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Magma - MDK - Zeuhl
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery - Symphonic
King Crimson - In the Court - Eclectic
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire - JR/F
Rush - Hemispheres - Heavy
Phideaux - Chupacabras - Crossover
maudlin of the Well - Part the Second - Experimental/Post Metal
Dream Theater - Octavarium - Prog Metal
Neu! - Neu! - Krautrock
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Originally posted by TheGazzardian TheGazzardian wrote:

Space Rock: Gong's Flying Teapot perhaps?


I'd pick Pink Floyd's Live In Pompeii, it's got the psychedelia and the space. But I never met anyone with a certain degree of musical knowledge unaware of psychedelic rock/prog.
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Raga rock: Raga - Seventh Sons.
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Neo-Prog - either IQ's The Wake or Pendragon's The Masquerade Overture
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Space Rock: Gong's Flying Teapot perhaps?
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Prog Folk: Comus: First Utterance or Jethro Tull: Songs From The Wood
Symphonic Prog: Camel: The Snow Goose
Eclectic Prog: Gentle Giant: Octopus
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I think I would choose Deep purple self titled album to represent heavy prog or Rush's 2112.
For RIO I would go for Henry cow's "In praise of learning" and for Canterbury Matching mole's "Little red record".
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I believe In the Court of the Crimson King to be  the defining album for Eclectic Prog. Five tracks, each one different from the other... How more eclectic can you get? As regards Crossover, I think Supertramp's Crime of the Century may fit the bill. For Heavy Prog things get a little bit more complicated, because you have so many different strains within a single subgenre. However, I would be inclined to choose Atomic Rooster's Death Walks Behind You.
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How I would introduce people to


Zeuhl: Magma's KA
Post  Rock: GY!BE's Moya EP
Math Rock: Don Caballero's 2
Fusion: Miles' Bitchess Brew
Extreme Prog Metal: one of Opeth's albums
Experimental/Avantgarde Metal: Kayo Dot's Choirs Of The Eye
Post Metal: Isis' Wavering Radiant
Krautrock: Amon Duul II's Tanz Der Lemminge

I wouldn't try to "define" the Art Rock subgenres because eclecticism is their first feature. RIO/Avant is also too diverse and eclectic to do it justice with just one album.
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Interesting. As much as some people would disagree I think that I would say that DT's Images and Words defines prog metal and BTBAM's Colors defines Extreme/tech Prog Metal.
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If somebody asked you to define one of the prog sub-genres, and the only thing you could do to answer them was to give them one album to listen to, what album would you give them? In other words, what albums define the sub-genre that they belong to? In my opinion, Magma's MDK defines Zeuhl, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven defines post-rock.
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