TOP 50 70’s English Prog
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Topic: TOP 50 70’s English Prog
Posted By: DallasBryan
Subject: TOP 50 70’s English Prog
Date Posted: May 07 2005 at 20:36
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top 70's progressive rock from England
Daevid Allen - Good Morning Audience - The House on the Hill Brand X - Morrocan Roll Camel - Snow Goose Caravan - In the Land of Pink and Grey Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado Emerson, Lake & Palmer - same - Tarkus - Brain Salad Surgery Brian Eno - Another Green World Genesis - Foxtrot -&nb sp; Selling England by the Pound -&nb sp; The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway -&nb sp; Trick of the Tale Gentle Giant - Octopus - Free Hand Gong - You Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three Hatfield & the North - Rotter's Club Jethro Tull - Aqualung - Thick as a Brick - A Passion Play Khan - Space Shanty King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - Lark Tongues in Aspic - Red Kingdom Come - Journey the Moody Blues - To Our Childrens, Childrens.. - Question of Balance National Health - same Nektar - Recycled Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Wish You Were Here - Animals - The Wall Renaissance - Turn of the Cards Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure Soft Machine - Third the Strawbs - Hero and Heroine Supertramp - Breakfast in America Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys UK - same Van der Graff Generator - Still Life Gary Wright - Dream Weaver Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Yes - Close to the Edge - Fragile - Relayer |
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 07 2005 at 22:57
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Take out Henry Cow and it's not a bad list god.....I hate Henry Cow. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vegetableman
Date Posted: May 07 2005 at 23:34
Henry Cow hates you.  ------------- "Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?" "Progressive.... yeah, that's it..." |
NetsNJFan wrote:Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 07 2005 at 23:42
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It seems like Henry Cow hates the world. Why else would they make that god-awful noise posing as music? -------------
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 04:14
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Not a bad list ,and does include most of my favourites except for: ELP -Pictures at an Exhibition UK - Danger Money Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Otherwise |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 07:10
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Tut tut! |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 07:17
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replace Henry Cow with ? Peter Hammill(In
Camera)? Egg(The Polite Force)? Rick Wakeman(Six Wives of Henry VIII)? Steve Hackett(Voyage of the Acolyte)? Barclay James Harvest(Everyone is Everybody Else)? Colosseum 2(Electric Savage)? Gnidrolog(Lady Lake)? Greenslade(same)? Gracious(!)? 
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 09:46
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imo another green world has nothing to do here ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 13:27
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Queen - II ELP - Trilogy (not certain about the year tough) ------------- We want... a shrubbery! |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 14:47
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I'd venture that Pawn Hearts is superior to Still Life, and obviously
the absence of more than one Gentle Giant record is a bit of a shame if
you ask me, it's not a bad list you've got there. I'm even willing to leave all the pop posers (ELO, Supertramp, Alan Parsons) uncontested because you've given Canterbury a fair crack of the whip, despite all your moaning! And Nets - Nobody's asking you to like Henry Cow. Though obviously you're missing out. |
Posted By: Entropia
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 16:32
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you missed about 7 gentle giant records~!!!
100th post...woot!!! haha |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 22:48
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swapped out Henry Cow for Gentle Giant's Free
Hand! |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 22:52
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It seems to me that DB likes jazzy stuff(hence his love of Steely Dan)...with that said...Still Life is a perfectly understandable choice from him. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 00:42
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I'll stick to MUSIC thank you -------------
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Posted By: scouser14
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 01:50
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Great to see someone putting Daevid Allen's brillian 'Good Morning' and Gong's fantastic 'You' in a "best of" list - they're always overlooked and to me, are two of the all time great albums. I'd prefer BJH's Octoberon to EIEE, but each to their own! p.s. new here - first ever post - great site!
------------- I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:08
An Australian living in France! Prevented from entering England by British immigration authorities after the Softs first European tour. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 18:29
So, a group of people using instruments and devices to create sounds arranged into definable rhythms, harmonies and so on doesn't constitute music? 'Cause that's what Henry Cow did. Oh and gdub - I like me jazzy stuff too! |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 09 2005 at 19:34
Henry Cow is pretentious noise. -------------
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 03:16
Look, you keep spouting this silly opinion as if it's fact and it's getting pretty tiresome. Have you actually given them a fair chance? Get hold of Unrest and listen to it properly three or four times. It might sink in then. You've got to remember that you're not just writing off a band but a whole GENRE of music here! I'm not trying to be cleverer-than-thou or appear more "enlightened" because I listen to Henry Cow - it's just satisfying music that you've not given a chance. It's challenging, it's bizarre, it won't become clear to you instantly but that doesn't mean it isn't f***ing music! Now grow up and start gaining a little respect for other people's taste. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 19:59
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yo trousersplit, thats a typical response to the Cow!
You cant blame someone for thinking its overly complex noise, thats the whole problem with avant garde! many dont want the abuse of the independantly soloing musicians. I also find that only rarely do these musicians hit a stride or groove during their noodlings and may only be appreciated by musicians or those who find joy in chaos. I do agree that one would have to listen to 8-10 avant classics several times to see if their is anything there for them. I have always complained its quality over quanity or feel over speed. Cow should be credited for helping to establish a whole subgenre of worthless noise! They should also be credited for bringing a measuring stick to much music requiring complexity and diversity. They are an extreme or fringe element. Trouser have you ever heard Pat Metheny's Song X CD? If you are a Cowist I think you would derive pleasure from this recording! |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 20:24
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I like Henry Cow, the music is sometimes hard to get into, but once
you've gone past the initial feeling of dislocation of harmonies,
you'll get to that apreciation of the underlying harmonies and
textures, that aren't immediatly perceived. Anyway I like it  ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: lpd42
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 11:35
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great list. I personally would replace Henry Cow with anything by the Art
Bears. Which brings up an interesting question : If Henry Cow are prog, and art bears (a henry cow\slapp happy conglomerate) are prog, doesn't that make Yoko Ono (Plastic ono band\Fly era) prog? She charted similar territory as the art bears, in terms of vocalisation. Some tracks like "Mindtrain" and most of the plastic ono band album have a krautrock vibe. Anyway, I've only heard Unrest by HC, but I thought it was a pretty good album. Anything with mike oldfield can't be THAT bad. (Tubular bells and Five miles out are his best lps IMHO.) "Breakfast in America" is one of my guilty pleasures. I'm suprised it was the biggest selling album of '79 (the year I was born) considering how strange it is for a "pop" album. ------------- Blarg! My cheese has bones! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 07:00
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Camel's Mirage and debut should be there, IMO - especially Mirage. ELO's Eldorado, while progressive, is NOT a prog rock album! Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" only just makes it to the 1970s - and isn't really a prog album. I'm puzzled as to why you would choose that over the more obviously prog "Crime of the Century" or "Even in the Quietest Moments". I would also replace "The Wall" with "Meddle" and "Still Life" with "Godbluff" or "Pawn Hearts". I'd also squeeze in Hammill's "Silent Corner, Empty Stage", "Fools Mate" or "In Camera" - all excellent albums. |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 12:31
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I'd go along with Cert on the Supertramp thing. I think
if you're putting in Breakfast in America then you have to add Crime of the Century - they are the two most 'complete' albums they made and, for me, are as creatively rich and on fire as each other, Crisis and Quietest don't quite hit the same level of sustained quality. |
Posted By: Bellringer
Date Posted: May 18 2005 at 20:05
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Now, now, now, Nets is entitled to like or dislike anything in prog. After all, I like Ron Geesin and there are plenty who would probably call me weird. All prog is definately not for all tastes. Each to his own. ------------- Psalm 69:6 |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: May 19 2005 at 12:16
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also don't forget the legendary Atomic Rooster with their crazy but impressive keyboardist Vincent Crane Live and raw is an absolute must
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Posted By: Dan Yaron
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 07:22
| Regarding Henry Cow's music. Actually, I don't like it either, but because it's not avant garde enough since I had listened to avant garde jazz like the late stuff by coltrane, the stuff from the sixties to now by cecil taylor, and almost everything by albert ayler and so on. I still love this noisey avatgarde jazz that is hated by 98% of the people that I know. Therefore, when it comes to Progressive Rock I prefer the symphonic stuff =) They have nothing to do with my other likings =) |
Posted By: Sir Realist
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 23:07
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One problem with assessing the '70s is that a lot of
excellent live material was released much later. Like the BBC and Peel Sessions stuff. Does that count? ------------- I can have double standards, and you can't |