Does any one else enjoy progressive rock?

[stinkubus]

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[PhroX]

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I like early King Crimson, Gong, early Floyd like Piper and Saucer, Soft Machine are pretty cool, as are Magma, Mike Oldfield, Gentle Giant, Robert Wyatt and The Mars Volta. Genesis is good, too.

Though I gotta admit that none of the anglophone bands, imho, come even close to their krautrock equivalents. Any day of the week Ill take Can, Fast, NEU!, Amon Düül II, Ash Ra Tempel and Popol Vuh over the ones mentioned above, except maybe KC.

Some people will say krautrock is more psychedelic rock than anything else, but I disagree. Most notable bands have a heavy jazz influence, a lot of them actually studied under Avant Garde composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen..

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Jaki Liebezeits drumming is especially great on this track:

Gotta admit I dont like the album in the OP too too much.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Most of the albums that I own are progressive rock in some way or another, the majority being progressive metal.

 

[sophie]

 

[W|M]

 

[stinkubus]

 

[PhroX]

 

[caketastydelish]

No. I like conservative rock. Libertarian rock is also interesting, but the music is chaotic due to the lack of regulations.

 

[bernie14]

 

[Kyriakos]

Genesis

How a song can feature one of the darkest riffs, and then one of the stupidest bridge parts:

The chorus is rather bad sounding too...

 

[onejayhawk]

Like a lot of these-Yes, Genesis, ELP, Ayreon.

Here is something in an orchestral vein.

J

 

[Leifmk]

Yeah, I can listen to that stuff and like it.

How about some of this?

 

[warpus]

What is progressive rock exactly? I can listen to all the videos posted here and try to get an idea, but..

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What is progressive rock exactly? I can listen to all the videos posted here and try to get an idea, but..

This is a definition for progressive rock given by Prog Archives.

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive-rock.asp#definition

Progressive rock (often shortened to prog or prog rock) is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical.

Progressive rock bands pushed "rock's technical and compositional boundaries" by going beyond the standard rock or popular verse-chorus-based song structures. Additionally, the arrangements often incorporated elements drawn from classical, jazz, and world music. Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy. Progressive rock bands sometimes used "concept albums that made unified statements, usually telling an epic story or tackling a grand overarching theme."

Progressive rock developed from late 1960s psychedelic rock, as part of a wide-ranging tendency in rock music of this era to draw inspiration from ever more diverse influences. The term was applied to the music of bands such as King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Soft Machine and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Progressive rock came into most widespread use around the mid-1970s. While progressive rock reached the peak of its popularity in the 1970s and early 1980s, neo-progressive bands have continued playing for faithful audiences in the subsequent decades.

 

[BvBPL]

I have tickets to see King Crimson on tour this year.

 

[warpus]

Sounds like a genre that can't be described by text alone.

If Pink Floyd is progressive rock, then I vote Pink Floyd as the best progressive rock.

 

[stinkubus]

To paraphrase Potter Stewart (former US Supreme Court Justice): "I can't define it, but I know it when I hear it."

 

[warpus]

Ah so like porn