Favorite Band from Each Prog Sub Genre

Wow! This is GREAT!!  You always come up with the best polls. I'll have to get back to you with my answers because I'm still putting together my favourite YES album and I'm listening to "The Tales of Topographic Oceans" right now to find my favourite song on the album.

I've only been here six weeks, so even if a list of favourite artists in each Prog-related genre has been done before, it's good to see a new one, because all of the previous favourite artists lists passed me by long before I arrived here. It might be a good time for me to travel back in time and take a look at some of the older favourites lists to see what I've missed out on.  

^ yea, There are several that I haven't really checked out much. I was going to put PFM for Italian  but they are really the only band I know.  They have RIO listed with Avant. The rest I don''t really know. I gotta get out more. 

For this list, I decided to choose favourite albums rather than favourite bands because I feel that this a better representation. Also, although each subgenre is represented, a number of subgenre are represented by only a single album, which are listed even though they can hardly be regarded as a "favourite".

Canterbury Scene: Hatfield and the North (Hatfield and the North)
Crossover Prog: Crime of the Century (Supertramp)
Eclectic Prog: Pawn Hearts (Van der Graaf Generator)
Experimental/Post Metal: Part the Second (Maudlin of the Well)
Heavy Prog: Spidermilk (The Mercury Tree)
Indo-Prog/Raga Rock: Mixtus Orbis (Andre Fertier's Clivage)
Jazz Rock/Fusion: Between Nothingness and Eternity (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Krautrock: Faust IV (Faust)
Neo-Prog: Posthumous Silence (Sylvan)
Post Rock/Math Rock: For Long Tomorrow (Toe)
Prog Folk: Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)
Progressive Electronic: Rubycon (Tangerine Dream)
Progressive Metal: Anno Domini High Definition (Riverside)
Psychedelic/Space Rock: Journey to the Centre of the Eye (Nektar)
RIO/Avant-Prog: Szobel (Hermann Szobel)
Rock Progressivo Italiano: Musica & Parole (Libra)
Symphonic Prog: Close to the Edge (Yes)
Tech/Extreme Prog Metal: Crack the Skye (Mastodon)
Zeuhl: Eros (Dün)
Various Genres/Artists: Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974
Prog Related: Master of Reality (Black Sabbath)
Proto-Prog: Made in Japan (Deep Purple)

 

 

 

Edited by I prophesy disaster - October 25 2019 at 01:06

I like the idea of albums as it gives a better representation of ones tastes (and might help in discussion and for discovering new-to-us albums).

This really has to be my long post in a while since I've fallen behind on work (I work on my computer from home mostly and am a big procrastinator and not always the best with time management, but posting here kind of helps to get my brain firing on all one cylinder).

Canterbury Scene: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)
Crossover Prog: David Axelrod - Song of Innocence (1968)
Eclectic Prog: Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches (1972)
Experimental/Post Metal: Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map (2001)
Heavy Prog: Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (1970)
Indo-Prog/Raga Rock: Clivage - Mixtus Orbis (1978)
Jazz Rock/Fusion: Herbie Hancock - Crossings (1972)
Krautrock: Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley (1972)
Neo-Prog: Marc Ceccotti - Sometimes Around Saturn (2008)
Post Rock/Math Rock: Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
Prog Folk: Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer [archival, recorded in 1973]
Progressive Electronic: Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati (1977)
Progressive Metal: Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom (2006)
Psychedelic/Space Rock: J.A. Ceasar - Kokkyo Junreika (1973)
Rock in Oppostion: Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur (1980)
Avant-Prog: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai (1976)
Rock Progressivo Italiano: Area - Caution Radiation Area (1974)*
Symphonic Prog: Clearlight Symphony (1975)**
Tech/Extreme Prog Metal: Voivod - Nothingface (1989)
Zeuhl: Magma - Magma [aka Kobaïa] (1970)
Various Genres/Artists: Mort Garson - The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds (1967)
Prog Related: John Cale & Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax (1971)
Proto-Prog: The United States of America - The United States of America (1968)

Of course I could have gone with various other choices, but I'm happy with my list.

* That Area album isn't really RPI despite the band being in RPI, it's avant- prog/ jazz-rock. My Neo-Prog album is more space-rock than Neo-Prog, but I'm not going for most representative in my list. ** While I love Clearlight Symphony, were William Sheller's Lux Aeterna included in PA, that would be my pick.

Edited by Logan - October 25 2019 at 11:42

I wont be able to give an answer for every sub genre, but here goes with what i can

Arrg very tought to pick only one!!! 

Nice idea for a thread, i will come up with a list soon, not an easy task for a few subgenres, tough choice.