Favorite Proto-Prog Album

dr wu23 wrote: Well ...the PA 'guys' consider The Moody Blues and Procol to be crossover/prog rock and not proto prog per se....but those are certainly 2 early bands with an early prog sound...and I might have chose In Search Of The Lost Chord which we played the crap out of also in college.

Moody Blues was proto prog in the 60's but became crossover prog in the 70's.

Dean wrote: Knobby wrote: "multi-tagging", "pidgeonholing","categories and classifications."   You two gentlemen have not had the decency to READ my words. I am not asking for a protoprog cubby AT ALL on this forum, like you deem it I am.   I repeat: protoprog is just a dealer term to link certain bands to a distinguishable sound. It is NOT A GENRE which need coverage or pidgeonholing here.   Sheesh!  How many more times I gotta pound this in your heads. You just do not want to listen. You want to argue.       I call raging bigotry against the Masterman! You should do the right thing and give  a Masterman's words the regard they  necessitate.   Have an open mind.   Not  "tl;dr".     ... And its not "psychE-pop", it is "popsike"!!   Proto Prog is not a genre here, nor is it a stylistic category and I don't have a dealer or much interest in them to worry about what they call things. Here it's a place we put bands that weren't quite Prog (by some undefined subjective measure that no one can articulate but they know it when they hear it), bands that didn't quite fit comfortably in the main database but we felt deserved a mention for, well, being there at the beginning I guess and for influencing those who would later produce Progressive Rock albums in the two or three years following their release. We unofficially have a cut-off date of 1969, purely arbitrarily of course and completely meaningless, but you've got to draw a line somewhere and there is as good as any,even if we do break that unofficial cut-off when we feel like it. Many of the bands at that time who also made albums that pedants would call proto-prog went on to be part of the Progressive Rock scene and make albums that are called Progressive Rock albums (somewhere, not necessarily just here), which is why we list those bands in different subgenres or categories or pigeonholes (as I said, if you fret over that too much then, umm, there are better things to fret over). At worse you'd call them transitional, but that would be unfair and inaccurate (Love Sculpture or The Beatles were never transitional, but they were never Prog or Proto-Prog either; The Parlour Band were transitional, they just didn't transition into Prog that's all, they became A Band Called "O" instead).   If we've purloined a terminology that you feel applies to something completely different, then such is life, the world will end shortly and everything will be fine after that.     Odd though, I don't recall abrieviating psychedelic (pop) to psych-with-an-E pop but thanks for the tip, but that does sound like a dealer term to me. [edit: ah, I see I that did in a different post, my error, I stand corrected]

Another great posting Dean  very telling, thanks

The Dark Elf wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Love HP Lovecraft....always thought of them as psych rock, but they could certainly fit in with 'proto-prog'..   .oh...wait a minute, they aren't on Mr Knobby's list....sorry. Well, there are certainly prog elements amidst the detritus of psychedelia. Maybe we can call it psych-proto-prog and conduct a letter writing campaign to get it put on Mr. Knobby's pretentious list.

Oh, come on, show some LOVE FGS!

The Dark Elf wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Love HP Lovecraft....always thought of them as psych rock, but they could certainly fit in with 'proto-prog'..   .oh...wait a minute, they aren't on Mr Knobby's list....sorry. Well, there are certainly prog elements amidst the detritus of psychedelia. Maybe we can call it psych-proto-prog and conduct a letter writing campaign to get it put on Mr. Knobby's pretentious list.

No, we cannot call it psych-proto-prog" - think before you post, please

Edited by earlyprog - June 25 2013 at 18:22

Barbu wrote: Proto-Prog is the reason why i created a profile here in the first place.

Snow Dog wrote: thellama73 wrote: Knobby wrote: This must be the 5th time I be reiterating this in this thread alone: PROTO IS NOT A GENRE. PROTO IS NOT A GENRE. PROTO-PROG IS NOT A GENRE!   What...just what is THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE? Proto Prog is maybe my favorite genre on the site,

Why is this ?

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Knobby wrote: Shame on you,earlyprog-guy.     Denmark & Belgium were hotbeds of the protoprog of my (and others) defining.   You would think that yourself being Danish would know better. If you really know the rock  '69-'72s lps of your country then you would be familiar with the "sound" of which I speak. And you would side with me.   but yet you do not.

Afmittenltly, I do not know of the rock '69+' of my country (Denmark) (I''m too young?). ´¨I''m, reaching out a hand to you because I feel you´ve got someting to add to this site - I'm not an emeny)

earlyprog wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Love HP Lovecraft....always thought of them as psych rock, but they could certainly fit in with 'proto-prog'..   .oh...wait a minute, they aren't on Mr Knobby's list....sorry. Well, there are certainly prog elements amidst the detritus of psychedelia. Maybe we can call it psych-proto-prog and conduct a letter writing campaign to get it put on Mr. Knobby's pretentious list. No, we cannot call it psych-proto-prog" - think before you post, please

I did think before I posted, thanks. And I can damn well call it proto-primal-psycho-psilocybinated-prog if I wish.

But I was being entirely facetious, reflecting the inanity which, sadly, has accreted on this thread like carbuncles on the side of a listing ship.

Eeew - carbuncles..?