Nice list. That’s not Patrick Moraz in the picture on The Yes Album. Tony Kaye was the keyboardist on that album. Moraz played on the Relayer album, and if I’m not mistaken, it’s Moraz’s photo on the Going for the One album cover artwork. Here’s a few of my favorite 70’s prog-rock: In the Court of the Crimson King Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield Meddle - Pink Floyd Crime of the Century - Supertramp Argus - Wishbone Ash Mirage - Camel Eldorado - ELO Trilogy - ELP Octopus - Gentle Giant Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
@@albarton7189 Totally spaced out on the Moraz comment. Meant to say Tony Kaye. Next purchase is Argus by Wishbone Ash. Heard some various cuts online. Sounds fantastic.
I have never listened to 3 albums on your list, but really like the rest of your list. I was surprised that there was no ELP. If I wasn't too lazy to come up with a list, I would definitely work on some of ELP's first 5 albums in there -- I played them constantly in high school in the early 70s.
My favourite prog albums are all from Australia/ New Zealand: Goolutionites and the Real People (1970) by Tamam Shud The Age of Mouse (1970) by Doug Ashdown Milesago (1971) by Spectrum A Toast to Panama Red (1972) by The Master's Apprentices At the Mountains of Madness (1972) by Blackfeather Big Red Rock by Ayers Rock. Universal Radio (1974) by Dragon Mandu (1974). Self titled singer/ songwriter prog. Scented Gardens for the Blind (1975) by Dragon. Hush (1971) by Extradition. Super rare and expensive folk prog - absolutely unique music.
I always dug Quatermass. McDonald and Giles, a couple of great prog albums of 1970. I totally agree on the Caravan album you picked. Their greatest moment.
Some interesting choices in your list, Tom. Of the ones I know really like the 2 Yes albums, the Caravan album and "Selling England...." Not so keen on "The Lamb....." Not sure if it's prog but I love "Argus" by Wishbone Ash. Surprised nobody has mentioned any of the Camel albums. - Camel was loosely connected to the Canterbury scene. I wish i could get into Gentle Giant. TH-cam videos of them playing live show amazing musicianship and the members seem to be really enjoying themselves. However, studio albums are too complicated for me. I think it would help if I actually played an instrument.
Hats off to you my friend, thanks for validating my long held belief that the tail end of prog era was propped up by the Cantibary scene, another favorite of mine is the Richard Spencer project called The Ghoulies LP Dogged by Dogma, a grail of sorts. National Health - spot on, the sound of the future in 1978, could have mentioned any Peter Gabriel Genensis and you would be right, Attack of the Giant Hogweed from Nursery Crime works for me, but honorable mention also goes to ELP, King Crimson. Seems like prog split late seventies into either Rush/Gentle Giant sort of sci-fi/fantasy or Robert Wyatt/ Fred Frith experimental frontiers. Good show mate.
Definitely an appealing episode. The Seventies were so loaded with the best of legendary prog albums, it’s very hard to know where to begin. And I’m most certainly on board with your choices of both Yes and Genesis. Can’t go wrong with those 4. But my other six would have to include “ Wish You Were Here “ by Floyd, “ Tales….” the Alan Parsons debut, “ Leftoverture “ Kansas, “ Hemispheres “ Rush, “ Trilogy “ ELP, and “ A Tab in the Ocean “ from Nektar, for a dark horse choice. I’d love to go on with many more, but it would take a book 😆.
Very unique list! I like that you include psych prog that doesn't often appear on other prog lists. I first heard your #1 when I read the book of the same title, Jonathan Coe’s The Rotter’s Club.
Now I need an all 70s prog day soon. I’m trying to get caught up on your videos after a crazy few weeks. Hatfield and the North sounds really interesting.
Lists like these are mainly interesting for me if they come up and reveal excellent music I never listened to❤. In this respect thanks for highlighting National Health and "The Rotter's Club" by Hatfield and the North🎉 I heard some of Hatfield because of Ian Dury but never did I find the Magic of his first 4 Singles or his first album like Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll, Sweet Gene Vincent, New Boots and Panties. Genesis, much as I cherish them on Supper's Ready and Selling England by the pound I was very disappointed by The Lamb lies down on Broadway (the worst double album I Know along with 2 Kiss and Scorpions live platters😮). What a relief they continued with the brilliant A Trick of thr Tail and the excellent Wind and Wuthering😅 Also I would second the emotion of other followers of your interesting channel: where's Pink Floyd, Yes' Topographic Oceans, Van der Graaf Generator, the utterly brilliant live Camel, Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, Rick Wakeman.... Anyway, keep up the good work❤
I'm so glad you had The Yes Album listed here (their keyboard player was Tony Kaye, who broke his ankle prior to this photo). Tony Kaye's keyboard work was led by his use of the Hammond Organ and I loved that early Yes sound. I am also quite pleased that you included Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. I would have included Pink Floyd's Meddle album, as well as Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery. I also fancy Octopus by Gentle Giant, and King Crimson's Starless and Bible Black. I know you don't actually fancy Progressive Rock, but the concerts for those albums were very memorable. My friends and I all loved smoking weed and attending those shows.
Great video. Sweet list. Here are my top ten - 10) Camel's First album 9) Alan Parsons Project - I Robot 8) Nektar - Remember The Future 7) Yes - Fragile 6) Gentle Giant - Octopus 5) ELP - Tarkus 4) Genesis - Foxtrot 3) King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black 2) Rush - Hemispheres 1) Yes - Close To The Edge. Cheers.
Prog: Leftoverture - Kansas Selling England by the Pound - Genesis Crime of the Century - Supertramp Fragile - Yes Trilogy - Emerson Lake and Palmer Art Rock: Question of Balance - The Moody Blues Face the Music - Electric Light Orchestra Meddle - Pink Floyd
I fell hard for Genesis in my teens. I love most of their albums, but I especially like A Trick of the Tail and Selling England By The Pound. I also liked Yes' Fragile (my first Yes album), Close To The Edge, and yes, even Tales From Topographic Oceans. Another big prog album that I played a lot was Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery. If I had to select something more obscure for prog, I'd probably mention Khan's Space Shanty from 1972. I'm not sure I'd call it great, but it still has a lot of charm for me.
Great list, love that you have some Canterbury stuff in there. National Health's next album, Of Queues and Cures is killer as well. How great is the Musical Box band? They NAIL that stuff. I unapologetically love Topographic Oceans, even with all of it's supposed sins against humanity. Two sorta newer discoveries that I instantly fell in love with are Van Der Graaf Generator's Pawn Hearts and the amazing one and done Italian band Museo Rosenbach's Zarathustra.
After reading the comments there were a couple of albums I always loved that I didn't see mentioned. Nektar's Remember the Future and Audience, House on the Hill were favourites of mine along with Gong which I saw mentioned and thoroughly agree with. Check out Pierre Moerlen's drumming on Gong You
If I had to choose one album from Gong's classic "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy of albums I'd choose 'Angel's Egg.' But of course when playing live during the Daevid Allen era they shuffled tracks from all three albums. They were Prog because of their time shifts, chords and structured movements, plus their chops were solid, even virtuosic when called for. They held on to psych and space rock, and kept things light with humor even when being introspective.
@@tomrobinson5776 In that case, I encourage you. You mentioned artists of the Canterbury scene and of course Soft Machine jumped to mind. Of course Soft Machine's founders included Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Kevin Ayers, but also Daevid Allen. It was Daevid who went on to form Gong with his wife Gilli Smyth in 1967 and the years brought a long list of members that came and went. When Daevid and Gilli left Gong in 1975 the band went more jazz-rock and lost its unique charm, for me at least. But there were still excellent musicians involved, for instance I believe Steven Hillage remained Gong's guitarist for a while. The first two Gong albums, circa 1969-1971 are worth checking out 'Magick Brother' and 'Camembert Electrique' but the getting gets particularly good around 1973-1974, including their live albums.
@syater I agree they're all good but especially Angel's Egg. I started with Camembert Electrique myself, and that's a good place to start. I believe there's a John Peel show on TH-cam of Gong from around that period, but with Kevin Ayers added. I even like the percussion-heavy albums when Daevid Allen was taking a sabbatical away from the band (though it threw me for a loop at the time).
@@simonagree4070 I’ll have to look for that John Peel show on TH-cam, thanks! Kevin Ayers, love his first album Joy of a Toy in particular. For truly committed Gong fans that 13 disc box set is gold standard. ‘Love from Planet Gong: The Virgin Years 1973-75,’ includes studio sessions plus hours of live in London, Paris, the Hyde Park concert, etc.
ELP . Tarkus Tull, Passion Play Steven Wilson.. Hand Cannot Erase King Crimson..Court Beach Boys... Smiley Smile Dream Theatre.. any one, but probably Metropolis Yes.. Close To The Edge Symphonic Slam... Universe Gentle Giant ... Aquiring The Taste Todd Rundgren... A Wizard A True Star My first ever top 10 list!!
McDonald and Giles from 1970 is my #1! Why is it that when speaking of excellent drummers, Micheal Giles gets overlooked - I find he and BJ Wilson to be among the most interesting drummers in rock music. That album's Birdman Suite is a beautiful piece of music.
Boy it’s difficult to pick top 10 prog albums….here are my contributions… Rare Bird’s first 2 albums(late 1960’s) Uriah Heep - any album from Look at Yourself to Return to Fantasy Babe Ruth - First Base Strawbs - Hero and Heroine ELP - pick one Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon Hawkwind - Warrior on the edge of time King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King Rush - 2112 Supertramp - Crime of the Century Jethro Tull - Aqualung Crack the Sky - From the Greenhouse Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye I could go on but I’ll stop there, I left off a lot of obvious ones, Kansas, Yes, Gentle Giant, Camel, Caravan, Saga, Focus, Van der Graff, Moody Blues, Barclay James Harvest, David Bowie…
Awesome list Tom, I see from the first comment that we're already in the "what is prog" debate 😂. I would add some Barclay James Harvest Van Der Graaf Generator, The Enid and Roy Harper. Incidentally Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin scored a UK #1 in 1981 with a cover of the 1960s Lesley Gore song "Its My Party" 😊
Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die is Prog? Don't get me wrong, I love the album, but I've got it filed in with my jazz/rock LPs. Guess everyone ears are different, and your point is just as valid.
I agree. The whole topic of what is or is not porgressive rock is confusing to me. I don't consider Pink Floyd to be progessive rock either even is they check some of the boxes. Same for Procol Harum.
Dig all these albums! Being a huge prog fan for over 40 years I would also add various 70's albums from King Crimson, Rush, Moody Blues, Gentle Giant, Camel, UK, Nektar, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Mike Oldfield, Kansas, Hawkwind, Saga, Starcastle, Alan Parsons Project, and Steve Hackett. It would be a long list. lol
i love both those Hatfield and the north albums, and Caravan, i love Gong too...yeah a lot of good albums today, i have most of those too, i really like Man, and Skin Alley , i like the more psychedelic side of prog and the jazzy stuff, there was a lot of great progressive jazz that came out of the UK at the end of the sixties and the start of the 70s and a lot of the jazz musos played in rock bands of the progressive era because that way they could make a buck, Ian Carr Keith Tippet, Neil Ardley, Mike Westbrook and Michael Garrick all did some great albums but there is much more, one of my favorite areas of music.take it easy mate.
10 albums is a tiny amount of seventies prog and very hard to please everyone. this is a pretty good list though. i saw Genesis in late 74/early 75 in Stuttgart on their Lamb lies down on broadway tour. they played the entire Album front to back plus more. i was so sad when shortly after, Peter Gabriel announced his departure from the band. he still is my favourite singer of all times!
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King Crimson / Red String Driven Thing / The Machine That Cried It's A Beautiful Day / (debut) Hard Meat / Through A Window Manfred Mann's Earth Band / Solar Fire The Flock / Dinosaur Swamps Jade Warrior / Elements Jethro Tull / Thick As A Brick
1 Genesis Foxtrot 2 Yes Relayer 3 King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King 4 ELP Tarkus 5 Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick 6 Gentle Giant In a Glass House 7 Pink Floyd Meddle 8 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells 9 Gong You 10 Triumvirate Illusions on a Double Dimple 🤪
Hi Tom. I was mistaken in my original comment on the Epic Screams video: The live performance of Come Here Woman by Tim Buckley appears on a program called The Show (not kidding). It took place in 1970. Cheers.
Procol Harum salty dog, Caravan In the land of grey and pink,Nucleus Elastic Rock, Yes Close to the Edge,Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste, Henry Cow Concerts, Gilgamesh Another Fine Tune, King Crimson Red, Soft Machine Third,Ash Ra Temple Blackouts. Not sure of order. Thank you.
This is not a question I'd really get too worked up over, but I have no problem claasifying Traffic "John Barleycorn" as prog. Certainly I'd also classify following albums "Low Spark" then "Shoot Out" as prog also.
Ah, memories -- too many to really remember. I was certainly a prog fan in the mid-seventies, but not necessarily the same bands as you -- I kind of hated Yes (specifically the singer), and wasn't really interested in Genesis (Peter Gabriel's first solo album I loved). I was much more of a Canterbury and Kraut-rock fan. Also a Zappa fan -- I consider Waka/Jawaka and One Size Fits All prime examples of prog. I wouldn't count Mahavishnu as prog, exactly. Eno definitely was prog -- why leave him out? Robert Wyatt, VERY prog. But really, I liked Amon Duul II -- Carnival In Babylon, specifically -- and Gong (you can find drummer Pip Pyle there). Virtually everything Gong ever did, including all the spin-offs and Steve Hillage solos, is better prog than anything by Yes. Neu! was pretty damn good too. I did have the Caravan and Hatfield And The North albums at some point, and Gryphon, too. I wonder where they are now...
I know I had The Rotter's Club sometime around 1976, but I just can't remember what it sounded like! 🤔 And both of the Matching Mole and the Quiet Sun record and 801 Live. That was the sort of thing I was into before punk really started confusing me. 😄
I don’t know what your definition of prog music might be, but you missed couple of albums that are generally considered flagships of prog scene and included others with unclear relation to prog scene. I was around in 1970s and i do not recall anybody referring to Traffic as prog group. Eclectic, maybe, prog, not. In more general terms, I feeling is that since by mid 1970s prog rock acquired rather bad connotations modern fans of the genre started including in it music from the past that at the time would not be considered prog. Procol Harum is a good example. However, whatever the motivation any reason to listen to good music is a good reason.
@@paulbrookes413 If you make categories broad, they loose any meaning. Possibly you have a very specific definition of PROG. If you do, please share it.
Nice list. That’s not Patrick Moraz in the picture on The Yes Album. Tony Kaye was the keyboardist on that album. Moraz played on the Relayer album, and if I’m not mistaken, it’s Moraz’s photo on the Going for the One album cover artwork.
Here’s a few of my favorite 70’s prog-rock:
In the Court of the Crimson King
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Mirage - Camel
Eldorado - ELO
Trilogy - ELP
Octopus - Gentle Giant
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
@@albarton7189 Totally spaced out on the Moraz comment. Meant to say Tony Kaye. Next purchase is Argus by Wishbone Ash. Heard some various cuts online. Sounds fantastic.
How the HELL could Wishbone Ash go from Argus to Locked In ??!!
L I is The WORST album EVER made !! 😂
I have never listened to 3 albums on your list, but really like the rest of your list. I was surprised that there was no ELP. If I wasn't too lazy to come up with a list, I would definitely work on some of ELP's first 5 albums in there -- I played them constantly in high school in the early 70s.
My favourite prog albums are all from Australia/ New Zealand:
Goolutionites and the Real People (1970) by Tamam Shud
The Age of Mouse (1970) by Doug Ashdown
Milesago (1971) by Spectrum
A Toast to Panama Red (1972) by The Master's Apprentices
At the Mountains of Madness (1972) by Blackfeather
Big Red Rock by Ayers Rock.
Universal Radio (1974) by Dragon
Mandu (1974). Self titled singer/ songwriter prog.
Scented Gardens for the Blind (1975) by Dragon.
Hush (1971) by Extradition. Super rare and expensive folk prog - absolutely unique music.
I always dug Quatermass. McDonald and Giles, a couple of great prog albums of 1970. I totally agree on the Caravan album you picked. Their greatest moment.
Some interesting choices in your list, Tom. Of the ones I know really like the 2 Yes albums, the Caravan album and "Selling England...." Not so keen on "The Lamb....." Not sure if it's prog but I love "Argus" by Wishbone Ash. Surprised nobody has mentioned any of the Camel albums. - Camel was loosely connected to the Canterbury scene. I wish i could get into Gentle Giant. TH-cam videos of them playing live show amazing musicianship and the members seem to be really enjoying themselves. However, studio albums are too complicated for me. I think it would help if I actually played an instrument.
@@russellcampbell3274 “Argus” is on my list for next purchase. What I’ve heard online sounds great.
Hats off to you my friend, thanks for validating my long held belief that the tail end of prog era was propped up by the Cantibary scene, another favorite of mine is the Richard Spencer project called The Ghoulies LP Dogged by Dogma, a grail of sorts. National Health - spot on, the sound of the future in 1978, could have mentioned any Peter Gabriel Genensis and you would be right, Attack of the Giant Hogweed from Nursery Crime works for me, but honorable mention also goes to ELP, King Crimson. Seems like prog split late seventies into either Rush/Gentle Giant sort of sci-fi/fantasy or Robert Wyatt/ Fred Frith experimental frontiers. Good show mate.
@@chrishughes5049 Thanks 😉
Agreed about Traffic’s Barleycorn. I would add Emerson Lake and Palmer’s “From The Beginning,” from their Trilogy LP.
Definitely an appealing episode. The Seventies were so loaded with the best of legendary prog albums, it’s very hard to know where to begin. And I’m most certainly on board with your choices of both Yes and Genesis. Can’t go wrong with those 4. But my other six would have to include “ Wish You Were Here “ by Floyd, “ Tales….” the Alan Parsons debut, “ Leftoverture “ Kansas, “ Hemispheres “ Rush, “ Trilogy “ ELP,
and “ A Tab in the Ocean “ from Nektar, for a dark horse choice. I’d love to go on with many more, but it would take a book 😆.
Very unique list! I like that you include psych prog that doesn't often appear on other prog lists. I first heard your #1 when I read the book of the same title, Jonathan Coe’s The Rotter’s Club.
No Gentle Giant? No Camel? No Crimson? 😶🌫️
Hear hear!!
Now I need an all 70s prog day soon. I’m trying to get caught up on your videos after a crazy few weeks. Hatfield and the North sounds really interesting.
You’ll dig it. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Chamber of Hellos was a nice lead-in to my prog fix tonight. Yes Close to the Edge before I call it a night.
@@KW973 Very nice 😉
Lists like these are mainly interesting for me if they come up and reveal excellent music I never listened to❤. In this respect thanks for highlighting National Health and "The Rotter's Club" by Hatfield and the North🎉 I heard some of Hatfield because of Ian Dury but never did I find the Magic of his first 4 Singles or his first album like Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll, Sweet Gene Vincent, New Boots and Panties.
Genesis, much as I cherish them on Supper's Ready and Selling England by the pound I was very disappointed by The Lamb lies down on Broadway (the worst double album I Know along with 2 Kiss and Scorpions live platters😮). What a relief they continued with the brilliant A Trick of thr Tail and the excellent Wind and Wuthering😅
Also I would second the emotion of other followers of your interesting channel: where's Pink Floyd, Yes' Topographic Oceans, Van der Graaf Generator, the utterly brilliant live Camel, Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, Rick Wakeman....
Anyway, keep up the good work❤
I'm so glad you had The Yes Album listed here (their keyboard player was Tony Kaye, who broke his ankle prior to this photo). Tony Kaye's keyboard work was led by his use of the Hammond Organ and I loved that early Yes sound.
I am also quite pleased that you included Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
I would have included Pink Floyd's Meddle album, as well as Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery. I also fancy Octopus by Gentle Giant, and King Crimson's Starless and Bible Black.
I know you don't actually fancy Progressive Rock, but the concerts for those albums were very memorable. My friends and I all loved smoking weed and attending those shows.
I wish I had seen the Gabriel era of Genesis live. Always been a huge fan of that period.
This is by far the best top 10 prog albums I've ever seen on youtube.
Great video. Sweet list. Here are my top ten - 10) Camel's First album 9) Alan Parsons Project - I Robot 8) Nektar - Remember The Future 7) Yes - Fragile 6) Gentle Giant - Octopus 5) ELP - Tarkus 4) Genesis - Foxtrot 3) King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black
2) Rush - Hemispheres 1) Yes - Close To The Edge. Cheers.
@@7BobbyGaylor7 Cheers 😊
Prog:
Leftoverture - Kansas
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Fragile - Yes
Trilogy - Emerson Lake and Palmer
Art Rock:
Question of Balance - The Moody Blues
Face the Music - Electric Light Orchestra
Meddle - Pink Floyd
I fell hard for Genesis in my teens. I love most of their albums, but I especially like A Trick of the Tail and Selling England By The Pound. I also liked Yes' Fragile (my first Yes album), Close To The Edge, and yes, even Tales From Topographic Oceans. Another big prog album that I played a lot was Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery.
If I had to select something more obscure for prog, I'd probably mention Khan's Space Shanty from 1972. I'm not sure I'd call it great, but it still has a lot of charm for me.
Great choices; I would add Steve Hillage’s Fish Rising, maybe the best guitar I ever heard on a prog album, Red by KC and Space Shanty by Khan.
Great list, love that you have some Canterbury stuff in there. National Health's next album, Of Queues and Cures is killer as well. How great is the Musical Box band? They NAIL that stuff. I unapologetically love Topographic Oceans, even with all of it's supposed sins against humanity. Two sorta newer discoveries that I instantly fell in love with are Van Der Graaf Generator's Pawn Hearts and the amazing one and done Italian band Museo Rosenbach's Zarathustra.
After reading the comments there were a couple of albums I always loved that I didn't see mentioned. Nektar's Remember the Future and Audience, House on the Hill were favourites of mine along with Gong which I saw mentioned and thoroughly agree with. Check out Pierre Moerlen's drumming on Gong You
@@ozmonaut1 I’ll check it out. 😉
If I had to choose one album from Gong's classic "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy of albums I'd choose 'Angel's Egg.' But of course when playing live during the Daevid Allen era they shuffled tracks from all three albums. They were Prog because of their time shifts, chords and structured movements, plus their chops were solid, even virtuosic when called for. They held on to psych and space rock, and kept things light with humor even when being introspective.
@@syater I need to check out Gong. Heard about them for ages, but never explored the catalog.
@@tomrobinson5776 In that case, I encourage you. You mentioned artists of the Canterbury scene and of course Soft Machine jumped to mind. Of course Soft Machine's founders included Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Kevin Ayers, but also Daevid Allen. It was Daevid who went on to form Gong with his wife Gilli Smyth in 1967 and the years brought a long list of members that came and went. When Daevid and Gilli left Gong in 1975 the band went more jazz-rock and lost its unique charm, for me at least. But there were still excellent musicians involved, for instance I believe Steven Hillage remained Gong's guitarist for a while. The first two Gong albums, circa 1969-1971 are worth checking out 'Magick Brother' and 'Camembert Electrique' but the getting gets particularly good around 1973-1974, including their live albums.
@syater I agree they're all good but especially Angel's Egg. I started with Camembert Electrique myself, and that's a good place to start. I believe there's a John Peel show on TH-cam of Gong from around that period, but with Kevin Ayers added. I even like the percussion-heavy albums when Daevid Allen was taking a sabbatical away from the band (though it threw me for a loop at the time).
@@simonagree4070 I’ll have to look for that John Peel show on TH-cam, thanks! Kevin Ayers, love his first album Joy of a Toy in particular. For truly committed Gong fans that 13 disc box set is gold standard. ‘Love from Planet Gong: The Virgin Years 1973-75,’ includes studio sessions plus hours of live in London, Paris, the Hyde Park concert, etc.
Birds of Fire was very influential to me. Can hear it in my head right now. Starship Trooper is a masterpiece for sure
Indeed 😉
ELP . Tarkus
Tull, Passion Play
Steven Wilson.. Hand Cannot Erase
King Crimson..Court
Beach Boys... Smiley Smile
Dream Theatre.. any one, but probably Metropolis
Yes.. Close To The Edge
Symphonic Slam... Universe
Gentle Giant ... Aquiring The Taste
Todd Rundgren... A Wizard A True Star
My first ever top 10 list!!
@@stevenbrowne4654 Nice! There was a time in my life where I played Tarkus non stop.
Birds of Fire is one of my all time favorite albums.
McDonald and Giles from 1970 is my #1! Why is it that when speaking of excellent drummers, Micheal Giles gets overlooked - I find he and BJ Wilson to be among the most interesting drummers in rock music. That album's Birdman Suite is a beautiful piece of music.
@@steveviola8178 I’ll have to check that out. BJ Wilson was brilliant. Very underrated.
Boy it’s difficult to pick top 10 prog albums….here are my contributions…
Rare Bird’s first 2 albums(late 1960’s)
Uriah Heep - any album from Look at Yourself to Return to Fantasy
Babe Ruth - First Base
Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
ELP - pick one
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Hawkwind - Warrior on the edge of time
King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King
Rush - 2112
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Crack the Sky - From the Greenhouse
Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye
I could go on but I’ll stop there, I left off a lot of obvious ones, Kansas, Yes, Gentle Giant, Camel, Caravan, Saga, Focus, Van der Graff, Moody Blues, Barclay James Harvest, David Bowie…
Awesome list Tom, I see from the first comment that we're already in the "what is prog" debate 😂. I would add some Barclay James Harvest Van Der Graaf Generator, The Enid and Roy Harper. Incidentally Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin scored a UK #1 in 1981 with a cover of the 1960s Lesley Gore song "Its My Party" 😊
A few favorites: Yes Relayer, Gentle Giant Octopus, Genesis The Lamb..., ELP Brain Salad Surgery and Mike Oldfied Ommadawn.😊
Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die is Prog? Don't get me wrong, I love the album, but I've got it filed in with my jazz/rock LPs. Guess everyone ears are different, and your point is just as valid.
I agree. The whole topic of what is or is not porgressive rock is confusing to me. I don't consider Pink Floyd to be progessive rock either even is they check some of the boxes. Same for Procol Harum.
Dig all these albums! Being a huge prog fan for over 40 years I would also add various 70's albums from King Crimson, Rush, Moody Blues, Gentle Giant, Camel, UK, Nektar, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Mike Oldfield, Kansas, Hawkwind, Saga, Starcastle, Alan Parsons Project, and Steve Hackett. It would be a long list. lol
@@simonbarber2297 A long list indeed. 😉
i love both those Hatfield and the north albums, and Caravan, i love Gong too...yeah a lot of good albums today, i have most of those too, i really like Man, and Skin Alley , i like the more psychedelic side of prog and the jazzy stuff, there was a lot of great progressive jazz that came out of the UK at the end of the sixties and the start of the 70s and a lot of the jazz musos played in rock bands of the progressive era because that way they could make a buck, Ian Carr Keith Tippet, Neil Ardley, Mike Westbrook and Michael Garrick all did some great albums but there is much more, one of my favorite areas of music.take it easy mate.
@@richardfinlayson1524 You as well. 😉
Bela lista saudo desde brasil❤
Greetings! 😉
10 albums is a tiny amount of seventies prog and very hard to please everyone. this is a pretty good list though. i saw Genesis in late 74/early 75 in Stuttgart on their Lamb lies down on broadway tour. they played the entire Album front to back plus more. i was so sad when shortly after, Peter Gabriel announced his departure from the band. he still is my favourite singer of all times!
In The Land Of Grey And Pink - I had to get the cd after streaming Nine Feet Underground for the umpteenth time.
@@johnr3587 It’s an incredible track. 😉
Hey Cape..Happy "Fry"day!!! Yea it's HOT!!!...One of my favorite's when I was working at the record was
Utopia's "Another Live" Just a master class!!! Todd of course doing his thing along with John Siegler on Bass (Prior to Kasim),
"Moogy" Klingman handling various instruments, "Willy" Wilcox on drums and a few more on board....
They work it out on this one! Just a kick ass Live Lp/CD....If you have never heard it I highly recommend it Cape...
Put on the cans and let your mind be free!!!!...Newspapertaxis1 has left the building.........Happy Trails To You.......
@@newspapertaxis1 I’ll check it out. Thanks 😉
King Crimson / Red
String Driven Thing / The Machine That Cried
It's A Beautiful Day / (debut)
Hard Meat / Through A Window
Manfred Mann's Earth Band / Solar Fire
The Flock / Dinosaur Swamps
Jade Warrior / Elements
Jethro Tull / Thick As A Brick
@@dmk7700 It’s A Beautiful Day’s debut is great.
1 Genesis Foxtrot 2 Yes Relayer 3 King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King 4 ELP Tarkus 5 Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick 6 Gentle Giant In a Glass House 7 Pink Floyd Meddle 8 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells 9 Gong You 10 Triumvirate Illusions on a Double Dimple 🤪
Hi Tom. I was mistaken in my original comment on the Epic Screams video: The live performance of Come Here Woman by Tim Buckley appears on a program called The Show (not kidding). It took place in 1970. Cheers.
@@RobertBischoff-oi7fp Cool, thanks for the update. 😉
was that the Variety Art's Theater were you saw the Prog band play The lamb Lies Down On Broadway?
@@MarkDuffield-lh5tj It was at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills on 5/14/22.
"And You and I" is my favorite Yes song. Sorry you're suffering in the heat. It finally cooled down here in Hotlanta!
@@mariawesley7583 That’s a good thing. 😊
FYI, McLaughlin is pronounced "Mic *_Lock_* lyn". Its my mother's maiden name.
@@if6was929 👍
Tony Kaye was keyboard player on that yes album
@@dannyschneider553 Yes, I zoned out, meant to say Tony Kaye. 😉
Procol Harum salty dog, Caravan In the land of grey and pink,Nucleus Elastic Rock, Yes Close to the Edge,Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste, Henry Cow Concerts, Gilgamesh Another Fine Tune, King Crimson Red, Soft Machine Third,Ash Ra Temple Blackouts. Not sure of order. Thank you.
In no particular order:
1. Drama: "Drama." 1971
2. Premiata Forneria Marconi: "Storia Di Un Minuto." 1972
3. Earth and Fire: "Song of the Marching Children." 1971
4. Golden Earring: "To the Hilt." 1976
5. Focus: "Hamburger Concerto." 1974
6. Earth and Fire: "Atlantis." 1973
7. Focus: "Focus 3." 1972
8. Golden Earring: "Moontan." 1973
9. Premiata Forneria Marconi: "Per Un Amico." 1972
10. Focus: "Moving Waves." 1972
@@nathanlaney4577 Interesting list. Very cool.
The comments are as fun to read as watching this vid.
No way traffic is prog but an excellent album.
This is not a question I'd really get too worked up over, but I have no problem claasifying Traffic "John Barleycorn" as prog. Certainly I'd also classify following albums "Low Spark" then "Shoot Out" as prog also.
In The Land Of Grey And Pink is a record I need to pick up. I just can’t get into Genesis. I purged most of my Prog but I’m sure I have 10.
Ah, memories -- too many to really remember. I was certainly a prog fan in the mid-seventies, but not necessarily the same bands as you -- I kind of hated Yes (specifically the singer), and wasn't really interested in Genesis (Peter Gabriel's first solo album I loved). I was much more of a Canterbury and Kraut-rock fan. Also a Zappa fan -- I consider Waka/Jawaka and One Size Fits All prime examples of prog. I wouldn't count Mahavishnu as prog, exactly. Eno definitely was prog -- why leave him out? Robert Wyatt, VERY prog. But really, I liked Amon Duul II -- Carnival In Babylon, specifically -- and Gong (you can find drummer Pip Pyle there). Virtually everything Gong ever did, including all the spin-offs and Steve Hillage solos, is better prog than anything by Yes. Neu! was pretty damn good too. I did have the Caravan and Hatfield And The North albums at some point, and Gryphon, too. I wonder where they are now...
Oh, and you can't have prog without King Crimson. Larks Tongues In Aspic for the win.
@@simonagree4070 You need to search for The Rotters Club and turn it up loud. 😉
I know I had The Rotter's Club sometime around 1976, but I just can't remember what it sounded like! 🤔 And both of the Matching Mole and the Quiet Sun record and 801 Live. That was the sort of thing I was into before punk really started confusing me. 😄
I wouldn't say anything by Hillage is better than anything by Yes !
Oh ! And that's including Gong !
Split Enz first 2 Albums
Mental Notes
Second Thoughts
Absolutely Brilliant
Check them out
@@demonsbutterfly I will. The only Split Enz album I have is a Best Of.
I don’t know what your definition of prog music might be, but you missed couple of albums that are generally considered flagships of prog scene and included others with unclear relation to prog scene. I was around in 1970s and i do not recall anybody referring to Traffic as prog group. Eclectic, maybe, prog, not.
In more general terms, I feeling is that since by mid 1970s prog rock acquired rather bad connotations modern fans of the genre started including in it music from the past that at the time would not be considered prog. Procol Harum is a good example.
However, whatever the motivation any reason to listen to good music is a good reason.
I endorse this opinion.
Shine On Brightly is a mighty PROG album !!
@@paulbrookes413 If you make categories broad, they loose any meaning. Possibly you have a very specific definition of PROG. If you do, please share it.
@@pawelpap9
I wouldn't be exaggerating to say - EXAGGERATION 😁
Tony Kaye was keyboardist on the Yes Album.
You are correct. 😉
With a cast on his foot!!