or a charity shop bargain binner? 

Genesis "Looking for Someone"

King Crimson "Lizard"

Van der Graaf Generator "Killer"

Gentle Giant "Nothing At All"

Soft Machine "Moon in June"

Nucleus "Earth Mother"

Affinity "Night Flight"

Gong "You Can't Kill Me"

Caravan "And I Wish I Were Stoned - Don't Worry"

Egg "Fourth Movement"

Gracious "The Dream"

Emerson, Lake & Palmer "Take a Pebble"

East of Eden "Leaping Beauties for Rudy, Marcus Junior"

The Greatest Show On Earth "Again and Again"

Rare Bird "Flight"

Yes "Astral Traveller"

Hight Tide "Saneonimous"

Atomic Rooster "Broken Wings"

Uriah Heep "Wake Up (Set Your Sights)"

Deep Purple "Child in Time"

Not sure I can "spit out" 20 tracks from this year (most of my prog is modern or modernish).

Btw, TYA was released in 1971.

ELP - The Barbarian

Gentle Giant - Giant

Curved Air - It Happened Today

The Moody Blues - Question

Deep Purple - Speed King

King Crimson - Cirkus

Jethro Tull - Teacher

Genesis - Looking For Someone

Uriah Heep - Gypsy

Led Zeppelin - Friends

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Hawkwind - Hurry On Sundown

Yes - Time And A Word

ELP - Knife Edge

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night

Focus - Focus

Soft Machine - Facelift

Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Here's 21...of various and sundry:

Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom

The Strawbs - The Vision of the Lady of the Lake

The Mothers of Invention - The Little House I Used to Live In

Atomic Rooster - Winter

Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun

Alice Cooper - Below Your Means

Jethro Tull - With You There to Help Me

The Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb

Deep Purple - Child in Time

Procol Harum - Whaling Stories

Uriah Heep - Gypsy

Soft Machine - The Moon in June

Traffic - Glad/Freedom Rider

Fairport Convention - Sloth

The Moody Blues - Question

Santana - Incident at Neshabur

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite

David Bowie - The Width of a Circle

ELP - Take a Pebble

McDonald and Giles - Suite in C

King Crimson - Cirkus

Hi,

I trimmed the list some ... these were the ones I remember from hearing things in either radio in Madison, WI (FM stuff!!!) or in a party or two.

Some of the other stuff was not exactly known or heard until later. Genesis, for example, was not quite "visible" until at least one more year or two, and by 1972 they were definitely visible. YES was the same thing ... not specially heard until Roundabout hit is, though I picked up the album the minute I heard "I've Seen All the Good People" .... on the radio, in Southern California. Jethro Tull was well represented then, as was ELP, Procol Harum, Moody Blues. I don't recall having heard BJH at that time, or Caravan ... though I got into BJH when I heard the song "Mockingbird" ... and Caravan not at all, until much later. Rare Bird was not exactly a hit band, but had nice stuff. Spooky Tooth was not "great" but it had a certain touch that made folks listen ... and eventually it got way better.

The only thing missing from the listing is the American stuff at the time. In Madison, some bands from the midwest were well received ... Crow, James Gang, Chicago, Sons of Champlin, Steve Miller Band ... and many others, that we don't exactly consider "progressive" but they were important to the development of the music during its time.

But it was at this time that the FM Radio band, really started and a listing like yours really brings up a lot of the stuff that helped make what we eventually called "progressive" from a really poor worded definition.

Hi,

You done really well, in picking up and learning things and some history.

My only wish is that the fan base appreciated the time and place a lot more ... some of the music makes a lot more sense in that perspective, not from an invisible idea about song creativity. Most of it, other than the stupid stuff like yummy yummy bs, was still radio crap hits. I think that too many folks look at yesterday's music as a bunch of songs that were not "hits" or had the following that their favorite cats, do!

One might, for example, go over the lists of number one hits from 1966 to 1973/1974, by which time, the radio hit factory was starting to die out big time ... and FM radio was now available in affordable stereo systems and everyone got one. In America, there should be two maybe 3 of these as NY/SF and Midwest vary a heck of a lot. Thus the "national" Variety lists, are worthless and distort the reality of the music all over the country.

Remember that most of the stuff you listed was FM related, as most of them did not have a "hit" to be played on the AM radio band, and it wasn't until the STEREO systems, (cheap or otherwise) finally took hold during this time, which really helped. Now you hear this stuff in a stereo split in two speakers, and it is far out ... yo never got that on the AM radio signal. AM tried to go stereo much later but the conversions were too expansive and it was dropped like a brick really fast.

I actually like the "stupid yummy yummy stuff". 

Hi,

I don't dislike the song ... what bothers me is how a lot of this early stuff (same with rap today here in America!!!) ... takes away the younger listener to a point .... for the sake of sales and a record company, or two, that tried hard to continue with "hits" to make sure that the FM radio dial did not get ahead so fast ... it didn't matter, in America, FM radio was like a wildfire ... and the new music it showed was something that the Internet could not even imagine ... and gave us a lot of what we have today.

There were other gimmicky songs ... but that one always stuck in my mind ... and ______ in Madison rubbing his crotch and going "yummy yummy ... " really made the point even better, even though it brought the "innocent" hit song, into a level that was not at all what it wanted to do.

BTW, Paul ... all you are missing is the albums that many groups put together ... I still have the GTO's album!

Deep Purple "In Rock" 

Led Zeppelin "III" 

Uriah Heep "...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble"  

Gentle Giant - Funny Ways

Genesis - The Knife

Yes - Astral Traveller

East Of Eden - Jig a Jig

King Crimson - Cat Food

Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night

Deep Purple - Child In Time

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Mountain - Mississippi Queen

ELP - Lucky Man

Egg - Seven Is A Jolly Good Time

Quatermass - Black Sheep Of The Family

Colosseum - Theme For An Imaginery Western

Beggars Opera- Raymonds Road

Procol Harum - Whaling Stories

The Moody Blues - Question

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock

Led Zeppelin III was the first vinyl LP I ever bought, primarily for the "Immigrant Song!" 

Here, have some! 

Here is my list including albums that are very rare I  think are not mentioned:

Egg: Debut.

Magick Brother: Gong Founders.

Quatermass: Debut.

Third: SM however it s fusion Between Jazz and Prog.

Five Bridges: The Nice.

John Bartleycorn Must Die: Traffic.

Daugther Of Time: Colosseum I.

Music Inspired by lord of the rings: Bob Hansson.

Aadvark Debut.

Act One: Beggars Opera.

Cressida Debut Italian Band.

Present From Nancy: Supersister.

 I did not remember 20 albums! but I should check the Italian prog albums!!! which are a lot!!!!! 

Hawkwind The Reason Is?