What’s the best intro to prog?
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog Recommendations/Featured albums
Forum Description: Make or seek recommendations and discuss specific prog albums
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12569
Printed Date: March 05 2025 at 21:25
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: What’s the best intro to prog?
Posted By: -bp-
Subject: What’s the best intro to prog?
Date Posted: October 04 2005 at 21:12
If this has been done before (I tried the search but couldnt find anything) give me the link But anyways, what's the best way to introduce a friend to progressive music? Nobody I know likes prog so I need a few converts  What artists/albums/songs etc. would you recommend? ------------- 
|
Replies:
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 04 2005 at 21:15
Close To The Edge, SEBTP, Octopus, SFAM, Dark Side usually do the trick ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: -bp-
Date Posted: October 04 2005 at 21:32
I'm thinking that Octopus might scare them away...I have to admit, it scared me the first time i heard it (but now it's one of my favs)
-------------
|
Posted By: fender101
Date Posted: October 04 2005 at 23:24
Floyd is really lite prog so thats a good start. The best way to introduce people to prog is however with a J in hand . They will never go back!!!!------------- Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 03:39
|
Pink Floyd, and a selection of mid period Genesis tracks.. Be careful to point out - with nerdy commentary - all the 'really good bits' as they come up in the music. Explain the concept of odd time signatures and state that anyone who doesn't like prog is a complete imbicile. Basically make them feel they will be regarded as more intelligent if they like prog. Tell them also they will be more attractive to women. By the time they work out that this is bullsh!t it will be too late and they'll be hooked..hopefully..
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 05:29
| I would suggest the more melodic prog like Camel, BJH, mid-Genesis, Supertramp and not prog like Close to the edge or Tarkus becasue of the complexity. In fact most people need a bridge to discover prog is my experience. Unfortunately my wife is scared of bridges..! |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 09:54
|
Say pick three albums to start? I'd have Dark Side of the Moon and
Selling England by the Pound. Much as I love Close to the Edge I'd see
their reaction to the other albums first. I'm tempted to recommend you play something more recent just to show its not all stuck in the 70's, Dream Theater I suppose or (bit more radical) Tool's Lateralus if they're into heavier music. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 09:59
|
Rush-moving picture IS RIGHT CHOICE IMO |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 10:03
|
The best way to introduce friends: Barclay James Harvest for melodic prog sound; Strawbs (From The Witchwood) or Jethro Tull (Minstrel In The Gallery or War Child) for folk-prog; Camel (Moonmadness or Snow Goose) for symphonic prog. Not to start with more complex sounds...agree with you Erik! P.S. success is guaranteed! My girlfriend now loves BJH, Strawbs and JT (she even came to the italian JT live show!!!). |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 14:19
|
Hello Andrea. So your girlfriend is not scared of bridges? |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 14:22
DT - for metal heads of course... then they become prog metals...!!! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
|
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 16:14
This is what NOT to do. But it usually ends up happening anyway.
|
Blacksword wrote:Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 16:43
No, she don't! P.S. but she's scared of aeroplanes! |
Posted By: ShW1
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 17:09
|
I started with PINK FLOYD - ANIMALS
also with SANTANA - i know its not considered prog, but it belongs to the same period and could easily lead to prog. |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 06:31
|
Camel
Genesis Pink Floyd will be good for the beginning - try but it's rather hopeless because I'm testing further step on my wife and daughter and it doesn't work  ------------- don't worry be happy |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 06:57
|
Fantomas-Delirium cordia ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Suki
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 07:06
|
Rush-moving picture as been suggested
Camel - their early stuff Yes - Close to the Edge.. (well, at least I know I liked it in the first time) King Crimson - In the court... Red.. DT Pink Floyd - Dark Side.. |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 07:39
|
well I can tell u that I love Dark Side from the first time I heard it
------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 14:04
I generally play people 'Awaken' by Yes as an intro, because many people seem to take to the track ...no wonder; it's superb!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Simkim
Date Posted: October 08 2005 at 00:47
| Soft Machine. No fear |
Posted By: gok22us
Date Posted: October 08 2005 at 09:55
|
Yes - Fragile or Yes - The Yes Album the albums aren't as progressive as Yes gets, but they really show a good deal of what prog is about. After listening to those two albums, i was inspired to delve into prog further and further. |
Posted By: Ofur
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 02:53
| The best intro to prog is easily In the Court of the Crimson King, if whom ever doesn't like it on some level then that person will never like prog. |
Posted By: Gabrielpenteado
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 03:03
|
Try Porcupine Tree - In Absentia if they´re into pop/heavy rock
Jethro Tull - Aqualung if they´re into classic rock Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory if they´re into Heavy Metal Karmakanic - Wheel Of Life if they´re into jazz Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon if they´re random music listeners |
Posted By: -bp-
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 04:12
|
Thanks for the great ideas, I'm trying to put together a sampler so far this is what I've got Porcupine Tree-Trains Yes-Heart of the Sunrise Yes-Close to the Edge (I dont like putting it in here without the rest of the album though) Camel-Lady Fantasy King Crimson-In the Court... Pink Floyd-SoYcD (1-5) (maybe a little much?) Radiohead-Paranoid Android The Mars Volta-Roulette Dares I tried to mix some recent stuff in with the classics...I need some help picking a Genesis, Gentle Giant, and JT track though... -------------
|
Posted By: The Ryan
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 05:03
|
There is no "best intro to prog." I was raised on Van Halen and Metallica. My introduction to prog was first Dream Theater at a very young age, then Rush, and soon after Yes and Pink Floyd. See how things change? If I would have grown up with jazz or perhaps classical music, I wouldn't have immediately enjoyed Dream Theater and Rush. |
Posted By: Gabrielpenteado
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 05:05
|
For Genesis, try get em out by friday, the knife or dancing with the moonlit knight (IT works fine too)
for Tull, Aqualung, the song or Locomotive Breath |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 16:47
|
Genesis - Trick Of The Tail, Watcher Of The Skies, Musical Box, Dancing With the Moonlit Knight, The Knife GG - Free Hand(the song), Experience, Raconteur Troubadour JT - Locomotive Breath, With You There To Help Me, Bouree, Heavy Horses(the song)
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 18:30
|
Isn't it obvious?... |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 18:34
I'd replace "In The Court..." with "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Roulette Dares" with "Drunkship Of Lanterns". But, that's just my taste. Good job, though.
|
Posted By: danger_riff
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 19:16
| Yes, Rush, Tony Levin, Mullmuzzler, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, Porcupine Tree - that's my favourite's |