Any old Prog Rock fans here? It doesn't need to just be purist prog (Camel, King Crimson, Peter Gabriel's Genesis, etc.) even more commercial or mixed prog is always fun to have (Jethro Tull, Supertramp, etc).

20-40 minute Prog epics or radio-friendly songs and artists are both welcome.

Let's educate the masses a bit here!

Some of Mastodons stuff is a bit progy, I have all their stuff they are awesome. also opeth and Dream Theatre are also very prog rock. Oktavarium has a track on it of the same name that's 29 minutes long Off the older stuff ELP and Yes spring to mind.. I had quite a bit of Rick Wakemans stuff on vinyl. Marrillion were classed as prog too and I had some of their stuff as well.

Take A Pebble

Take Your Fingers From My Hair

Hah, I meant to list ELP with King Crimson, but it slipped my mind (I was always more partial to Karn Evil 9 than Take a Pebble).

As for Yes: Vote for best prog Bass ever?

I liked them up through Trilogy. Brain Salad Surgery was not a great record.

I actually bought love beach, only for the last track though, brilliant keyboard, rest of album could have been anybody

I don't really care for the rest of Brain Salad Surgery, just the one track.

ELP, while very talented, was never one of my favorite prog bands to listen to. (I did forget them in the first post after all!)

Of course, I didn't mention Pink Floyd either. Though with Floyd's case I didn't really need to, they're rather more popular (At least, lastingly popular) than pretty much any other Prog rock band.

I've never personally checked out Love Beach. I'll give the last track a listen soon and give my opinion.

Jerusalem was also okay.


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I once read something about ELP, I think it was a Greg Lake interview, in it he said it all got rather silly, if one had a revolving stand on stage the other had to have one and it all got rather over the top and plain daft!I only had one Pink Floyd album, The Final cut because it was satirically brilliant about the state of the UK at the time and being anti-establishment (to this day) I loved it.

A lot of heavier bands are delving into prog territory now. Mastodon, Baroness, Kylesa, Isis, and Between the BUrried and Me just to name a few. I really dig on some "mathy" stuff like Don Caballero and Battles. Of course Yes and Pink Floyd are eternal classics. Real question is, when does a band stop being "prog" and start to be "experimental?"

Yep I said earlier in this thread that Mastodon dabbled in Prog, I would say that some of Opeth and Dream Theatre's stuff could be pigeon holed as prog also.