Let's Delve into Progressive Rock!

http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorMyth · by **Senator Myth** » 06 Nov 2011 22:37

How much Prog do I need?

MOAR.

Let's start with this beauty. Close to the Edge was my first exposure to prog rock, and it still sticks out in my mind as quite possibly the greatest album ever. Listen to it. Seriously, this is a great starting place for the genre if you're unfamiliar with it, or as a starting place for Yes, or just as an album to listen to if you happen to like music.

Siberian Khatru... Well, just listen to those chords, those melodies, those rhythms. This song is quite unlike any other ever written, very distinctive, in my opinion. It's just beautiful. This may not be archetypal prog rock (because prog rock is an EXTREMELY varied genre to begin with) but this is just a delicious song that everyone should listen to and try to appreciate.

Kicking off this thread with some Yes. But there's a lot of prog out there I know I haven't even heard of, and there are some bands out there I'm interested in that some of you can help introduce me to! Specifically these are Tool, Karnivool, and Dream Theater.

Yep, let's do a prog thread!

by **Howlgram** » 06 Nov 2011 23:39

That song is so nice
havent heard anything from the genre but i like it
though i would enjoy more a lyric-less song

anyway, probably im gonna hang around and listen to future posts

by **penguindf12** » 07 Nov 2011 23:56

A past project of mine doing King Crimson's "Schizoid Man":

Soft Machine -- Esther's Nosejob

Van der Graaf Generator -- Lost

5uu's -- Well... Not Chickenshit

Gentle Giant -- Mister Class & Quality

Peter Hammill -- The Institute of Mental Health, Burning

Slapp Happy -- A Worm is at Work

Gong -- Sold to the Highest Buddha

The Residents -- Hitler Was a Vegetarian

My band doing Genesis -- Anyway

Same band doing Thinking Plague -- Lycanthrope

by **penguindf12** » 08 Nov 2011 00:10

And of course, Myth, my favorite off of Close to the Edge is the title track itself!

(my second favorite is "And You and I", and "Siberian Khatru" is very cool, but not incredibly gripping for me; best part is the sitar/harpsichord bit! And Howlgram, the lyrics are meant to be there for "color"; they don't have meaning outside of the sounds of the words and the feel of the images -- on that song, at least. The other two tracks on the album seem very resonant to me, with more of a "message" to convey...)

by **Sugarholik** » 11 Nov 2011 08:25

YAY!
I'll just leave these here...

Tales from topographic oceans is my favorite from Yes. But the lyrics are just f***'d up.
I heard they are based on some book from hindu mythologies but after reading it the lyrics still didn't make any sense

by **[voodoopony]** » 11 Nov 2011 13:17

I don't listen to rock a lot but I found this to be progressive and rock sounding, so here it be!

Don't fall for the fact that they're under the Warp label... all I've heard from them is mathrock haha.