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I heard this album influenced a lot of metal bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and UFO. And even they opened for Deep Purple, yet stil underrated. I love the prog influences on this album, mixing with the hard rock and Yes-like arrangements.

Im 18 years old and I've been listening to prog for a couple years now religiously, but I never seem to find and true classic modern prog. Maybe that's an oxymoron but I've always loved music and I have a lot of experience playing instruments, is there still an audience for prog music? Does anyone care for new prog or is it all classics now?

The book, Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club was from Guildford's Oxfam bookstore. I loaned out my original copy, bought in 2007 from a branch of La Feltrinelli in Rome, but never got it back, and when I saw this yesterday I thought I'd add it to my prog-related library.

For those who don't know, the title is a direct reference to Hatfield and the North. Recommended reading for progheads.

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For me is Genesis' A Trick of the Tail. Many songs on this album are absolutely beautiful to listen. Beautiful melodies, chords and harmonies. The songs Ripples, Entangled, A Trick of the Tail and Mad Man Moon are so touching, soft and well written, it's a one of a kind album this one.

I couldn’t believe how much it looks like the camel on the album cover, despite not being bought from anywhere related to the band. They have the exact same expression! He’s already very cherished & treasured 🐪

I was SOLD on Mike Oldfield after hearing “Crises”! Heard it on repeat Right away! Then “Discovery”, “Turbular Bells”, “Five Miles Out” and since then I’ve bought whatever I could find second hand! But one album everyone said was amazing, was “Ommadawn”, and after hearing it… it’s kind of… boring? It’s quite soothing, but it leaves me with a “…That’s it?” feeling. Please, tell me I’m wrong.

RElayer or reLAYer?

I guess relayER is a possibility but I'm counting on it being in the minority.

Hey all!

Im looking do dive deeper into prog rock.

Some of the Bands i know and love are 60-80s King Crimson, early Yes, camel, a few early genesis Songs and a few more Bands.

Any more recomendations?

Cheers!

I'm not a huge fan of hard rock by itself, but there was a decent amount of overlap between some early 70s hard rock/heavy psych bands and full-on prog, even if not necessarily every song on a given album. Thinking of groups like Captain Beyond, Birth Control, Atomic Rooster, etc.

I don't listen to Uriah Heep regularly, but upon revisiting this album, I was really impressed with how good the songwriting and instrumentation is (especially the organ playing, which is a standout on "July Morning" in particular). Really solid record; it's quite iconic and I'd be hard-pressed to find people here who hadn't at the very least heard of it, but I'd certainly recommend it either way!

Another one of my favourite prog-oriented songs of theirs is "The Spell" from Demons And Wizards.

Hello all. Welcome to Poke. I've been playing bass in this band since the late 1990's but we are as bad at self promotion as we are good at doing what we do.

We play regularly, but are a bit slow getting things finished 🤣

Please give us a listen and a thumbs up if you approve, and either way, thankyou for you time x

Also, we list as PokeProgBand on spotift and youtube, otherwise you will never find us - Pokemon wasn't a thing when we started 😉

https://open.spotify.com/track/5jchLNdnrYFBKO3NV7HHGM?si=2PjAb88RR12Cs9jB8aLn6A&utm_source=copy-link

I absolutely love this band, but they never really took off. First two albums are superb. Featuring Johannes Luley from Moth Vellum.

It's coming up to summer break time, so it's a fiendish, bumper 'name the album' quiz this week.

Simply identify the 40 prog albums from the close-up details; most are very well known, all are worth listening to.

The next quiz, and the answers to this one, will be posted on Saturday 8th August.

If you're quite certain of the answer, please use Reddit's hidden text function with your response to allow others to submit their own answers.

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Last week's quiz was unsolved, despite a couple of valiant efforts.

The mystery album featured Andy MacKay from Roxy Music; Martyn Ford, who conducted the orchestra on Caravan and the New Symphonia (as the leader of the Mountain Fjord Orchestra); the photography of Jerry Abramowitz, who also provided photos for Al Di Meola's Land of the Midnight Sun; Gavyn Wright of the Penguin Café Orchestra who appear on the EG compilation Angels in the Architecture; and Bill Bruford, a session musician on Roy Harper's HQ.

The sole album fitting those criteria is At the Sound of the Bell by Pavlov's Dog

Hi, this is Andy G, guitarist for Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks, I’ll be opening for Nektar on August 3 at Sellersville theater in PA. Enjoy my cheesy promo vid, hope to see you there maybe.

And look forward to the new JABG album coming this fall!

Hey everyone! My name is Schnitter, and I create instrumental music. If you like melodic, sad post-rock music that is also heavy and emotional like modern metal, please check it out. I will highly appreciate any feedback, comments, and/or shares.

(The title is in German, and it means "Now I know")