A favoured album from each PA category - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Iantumaros wrote:

It is rather an insurmountable challenge for me to select but a singular album from the realms of Canterbury Scene, Symphonic Prog, Eclectic Prog, Jazz-Rock/Fusion, RIO/Avant-Prog, or Progressive Electronic.

The same applies to me too. I could easily choose a hundred favourite albums from each prog sub-genre - apart from Avant Prog, obviously. Tongue

So I suggest going for the categories you least like. For instance, you did mention liking Samla Mammas Manna's Maltid, right? For the others you could choose alphabetically by band/artist and, say, the earliest release or the fourth. I find it so easy to come up with strategies that work for me. As long as others understand the methodology. Being creative with that to me could be a big part of the fun. And love to see your Zeuhl, Post-Rock, Exp./Post-Metal and Tech/Extreme Metal picks.

Edited by Logan - 22 hours 13 minutes ago at 05:23

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Logan wrote:

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Krautrock: Faust - So Far (1972)
Psychedelic/Space Rock: Far East Family Band - Parallel World (1976)
Symphonic Prog: Ange - Au-delà du délire (1974)
Zeuhl: Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I (1994)
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Hi,

Again ... nice addon list. And tough all the way ... I really am not a good one for choosing A over B and vice versa ... specially as I like them both equally. I tend to not send my thoughts and feelings into the area of a dichotomy, in the arts, as some of the things are so different and have touches that really show its talent and ability.

Krautrock: Faust - So Far (1972)

I remember getting this album, my first FAUST album, and the only thing I could take from it, was the very obvious goofing around with the sounds on a synth and on tape .. Guy Guden had done a lot of studio crazy stuff which he used in his own shows on stage (wrote and directed!) which kinda took the different, weird touch out of it all and brought it into the reality ... however, sound effect fooling around with starts, and BELONGS to, Spike Milligan and The Goons ... but I'm not sure many of us can get into the sound effects used at the time, on radio, to make a story come alive ... no one has EVER done it better than The Goons and later PDQ Bach that did it live on stage, unlike the studio heavy FAUST thing. There are some things in it that are recognizable, if you have an ear tuned to PDQ Bach (folks don't even realize that Peter Schikele is by very far one of the most progressive of folks, mainly because it is comedy ... and he does it live with local musicians) ... but many sound effects used there are heard with FAUST ... and the bicycle wheel, the tube in the air, and many of these sounds were all of a sudden in FAUST's album, different, and not as acoustic, of course. While, FAUST's use, for me, was more on the fun side of things, PDQ included it in a lot of his music and the far out interpretations of classical music that ... progressive folks don't usually seem to enjoy ... like humor can not be here at all ... FAUST was fun, but not very "artistic" in my book. And in that big K-rock special, seeing one of the guys just hitting a cement drum to get the sound as it turned ... kinda showed, right there, what FAUST was about right from the start.

Psychedelic/Space Rock: Far East Family Band - Parallel World (1976)

I got this, and we played it on Space Pirate Radio, just like we did a lot of Japanese things in those days, mainly because it was produced by Klaus Schulze ... and while a nice listen, it was OK in my book ... I never thought of it as Psychedelic since a lot of the touches in it were eastern music bits and pieces, to make it more "universal" and less westernized, and it was a good listen, but ... honestly? ... produced by KS, I thought that this was going to be a real TRIP ... and in many ways, it wasn't. Better considered as Space Rock, I suppose, but definitely not psychedelic at all ... unless we think of golks being ripped and stoned as such ... which is crazy ... by that time, even KS was clean and he had stated to his fan club that it interfered with his ability to control the music when played live and he would not remember which/what was being used and worked on.

Symphonic Prog: Ange - Au-delà du délire (1974)

If I had to choose one album that is for me, and truly special, this is the one ... and this band, all the way to TOME VI (their 6th album) ... was fantastic and had all the wonderful features of a true actor singing it ... not (like Meatloaf said was an actor that could sing!!!) ... and the emotions and touches the band worked on right from the start were incredible and continued for at least 15 to 20 more years. The version of these recently done by the brother that was the main keyboard player (not the singer) ... is still really good, but it's really hard to let go of that earlier touch ... and I wish someone would remix and remaster that ... though I seriously doubt they can improve anything ... the touches that we think someone would come up with, were already there by the beauty of the work and its interpretation, and I don't think that mechanics in the studio can improve the real thing!

Zeuhl: Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I (1994)

Of all the bands in the 1999 Festival in SF, this band, and Buckethead, were the two that didn't do it for me ... I'm not sure why, and have to go back and listen to their material in the 1990's to get a better idea, but it was actually a nice performance, if not way too much guitar centered, when in terms of Zeuhl and its work, it is less on an instrument and more on the totality of the work ... something is amiss here, that I need to revisit one day. I never thought of it as Zeuhl on that day, as I was too busy being the photographer for the event.

Edited by moshkito - 19 hours 25 minutes ago at 08:11

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Ooh this is a fun idea

- Canterbury Scene: National Health - National Health (1977)
- Crossover Prog: Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling (1979)
- Eclectic Prog: Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory (1974)
- Experimental/Post Metal: Uboa - The Origin Of My Depression (2019)
- Heavy Prog: The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute (2005)
- Indo-Prog/Raga Rock: Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band (1970)
- Jazz Rock/Fusion: Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior (1976)
- Krautrock: Can - Tago Mago (1971)
- Post-Rock/Math Rock: Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling (2016)
- Prog Folk: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (1972)
- Progressive Electronic: Tangerine Dream - Zeit (1972)
- Progressive Metal: Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (1998)
- Psychedelic/Space Rock: Kairon;IRSE! - Polysomn (2020)
- RIO/Avant-Prog: The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat (1969)
- Rock Progressivo Italiano: Area - Maledetti (Maudits) (1976)
- Symphonic Prog: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (1973)
- Tech/Extreme Prog Metal: Mastodon - Crack The Skye (2009)
- Zeuhl: Magma - Kobaïa (1970)
- Prog Related: David Bowie - Low (1977)
- Proto-Prog: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Edited by Mirakaze - 15 hours 13 minutes ago at 12:23

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^^ Thanks Mira. It's fun for me to share and see people lists.

From your list I especially dig National Health, The Origin of My Depression, Third Ear Band, Tago Mago, Zeit, Maledetti, Kobaïa, Low and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Anfd have really liked The Power and the Glory, Frances The Mute, and Uncle Meat too. I should give that Mastodon another spin sometime. I used to like it, then I didn't, so much depends on mood. A Uboa album would have been my first pick for Experimental/Post Metal. I knew she'd been added a while ago but I had not guessed that category. Impossible Light is one of my top albums of this year. And I'm a fan of otay:onii (love her album Míng Míng) who features on the album. Rather wish we had a category dedicated to certain experimental industrial, noise, darkwave and ambient forms (but am not really pushing for it). :)

^ And thanks someone_else (will edit in my faves of your list later).

Edited by Logan - 11 hours 39 minutes ago at 15:57

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