The Progressive Rock Thread

[readyeddy?]

I said I was going to do this and I'm doing it. One of the music genres I've always enjoyed was the progressive rock acts of the Seventies. I was a huge fan of Yes, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, ELP, King Crimson, Genesis (w/ Peter Gabriel) all the big names. Yeah, I know that sometimes some of these bands went a little over the top at times, but they were still fun for me.
To me newer bands like Radiohead and Coldplay have brought this genre back and you don't hear me complaining as I love those groups as well.
But there are some groups that weren't quite as high profile as the ones I mentioned and these are what I'd like to share with you.

Nektar: I originally thought this was a German band but I later discovered they were a British band based in Germany. The two albums I'm most familiar with by these guys are "Remember The Future" and "Down to Earth".

Here's some links for You Tube

Remember The Future Part 1 clip one
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl3lEdikrZU

Remember The Future Part 1 clip 2
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2ukt-9K1I

Remember The Future Part1 clip 3
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCbVQG7NeDE

Remember The Future Part1 clip 4
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrftTmONGfM

Lonely Roads
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qP1QzXdpAA

Nelly the Elephant
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIqtmmZR-Qg

Remember the Future
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FnANLIb0P4

The first four clips are of one song broken into 4 parts.
I'll start with that and add other bands later.

[readyeddy?]

the next group I'd like to showcase is Camel.
Camel has two albums that I'll focus on: Mirage and The Snow Goose.They're contemporaries of Nektar but were just as good.
The Snow Goose was interesting as it was inspired by a short story by Paul Gallico. The story was about a lonely hunchbacked lighthouse keeper who nurses a wounded snow goose back to health a local girl shows interest in the health of the goose and visits him regularly until the snow goose recovers. The story is about unrequited love because the publishers wouldn't allow Gallico to write a scene consumating the relationship between the hunchback and the girl. It's also about heroism and sacrifice as the hunchback named Rhayader, risks his life to ferry wounded soldiers across the English Channel during D-Day.

here's some links:

Nimrodel, the Procession, the White Rider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh7yVU68HHY

Supertwister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwRVsjg9vIU

Lady Fantasy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrg_B1pCors

Snow Goose Excerpts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVnCyDoQlQ

Snow Goose Extract
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WD4hw4iweY

Excerpts from Snow Goose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJklh5GzGQ

Rhayader/Rhayader Goes to Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aezncdri9Y

[AlienFlanders]

I'll throw a few in:
Unfortunately most of the ones I like haven't a good youtube video to put up.

Hawkwind - although as Lemmy said it was a four piece rock band at the core surrounded by flim flam.
I'd offer a couple of clips but the ones available are poor quality, if you want to try them out, have a listen to the compilation "Night of the Hawk" or Hall of the Mountain Grill, if you like some of those move on to Space Ritual or Masters of the Universe. Sonic Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQnDnNDGecg)

Pallas - Find a copy of "The Sentinel" if you are interested in the Atlantis myth. Here are a couple of tracks from that release Arrive Alive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8xIYDzSaS0) Rise & Fall (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ezWiOTXOo)

Slough Feg - avoid the youtube links, they are embarassing music quality, visit their website Slough Feg (http://www.sloughfeg.com/) and have a listen to the tracks provided, fans of Slaine MacRoth will get a kick out of some of the albums.

Pink Floyd the early years Careful with that Axe Eugene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3R2PgMiTvw), Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_0iZQ-TuA),
Several Species of Small Furry Creatures, Gathered together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpzHr1I_3Ms)

[readyeddy?]

You didn't tell me what you thought of Nektar and Camel, oh mighty wizard.
Pallas might be interesting if I were actually to hear the "Sentinel" CD. I wonder if it's easily available stateside.

The cut from Hawkwind was familiar to me as I own an album with that track on it. Unfortunately my albums aren't easily accessed right now. I found it interesting that Michael Moorcock was so heavily involved with them. So Lemmy was with them eh? Was this before Motorhead?

Slough Fey has a cool name but they strike as more of a metal band.

Anyway, here are all I could find on youtube for the band Caravan. I was disappointed that there were no links from the album " For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night" which is my favorite from them. These guys were some serious horndogs I guess.

For Richard (part one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODcNCIIXiF8

For Richard (part two)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzM40Xs6qUM

Magic Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgU_2Pl1yzo

In the Land of the Grey and Pink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrgaaIdc5Y4

There's two different versions of Golf Girl, I'll let you take your pick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfJMhxHUGsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-gkNbwkIwM

[T'Chaka]

'The Court Of The Crimson King' in quadrophonic sound rules!

Or so my dad told me years ago. I'm fairly sure he only bought the album to test drive his brand-spanking-new quadrophonic sound system.

[readyeddy?]

'The Court Of The Crimson King' in quadrophonic sound rules!

Or so my dad told me years ago. I'm fairly sure he only bought the album to test drive his brand-spanking-new quadrophonic sound system.
You're Dad? How old are you? I thought you were one of the older members. But King Crimson does rule, I'm just burned out on doing anymore links today.

[T'Chaka]

How old are you?

Only the mods and my mother know that.

Suffice to say, I'm old enough to be more than slightly embarrassed by my persistent presence here on HCRealms and my dedication to this game! :p ;)

[AlienFlanders]

Court of the Crimson King is the only CD of King Crimson that is not released here.

As to the earlier tracks, Nektar sounded interesting, Camel may take a while to get used to (a bit like Hawkwind live).

Lemmy was a bass player for Hawkwind around 72-74, he was fired for getting caught carrying drugs across the US/Canada border. He wrote Lost Johnny and Motorhead while in Hawkwind (their version of Motorhead is on Night of the Hawks).

The Sentinel might be available for those that look, I got mine from Amazon a couple of years ago.

Slough Feg are metal, but their albums are based around a theme, One is around the GDW Traveller game series, another around Slaine from 2000ad.

[VelvetGuru9]

There's a newer prog-rock band that I think is "different". The band plays like Tool, but unlike Tool these guys actually have a set :nervous:. The drummer Brann Dailor is off the wall.

[VelvetGuru9]

EDIT: stupid double posts

[theanalogkid]

Rush was plugged into the prog rock genre of the 70's. Not so much now. That Crimson King sounds intriging, I have heard OF them, but heard them.

[readyeddy?]

Rush was plugged into the prog rock genre of the 70's. Not so much now. That Crimson King sounds intriging, I have heard OF them, but heard them.
I'll do links for them later when I've got more time. Ah what the heck, I'll do it now.

In The Court of the Crimson King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHkisNZH77Y

Epitaph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxb5NZFzVU

21st Century Schizoid Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdM1xEiQN0

Easy Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIPwZ6BaBg

Islands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDyhncgfVPQ

I Talk to the Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKT6rNgzIPA

Cirkus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCg-caiyGRs

Indoor Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svb5nrhNDto

Prince Rupert Awakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B9tK3FO83A

There's a lot more I'd like to add but these will do for now.

[readyeddy?]

Progressive rock has a bit of a stigma thanks to the attitudes of music critics and the advent of punk rock in the late Seventies. Maybe some of it is warranted and maybe it's not. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about other people's opinions, I like to form my own. I like to think opinions are like @$$#*#*# and if you voice them too loud you seem like you've got two @$$#*#*#. I like this style of music because it makes a perfect soundtrack for my own Walter Mittyish fantasies. If you don't get that literary reference, you aren't being exposed to the right things.
Generally the British seemed to do this better then Americans did. Kansas gave it a good try but for my money their first album was their only really good album.
I like some of the bands that seem to be reviving the genre like Radiohead and Coldplay, I would say that Trail of the Dead fits the bill.
I heard somewhere that Jimi Hendrix was in negotiations to join the members of ELP. Can you imagine what that would have sounded like? They would have been called HELP.
For the record, I like ELP. I have a tendency to like the first album by a band that I hear best and "Trilogy" was my first album by them and I still like it. I will make no apologies for that. I think if they had hooked up with Hendrix, it would only have lasted one or two albums and the Hendrix would have moved on.

[AlienFlanders]

For the record, I like ELP. I have a tendency to like the first album by a band that I hear best and "Trilogy" was my first album by them and I still like it. I will make no apologies for that. I think if they had hooked up with Hendrix, it would only have lasted one or two albums and the Hendrix would have moved on.

Wouldn't matter, they would have killer albums.

[readyeddy?]

Here's a German band called Triumvirat. The tracks are from an album called "Illusions on a Double Dimple".

Mister Ten Percent [a. Maze]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWtDAvdK6wU

Mister Ten Percent [b. Dawning c. Bad Deal]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhTL78XzTQs

Mister Ten Percent [e. Lucky Girl]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAayz3p00cg

Mister Ten Percent [f. Million Dollars]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFhRAPiwIwk

[readyeddy?]

Here's two versions of a song I really like from what could be the first Glam rock band on their only foray into prog rock. The song is called "The Tower" and is the only memorable song they did. The band is called Angel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n07qiAo1lM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t83rSp8iWu8

[readyeddy?]

Here's some Captain Beyond links I found on Youtube. A great Seventies band that suffered from bad management.

Dancing Madly Backwards/Armworth/Myopic Void
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXz-UIaauqQ

A Thousand Days Of Yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOLTaUWV7LE

Raging River of Fear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b_YCjuDkGI

As the Moon Speaks (to the Waves of the Sea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huaf_x-Z6HM

Sufficiently Breathless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZQnAPbl4o

Wow, I got all the links right the first time. Don't ask me what they're trying to say with the visuals for Raging River of Fear.

Interesting trivia: each Captain Beyond album was dedicated toa deceased Allman Brother, one for Duane Allman and the other for Barry Oakley.

[JKLantern]

Here's a live clip of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick. Naturally, it's an abridged version. But even shortened, it's still awesome! Hoping to get this album sometime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PcX_D5Z_CA

[readyeddy?]

Here's a live clip of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick. Naturally, it's an abridged version. But even shortened, it's still awesome! Hoping to get this album sometime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PcX_D5Z_CA
I have the album, I need to get the CD.

You know, I was going to wait til the weekend to post those but I figured if I don't do it now, AlienFlanders would do it for me and I can't have him doing everything for me.

[JKLantern]

I have the album, I need to get the CD.

Stupid progress, making people shell out money for stuff they already have! :mad:

[readyeddy?]

Yeah, I tried to resist CDs for a long time but I had to give in when I discovered that Robert Plant had added an extra track on the Now and Zen CD that wasn't included on the Album.
Be sure and check out the other links on this thread if you haven't already. There's some good stuff.

[AlienFlanders]

CDs are sometimes bad, Jethro Tull's Bursting Out (Live) on single CD left off a couple of tracks that I really like.

[AlienFlanders]

Here's some Captain Beyond links I found on Youtube. A great Seventies band that suffered from bad management.

Interesting trivia: each Captain Beyond album was dedicated toa deceased Allman Brother, one for Duane Allman and the other for Barry Oakley.

They must have run out of Allman brothers.:laugh:

[JKLantern]

They must have run out of Allman brothers.:laugh:

My former roommate went to see them. Within the past five years. I think he said that there were NO original members of the band left in the band.

[readyeddy?]

They must have run out of Allman brothers.:laugh:
Ouch, that was evil!:eek: :surprised :confused: :cross-eye :p

[readyeddy?]

My former roommate went to see them. Within the past five years. I think he said that there were NO original members of the band left in the band.
Yeah but, the ones I mentioned are the dead ones.

[AlienFlanders]

I read your comments before and after the links, which are great btw, and my mind twisted them together, similar to
Out of Context Theatre (http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=214009) I did add a smilie.:laugh:

[readyeddy?]

For the record they did put out a third album, around '77,'78 that hasn't been released on CD. When it was released I was initially disappointed that it sounded nothing like the first two releases. After a few listens it grew on me some. I'm sure the fact it was so different is the main reason it's not available on CD. Luckily, no Allman Brother died in the making of that album.

[AlienFlanders]

Heh, No Allman Brothers were killed in the making of this album The Third Album (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Explosion)

Captain Beyond (http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=795) - Prog rock website

[readyeddy?]

Heh, No Allman Brothers were killed in the making of this album The Third Album (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Explosion)

Captain Beyond (http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=795) - Prog rock website
Nice link, but I have to disagree with that line that they never produced anything truly essential to one's prog rock collection. Who the heck is this clown that he determines what's essential? The arrogance of music critics never fails to appall me.

[phantalien]

Try the band Enchant, they are an American band based from California I believe.

If you want heavier stuff...(progressive metal)
Symphony X
Dream Theater

[readyeddy?]

Try the band Enchant, they are an American band based from California I believe.

If you want heavier stuff...(progressive metal)
Symphony X
Dream Theater
Links man, links. I agree about Dream Theater.

[phantalien]

Enchant
Mae Day (intro to the live album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW6dgmxynJM

Sinking Sand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6pjbZHX8HA


Symphony X
Out of the Ashes (starts 2:20 in but it is such an awesome song!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQU1f5-vcM

Smoke and Mirrors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc4dHD8Ippc

[phantalien]

+1
Symphony X will be touring this year and tix are usually 20-25. It is beyond worth it to see them.

[Dark Flash2099]

This topic needs more Ayreon and Star One.

[readyeddy?]

This topic needs more Ayreon and Star One.Links, man, links.

[doctor_x]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I am a HUGE fan of Rush, Dream Theater, Spock's beard, and Neil Morse(ex-leader of Spock's Beard).

If you like Rush or Dream Theater-then get these DVD's:

Rush In Rio
Dream Theater-Score.

Score rOcKs hard. I just got it.
I can't recommend DT enough.

They've been around 20 years now.
They started out when Nirvana did and have a loyal underground following that has gotten them this far without radio or mainstream support.
Their guitar player tours with Satriani sometimes in G3.

If you get a chance to ever see Rush live in person-do it before they retire.
You will be totally blown away.

Also, if you are or were a fan of Yes, then get 90210 the re-mastered version.
Their albums Talk and Big Generator are good too if you like the Trevor Rabin years.

[Dark Flash2099]

Links, man, links.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ayreon&search=Search

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Star+One&search=Search

[readyeddy?]

I've only had time to check out the links for Enchant. They sound pretty good but it's a little weird looking at a band who's members look like they're weekend warriors.

Symphony X sounds like Uriah Heep to me.

DarkFlash2099, I'll try to get to your links tomorrow.

[readyeddy?]

Holy mackeral Dark Flash, when you give homework assignments they're doozies. I was able to look at a few Ayreon links. I'll have to look at the other stuff later.

[Dark Flash2099]

You should note that the person behind Ayreon and Star One are one and the same (Arjen Anthony Lucassen).

[Dark Flash2099]

Just so you guys know, the Ayreon album came out a little bit ago and it links the storys in the other albums all together. It's really good, too.

[readyeddy?]

I just finished downloading Sandfire - Red Sun, Blue Sky to my iTunes library. Part of a package of CDs sent to me by AlienFlanders. I had to type all the info in manually. Apparently iTunes doesn't have this in their system at all.
I'm glad he sent it to me. It's pretty good. The title track is the best. I can't put my finger on who they remind me of though.

[AlienFlanders]

I just finished downloading Sandfire - Red Sun, Blue Sky to my iTunes library. Part of a package of CDs sent to me by AlienFlanders. I had to type all the info in manually. Apparently iTunes doesn't have this in their system at all.
I'm glad he sent it to me. It's pretty good. The title track is the best. I can't put my finger on who they remind me of though.


That's wierd, when I put the disk in (I had a crash a while ago, lost a bunch of stuff, still finding missing people, just discovered I'm missing the Mamas and the Papas) it find the CD and tracks for me, must be looking at a different site for the info.

[readyeddy?]

I dunno, it might have just been my computer acting froggy. That happens sometimes too.
By the way, it appears you sent me a Neil Young CD instead of Lobby Loyde.

Anyway I didn't attempt to write lists of what's on the CDs I sent you. My handwriting is so lousy you'd think I was a doctor. I figured you could get the lists from the computer so you could write out a play list you could read without developing a migraine.

[AlienFlanders]

I dunno, it might have just been my computer acting froggy. That happens sometimes too.
By the way, it appears you sent me a Neil Young CD instead of Lobby Loyde.
These things happen. I have hidden some Lobby Loyde on the DVD as well.

Anyway I didn't attempt to write lists of what's on the CDs I sent you. My handwriting is so lousy you'd think I was a doctor. I figured you could get the lists from the computer so you could write out a play list you could read without developing a migraine.

You and me both, my writing is dreadful, I think the more I work with computers the worse my writing gets.
Its like that time I took the home wine making course and forgot how to drive.

[AlienFlanders]

At the moment I am listening to the Very Best of Gong, these guys are sort of more hippy sounding than Hawkwind, but in that vein of space music. I have had this disc for a while but not given it a serious listen.

[AlienFlanders]

I have had more of a listen to the Gong Cd and may have to track down the actual releases, very very trippy. Rational Anthem, Radio Gnome Invisible and a couple of others are very good.