through B&W speakers, which I have - absolutely fabulous, but does mean I’m heading towards a rather expensive deck 🤣. I also think Pilgrimage has some prog colours, probably my second fave Wishbone album. Another seriously amazing proggy folk rock track would be Sloth on Fairport Convention’s Full House album - fantastic Swarbrick/Thompson composition that builds and builds with great intensity, do check out ppl. I’d also include Be Bop Deluxe’s Futurama and Sunburst Finish, which Pete has given a lot of love to - the Esoteric deluxe re-releases with remasters and remixes have totally changed the way I hear these albums 💜
@@maddysmith8846 It's good to see that somebody mentions Sloth by Fairport. One of my favourite folk rock bands of all time. Full House is a great record. In an interview with Andy Powell, he said that he's strongly influenced by Fairport Convention and maybe that's why most of the melodies on Argus sounds like medieval folk tunes.
@@crossroader71 In May, 1974, a car load of my big brother, 5 of his friends and me (I was 14) drove from Lander, Wyoming to Denver to see Fairport (w/ Sandy & Swarb!) at Ebbet's Field. To make a long story short, they were fantastic (it was worth the drive with rowdy, weed sucking, uncontrollable older teens -- even driving aimlessly lost for 3 hours in Denver in a '69 Plymouth that was beginning to overheat). There weren't many people there, but the ones that were seemed to be dedicated fans. The main thing I remember was how everyone got strangely quiet and attentive when they launched into "Sloth." You could feel the power slowly intensifying as the song progressed -- Jerry Donahue was AMAZING, nobody could have played a more perfect guitar solo for that song that evening. The whole show was great. Memories to cherish forever. They became my 3rd favorite band of all time that evening (my 1st is Procol Harum, followed by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band -- 4th is Steeleye Span). Cheers...
@@SkeltonKnaggsLives Wow, I just checked that out on google maps, it must have been an 800+ miles round trip, what a fantastic memory, the best of times seeing bands when we were teens!
@@SkeltonKnaggsLives great story thank you! I really dig Jerry Donahue's guitar playing especially on Fotheringay album!
''... And Justice For All'' definitively prog to my ears .. love the direction they took on this record but it didn't last for sure .. 😟
Up Above Our Heads by the Scottish band Clouds from 1970 is the beginning of Prog. And although they later became one of the leaders of the prog movement I consider the second album by Yes-Time And A Word-also from 1970 a giant step in that direction.
I would consider Spirit's "12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" is closer to prog than Tubes, but they're both close. Gabriel compared to Genesis focused on the experimental aspect of prog, whereas the band stayed with the 70's English standard of prog until they faded slowly into pop.
Do you guys think, Muse ‘ The 2nd Law ‘ and Chevelle ‘ Niratias’ are considered prog? Thank you guys for your picks.🎤🎸🎵🥁
2nd law certainly has prog parts. Very experimental
Love the Prog Seat..I would add Mike Oldfield & Anthony Philips albums..
3. Antipop (1999) by Primus
2. Drums And Wires (1979) XTC
1. Man Machine (1978) Kraftwerk
Some honorable mentions are Not Available (1978) by The Residents. Diorama (2002) Silverchair and Mental Notes (1975) by Split Enz.
Excellent show once again! I’m going to regret this, but I have to bring to the table: “Music from the Elder” by Kiss. As Anthony would say: Is it prog? Is it rock? Is KISS!
Thoroughly enjoyed this!
Excellent show guys. Anthony is not the only Eddie jobson fan I am as well love Eddie’s keyboard playing compositions great synth and violin playing love zinc album themes of secrets and of course UK frank zappa roxy music. My album choices. Procol harem shine on brightly. Kate bush hounds of love. Tangerine dream underwater sunlight great album and there is guitar lead’s on it. Steve Hackett. Please don’t touch. Chuck your pics were brilliant sparks kimono my house is awesome love it rain tree crow fuckin amazing thank you for taking about Japan love this band tin drum brilliant gentleman take Polaroids 👍🏴🎶🤘🎹🎸
Great show as usual. Great choices.
Off the top of my head, New England and Zebra (the keyboards alone...)
Great show! All these guys are terrific! Chris Alo was missing to complete the gang. My choice: Crime of the Century (Supertramp).
Is this a prog album???
Im gonna throw out there Tea Party Splendor Solis. Listen to songs like The River, Midsummers Day, Majestic Song, Save Me. Plus you get acoustic bits in Winter Solstice and Haze on the Hills similar to how Genesis and Yes had it with songs like Horizons and The Clap. Could argue Edges of Twilight is to but I think the first album is a little more.
I think most of The Tea Party albums are progressive. The Edges of Twilight is a favorite of mine.
Great show, guys! I really need to check out all of these. I would like to mention a few other albums that could be considered prog rock albums.
The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
To me, this is where progressive rock truly began. You have the little snippets of songs all flowing together seamlessly, a strong jazz influence and some dynamite guitar playing from Zappa, unconvential time signatures, and a little influence from classical influence. It even predates Days of Future Passed by several months.
Television - Marquee Moon
While also a punk album, the lengthy jams and virtuoso playing from Tom Verlaine certainly gives it a proggy feel. It's also just a really amazing album. Even if it's not prog, I highly recommend everyone here give it a listen.
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
No. Fucking. Quarter. If that's not a prog song, I don't know what is. Not only that, but look at songs like The Rain Song, Over the Hills and Far Away, and The Ocean. All of them shift between different sections to keep things interesting. You also have more keyboards on the album thanks to John Paul Jones.
Radiohead - OK Computer
Honestly, this and Kid A could both be considered prog albums. However, this one is more closer to conventional prog. The lyrical themes and soundscapes are very Pink Floyd-esque, and the extensive usage of synthesizers gives it a strong prog flavor.
Yes - 90125
It's more of a pop album that happens to be from a prog band, but there's still enough classic Yes elements to make it not sound out of place. Changes has some pretty crazy time changing, and the instrumental Cinema is badass.
The Who - Tommy
One of the first major rock operas, there are several progressive qualities to this record. John Entwistle plays both bass and all the horns on here. Not only that, but the extended jams of Sparks and the Underture, the songs all linking together to form a story, and Keith Moon's powerful drumming all make this a prog album in my book.
The Beatles - Abbey Road
I think this one is kinda obviously prog rock. I mean, you're telling me the Abbey Road Medley and I Want You (She's So Heavy) aren't prog epics? Even Here Comes the Sun is a little proggy with the time changes and Indian influence. There's even Moog synthesizer on several of the songs, which was pretty ahead of its time.
I feel like a great topic for the show would be proto prog. Albums before In the Court of the Crimson King that could be considered prog rock. I know albums like The Sound of '65 or A Quick One have some pretty proggy moments. Hell, take a look at the live version of Spoonful on Cream's Wheels of Fire album. 16 minutes of jazzy improvisation and heavy rocking. Is that prog? There's other albums frequently cited as the first of the genre, like The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack and Shine On Brightly. I think it could make for a great discussion!
I wished 'Pampered Menial' by Pavlov's Dog had some love here.
But this album is prog as it is, as it should be. It's not even a question if it is prog or not :)
Some GREAT choices....very entertaining vid guys!!!
My list:
1. The Tubes -- Self Titled
2. Todd Rundgren--A Wizard, A True Star
3. Zappa--Hot Rats
UFO - 1 Hour Space Rock
Eloy - Inside
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Saracen - Heroes, Saints and Fools
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
Legend - Death in the Nursery
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Dust - Hard Attack
I'd throw in Dillinger Escape plan's whole catalogue and British band Sikth - Particularly their debut 'The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out Wait For Something Wild' - If you're curious - this track 'Skies of the Millennium Night', wait for the tapping climax!! th-cam.com/video/yaQxJtHc8Co/w-d-xo.html
Awesome show, great picks from everyone! Very cool to hear you will have BryceTalksMetal on your show Pete! You should bring Niamh the Prog Nerd on some time too!
Great show as always. You should definitely do a show on bands that changed drastically in style. The band birth control had some hard rock prog in the early albums that I like. And of course queen. They always had elements of prog
Is it prog? These 9 songs fit on one CD-R...
10cc "24 Hours"
Ambrosia "Cowboy Star"
Amorphous Androgynous "The Galaxial Pharmaceutical"
Anita Hegerland "Like A Rose On A Rainy Day"
Armageddon "Silver Tightrope"
Art Of Noise "Beat Box (Diversion One)"
Arzachel "Metempsychosis"
Barclay James Harvest "Ring Of Changes"
Battles "Race:in"
...and more to come!
i bought the Tension CD listing to it being talked about. Great album.
Great video Gents!!
I'd add...
In the Woods - omnio
Peter Gabriel - So
Arcturus - La Masquerade infernal
Honourable mentions:
It bites - eat me in St Louis
Ulver - ... William Blake...
Ultrasound - Everything picture
Primus-The Disaturated Seven, and Pork Soda is progy in parts.