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progbethyname 
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 Posted: July 10 2013 at 22:29 |
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I Find that Rainbow's RISING album is pretty adventurous. Also. I feel that the song stargazer actually started the hard movement. ;)
It's a facinating album.
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BaldJean
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Posted: July 12 2013 at 11:03 |
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High Tide - Sea Shanties, no-one was as heavy as that and at the same time complex back then.
Frank Zappa - 200 Motels. absolutely weird.
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill. if you have heard it no explanation is necessary
Between - Hesse between Music. to combine literature and music like this was really pushing the envelope
Eberhard Schoener - Bali-Agung. to combine Balinese gamelan music with jazz and rock elements was really daring
United Jazz and Rock Ensemble - all albums, but especially the first one for the novelty. to get some of the leading European jazz and jazz-rock musicians (Albert Mangelsdorff, Charlie Mariano, Barbara Thompson, Ian Carr, Wolfgang Dauner, Eberhard Weber, Ack van Royen, Jon Hiseman, Volker Kriegel and, from the third album on, Kenny Wheeler) to play in a group and then have the album distributed on a new label (Mood Records) whose albums were available from only ONE SHOP worldwide (2001 in Frankfurt) was extremely daring. ok, you could mail-order them, and they opened shops in Cologne and Hamburg too in latter years, but nevertheless
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Memory Cube
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Posted: July 20 2013 at 16:15 |
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I definitely have to start with Gong's "Angel's Egg". The whole Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy is adventurous, though "Angel's Egg", to me, feels like it's taking your mind into a journey through a surreal cartoon world.
After Crying's "De Profundis". A great album and one of the few albums that I feel I can't listen to without listening to it all the way through.
Another would have to be "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" by Genesis. It's one of the few concept albums that pulled me in the first time I heard it.
Eddie Jobson's "The Green Album", one of my favorite albums ever, is also one of the most adventurous albums I've ever heard.
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Todd7
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Posted: August 04 2013 at 23:06 |
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1. Rush-Caress of Steel
2. King Crimson-Starless and Bible Black
3. King Crimson-Larks' Tongues in Aspic
4. Rush-2112
5. Yes-Tales from Topographic Oceans
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Xonty
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Posted: August 29 2013 at 16:38 |
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In their respective times (roughly in chronological order):
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Sgt Pepper - The Beatles
In The Court... - King Crimson
Shine On Brightly - Procol Harum
Ars Longa Vita Brevis - The Nice
Foxtrot - Genesis
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes
A Night At The Opera - Queen
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silverpot
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Posted: August 30 2013 at 12:59 |
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Hm, there are a few of your suggestions above that I can''t see how they were "adventurous". Especially Dark Side of the Moon. I think the fact that it was NOT one bit far out made it the success it became. As far as I remember, everybody in my circle of friends loved it, despite of difference in musical taste.
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Xonty
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Posted: August 30 2013 at 14:49 |
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For its time, In The Court Of The Crimson King. Others include Pink Floyd's '67 debut (Piper At The Gates) and The Soft Machine. I suppose if the Wilde Flowers released an album it would probably have been quite adventurous hearing their songs. For 1962-64, they're quite sophisticated...
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: August 30 2013 at 23:37 |
 silverpot wrote:
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Hm, there are a few of your suggestions above that I can''t see how they were "adventurous". Especially Dark Side of the Moon. I think the fact that it was NOT one bit far out made it the success it became. As far as I remember, everybody in my circle of friends loved it, despite of difference in musical taste.
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I'm not a huge fan of Dark Side of the Moon, but I think it was adventurous in many ways. Rewind the clock to 1973 and consider this. First, it's use of barely audible voices/laughter on many tracks like Brain Damage. Second in the cash register/alarm clock sounds incorporated into Money & Time - today "found sounds" are commonly used but there were no samplers in '73. Third, the VCS3 synth arpeggios of On the Run which caused a huge uproar among music critics who accused PF of letting machines write their songs...and fourth the brilliant ending Eclipse which isn't so much a stand alone song as a summary of all that came before.
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progbethyname
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Posted: September 03 2013 at 02:29 |
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I know this artist has been brought up here of course, but i just want to say that I think AYREON is really one of the great masters of adventurous prog albums period. I mean even the presentation of his albums are deeply adventurous. Love the album artwork of 001101101, the Human Equation and The electric Castle. Doesnt get much better than that. ;)
My vote goes to AYREON for being the most adventurous prog artist of today.
I look forward to his new album coming out soon and he'll be working once again with all new muscians that he has not worked with before. Talk about keeping it fresh. ;)
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deafmoon
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Posted: September 07 2013 at 19:58 |
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Adventure in Music died when Frank Zappa passed. Anything since then is contrived.
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Polymorphia
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Posted: September 07 2013 at 20:23 |
HolyMoly wrote:
First, I'll define how I interpret "most adventurous". To me, it means
albums that employed the most unusual (at the time) musical sounds or
recording methods -- albums that achieved a sound that hadn't really
been heard before.
with that as my definition, I submit these:
Magma
- MDK. Just completely different. Up-front choral voices, choppy
rhythms, pianos and horns, even their weird first 2 albums didn't
prepare anyone for this.
Can - Tago Mago. The most adventurous
thing about this was not the repetitive rhythm grooves, nor Damo's
crazed yowling, but the way the album itself was created. Can recording
sessions often took the form of jams, but the songs and the album as a
whole are expertly pieced together from hours upon hours of jams,
creating these strange collage like pieces that still manage to feel
organic and elemental.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. Maybe
too obvious, but just think about what that album accomplished from a
sounds and recording standpoint. It's music taken into a new dimension, a drastic widening of the sonic palate. Alan Parsons (engineer) nearly repeated the success a couple of years later with his own I Robot.
Kayo
Dot - Choirs of the Eye. Maybe the most adventurous album of the past
ten years. It took me a few years to like it. It's the first album I'm
aware of to combine chamber music with roaring metal drama, in a way
that doesn't come off forced, and doesn't sound like either a metal album or a chamber album, yet sounds like both  (wut?); rather, it's like a strange nightmare
that's been perfectly reconstructed in the real world. It's beautiful
and ugly in equal doses.
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I couldn't agree more with this list. Okay, besides Choirs of the Eye being the most adventurous album of the last ten years. In fact, the mix of black metal and chamber seemed very natural to me, associating post-rock with chamber music and black metal with post-rock. I even dismissed it at first, not perceiving the subtlety with which the album was created. I might add OK Computer and Kid A, if one could consider those prog. In the non-prog realm, Silver Apples' debut, all of My Bloody Valentine's albums, and Scott Walker's most recent albums are all safe bets for "most adventurous albums."
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: May 15 2014 at 16:22 |
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I changed the title from most adventurous prog album to what it is now. I just realised that a lot of the albums I've mentioned aren't what I would call 'prog' even if believe it deserves to be here.
Anyway, I think Ummagumma deserves a mention. I really love that thing, as bunkers as it gets.
That, Tim Buckley - Starsailor and Popol Vuh's In den Gärten Pharaohs. Waouzaaaa!!! "Did they just do that?" You better believe it!
Edited by Guldbamsen - May 15 2014 at 16:26
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