Well I can’t keep my mouth shut.
Yes released The Yes Album, and Fragile in 1971, and Close to the edge in 72 I believe. There isn’t a moment wasted on these records. Listen to Siberian Khatru. Fer cryin out loud. Melodies, muscianship, oblique lyrics to chew on, rocking hard: what are you looking for? Close to the edge is a masterpiece. Just hearing the ambience in the beginning brings the whole song to life for me.
Nobodys written anything like Yours is no disgrace since it came out.
Of course it helps to have a buzz.
Can we give Gentle Giant some respect too: How about Acquiring the taste (appropriate) Free Hand, Glass House, Octopus. Unless you just want the same melodies over and over.
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread (though it hasn’t hit a year yet!) but I’ve been just absolutely buzzing on Steven Wilson (as mentioned above) both from Porcupine Tree and his solo work.
I strongly recommend anyone trying to find a new version of the ‘classic progressive rock sound’ give him a listen. Much of it can be found on YouTube so you can sample the music.
Totally hooked on this song from his latest album** Hand. Cannot. Erase.** calledRegret #9
Oh and I also highly recommend acquiring the fruits of his other occupation, remastering the classic albums in Dolby 5.1 Surround, including Yes Fragile, The Yes Album and several Jethro Tull albums. I have the The Yes Album and the remaster of Starship Troopers is beyond amazing. Steve Howe had great things to say about his efforts.
I had pretty much stopped listening to music over the years. Steven Wilson has brought the joy back.
I started listening to all the albums by Dungen. While not strictly prog (too much psych to it) I can’t get enough of it. The fuzz sound that guy gets from his guitar and amps is something else. Some of those guitar bits, heavy fuzz/feedback/controlled chaos are amazing. Don’t understand a word of it, but I love it.
I listen to all my Yes albums and Styx albums pretty often. Kansas gets some ear time as does the Moody Blues. I’m somewhat less likely to spin up Tangerine Dream or King Crimson but Alan Parsons gets cued up quite regularly.
All of what’s best about passionate classical orchestral combined with the raw energy of rock. What’s not to like?
Now, if you’re asking whether the current progressive rock offerings are not as good as the older ones, that’s a different and more complex question.
Just curious: has anyone attended any of the nostalgia-oriented concerts by the current edition of King Crimson.
For years, Robert Fripp shunned old Crimson material, but lately he’s been touring with various and sundry ex-members and a few new guys doing mostly the Sixties and Seventies songs.
Two questions:
Why is Fripp nostalgic NOW? Just trying to get one more big payday before retiring from the road?
Why THIS lineup for performing older material? Why not get together with Greg Lake, Ian MacDonald and Michael Giles? Or John Wetton, Bill Bruford and David Cross? Why play old Crimson material with guys who (except for Mel Collins) weren’t ever part of the Sixties/Seventies band?
This music was the soundtrack of my late high school and college years. I have outgrown it to some extent, but I still listen to it. It’s a part of my shuffle and I’m always glad when it comes up in the queue.
I was trained as a classical musician and saw this muisc as a Godsend because suddenly the things I knew and could play were cool! lol Trivial, I know, but aren’t we all fairly trivial in our teens?
“And You and I” was wafting out of some room on the quad when I moved into the dorm my freshman year of college. I am right back in that moment of hope mixed with fear every time I hear it. I remember my first boyfriend leaping on his bike and racing over to my house with his copy of “In the Hall of the Crimson King” because I just HAD to hear this amazing music on the album he’d just bought.
As I recall, we were hoping chicks would notice us, mostly. In that way we were like kids starting bands all through history regardless of genre.
I’ve always been skeptical of assertions that punk was some big sociological watershed. It seems to be overselling what happened.
And I think it was Mick Jones - but might have been Joe Strummer - said that of course the post-punk guys pushed the envelope. If you could actually play at all you couldn’t play punk too long. It got boring because it’s dull and repetitive.
I love Wakeman’s stuff, and still listen to it. In fact, I picked up an album of his last month that I’d never seen before. It featured of a recording on a 1974 Wakeman concert in Boston that I attended. I showed it to my daughter to prove that I wasn’t as completely stodgy as I appear, and actually attended rock concerts.
