The major groups in prog

This is strictly 60s and 70s BTW

I would say that any true prog fan should have at least one album from at least ten of the following bands, which I consider to be the main players.  Feel free to add and take away, but I can't see how any of these bands would be taken away.  Most of these bands continued for more than a decade and is part of the reason why some appear in the list.

Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Camel, Van Der Graaf Generator, Focus, Ash Ra tempel, ELP, Gentle Giant, Caravan, Jethro Tull, Eloy, Gong, Hawkwind, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, The Soft Machine, Steve Hillage, Mike Oldfield, Can, Nektar, Barclay James Harvest and Jade Warrior.

I have many cds by all of those bands above and although I d/l from hundreds more, I need to be pointed in a good direction when it comes to 2nd-tier bands and purchasing actual cds.

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...Popol vuh is a major band also

all their albums are excellent, contrary to many bands like Camel, or caravan which turn very bad in the late 70's...

oliverstoned wrote:  Amon dull,

 

 

Nice Freudian slip.....................

Carl floyd fan wrote: This is strictly 60s and 70s BTW I would say that any true prog fan should have at least one album from at least ten of the following bands, which I consider to be the main players.  Feel free to add and take away, but I can't see how any of these bands would be taken away.  Most of these bands continued for more than a decade and is part of the reason why some appear in the list. Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Camel, Van Der Graaf Generator, Focus, Ash Ra tempel, ELP, Gentle Giant, Caravan, Jethro Tull, Eloy, Gong, Hawkwind, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, The Soft Machine, Steve Hillage, Mike Oldfield, Can, Nektar, Barclay James Harvest and Jade Warrior. I have many cds by all of those bands above and although I d/l from hundreds more, I need to be pointed in a good direction when it comes to 2nd-tier bands and purchasing actual cds.

Several in your list I've avoided replacing vinyl with CD, because simply I find they have grown dull with time, on one or all their recordings.

However, "2nd tier" - which might be read as "could have made it if they had the luck of many of those you listed":

Touch: Touch - IMHO the first American prog band.

T2: It'll All Work Out In Boomland - demonstrating a guitar-lead trio could play prog.

Spooky Tooth/Pierre Henry: Ceremony (weird scenes inside a gold mine)

Flash: Flash & Flash In The Can (the Yes-spin-off band)

Ibis: Sun Surprise (a largely forgotten Italian/English band of the early 70's)

Kraan: any of the first 5 or so albums - especially Live - all remastered by EMI of Germany in the last 3 years.

Magma: Mekanïk Destruktiv Kommandöh

Be Bop Deluxe - interesting mix of glam rock and prog, e.g Axe Victim (Bill Nelson is currently touring a reformed BeBop Deluxe and their albums have just been reissued again on CD)

 

 

PF, Gong, Soft Machine defined Prog

...not Gentle Giant!

Yes i agree with you

Dark side is the beggining of the end for PF

 

And Trace, Triumvirat  ? Kayak ? Mainstream bigtimers in their time. Renaissance ?

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Lunar

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Lunarscape wrote: And Trace, Triumvirat  ? Kayak ? Mainstream bigtimers in their time. Renaissance ?

Kayak ?

Holy Cow!  I just got Faust 4!  Man do they rock!!!  I love krautrock (Neu, Zao, Dyzan, Eiliff, guru guru, can, A.R.T., A.D.2, ect, ect,) but somehow missed Faust.  I think the song krautrock perfectly sums up the genre in one 11 minute song.  Faust should be added cause Faust 4 was on a major label, virgin.

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oliverstoned wrote: PF, Gong, Soft Machine defined Prog ...not Gentle Giant!

Let's be contentious.

PF: defined prog????

On a historical basis they were late in the game. Until Meddle or even Dark Side Of The Moon, we first generation British prog fans, wouldn't have included PF under the heading of 'prog', they were 'English psychedelic' (beit the most important British psychedelic band of the late 60's and early 70's). I suspect it was the American discovery of PF, and need to find a category for their music, that 'prog' was first used.