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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Interesting list. These kinds of bands are often referred to as proto prog(even though progarchives has a slightly different definition of what that is). Anyway, several years ago another prog website had a ranking of the top 100 (or so) albums that fall more or less into this category. Not all of these are from the UK though. Here is a non ranked, alphabetized version of that list:

2066 & Then - Reflections!
A-Austr Musics from Holy Ground
Abacus - s/t
Ache - De Homine Urbano
Ache - Green Man
Affinity - s/t
Aquila - s/t
Arc - At this
Arcadium - Breathe Awhile
Arzachel - s/t
Battered Ornaments - A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark
Battered Ornaments - Mantlepiece
Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Beggars Opera - Act One
Beggars Opera - Pathfinder
Beggars Opera - Waters of Change
Black Widow - Sacrifice
Bodkin - s/t
Bram Stoker - Heavy Rock Spectacular
Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - M144
Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - WWW
Catapilla - Changes
Catapilla - s/t
Cirkus - One
Colosseum - Daughter of Time
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
Comus - First Utteranace
Cressida - Asylum
Cressida - s/t
Culpepers Orchard - s/t
Czar - s/t
Dear Mr. Time -Grandfather
Diabolus - s/t
Earth & Fire-same
East of Eden - Mercator Projected
East of Eden - s/t
Egg - The Polite Force
Egg - s/t
Fairfield Parlour - From Home to Home
Family - Family Entertainment
Fantasy - Beyond the Beyond
Fantasy - Paint a Picture
Fields - s/t
Frumpy - Frumpy
Fuchsia - s/t
Fusion Orchestra - Skeleton in Armour
Fuzzy Duck - s/t
Galliard - New Dawn
Galliard - Strange Pleasure
Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Gracious - This is... Gracious!!
Gracious - s/t
Gravy Train - Ballad of a Peaceful Man
Gravy Train - Second Birth
Greenslade - s/t
Greenwood, Nicholas - Cold Cuts
High Tide - Sea Shanties
High Tide - s/t
Indian Summer - s/t
Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice & Rats in the Loft
Jody Grind - Far Canal
Jonesy - Growing
Julian Jay Savarin - Waiters on the Dance
Julian's Treatment - A Time Before This
Kestrel - s/t
Khan - Space Shanty
Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier
Kingdom Come - Journey
Krokodil - An Invisible World...
Locomotive - We Are Everything You See
Love Sculpture - Forms & Feelings
Manfred Mann's Chapter Three Vol. 1 & 2
Marsupilami - Arena
Marsupilami - s/t
Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs
Missing Link - Nevergreen!
Odin - s/t
Orange Peel - s/t
Out of Focus - Wake Up
Out of Focus - s/t
Pete Brown & Piblokto - Thousands on a Raft
Pete Brown & Piblokto - Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever
Parlour Band - Is a Friend?
Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly
Quatermass - s/t
Quicksand - Home is Where I belong
Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By
Rare Bird - s/t
Raw Material - Time is...
Room - Pre-Flight
Samurai - s/t
Sandrose - s/t
Second Hand - Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Skin Alley - s/t
Spring - s/t
Still Life - s/t
Subject Esq - s/t
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland
The Greatest Show on Earth - Horizons
Titus Groan - s/t
Tonton Macoute - s/t
Touch - s/t
Tractor - s/t
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Warm Dust - And It Came To Pass
Web - I Spider
Wind - Seasons

Another great list.....have most of those...love that old stuff., Thanks for mentioning Czar...great one not many know unless they like this early era..,,, very rare on vinyl.
no one mentioned Steamhammer yet...much like Gravy Train in style.
MKll is the best but they all are interesting.


Another one not mentioned..have it on cd....crazy price on old vinyl...




Edited by dr wu23 - December 17 2021 at 20:50
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

^ I never said they weren't. Lol.

I know, and you mention not all are uk, so just cleared the country for this group.
Excellent music by the way.
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Good to see Pete Brown & Piblokto - Thousands on a Raft and Pete Brown & Piblokto - Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever. 

Pete Brown was in another band called Battered Ornaments with master journeyman guitarist Chris Spedding.

Spedding was part of Nucleus for their first two albums.
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Originally posted by Hugh Manatee Hugh Manatee wrote:

Good to see Pete Brown & Piblokto - Thousands on a Raft and Pete Brown & Piblokto - Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever. 

Pete Brown was in another band called Battered Ornaments with master journeyman guitarist Chris Spedding.

Spedding was part of Nucleus for their first two albums.

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And I think it was a DG/Chris Spedding duet in Roy Harper's "Playing the Game Pts 1-5" ... that one was massive and far out!
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I am so glad someone mentioned Steamhammer. I love their second "MK II" from 1969 and "Mountains" from 1970. The addition of Steve Jolliffe to the lineup of the band made a huge impact on overall style of the second album. Very mature, ahead of its time album, released in 1969 but sounds like something from early 70s, with flutes, saxophone and harpsichord. I don't know why but I always liked the voice of Kieran White. It blends so nicely with the music, it's not in your face, not distracting or annoying like some other voices of lead vocalists in different bands (that I won't mention). Big smile 
But... Kieran's White solo album is very disappointing for a fan of progressive rock ("Open Door", 1975).


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I had many Steve Jolliffe albums over the years , but never heard Steamhammer. I must check them out!
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