Young person’s guide to Prog

These are some prog tracks I choose to introduce people to the art form (of course the choice depends on the person).

21st Century Schizoid Man -- King Crimson (classic)

Back in NYC -- Genesis (probably the only "punk"-sounding song in 7/8)

Sealion -- Jethro Tull (definitely depends on the person you're giving the CD to)

A Time and a Place, Karn Evil 9 (1st, Part 2) -- ELP

Of course, the choice is yours.

 

Mnemosyne wrote: IF there's a romantic intent, try some Porcupine Tree... Something like "...it's so erotic when your make-up runs" should work...

Always worked for me (glances down)...

The concensus seems to be to "ease" the listener into prog with more mainstreamy stuff, then get more complex as they get used to it...good call.

Although, funny enough, one album that always gets raves from my non-prog friends is Anekdoten's Vemod...go figure.


Edited by Nipsey88

Symphonic Prog: Album openers are usually easy to aquire, even though some of them are pretty weird. Here's some suggestions from me!

• Yes - Close To The Edge
• Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Endless Enigma
• Gentle Giant - The Runaway
• Genesis - Watcher Of The Skies
• King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
• Steve Hackett - Ace Of Wands
• Pink Floyd - Shine On Your Crazy Diamond 1
• Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer

Progressive Metal: Im pretty sure that if he like's a couple of the following track's, he'll love the other prog-metal bands too!

• Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle & The Sleeper
• Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
• Dream Theater - New Millenium
• Symphony X - The Accolade
• Symphony X - Through The Looking Glass
• Symphony X - Egypt
• Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine

Jazz-Rock/Fusion: Frank Zappa and Brand X should do the job!

• Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
• Frank Zappa - Zoot Alures
• Frank Zappa - Keep It Greasey
• Brand X - Nuclear Burn
• Brand X - Why Shold I Lend You Mine
• Brand X - Black Moon
• Gong - Expresso
• Gong - Chandra
• Soft Machine - Teeth

Prog-Folk: Jethro Tull!!!

• Jethro Tull - A Passion Play part 1
• Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick part 1

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Add some of those tracks to your current track list, and im sure he will find out what he will like.

Good luck!

Selling England did the trick a couple of time for my friends.

Dieu

Univers Zero's Heresie or Devil Dol's Dies Irie would be purrrrfect introductions to prog.....

I doubt you can introduce him to Prog like that - I think the interest should be on his part.
For example, I have a good friend who is quite aware of Progressive and is always listening to when I talk about it, couple days ago he asked me on recommendations.
There is another friend of mine that knew of Dream Theater but never took them seriously, after some night talks he suddenly started listening to their CDs A LOT. Now he thinks Prog is the best thing ever, keeps talking about it and my friends keep saying 'Give him your CDs already!!!'.
That's also interest of his part.
Why do I think it is important? simply, in order to enter prog you need lots of patience and curiosity, and if that friend of yours isn't interested to he will abandon it after couple of minutes.

Also, I think you should give him complete albums, as a friend of mine one heard 'One Last Time', didn't find what's so interesting in DT until the moron heard the whole CD...

All in all, I'd suggest some easy prog metal stuff, like DT, Symphony X, Everygrey, Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime, especially), Liquid Tension Experiment
Prog Rock, well, I'll suggest  Camel's Snow Goose (I know I got into it in the first time), Moonmadness as well..
Yes - Close to the Edge..
King Crimson - ITCOCK, Red
IQ - Dark Matter
Marillion - Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood, Marbles, Seasons End
Genesis - Selling England...

That's it for now..




Edited by Suki

^ Hmm, I was actually thinking of a bottle of wine and a meal or a movie

Actually may I ask...is this a genuine, altruistic endeavour to try and educate and illuminate, or is there some romantic intent?

Because if there is, you may be barking up the wrong tree......

Jethro TUll- Songs from The Wood

King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man (this song started everything)

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the residents-Songs for the swinging larvae.

Magma the whole udu wudu album.

Van Der Graaf Generator-A plague of lighthouse keepers.

The Mars Volta-Cassandra gemmini

Gentle giant-Octopus

good grief we don't want to frighten her off