Now That's What I Call Prog 1967

Based on the Now That's What I Call Music series and inspired by GrumpyProgFan, here's your chance to put together your ideal prog compilation album for a particular year - starting with 1967 - not necessarily picking your favourite songs, but choosing 20 popular songs by 20 different artists that are most likely to appeal to a wider audience as well as songs that best represent that year in prog, and hopefully, it'll be a million-seller. Don't worry if you can't come up with the full 20 songs to make up a compilation though. You could always put your album out on a budget label instead, where it'll no doubt end up in a charity shop bargain bin. 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - February 09 2024 at 14:19

Gérard Manset - Animal On Est Mal
Family - The Chase
The Moody Blues - House of Four Doors (both parts)
Pink Floyd -  Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
The Pentangle - Pentangling
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trust Us
Caravan - Where But For Caravan Would I?
The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
Silver Apples - Seagreen Serenades
Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad of The) Hip Death Goddess
Jethro Tull - My Sunday Feeling
Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping?
The Beatles - The Inner Light
The Fourth Way - The Far Side of Your Moon
Ramases & Selket - Crazy One
Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East
Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
Pearls Before Swine - Guardian Angels


Edited by Saperlipopette! - February 09 2024 at 09:06

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

Edited by Octopus II - February 09 2024 at 09:22

Octopus II wrote: The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - Kites Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)

I just chose what I had as part of another list for that year. All of these albums that these tracks are off are at least on the Prog related spectrum to me. Alphabetically listed.

The Beatles "A Day in the Life" (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, 1967)
Tim Buckley "Phantasmagoria in Two" (Goodbye and Hello, 1967)
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band "Autumn's Child" (Safe as Milk, 1967)
Leonard Cohen "Suzanne" (Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967)
The Doors "The Crystal Ship" (The Doors, 1967)
Fifty Foot Hose "Fantasy" (Cauldron, 1967)
Mort Garson "Aquarius The Lover of Life" (The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds, 1967)
Hansson & Karlsson "Tax Free" (Monument, 1967)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience "3rd Stone From the Sun' (Are You Experienced, 1967)
Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit" (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967)
Pearls Before Swine "Ballad to an Amber Lady" (One Nation Underground, 1967)
Pink Floyd "Astronomy Domine' (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967)
The Velvet Underground & Nico "Venus in Furs" (s/t, 1967)

This is a really cool idea! Honestly, the hard part isn't picking out the songs but putting them in an order that would make sense as a properly paced track list if this were an actual compilation

1. Scott Walker - Mathilde
2. The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
3. H.P. Lovecraft - The White Ship
4. The Nice - Rondo
5. The Doors - Light My Fire
6. Procol Harum - Conquistador
7. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
8. Miles Davis - Dolores
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Wing
10. The Mothers Of Invention - Brown Shoes Don't Make It
11. The Beatles - Getting Better
12. The Who - I Can See For Miles
13. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
14. Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
15. The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin


Edited by Mirakaze - February 09 2024 at 13:56

Saperlipopette! wrote: Edit: maybe I misunderstood? Is this only for 1967?

mellotronwave wrote: What about Traffic : Dear Mr Fantasy ?

and Buffalo Springfield : Broken Arrow ?

Checking back my songs library