what do i look for now?

^^ the list is expanding! why not recommend all progarchives data base?

just joking!

Is Al di Meloa "Elegant Gypsy" album prog, btw?

"Hot Rats" is great, indeed! I hadn' recommended Zappa in the first place, 'casue I didn't know that! now I am a fan! (didn' like the rest of his albums that much, though!)
One last Jazz Fusion recommendation: any Mahavishnu Orchestra album from 1971 to 1975... (I don't like Inner Worlds that much)

Last, but not the least : I prefer Godspeed You! Black Emperor to all more recent bands... They have a fresh '70's Tangerine Dream sound, with no synthesiser at all! Great experimental band!

 

Since you seem to like keyboard based stuff, you may want to also try Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - s/t, Darwin!, Io Sono Nato Libero, or if you like a strong classical touch, ...di Terra.

Note to clukie you might wanna listen to different genres and see what your most intersted in, but i would say pick up some gentle giant. 

I'd like to recommend you:

Jane (their first 3 albums)

Gentle Giant (everything up to "Live - Playing the Fool")

Caravan (everything up to "Caravan & The New Symphonia")

The Nice (all albums, if you like ELP)

Beggar's Opera (2nd. and 3rd. albums)

Eloy ("Eloy Live" is simply amazing)

Camel ("A Live Record" is also amazing)

Procol Harum ("Shine on Brightly", "Home" and "Grand Hotel")

The Moody Blues (any of the "Magnificent Seven" albums, which starts with "Days of Future Passed" and ends with "Seventh Sojourn")

And if you want to try some dark, complex and magnificent music, Van Der Graaf Generator's "Fantastic Four" albums: "The Least we Can Do Is Wave To Each Other", "H to He Who Am the Only One", "Pawn Hearts" and "Godbluff"

 

Good selection from Bilek!

If you like mellotron, try 90's swedish prog! ANEKDOTEN, LANDBERK, MORTE MACABRE, PAATOS and ÄNGLAGORD. 

If you like psychedelia (few first albums by PINK FLOYD), try THE SPACIOUS MIND and some albums by HAWKWIND, "Space Ritual" for instance. But do listen them before buying!

Apart from the names already suggested (I consider all great):

Amon Düül II (other Amon Düüls I don't know!)
Aphrodite's Child (666 album only! the rest maybe later)
Vangelis (make sure you read some reviews before! heaven and hell is a good place to start)
Can (very difficukt to get used to. try compilations at first)
Eloy (german space band, similar to PF sometimes, much better IMHO!!)
Focus (already mentioned, but I want to recommend once more! great mixture of ELP, Yes, and Jethro Tull's styles!!!)
You know Genesis, don't you!!! it's a surprise no one's mentioned yet!!! but make sure to keep it restricted to '69-'77, maybe to the extent of '80!
Grobschnitt (perfect Krautrock band with symphonic and space influences!)
Guru Guru (another krautrock band with an eclectic style)
Jon Lord (though not in the archives, you should know about this great man of music! his solo works are far from Deep Purple. Try Sarabande and Gemini Suite)
Kansas (US's successful representative)
Moody Blues (among the progenitors of prog, along with PRocol Harum, Nice and Arthur Brown)
The Nice (Emerson's ex band. check it out!)
Peter Gabriel (Genesis ex-frontman, you should know...)
Peter Hammill (Van der Graaf frontman)
Procol Harum
Renaissance
Rick Wakeman (you should have known this since you know Yes...)
Tangerine Dream (try Cyclone, Force Majeure and Stratosfear first, since these are the records closest to Symphonic and conventional space prog)
Traffic
Van der Graaf Generator

note that all my suggestions are limited to '70's... and some of these suggestions might be pretty hard to get used to, but indispensible once you "acquire the taste"... especially Tangerine Dream, Krautrock bands and Van der Graaf Generator.

Hi cluckie, Nice to see another Aussie in the archives!!  Some of the bands that I have come across (that I like) since discovering the archives would be Gentle Giant, Camel and Caravan just to name a few.  Allof them have their moments (easy and not so easy) for the first time listener but if you stick with them you are bound to have a win.  There are so many more so if you want more leads send me a PM.  Cheers

RE: Gordon Giltrap. Most of his stuff has been reissued by Voiceprint. Best bets: Fear Of The Dark, Visionary and Perilous Journey. I have the latter and can vouch for it, very good neo-classical type prog, orchestrated and fronted by acoustic guitar. If you’re into bands like Renaissance or the Enid, you’ll like this a lot.

 as a young guy who likes prog rock where my mates are into hip hop or regular rock i find it very diffucult to discover the classics. this is my first computer and i am happy to have found PROG ARCHIVES but any info or opinions on great albums would be great.

 i'll let you know what i have descovered already, of course my love started with PINK FLOYD and i have exhausted any new material there but they set the standard for great bands like KING CRIMSON (early), YES, EMMERSON LAKE AND PALMER, JETHRO TULL and MIKE OLDFIELD. now there are alot of albums among those guys which is great and that gives a good indication of the style im into, so who do you suggest from there?

 and why cant i find GORDON GILTRAP in the PROG ROCK search engine? this guy i have heard only 2 songs, CASCADE and HEARTSONG, which has intrigued me greatly but i cant find him anywhere and the guy is class.