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    Posted: June 05 2021 at 11:41
1.Ardent Admirer - Skymningen (Swedish hippy-folk, Fairport Convention meets Jefferson Airplane)
2. OK, I'll Have More Tea - Liquid-Sun (Psych-folk from Notting Hill)
3. Vänder bladet nu! - Zvamp Hets (Swedish, spacey-psych)
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1 - Food - "Forever Is a Dream" Amazing baroque pop with a lot of fuzz guitars, imagine a mix of bands like The Left Banque meets the Mandrake Memorial
2 - Touch - "Touch" firts prog rock record made in USA (?), Don Gallucci its a great composer
3 - Master Of Deceit - "Hensley´s Electric Jazz Band And Synthetic Symphonette" Canterbury before Canterbury scene!!

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Skin Allen - "Skin Allen"
Pussy - "Pussy Plays"
Please - "Seeing Stars" (pre T2 band, archival)
Apaloosa - Apaloosa
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Here is a mixed bag for 1969 prog and non prog and plain silly.  Some obscure and some not so obscure.

Omega - 10000 lépés
Man - 2ozs Of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle
Man - Revelation
Bubble Puppy - A Gathering of Promises
Savoy Brown - A Step Further
Le Orme - Ad Gloriam
Blodwyn Pig - Ahead Rings Out
Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa
The Maze - Armageddon
The Kinks - Arthur (or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Audience - S/T
Ambrose Slade - Beginnings
Bert Jansch - Birthday Blues
Blind Faith - S/T
Savoy Brown - Blue Matter
Blue Mountain Eagle - S/T
The Groundhogs - Blues Obituary
Spooky Tooth - Ceremony: An Electronic Mass
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
Spirit - Clear
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Without Reservations
Deep Purple - Concerto For Group And Orchestra
The Damnation of Adam Blessing - S/T
Fleetwood Mac - English Rose
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Family - Family Entertainment
Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - Folk Songs Of Old England Vol. 2
Love - Four Sail
Free - S/T
Keef Hartley Band - Halfbreed
It’s a Beautiful Day - S/T
Bonzo Dog Doo/Dah Band - Keynsham
Bonzo Dog Doo/Dah Band - Tadpoles
Jean‐Luc Ponty - King Kong
Krokodil - S/T
Jeff Simmons - Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
Jeff Simmons ‎- Naked Angels
Mary Butterworth - S/T
Steamhammer - MK II
Steppenwolf - Monster
Os Mutantes - Mutantes
The Nice - S/T
Chicken Shack - O.K. Ken?
Group 1850 - Paradise-  Now
Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei
Writing on the Wall - The Power of the Picts
The Savage Rose - S/T
Ten Year After - Stonedhenge
Strawbs - Strawbs
Ars Nova - Sunshine & Shadows
The Famous Jug Band - Sunshine Possibilities
Colosseum - Those Who Are About to Die Salute You- 
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
The Turtles  - Turtle Soup
Velvett Fogg - S/T


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Originally posted by Artik Artik wrote:

Spirit of John Morgan - "Spirit of John Morgan" - this one is so obscure that it isn't on PA :)  It's been refered to as blues rock on Discogs, but there is MUCH more to it. Other reference I saw qualified them as "psychedelic proto progressive blues rock". Add some jazz to this brew and you'll be close. On Discogs this album is listed for 1969, but some other sources claim it was recorded in 1969 but released two years later. It's definitely worth a spin. 

John Morgan is mentioned in the title of one of the tracks on the Circus album from 1969.


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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I'm in no hurry to get to the music of the present day.
This is the sentiment of most forum members. Another Pink Floyd poll? It's sad.

the sad thing about most modern music is that it sounds sterile due to overdone production. as a rule of thumbs you can say "the better the production the more sterile it sounds". music should LIVE.

in my opinion the best way to produce an album is to play live in the studio. not only is this the most honest way, it also adds something very important that gets lost when you record every instrument and voice separately: overtones. the instruments and voices interact with each other, and that leads to overtone fracture and a huge enrichment of sound


I very much agree with you here, in theory at least... and yeah, most of the times I would consider it a plus if they tell me it was all recorded in one take. That's the way music should be played and heard. So live in the studio, or just live, very often I like it better. But then, it's not a rule set in stone, if I hear an album played with all the production benefits you can think and it sounds good, or better than the live versions, then I will enjoy it too. Different methods will suit different artists better than others.

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^Last two suggestions by Artik have been added to the big list on page 2!
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It may be that it is not in the archives because it is not considered to fit under the umbrella of "progressive rock".


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Spirit of John Morgan - "Spirit of John Morgan" - this one is so obscure that it isn't on PA :)  It's been refered to as blues rock on Discogs, but there is MUCH more to it. Other reference I saw qualified them as "psychedelic proto progressive blues rock". Add some jazz to this brew and you'll be close. On Discogs this album is listed for 1969, but some other sources claim it was recorded in 1969 but released two years later. It's definitely worth a spin. 
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Another great one: Jody Grind - "One step on"
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Wikipedia and YouTube say 1970, but most other sources (Discogs, Rateyourmusic, Allmusic etc.) say 1969.
I also saw this in the various sources, so I will put a star next to it, since it cannot be certainly attributed to '69.
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Wikipedia and YouTube say 1970, but most other sources (Discogs, Rateyourmusic, Allmusic etc.) say 1969.


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Hmm isn't Skin Alley from 1970? It's a great album though.
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^Good to see you Sagi
Very nice pick btw - one I forgot about.
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It's actually hard for me to remember which ones of my albums were released in 69 but there's one that I immediately recall since I reviewed it not so long ago.
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Another round of comments gives us the following list:

Genesis - 'From Genesis to Revelation'
Andromeda - S/T
Andwella's Dream - 'Love and Poetry'
Arcadium - 'Breathe Awhile'
Odyssey - 'Setting Forth'
Shiver - 'Walpurgis'
Gandalf - S/T
The First International Sex Opera Band - 'Anita'
Dick Hyman - 'Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman'
Tea & Symphony - 'Asylum for the Musically Insane'
Melmoth - 'La Devanture des Ivresses'
Collectors - 'Grass and Wild Strawberries'
Friendsound - 'Joyride'
Alrune Rod - S/T
Holger Czukay - 'Canaxis'
Cromagnon - 'Orgasm'
Circus - S/T
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - 'Soundtrack'
'Igginbottom - ''Igginbottom's Wrench'
Burning Red Ivanhoe - 'M144'
Gal Costa - S/T
Taste Of Blues - 'Schizofrenia'
After All - S/T
Pesky Gee - '!'
Van der Graaf Generator - 'The Aerosol Grey Machine'
Arzachel - S/T
High Tide - 'Sea Shanties'
Renaissance - S/T
The Flock - S/T
East of Eden - 'Mercator Projected'
Manfred Mann Chapter Three - S/T
Mighty Baby - S/T
Skin Alley - S/T *
Pussy - 'Pussy Plays'
Rare Bird - S/T
White Noise - 'An Electric Storm'
Wigwam - 'Hard N' Horny'
Tasavallan Presidentti - S/T
Can - 'Monster Movie'
Jody Grind - 'One Step On'
Spirit of John Morgan - S/T
Axe - 'Axe Music'


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Can't get much more obscure than West Siberian prog, so I'll recommend debut albums of the two most important Finnish prog bands:

Wigwam - Hard N' Horny
Tasavallan Presidentti - Tasavallan Presidentti

They both did better albums later, but these are still well worth checking out. 

Can are far from obscure but do check out Monster Movie if you haven't already. 
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Rare Bird - selftitled 
White Noise - An Electric Storm
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Mighty Baby
Skin Alley
Pussy Plays
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

not everyone knows the wonderful Mercator Projected by East of Eden. 
Oh, this one is great! 
Another gem, that comes to mind is Manfred Mann Chapter Three selftitled album - soaked in jazz, but with song structures mantained <3
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since the Melmoth album apparently received an award in 1969 Discogs must be off.

Melmoth is an alias of Dashiell Hedayat, who was backed by very early Gong for his album "Obsolete"; we have that album


Edited by BaldJean - May 06 2021 at 15:50


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