15 great albums that you might not know about!!! Prog is littered with unsung heroes and underground legends. Here are some I truly enjoy!!! #prog #progrock #progressiverock
I want to start by congratulating you for your great work, in The Prog Corner. I am a portuguese José Cid fan, who is over 80 years old and still producing music (he has a new Prog Rock album from 2023) and I own the "10.000 years between Venus and Mars", a masterpiece that´s worth a lot of money and was considered, since the seventies, one of the best Prog Rock records of the world. I will also help you with the translation of the current album you are covering, in this video; First I´ll put the portuguese word, and then the english translation; Onde (where), Quando (when), Como (how), Porquê (why), Cantamos Pessoas Vivas "and not Visas, as you say in the video" (we sing living persons). This album is a tribute José Cid pays to portuguese poets, as well as portuguse music, and it´s really good. Keep up the good work.
Enjoyable stuff as always Scot. So glad Beggars Opera and Fruupp got the mentions they deserved. Was lucky enough to see both of them live back in the day. Both great bands. Manzenera'/801's -Listen Now was a fine album too. Personally prefer that to Quiet Sun, but i'll give it another listen. I thought you were going to give Paladins - Charge a mention as the brilliant Roger Dean cover was featured at the beginning of the vid - i think the album lives up to the artwork.
Hi Scot! Thanks for your interesting programs on your channel. I’m learning something new in each program. The only two bands I’ve heard about here are Gracious and Fruup. I’ve noted all of these albums and I’m eager to sit down and listen to them. So, thanks Scot, keep on making these videoes. I love them, all! Love and respect!🤘🏼😊
These are true hidden gems. Thanks Let me add one more. Quatermass self titled and only album 1976. Pete at SOT highlighted this one day and I am a big fan of this album
Love these sorts of videos! I think I counted 7 I that were completely new to me, and most of the rest were definitely ones I definitely need to spend more time with!
Not only is this channel full of entertainment that is not available anywhere else on TH-cam but also, it is an absolute fountain of knowledge and information from the incredible purveyor of prog knowledge, the prog professor that is Scot Lade. Listening to this channel makes you feel like you could pass a degree in prog (if there was such a thing) with honours. We need to rejoice in this wonderful experience Your humble disciple
Absolutely brilliant stuff! The only bands I’d heard of are Fruupp and Gnidrolog but you’ve given me so much more to look for! Also love to watch you on the Sea of Tranquility videos with Pete Pardo. Thanks for the music!
Wow! More obscure but great classic prog. I only know a few of these bands (Hands, Fruup, Gnidrolog), so there's lots more here to check out. Much Thanks, and yes, this probably could be a series, as there seems to be no end to the abundance and variety of underrated prog-related albums from those classic years and beyond.
Scot I am a big fan of your channel .. This video is a real Gem . As a spanish speaker. I recommend to listen to some bands from Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Chile. For example: La máquina de hacer ´pajaros - Sui Generis - Los Jaivas (excellent) - Invisible - MIA - Pescado rabioso - Triana- Bloke - Alameda- Cast. All these bands (and many others) are excellent racommendations for your public. Thanks from Chile - Pedro
Appreciate the opportunity to find new, interesting prog. I'm definitely going to have to give these selections a deeper dive. Right off the bat, I am taken with "Island - Pictures". Maybe I can return the favor? Have you listened to "Thinking Plague (try out Behold The Man)" or "Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum"? Tony Levin is a big fan of the latter group.
I'm new here. Thanks for the recommendations. I've jotted them down in my little notepad. As an early 70s prog fan for years, then not really listening to much prog for many years I got a taste for it again when I gave "In The Land of Grey and Pink" a spin a few years back and realised what I'd been missing. So, I started to sniff around for more good prog. I'm looking forward to investigating the bands on your list. For what it's worth, my fave recent music that I've found (that is new to me but maybe not new to you bro) consists of Crack The Sky, Alan Parsons Project, Streetmark and Hoelderlin. If even one of those bands is music you haven't heard then I urge you to. Thanks dude. Love & Light.
I love everything you mentioned except…I don’t know Streetmark. Big fan of APP, Caravan and Crack The Sky. And thanks for being here!!! I love old Prog. I love new Prog. If it’s good… 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Great and interesting video to discover new prog stuff tx. May I suggest to put the list in the description, it could be handy for the listening. Greetings from France. (sorry for the bad English)
Hi Scot!! Glad you mentioned Fruup, Beggar's Opera, and Gnidrolog (I know "Lady Lake" great album!) and amazed you chose José Cid + Quarteto 1111 ( Quar te to Mil cento "e" onze). All the other names perhaps I have listened to some songs (I heard many rare prog bands 20/15 years ago) but some I sure didn't know. I won't talk again about that band with the South African keyboard player because I'm just a simple member (and if I was more than that I can't impose my ideas on you, you are the one who moves this and one of the best in rock on youtube) but I think Finch the dutch prog rock band with 3 albums is very good too (I know You already mentioned one of their 3 albums). Harmonium from Quebec, Canada is a very good band too. Ragnarok (Sweden) is very interesting too as also Asia Minor and The Enid. Sorry if you already talked about them, which I believe you could have. And there are hundreds of good bands so perhaps it's not fair to note these bands I did, I don't know. Keep on rockin' Scot!!! Sunday I won't miss one of my top favorite rock bands of all time: Genesis!!!
As always a big thanks. Listening as I type this. I'll have to do some research. Lately I've been going down a bit of an original prog era rabbit hole. In fact, the Quiet Sun "Mainstream" album you just mentioned is an awesome one I too just discovered. And Beggars Opera too! I'll have to look through the rest of these! Awesome list. I also just discovered the Web album "I Spider." The Samurai album that followed is also good. Great stuff! We seem to be going down a few similar rabbit holes.
In the process of looking up the Samurai album I also bumped into a Japanese group from the same era with that name that had a couple of interesting albums. @@TheProgCorner
Great video, man! I love this Beggar's Opera album, I almost forgot I have on CD. And your portuguese is not so bad 😅 The title means: Where When How Why We sing live people
Great Scott! I mean great stuff! I remember being turned on to Beggars Opera in the 70s, as well as Cressida - have both CDs. Spring is one of my favourite early prog bands. Have you checked out Tonton Macoute? Also on the RCA Neon label. Really good prog/jazz/rock. I have both Spring and Tonton on the original Neon.
I love your channel. I especially liked this episode because I had never heard of any of these bands. I added some of their songs to my “Prog and Fusion” Spotify playlist. Have you ever compared European and North American Prog? Have you ever talked about the following bands: Starcastle, Happy the Man, Group 87, or Goblin?
Great recommendations, Scot - Will definitely be checking those out! I wondered what you think of Crown Lands "Fearless" album from 2023? I love the Rush and especially 2112 vibes on the epic "Starshifter: Fearless Pt. II"! Alex Lifeson is supposedly a fan!! Great production as well!
Well Scot, you never cease to amaze us with these cool, eclectic types of bands. And I’m particularly intrigued by the “ Island / Pictures “ album. I can only imagine how strange the music is with that Giger cover art. But I love when prog turns weird. You’ve peeked my curiosity once again 😆.
@@TheProgCornerthere is another release on a private cdr sellers label on Discogs...its called "Pyrrho" massive 40 min track performed twice, home demo then live...pretty much a bootleg really
Hi Scott, I’ve been following you since a year and half and like your stuff a lot - It was pleasant surprise to find out I was not alone in the world to love prog , in fact for years I felt a white fly. I will write again to tell you “my” prog story… But this time: can you tell me/us WHY you, in the 15 hidden gems, put on the cover Paladin/Charge and it is not among the 15? Great album! Anyway, keep up the good work, kudos! Francesco from Italy
A good question. Originally it was to be a part of the 15 but then got edged out. But I love that artwork so I kept it on the thumbnail!!!!! I’m planning a Part Two which will, no doubt, feature that album!!!
I've seen and heard that Cressida album Scot !! From way back. Had a friend who's sister !?! had this in her collection. Remember Hatfield and the North being in there too. But everyone loved playing ' For girls that grow plump....' , I worry myself for what I remember sometimes...and then she looked like Siouxie Sue next time I saw her. Playing early Japan records. 😅 That's the thing with the 70's.... there'll never be a time like it again. Such diverse genres and styles..and I love it. Cheers Scot. You rock man !!!! 😍
Thanks, Scot, will have to check out some of these! The only ones I have now are the 'Hands' and 'Fruupp' ones, both of which I love, although I also have the albums by Phil Manzanera's 801, which sound like they followed 'Quiet Sun', so I need to hear that one. I'd also heard of Gnidrolog (I presume an 'almost-anagram' of Goldring?), but not listened to them. Not heard of Gracious, but hearing the name reminded me of 'Grace' (another UK band) - they have some good but probably little known albums, too. One other little-known band I like is Bachdenkel - particularly their 'Stalingrad' album.
Ive been looking for something like this, i love finding super obscure albums from the classic prog era, lady lake became an instant favourite when i heard it for the first tike not long ago
Great stuff!!!hey SCOT- YOU’RE -‘the phd. Of prog’,,, HAVE YOU- ever featured the wonderful band -‘Art in America ‘-[w/their debut album -Art in America],,,a great underrated band from Detroit, Michigan with Chris Flynn, and his siblings onboard- I really think these guys are more deserving of respect than the limited fame they got back in the mid -‘70s !!!!keep up the great work, my friend -wedigggg ya !
SCOT , I talked with their lead singer and writer-Chris Flynn@@TheProgCorner and he sez their doing a little performing again,andhehas a ‘shitload’, lol-of new tunes their anxious to try ! It seems like they were burned , before with by ‘blue meanie’ predatorrecord labels ‘-so their marketing themselves , a sad fact of todays music scene, unfortunately !
Hey Scot! Love the thumbnail. Looks like something i gave you. Lol. Yeah Jon must be bored. He released vids for every song off of The More You Know yesterday and the two i sent today. He needs to get back on the road!!! Later.👍☮️👑😎
Love the José Cid mention ! here in Portugal he's the king of pop. Shame his prog ambitions never really got any traction here in portugal. Love from Portugal !
Hey Scot - Being a big Phil Manzanera fan, I got that Quiet Sun album the day it was released. Awesome stuff! I'm sure you must know the awesome 'one and done' from 1975, '9 Parts To The Wind' by Strange Days. 6 tracks, 3 of length, which could have come off of 'Foxtrot' and are like 'Get Em Out By Friday', but possibly even better.
I've got at least digital of most of these. Particularly love that Quiet Sun rekkid. Also glad you mentioned the Samurai. 👍 You'll need to take out a loan for an original copy of that Corte Dei Miracoli. 😵💫
Hi Scot. I have the Beggars Opera album, and Fruup, The Prince of Heaven's Eyes has been a favourite since it came out, but the rest are new to me, except for Web. Thank you, oh High Jedi Master of prog!
Actually grabbed a copy of that Quiet suns album the other day at a flea market just based on the album cover, Funny you mentioned it. If we are talking about hidden Gems I have to mention a band from my hometown- Praise the Load
2 of my all time fave albums of any genre are the 2 albums by the criminally overlooked Cressida and it's great to see them get a mention in one the many 'best prog' videos. 'Asylum' is slightly more prog than their self-titled debut album (especially the magnificent 9 1/2 minute 'Munich') so I'll give you that one but their first album is just bliss.
Love the Web and Fruupp albums on your list. A rare one for me on the edge of prog is the only album from Keith Cross & Peter Ross titled Bored Civilians.
Arachnoid, loving this dissonant suggestion. Nice suggestion and have never heard of them. I kinda love the late 70's, there was a darkness before new wave found its pop gravytrain and it brightened so much music.
I have the Fruup boxset, cannot believe I missed them before. I have Quiet Sun one too, love Manzanera. Familiar with the odd track from a few others but plenty more to look up!
Wow … I was just listening to Fruupp’s album seven secrets today. This album is absolutely amazing, especially the song, Wise as Wisdom. They are truly an underrated band.
"Hidden Gems" indeed. So glad that Mainstream got a mention - great album (Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil). Fruupp too, I recently bought the Esoteric boxset re-issue, 4 great albums in a sexy clamshell! I prefer the first Cressida album, but Asylum is good too. Same with Gracious! I was literally listening to Web/I Spider yesterday. Love and Peace!
Almost forgot- here’s one worth checking out: Esperanto. They released 3 albums in the 1970s, the best in my view being Last Tango, on which appears the best version of Eleanor Rigby that I’ve ever heard.
Bit off piste but I just 'bumped into' Monarch Trail's 'Four sides' you covered a while back. Bit synth heavy but I was well impressed apart from most of 'Eris.' Shades of Genesis, IQ, and even some Spock's. You also nudged me into King Crimson... I tried half a dozen... only really liked 'Crimson King' and the more symphonic 'Epitaph.'
Scot... I asked on your last thread, Don't you think 'Progressive' has become the new standard? 'Verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus louder verse chorus' has gone? It's now almost 'Hard prog' and 'Soft/symphonic prog?' Rock and pop are now secondary genres?
Great obscure list, I'll have to delve. Not as obscure but sort of forgotten by many are Seventh Wave "Things To Come". and Refugee, the Grand Canyon piece is killer. . Speaking of Mr. Moraz, his "Story of I" is still awesome if only for the depth of track layers.
I have arachnoid,polyphony,island,on cd..all great CDs..here are some prog hidden gems..le orme-felona y sorona, osanna- palepoli,alphataurus- alphataurus, rare earth-as your mind flies by,Manfred manns earth band solar fire..to name a few
That's a great list, many of my favourites there. I just paid a silly amount of money for Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim which was a long time grail for me.
Wowsa! Danish band to check out= Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Secrey Oyster, Ache, Causa Sui, Day of Phoneix, Mew, The old man and the sea, Thors Hammer, Blast Furnace, Rainbow Band, Pan, Hurdy Gurdy, Bazaar, Moses, Blues Addicts, "Terje, Jesper og Joachim", Tömrerclaus, Papir, Mythic Sunship, London Odense Ensemble, Chicago Odense Ensemble. All SUPERB!
I've heard of a few of those bands. I have a few recommendations. Not all completely obscure but definitely under the radar. I have to mention Egg. A gem from the Canturbury scene featuring the keyboard wizardry of Dave Stewart. Then you've got SFF(Schicke, Fuhrs and Frohling) from Germany. Brilliant stuff! Lots of insane Mellotron here! And from New Zealand, there's Split Enz. I have to mention them because only their first album Mental Notes could truly be called prog. Very quirky stuff. The vocals may be hard to get used to but they have two guys alternating on the lead vocals. What they may lack in vocal prowess is more than made up by outstanding musicianship. Morse Code from Canada. Their albums from 1975 and 1976 are phenomenal! From Japan there's Mahoujin. They recorded their only album Babylonia Suite in 1978 but it didn't get released until the 90's. Think of ELP without vocals and with more of a groove to them. These guys are no clone but have their own flavor. And last but not least, Holding Pattern from the US. Great instro prog with their self titled album from 1981.
The Prince of Heaven's Eyes could be the the single most underappreciated prog album of the 70s. If you like pastoral, cheerful prog, it rarely gets better than this. For the SoT viewers, this is an album Pete and Anthony would adore and a record that Luis Nasser would utterly despise.
Really cool to see the Grobschnitt record in the background my dad listened to them and still those sometimes I have the Solar Musik Live Album. Fun Fact they have a song called Food Sicore which backwards is Eroc is doof (german for Eroc is dumb) basically insulting their drummer.
Without Introduction has been my favourite hidden gem for years! It reminds me of Italoprog, even though they couldn't have been influenced by it. Speaking of hidden gems, check out Summer in Town by Horizont!
Corte dei miracoli's debut is basically my prog arrangement trick bible and I listen to it every time I'm running out of ideas and I need some musical inspiration.
I've only heard one of these, and it's Island's Pictures. I wish they released more than one record. (I also Expected to see England on here, but I guess they're well known for being obscure...)
@@TheProgCorner Thanks. I'll check it out. I've also got their 2011 release "Blueprint". Guitarist/vocalist Mario Milo scored the World War I movie "The Lighthorsemen" in the 1980s.
@@warrenbridges1891 I've heard their stuff on TH-cam, don't own anything by them, love how they let all the instruments breath in their compositions, Highly original, nearest group I would say Camel. Both albums I've heard are excellent x
Also from Australia: Goolutionites and the Real People (1970) by Tamam Shud. Very expensive vinyl. Milesago (1971) by Spectrum. Double album on Harvest. Hush (1971) by Extradition. Folk prog. Very, very expensive vinyl. A Toast to Panama Red (1972) by The Master's Apprentices. Recorded at Abbey Road. Opeth wrote a song about them. The Star Suite (1974) by Patch. Mandu (1974) by Mandu. Fools Paradise (1975) by Madden and Harris. Folk prog, English aesthetic. Other prog bands: Madder Lake, Ariel, SCRA, Tully. From New Zealand: Universal Radio (1974) and Scented Gardens for the Blind (1975), both by Dragon.
Oh my oh my... I can go over 100 man... I think this is my favourite part from prog rock. Twenty Sixty Six and Then, A Barca do Sol, Raw Material, Ruphus, Hanuman which are VdGG in the time of VdGG, Campo di Marte, Blocco Mentale, Hoelderlin, Sahara, Tibet... And more recent stuff like XII Alfonso, Alco Frisbass, The Psychedelic Ensemble, Poor Genetic Material, Frequency Drift... And yes, The Prince of Heaven's Eyes it's Fruupp's best!
@@TheProgCorner , check them out. Later become Lied des Teufels. But their self titled debut from 1971 is simply brilliant and this is one of the most precious CDs in my collection
A lot of good stuff there and some I had never heard of - Quarteto 1111? Sounds right up my street. Some of the albums mentioned are available on TH-cam so do explore, ye intrepid listeners! I notice an interesting date coming up in a couple of months though. You might want to dig a little deeper, come up with an 'undiscovered' Albanian 1973 prog masterpiece, mock up a cover and see how many subscribers bite.
@@TheProgCorner Found Quarteto on aforementioned video streaming site. Don't you just yearn for the days when talented Italian (Portuguese??) kids were given a mellotron on their 18th birthday? Better production and a different drummer and it could have been huge. (Well, PFM huge, maybe not The Beatles huge)
Wow, I thought I was a prog tragic and the only album I knew about was Quiet Sun (my favourite track was Trot). Lots to check out. MMy obscure old classics are positively mainstream compared with your list. - If hippie lyrics don't worry you, Steve Hillage's Motivation Radio is a great album, so is Green. - Stomu Yamashta's Go! is epic and ultra-eclectic, and includes Steve Winwood, Al diMeola, Michael Shrieve and Klaus Shultz. - While Pat Metheny is a jazz legend, his Imaginary Day album has some quality instrumental prog fusion, like the title track and Roots of Coincidence, plus some ethereal jazz - Aphrodite's Child's 1972 double album was very freaky. I don't go back to it much but it's interesting for its time. One of its tracks was so evil-sounding that our guitarist's very new age ex-wife wanted to smash it haha
@@TheProgCorner I'm surprised any of them were unfamiliar to you :) I played Go! to death in the 70s and I still play it today because it's (usually) easy on the ear like Floyd and symphonic rock but there's plenty of ambiance, fusion, funk and soul in there too, even a touch of avant garde classical in the track, Carnival.
Well Scot you went totally off piste with this. Never heard of a one . And the chances of finding any I imagine is remote. If not very expensive. I have tried a few recommended obscure Prog bands and been disappointed. I have logged the names and if I come across them I shall speculate. Martin.
,1 Israel progi band Trespass . 2. Keper Crab, The Vigil 3 Ark Angel, Warrior Christian vocal group, The Second Chapter of Acts 4. Glass Harp, or one of many albums by Phil Keaggy 5. I will forever shout the praises of the one and only The Touch from 1969.
@@TheProgCorner I first discovered them on Cuneiform records. They sounded very elp influenced. They had said that they never heard of Emerson lake and Palmer. I'm not buying it. Kind of like Greta Van Fleet saying that they weren't influenced by LED Zeppelin. They did morph into their own unique individual style.
Here's a request. The best Modern Prog Bands Under The Age of 30. My three nominations are Black Country New Road, Black Midi, and The Last Dinner Party.
Ok, that Island cover, haven't heard of this band, but it looks creepy and cool as fuck. Gives me ELP's Brain Salad Surgery and Alien vibes. Something tells me I need some of that....."herbal remedy" for this one. Lol
Please calm down! Ever since King Crimson released their first album I was hooked and I love hearing stories about prog bands, then and now, but I prefer having it presented in a relaxed manner.
@@TheProgCorner Or I have to adjust ….😉 I didn’t mean to be rude or patronizing, your opening was just a bit “intense” for a well behaved (🤔) Swedish young guy (going on 17 … wrong … going on 71). That was not a good start … Sorry🥺 Much of my CD collection is prog and finding more and exotic prog has become the last way out to find more gems. Ever listened to Argentinian band Crucis - there’s one of the worlds finest synth solo in one of their songs. Chilean band Congreso maybe isn’t “pure” prog, but some albums contain proggish element, especially the first ones. Ukrainian band La Horsa Bianca could maybe be sorted under prog and Little Tragedies and maybe Nautilus Pompilus (band leader Slava Butusov has joined the dark Z force) could be regarded as prog. Looking for Japanese bands, so maybe Ars Nova and Wagakki Band … 😎
Love this video. Almost every week I look for unpopular prog bands/albums
Me too!!!
These videos are pure gold, enjoy people! Thanks Scot for all this awesome work of taste and knowledge
You, my friend, are pure gold.
Great show! I love most of these. All great choices to tell people about. Looking forward to seeing more of your shows.
Thank you!!!! 👍👍👍
Great show Scot! Never heard of alot of these bands - Super excited to get more awesome prog
Thank you thank you thank you
Thank you, Joey!!!
I want to start by congratulating you for your great work, in The Prog Corner. I am a portuguese José Cid fan, who is over 80 years old and still producing music (he has a new Prog Rock album from 2023) and I own the "10.000 years between Venus and Mars", a masterpiece that´s worth a lot of money and was considered, since the seventies, one of the best Prog Rock records of the world. I will also help you with the translation of the current album you are covering, in this video; First I´ll put the portuguese word, and then the english translation; Onde (where), Quando (when), Como (how), Porquê (why), Cantamos Pessoas Vivas "and not Visas, as you say in the video" (we sing living persons). This album is a tribute José Cid pays to portuguese poets, as well as portuguse music, and it´s really good. Keep up the good work.
Ahhhh. “Vivas” makes more sense!!!!!
@@TheProgCorner Much more accurate than people "with visas".😀
Great video as always, I love your enthusiasm.
So many fantastic albums , fantastic list. Cheers.
Enjoyable stuff as always Scot. So glad Beggars Opera and Fruupp got the mentions they deserved. Was lucky enough to see both of them live back in the day. Both great bands. Manzenera'/801's -Listen Now was a fine album too. Personally prefer that to Quiet Sun, but i'll give it another listen. I thought you were going to give Paladins - Charge a mention as the brilliant Roger Dean cover was featured at the beginning of the vid - i think the album lives up to the artwork.
I’m thinking about doing a Part Two!!!
Hi Scot. Your best show so far. We need more of this kind of stuff. We Want a top 100 !
I’m definitely going to be doing a Part Two!!!!👍👍
I wholeheartedly concur!
Hi Scot!
Thanks for your interesting programs on your channel.
I’m learning something new in each program.
The only two bands I’ve heard about here are Gracious and Fruup.
I’ve noted all of these albums and I’m eager to sit down and listen to them.
So, thanks Scot, keep on making these videoes.
I love them, all!
Love and respect!🤘🏼😊
Thank you so much!!!!
These are true hidden gems. Thanks
Let me add one more. Quatermass self titled and only album 1976. Pete at SOT highlighted this one day and I am a big fan of this album
Quatermass!!!! Wow. What an album.
I'll second that. A great album - overlooked so often. 1970 - still got the original vinyl.
God only knows the time it took you to complete this research, thank you brother.
I spend all day thinking about Prog. I’m a sick sick man!!!!!!
Love these sorts of videos! I think I counted 7 I that were completely new to me, and most of the rest were definitely ones I definitely need to spend more time with!
That’s awesome!!!! I’ll definitely do a follow up episode in a few weeks - give people some time to catch up!!!
Not only is this channel full of entertainment that is not available anywhere else on TH-cam but also, it is an absolute fountain of knowledge and information from the incredible purveyor of prog knowledge, the prog professor that is Scot Lade.
Listening to this channel makes you feel like you could pass a degree in prog (if there was such a thing) with honours.
We need to rejoice in this wonderful experience
Your humble disciple
Thank you for the kind words, Dave!!!!
amazing discoveries as usual thanks and have a good day
Thank you, Julie!!!!! 👍👍👍
Oh THIS I am very much looking forward to!!!
Dude! You are intense! I love it!
Absolutely brilliant stuff! The only bands I’d heard of are Fruupp and Gnidrolog but you’ve given me so much more to look for! Also love to watch you on the Sea of Tranquility videos with Pete Pardo. Thanks for the music!
Hopefully I will be back on SOT soon!!!
Wow! More obscure but great classic prog. I only know a few of these bands (Hands, Fruup, Gnidrolog), so there's lots more here to check out. Much Thanks, and yes, this probably could be a series, as there seems to be no end to the abundance and variety of underrated prog-related albums from those classic years and beyond.
It’s a bottomless pit!!!
Looking forward to checking out these prog bands. I love early Genesis and Camel.
Oh yeah!!! Me too!!! So strap in and find some awesomeness…
Scot I am a big fan of your channel .. This video is a real Gem . As a spanish speaker. I recommend to listen to some bands from Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Chile. For example: La máquina de hacer ´pajaros - Sui Generis - Los Jaivas (excellent) - Invisible - MIA - Pescado rabioso - Triana- Bloke - Alameda- Cast. All these bands (and many others) are excellent racommendations for your public. Thanks from Chile - Pedro
Excellent!!! Thank you, Pedro. Those are all AMAZING bands.
Scot, great new stuff I had no idea about. Now need to listen to all this!
The Prog never ends!!!!
Appreciate the opportunity to find new, interesting prog. I'm definitely going to have to give these selections a deeper dive. Right off the bat, I am taken with "Island - Pictures". Maybe I can return the favor? Have you listened to "Thinking Plague (try out Behold The Man)" or "Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum"? Tony Levin is a big fan of the latter group.
I LOVE THINKING PLAGUE!!! And the new SGM made my Top Albums of 2024 (so far) list!!! Fantastic!!!!
I'm new here. Thanks for the recommendations. I've jotted them down in my little notepad.
As an early 70s prog fan for years, then not really listening to much prog for many years I got a taste for it again when I gave "In The Land of Grey and Pink" a spin a few years back and realised what I'd been missing. So, I started to sniff around for more good prog.
I'm looking forward to investigating the bands on your list. For what it's worth, my fave recent music that I've found (that is new to me but maybe not new to you bro) consists of Crack The Sky, Alan Parsons Project, Streetmark and Hoelderlin. If even one of those bands is music you haven't heard then I urge you to.
Thanks dude. Love & Light.
I love everything you mentioned except…I don’t know Streetmark. Big fan of APP, Caravan and Crack The Sky. And thanks for being here!!! I love old Prog. I love new Prog. If it’s good…
👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Great and interesting video to discover new prog stuff tx.
May I suggest to put the list in the description, it could be handy for the listening.
Greetings from France. (sorry for the bad English)
No, you are right. I should put the list in the description….
Hi Scot!! Glad you mentioned Fruup, Beggar's Opera, and Gnidrolog (I know "Lady Lake" great album!) and amazed you chose José Cid + Quarteto 1111 ( Quar te to Mil cento "e" onze). All the other names perhaps I have listened to some songs (I heard many rare prog bands 20/15 years ago) but some I sure didn't know. I won't talk again about that band with the South African keyboard player because I'm just a simple member (and if I was more than that I can't impose my ideas on you, you are the one who moves this and one of the best in rock on youtube) but I think Finch the dutch prog rock band with 3 albums is very good too (I know You already mentioned one of their 3 albums). Harmonium from Quebec, Canada is a very good band too. Ragnarok (Sweden) is very interesting too as also Asia Minor and The Enid. Sorry if you already talked about them, which I believe you could have. And there are hundreds of good bands so perhaps it's not fair to note these bands I did, I don't know. Keep on rockin' Scot!!! Sunday I won't miss one of my top favorite rock bands of all time: Genesis!!!
I haven’t really covered The Enid yet. Weird because I really like them!!!
As always a big thanks. Listening as I type this. I'll have to do some research. Lately I've been going down a bit of an original prog era rabbit hole. In fact, the Quiet Sun "Mainstream" album you just mentioned is an awesome one I too just discovered. And Beggars Opera too! I'll have to look through the rest of these!
Awesome list. I also just discovered the Web album "I Spider." The Samurai album that followed is also good. Great stuff! We seem to be going down a few similar rabbit holes.
Indeed we are!!! Which makes sense that you and I are in sync - being the first person to ever comment on one of my videos!!!!!
In the process of looking up the Samurai album I also bumped into a Japanese group from the same era with that name that had a couple of interesting albums. @@TheProgCorner
Good list, man! Love that Quiet Sun (have sibce the '70's) and 801 Live is one of the best live albums ever, IMHO. Thanks for the inspirations!
You’re welcome!!! 👍👍👍
Great show Scot. Quiet sun. Now I got alot more ideas thx art
We are all in this together!!!
You do it the best Scot.
Those all sound interesting, Scott. Going to check them out. 😀
Thank you, Eric!!!
Great video, man!
I love this Beggar's Opera album, I almost forgot I have on CD.
And your portuguese is not so bad 😅
The title means:
Where
When
How
Why
We sing live people
Thank you. I mean, obrigado!!!
Cool! I like that album cover on Hands. Gonna have to hear it.!🤩
It’s a cool artifact. One of my favorite US Prog bands!!!
Great Scott! I mean great stuff! I remember being turned on to Beggars Opera in the 70s, as well as Cressida - have both CDs. Spring is one of my favourite early prog bands. Have you checked out Tonton Macoute? Also on the RCA Neon label. Really good prog/jazz/rock. I have both Spring and Tonton on the original Neon.
Oh yeah!!!! I love Tonton Macoute!!!
I love your channel. I especially liked this episode because I had never heard of any of these bands. I added some of their songs to my “Prog and Fusion” Spotify playlist. Have you ever compared European and North American Prog? Have you ever talked about the following bands: Starcastle, Happy the Man, Group 87, or Goblin?
I have done episodes about Starcastle and Happy The Man!!! And I love Goblin!!!
Scot this is unbelievable I have only Beggars Opera on cd. A lot to discover. On Sunday you see me in the Genesis show.
See you Sunday!!!!
Thanks Scot,I have never heard of any of these bands, sounds like I need to check them out 😊
Awesome!!!! You have some homework to do!!!
I love that Hands album! I will check out some of the others, love these kind of videos!
I might do a few more like this!!!! 👍👍👍
Awesome! 👍🏻
Great recommendations, Scot - Will definitely be checking those out! I wondered what you think of Crown Lands "Fearless" album from 2023? I love the Rush and especially 2112 vibes on the epic "Starshifter: Fearless Pt. II"! Alex Lifeson is supposedly a fan!! Great production as well!
I love Crown Lands. How do they do it?
Quiet Sun. Man I totally forgot about that one. Thanks. Great list
I love that record!!!!!!! And 801 Live.
@@TheProgCorner I love the 801 live. So many great albums went totally under my radar. Where could we have seen them ? Import bin? Some of em yeah.
Well Scot, you never cease to amaze us with these cool, eclectic types of bands. And I’m particularly intrigued by the “ Island / Pictures “ album. I can only imagine how strange the music is with that Giger cover art. But I love when prog turns weird. You’ve peeked my curiosity once again 😆.
I’ll probably do a Part Two of this soon.
Island "Pictures" is legendary and absolutely essential complex haunting prog...dark and powerful stuff
@@TheProgCornerthere is another release on a private cdr sellers label on Discogs...its called "Pyrrho" massive 40 min track performed twice, home demo then live...pretty much a bootleg really
I need to hear that!!!!!
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I think FM "black noise" is also a Hidden gem and probably one of the best prog records
Good call!!!!!
Hi Scott, I’ve been following you since a year and half and like your stuff a lot - It was pleasant surprise to find out I was not alone in the world to love prog , in fact for years I felt a white fly. I will write again to tell you “my” prog story…
But this time: can you tell me/us WHY you, in the 15 hidden gems, put on the cover Paladin/Charge and it is not among the 15? Great album!
Anyway, keep up the good work, kudos!
Francesco from Italy
A good question. Originally it was to be a part of the 15 but then got edged out. But I love that artwork so I kept it on the thumbnail!!!!! I’m planning a Part Two which will, no doubt, feature that album!!!
I've seen and heard that Cressida album Scot !! From way back. Had a friend who's sister !?! had this in her collection. Remember Hatfield and the North being in there too. But everyone loved playing ' For girls that grow plump....' , I worry myself for what I remember sometimes...and then she looked like Siouxie Sue next time I saw her. Playing early Japan records. 😅 That's the thing with the 70's.... there'll never be a time like it again. Such diverse genres and styles..and I love it. Cheers Scot. You rock man !!!! 😍
Such an amazing time…
Thanks, Scot, will have to check out some of these! The only ones I have now are the 'Hands' and 'Fruupp' ones, both of which I love, although I also have the albums by Phil Manzanera's 801, which sound like they followed 'Quiet Sun', so I need to hear that one. I'd also heard of Gnidrolog (I presume an 'almost-anagram' of Goldring?), but not listened to them. Not heard of Gracious, but hearing the name reminded me of 'Grace' (another UK band) - they have some good but probably little known albums, too. One other little-known band I like is Bachdenkel - particularly their 'Stalingrad' album.
Bachdenkel, eh? Another new one for me!!!!!
Their debut 'Lemmings' is pretty good too.
Ive been looking for something like this, i love finding super obscure albums from the classic prog era, lady lake became an instant favourite when i heard it for the first tike not long ago
Obscure Prog is the lake I enjoy swimming in…
Great stuff!!!hey SCOT- YOU’RE -‘the phd. Of prog’,,, HAVE YOU- ever featured the wonderful band -‘Art in America ‘-[w/their debut album -Art in America],,,a great underrated band from Detroit, Michigan with Chris Flynn, and his siblings onboard- I really think these guys are more deserving of respect than the limited fame they got back in the mid -‘70s !!!!keep up the great work, my friend -wedigggg ya !
Art In America!!! Very cool debut. Did they do anything else?
SCOT , I talked with their lead singer and writer-Chris Flynn@@TheProgCorner and he sez their doing a little performing again,andhehas a ‘shitload’, lol-of new tunes their anxious to try ! It seems like they were burned , before with by ‘blue meanie’ predatorrecord labels ‘-so their marketing themselves , a sad fact of todays music scene, unfortunately !
Hey Scot! Love the thumbnail. Looks like something i gave you. Lol. Yeah Jon must be bored. He released vids for every song off of The More You Know yesterday and the two i sent today. He needs to get back on the road!!! Later.👍☮️👑😎
I was wondering why he uploaded all that old stuff…
@@TheProgCorner Old but awesome!👍😎
And Andrew Longshaw was asking if you were okay. He hadn’t seen any comments from you!!!! See? You were missed!!!!!!! 👍👍👍
@@TheProgCorner I replied to his comments this morning. Thanks. Working on even a bigger plan!!!!!👍😎
Love the José Cid mention ! here in Portugal he's the king of pop. Shame his prog ambitions never really got any traction here in portugal. Love from Portugal !
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Great list Scott saludos desde Argentina
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Hey Scot - Being a big Phil Manzanera fan, I got that Quiet Sun album the day it was released. Awesome stuff!
I'm sure you must know the awesome 'one and done' from 1975, '9 Parts To The Wind' by Strange Days. 6 tracks, 3 of length, which could have come off of 'Foxtrot' and are like 'Get Em Out By Friday', but possibly even better.
Strange Days!!!! Yes!!!
I've got at least digital of most of these. Particularly love that Quiet Sun rekkid. Also glad you mentioned the Samurai. 👍
You'll need to take out a loan for an original copy of that Corte Dei Miracoli. 😵💫
I know!!!!! Insane.
Hi Scot. I have the Beggars Opera album, and Fruup, The Prince of Heaven's Eyes has been a favourite since it came out, but the rest are new to me, except for Web. Thank you, oh High Jedi Master of prog!
Thanks!!!! You are the best.
OOOOOO boy, finally some love for Culpeper's Orchard!!!!!
I love that debut!!!
Actually grabbed a copy of that Quiet suns album the other day at a flea market just based on the album cover, Funny you mentioned it. If we are talking about hidden Gems I have to mention a band from my hometown- Praise the Load
Gotta represent C-Bus!!! What about Lisa Bella Donna and Eye? Cool band. But I love The Load!!!!
2 of my all time fave albums of any genre are the 2 albums by the criminally overlooked Cressida and it's great to see them get a mention in one the many 'best prog' videos. 'Asylum' is slightly more prog than their self-titled debut album (especially the magnificent 9 1/2 minute 'Munich') so I'll give you that one but their first album is just bliss.
Love both Cressida albums!!!!!
Love the Web and Fruupp albums on your list. A rare one for me on the edge of prog is the only album from Keith Cross & Peter Ross titled Bored Civilians.
(I love that album.)
Arachnoid, loving this dissonant suggestion. Nice suggestion and have never heard of them. I kinda love the late 70's, there was a darkness before new wave found its pop gravytrain and it brightened so much music.
Yeah! Exactly!!! You get it.
Thanks voor the hidden gems. You know a lot band so i wonder if you ever heard of Neptunian Maximalism from Belgium. Thanks!
I have NOT. But I’ve heard of them NOW!!! 👍👍👍
I have the Fruup boxset, cannot believe I missed them before. I have Quiet Sun one too, love Manzanera. Familiar with the odd track from a few others but plenty more to look up!
There’s always more!!!!!
Wow … I was just listening to Fruupp’s album seven secrets today. This album is absolutely amazing, especially the song, Wise as Wisdom. They are truly an underrated band.
I really like all four of their albums!!!!
Looking forward to Genesis top ten. Keep progging. God Save The King!
Sunday is going to be EPIC!!!
"Hidden Gems" indeed. So glad that Mainstream got a mention - great album (Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil). Fruupp too, I recently bought the Esoteric boxset re-issue, 4 great albums in a sexy clamshell! I prefer the first Cressida album, but Asylum is good too. Same with Gracious! I was literally listening to Web/I Spider yesterday. Love and Peace!
I love that era: 1970-1971. Such a specific sound…
Almost forgot- here’s one worth checking out: Esperanto. They released 3 albums in the 1970s, the best in my view being Last Tango, on which appears the best version of Eleanor Rigby that I’ve ever heard.
That Beatles cover is kinda all I remember about them!!!!!
Bit off piste but I just 'bumped into' Monarch Trail's 'Four sides' you covered a while back. Bit synth heavy but I was well impressed apart from most of 'Eris.' Shades of Genesis, IQ, and even some Spock's. You also nudged me into King Crimson... I tried half a dozen... only really liked 'Crimson King' and the more symphonic 'Epitaph.'
KC is a difficult beast. Not easy listening!!!! But yeah, I love Monarch Trail having the guts to do whatever they want - and I love most of it!!!!
Scot... I asked on your last thread, Don't you think 'Progressive' has become the new standard? 'Verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus louder verse chorus' has gone? It's now almost 'Hard prog' and 'Soft/symphonic prog?' Rock and pop are now secondary genres?
Great obscure list, I'll have to delve. Not as obscure but sort of forgotten by many are Seventh Wave "Things To Come". and Refugee, the Grand Canyon piece is killer. . Speaking of Mr. Moraz, his "Story of I" is still awesome if only for the depth of track layers.
I love The Story Of I. Gets better with every spin.
I have arachnoid,polyphony,island,on cd..all great CDs..here are some prog hidden gems..le orme-felona y sorona, osanna- palepoli,alphataurus- alphataurus, rare earth-as your mind flies by,Manfred manns earth band solar fire..to name a few
That's a great list, many of my favourites there. I just paid a silly amount of money for Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim which was a long time grail for me.
I need that on vinyl. What a record!!!!!!!
@@TheProgCorner I had to get mine from Brazil and as I say very expensive, the most I've ever paid for a single vinyl album but worth it.
Wowsa! Danish band to check out= Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Secrey Oyster, Ache, Causa Sui, Day of Phoneix, Mew, The old man and the sea, Thors Hammer, Blast Furnace, Rainbow Band, Pan, Hurdy Gurdy, Bazaar, Moses, Blues Addicts, "Terje, Jesper og Joachim", Tömrerclaus, Papir, Mythic Sunship, London Odense Ensemble, Chicago Odense Ensemble. All SUPERB!
I know exactly six of those…
"Corte dei Miracolis" - Court of Miracles
Valuable program!
I've heard of a few of those bands. I have a few recommendations. Not all completely obscure but definitely under the radar. I have to mention Egg. A gem from the Canturbury scene featuring the keyboard wizardry of Dave Stewart. Then you've got SFF(Schicke, Fuhrs and Frohling) from Germany. Brilliant stuff! Lots of insane Mellotron here! And from New Zealand, there's Split Enz. I have to mention them because only their first album Mental Notes could truly be called prog. Very quirky stuff. The vocals may be hard to get used to but they have two guys alternating on the lead vocals. What they may lack in vocal prowess is more than made up by outstanding musicianship. Morse Code from Canada. Their albums from 1975 and 1976 are phenomenal! From Japan there's Mahoujin. They recorded their only album Babylonia Suite in 1978 but it didn't get released until the 90's. Think of ELP without vocals and with more of a groove to them. These guys are no clone but have their own flavor. And last but not least, Holding Pattern from the US. Great instro prog with their self titled album from 1981.
Egg, SFF, Split Enz!!! And I love Morse Code too!!!!!!
I Love Egg :-)
Hi there, the band is called Gnidrolog and the album is called Lady Lake. Cheers!
Yeah, I even have the vinyl displayed behind me in the video!!!! I’m an idiot!!!
nice picks, how about T2 - It’ll all work out in the boomland, check that album if you dont know about it, it is great.
O I love that record!!!! And a side long epic too??!!!!
I wonder if you know Julian's Treatment - A Time before this, it's on TH-cam and it is my preferred Hidden Gem. Greetings, Célestin
I need to go check this out!!! Thanks!
Prog is the gift that keeps on giving!
Indeed it is!!!!!
The Prince of Heaven's Eyes could be the the single most underappreciated prog album of the 70s. If you like pastoral, cheerful prog, it rarely gets better than this. For the SoT viewers, this is an album Pete and Anthony would adore and a record that Luis Nasser would utterly despise.
You’re probably right about that!!!
Woo! When you pull out obscure albums, you are not kidding!
I love the super obscure Prog!!!! Almost as much as my Yes, Genesis, KC, ELP, etc.
Really cool to see the Grobschnitt record in the background my dad listened to them and still those sometimes I have the Solar Musik Live Album.
Fun Fact they have a song called Food Sicore which backwards is Eroc is doof (german for Eroc is dumb) basically insulting their drummer.
Such a great band!!!! And that live album is amazing…
Without Introduction has been my favourite hidden gem for years! It reminds me of Italoprog, even though they couldn't have been influenced by it. Speaking of hidden gems, check out Summer in Town by Horizont!
Oh, yeah!!! Horizont!!!!
I have three of the four Fruupp albums and Yes, what a great band. 👍🏻
Amazing!!!
Corte dei miracoli's debut is basically my prog arrangement trick bible and I listen to it every time I'm running out of ideas and I need some musical inspiration.
That album owns my soul.
I've only heard one of these, and it's Island's Pictures. I wish they released more than one record. (I also Expected to see England on here, but I guess they're well known for being obscure...)
And I feel like I talk about that record a lot so I wanted to go deeper…
Obscure Prog, you just can't beat it, it's the only stuff I really search for now x
Me too!!!!!
@sunlightglider6772 Got anything by Aussie band Sebastian Hardie?
I love the first two Sebastian Hardie LPs!!! I feature the debut on this episode: th-cam.com/video/FN1SZnD7EUo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=P6b3M2XzBJcGWtDQ
@@TheProgCorner Thanks. I'll check it out. I've also got their 2011 release "Blueprint". Guitarist/vocalist Mario Milo scored the World War I movie "The Lighthorsemen" in the 1980s.
@@warrenbridges1891 I've heard their stuff on TH-cam, don't own anything by them, love how they let all the instruments breath in their compositions, Highly original, nearest group I would say Camel. Both albums I've heard are excellent x
See you then. Loved the Dream Theater rankings.
Also from Australia:
Goolutionites and the Real People (1970) by Tamam Shud. Very expensive vinyl.
Milesago (1971) by Spectrum. Double album on Harvest.
Hush (1971) by Extradition. Folk prog. Very, very expensive vinyl.
A Toast to Panama Red (1972) by The Master's Apprentices. Recorded at Abbey Road. Opeth wrote a song about them.
The Star Suite (1974) by Patch.
Mandu (1974) by Mandu.
Fools Paradise (1975) by Madden and Harris. Folk prog, English aesthetic.
Other prog bands: Madder Lake, Ariel, SCRA, Tully.
From New Zealand:
Universal Radio (1974) and Scented Gardens for the Blind (1975), both by Dragon.
Nice!!! Thank you. Prog is such a deep well of awesomeness.
@@TheProgCorner Indeed. Cheers.
Dave Greenslade & Patrick Woodroffe Pentateuch of the Cosmogony. Worth giving a listen to IMO. Concept prog at its most imaginative and original.
Fantastic. And the artwork is super cool.
Could someone let me know the name of the record in the top left of the video? I really dig the art and want to give it a listen
That is the Rick Wakeman produced debut album by a band called Wally. Very cool record.
Don't forget Yezda Urfa!!
Personally, Greenslade and Flash (albeit a bit better known) are some of my favorites as well
You know I love Yezda Urfa - and Cathedral and Mirthrandir but I had never even mentioned Hands on the channel so I had to…
Oh my oh my... I can go over 100 man... I think this is my favourite part from prog rock. Twenty Sixty Six and Then, A Barca do Sol, Raw Material, Ruphus, Hanuman which are VdGG in the time of VdGG, Campo di Marte, Blocco Mentale, Hoelderlin, Sahara, Tibet... And more recent stuff like XII Alfonso, Alco Frisbass, The Psychedelic Ensemble, Poor Genetic Material, Frequency Drift... And yes, The Prince of Heaven's Eyes it's Fruupp's best!
Hanuman? I don’t know them!!! All the rest are primo!!!!
@@TheProgCorner , check them out. Later become Lied des Teufels. But their self titled debut from 1971 is simply brilliant and this is one of the most precious CDs in my collection
A lot of good stuff there and some I had never heard of - Quarteto 1111? Sounds right up my street. Some of the albums mentioned are available on TH-cam so do explore, ye intrepid listeners! I notice an interesting date coming up in a couple of months though. You might want to dig a little deeper, come up with an 'undiscovered' Albanian 1973 prog masterpiece, mock up a cover and see how many subscribers bite.
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@@TheProgCorner Found Quarteto on aforementioned video streaming site. Don't you just yearn for the days when talented Italian (Portuguese??) kids were given a mellotron on their 18th birthday? Better production and a different drummer and it could have been huge. (Well, PFM huge, maybe not The Beatles huge)
Exactly!!!!
I absolutely 100% cannot recommend both Cressida albums more highly! ❤️
Yes! Yes!
I have the first 2 gracious albums on cd, both are great.
Love them both!!!!
@@TheProgCorner underrated albums and band
Also Czar..Fantasy..Capatabilly Brown..kestrel ,Spring ..Dr.Z..Marsupilami... have great albums
Wonderful music!!!
Wow, I thought I was a prog tragic and the only album I knew about was Quiet Sun (my favourite track was Trot). Lots to check out. MMy obscure old classics are positively mainstream compared with your list.
- If hippie lyrics don't worry you, Steve Hillage's Motivation Radio is a great album, so is Green.
- Stomu Yamashta's Go! is epic and ultra-eclectic, and includes Steve Winwood, Al diMeola, Michael Shrieve and Klaus Shultz.
- While Pat Metheny is a jazz legend, his Imaginary Day album has some quality instrumental prog fusion, like the title track and Roots of Coincidence, plus some ethereal jazz
- Aphrodite's Child's 1972 double album was very freaky. I don't go back to it much but it's interesting for its time. One of its tracks was so evil-sounding that our guitarist's very new age ex-wife wanted to smash it haha
I need to spend more time with Stormu - but all the rest…absolutely!!!!
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@@TheProgCorner I'm surprised any of them were unfamiliar to you :) I played Go! to death in the 70s and I still play it today because it's (usually) easy on the ear like Floyd and symphonic rock but there's plenty of ambiance, fusion, funk and soul in there too, even a touch of avant garde classical in the track, Carnival.
Well Scot you went totally off piste with this. Never heard of a one . And the chances of finding any I imagine is remote. If not very expensive. I have tried a few recommended obscure Prog bands and been disappointed. I have logged the names and if I come across them I shall speculate. Martin.
Some of them have been reissued but the original pressings on most of them are ridiculously pricey…
@@TheProgCorner Yeah I thought as much. Good work though Scot.
Not sure if you have ever mentioned Windchase (A SebastianHardie spin-off) and their sole release from 1977 Symphinity.
Windchase!!!!! Awesome!!!
,1 Israel progi band Trespass .
2. Keper Crab, The Vigil
3 Ark Angel, Warrior
Christian vocal group, The Second Chapter of Acts
4. Glass Harp, or one of many albums by Phil Keaggy
5. I will forever shout the praises of the one and only The Touch from 1969.
Hmmmm. I haven’t encountered Trespass…
@@TheProgCorner I first discovered them on Cuneiform records. They sounded very elp influenced. They had said that they never heard of Emerson lake and Palmer. I'm not buying it. Kind of like Greta Van Fleet saying that they weren't influenced by LED Zeppelin. They did morph into their own unique individual style.
Here's a request. The best Modern Prog Bands Under The Age of 30. My three nominations are Black Country New Road, Black Midi, and The Last Dinner Party.
I wish there were more!!!!
@@TheProgCorner There's got to be more out there.
I know some gem albums, Halloween by pulstar, Buon Vecchio Charlie s/t, la maschera di cera's Il labirinto and lift's caverns of your mind
Excellent!!!!! I might make this a series - depending on the numbers, of course!!!!
Paladin Charge..mix your mind with the moonbeams...Great LP Rodger Dean cover could be his best?
I love Roger Dean!!!
Ok, that Island cover, haven't heard of this band, but it looks creepy and cool as fuck. Gives me ELP's Brain Salad Surgery and Alien vibes. Something tells me I need some of that....."herbal remedy" for this one. Lol
Absolutely!!!!!
Please calm down! Ever since King Crimson released their first album I was hooked and I love hearing stories about prog bands, then and now, but I prefer having it presented in a relaxed manner.
Then The Prog Corner is NOT FOR YOU!!! There are lots of sleepy presenters on TH-cam. Me? I get excited when I talk about Prog. Sue me!!!
@@TheProgCorner Or I have to adjust ….😉 I didn’t mean to be rude or patronizing, your opening was just a bit “intense” for a well behaved (🤔) Swedish young guy (going on 17 … wrong … going on 71). That was not a good start … Sorry🥺
Much of my CD collection is prog and finding more and exotic prog has become the last way out to find more gems. Ever listened to Argentinian band Crucis - there’s one of the worlds finest synth solo in one of their songs. Chilean band Congreso maybe isn’t “pure” prog, but some albums contain proggish element, especially the first ones.
Ukrainian band La Horsa Bianca could maybe be sorted under prog and Little Tragedies and maybe Nautilus Pompilus (band leader Slava Butusov has joined the dark Z force) could be regarded as prog.
Looking for Japanese bands, so maybe Ars Nova and Wagakki Band … 😎
Okay!!! You know what’s up!!! I love Crucis and Little Tragedies!!! I apologize if I was rude back!!! 👍👍👍