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Gandalff
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Topic: Your favourite pre-The Court album(s)? Posted: August 19 2010 at 00:58 |
What´s your favourite album(s) recorded and/or issued before release of the King Crimson album: In The Court Of The Crimson King? (With any Prog scent if it´s possible, please.)
Edited by Gandalff - August 19 2010 at 02:11
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
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Na-chaered palan-díriel
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Fanuilos, le linnathon
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Anthony H.
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 01:19 |
Anything by The Beatles, especially The White Album.
Many other classic rock bands, as well.
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richardh
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 02:16 |
Love - Forever Changes (1968)
More on the acoustic/melodic side of music and not very prog but the songs are beautifulll and its an immaculate recording.
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Falx
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 02:24 |
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown in 1968. To quote PA: ARTHUR BROWN was one of the prime movers behind the Progressive
underground in late 1960s England, famous for his outlandish stage act
which included psychedelic robes and a helmet of fire!
Edited by Falx - August 19 2010 at 02:31
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 02:35 |
I'll stick to the PA database (but I won't limit myself to one)
Vanilla Fudge (debut and Renaissance)
Deep Purple (the first three)
The Nice (Emerlist)
Caravan (debut)
Soft Machine (Vol 2)
Procol Harum (debut and Brightly)
HP Locevraft (debut and II)
Collectrors (Love Is)
Miles (In A Silent Way)
.......; that should do.
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ten years after
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 04:37 |
Saucerful of Secrets - Floyd
Disraeli Gears - Cream
SF Sorrow - Pretty Things
Satanic Majesty - Stones
Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles
Disposable - Deviants
Bathing at Baxters - Jefferson Airplane
Emerlist Davjak - Nice
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 04:47 |
Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. I think it was pre Court, and no it's not prog but what a classic
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Alitare
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 05:52 |
I second Astral Weeks, boy howdy.
Astral Weeks
Strange Days
Procol Harum's Debut
Side one of Sgt Pepper.
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Lots and lots of Sinatra, specifically In the Wee Small Hours and For Only The Lonely
Lots of old Jazz stuffs
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension, and most stuff from The Byrds, The Kinks, and Mr. Morrison
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kole
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 05:57 |
Falx wrote:
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown in 1968. To quote PA: ARTHUR BROWN was one of the prime movers behind the Progressive
underground in late 1960s England, famous for his outlandish stage act
which included psychedelic robes and a helmet of fire! |
This.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 07:06 |
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Procol Harum's first albums
Love - Forever Changes
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Soft Machine - Volume 2
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thellama73
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 07:00 |
kole wrote:
Falx wrote:
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown in 1968. To quote PA: ARTHUR BROWN was one of the prime movers behind the Progressive
underground in late 1960s England, famous for his outlandish stage act
which included psychedelic robes and a helmet of fire! |
This.
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Also, The Kinks - Something Else The Kinks - Face To Face Capatain Beefheart - Safe as Milk Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile The Zombies - The Zombies Featuring She's Not There William Shatner - The Transformed Man (if this isn't prog, I don't know what is!)
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Gandalff
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 12:01 |
Abbey Road of The Beatles has nobody mentioned (except Anthony H., who mentioned all their albums).
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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himtroy
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 13:37 |
I don't know what to choose, but I'd say close to half of my frequently listened to music is before ITCOTCK.
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TheGrandWazoo123
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 14:47 |
Because jazz and prog are closely knit, I'll include them, here:
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Charles Mingus (1963) - A Love Supreme, John Coltrane (1965) - Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan (1966) ("Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is eleven minutes long) - Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys (1966) - Arthur, The Kinks (1969) (you know, it's a concept album)
I'd say those are some of the best.
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 15:58 |
I will also vote for all of The Beatles' stuff, along with some stuff from other British bands like The Who, The Stones, and The Kinks. I'll also mention The Beach Boys, and now I'm finally discovering a vast back-catalogue of jazz that I'm listening to more frequently. And then, if you really want to get technical, there's most classical music.
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crimhead
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 16:38 |
The Doors - Self titled,Strange Days Coltrane Mingus Miles
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ProgBob
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 19:04 |
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers Love - Forever Changes
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The Quiet One
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 21:11 |
Abbey Road - The Beatles
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Wheels of Fire - Cream
Santana - Santana
I - Led Zeppelin
Hot Rats - Zappa
CS&N - CS&N
Karma - Pharoah Sanders
In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
others...
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Soul Dreamer
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 21:56 |
The Doors, Strange Days - The Doors Santana - Santana Jimy Hendrix - Everything before '69 The Collectors - The Collectors Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou County, Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire - The Cream Moody Blues - everything before '69 (starting with Days of Future Past) and many others....
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jammun
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Posted: August 20 2010 at 23:29 |
Beatles, Zappa, the usual suspects. But two albums stand out, as really pointing the way to progressive rock:
Crazy World of Arthur Brown (especially Side 1)
Procol Harum's first
Those two albums laid a foundation that would be revisited time and time again. Sometimes the house was knocked off its foundations, but the foundations remained.
The 'Fire' suite that is Side 1 of CWOAB is one of the first side-long excursions into repetitive themes, almost cyclical. And then Procolly-speaking, there's that Bach solo in Repent Walpurgis. Mix it all up, give it a couple of years to ferment, and next thing ya know there's some prog around.
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