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    Posted: May 26 2024 at 04:42
Has it really been two months since the last Now That's What I Call Prog compilation? Thanks to a timely reminder from Moshkito, Now That's What I Call Prog 1970 is finally here. It's your chance to put together an ideal prog compilation of 20 popular prog classics by 20 different artists that will hopefully appeal to the entire family, including your granny. But will it be a million seller winner Thumbs Up 
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Now That's What I Call Prog 1970

Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night
Barclay James Harvest - Dark Now My Sky
Black Widow - Sacrifice
Caravan - Can't Be Long Now
Colosseum - Daughter of Time
Curved Air - Vivaldi
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
Genesis - White Mountain
Jethro Tull - Inside
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
The Moody Blues - Question
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Procol Harum - Whaling Stories
Rare Bird - You Want to Know
Soft Machine - Moon in June
Spooky Tooth - I Am the Walrus
Uriah Heep - Come Away Melinda
Van der Graaf Generator - Darkness (11/11)
YES - Time and a Word


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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"


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The year I was born. Tongue Maybe the first full year of prog? I guess that's debatable.

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.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Floydoid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2024 at 11:26
This turned out to be quite a challenge.

Now That's What I Call Prog 1970 (as compiled by Floydoid)

Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - 15 Aout 1970
Curved Air - It Happened Today
Deep Purple - Black Night
Earth and Fire - Ruby Is the One
ELP - The Barbarian
Focus - House of the King
Frumpy - Indian Rope Man
Genesis - The Knife
Hawkwind - Paranoia
Jethro Tull - Inside
King Crimson - Catfood
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Moody Blues - Question
The Nice - Country Pie / Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Pink Floyd - Summer '68
Roger Waters - Give Birth to a Smile
Yes - Time and a Word

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Jethro Tull - The Witch's Promise
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
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Amon Düül II "Cerberus" (Yeti)
Atomic Rooster "Death Walks Behind You" (Death Walks Behind You)
Black Sabbath "War Pigs" (Paranoid)
Black Widow "Come to the Sabbat" (Sacrifice)
David Bowie "The Width of a Circle" (The Man Who Sold the World)
Tim Buckley "Lorca" (Lorca)
Demon Fuzz "Hymn To Mother Earth" (Afreaka!)
Exuma "The Vision" (Exuma)
Forest "Graveyard" (Full Circle)
Gentle Giant "Nothing at All" (Gentle Giant)
Bo Hansson "I Elronds hus - Ringen vandrar söderut" (Sagan om ringen)
King Crimson "Lizard" (Lizard)
Magma "Naü ektila" (Kobaïa)
Nico "All That Is My Own" (Desertshore)
Pentangle "Cruel Sister" (Cruel Sister)
Linda Perhacs "Parallelograms" (Parallelograms)
Pink Floyd "Atom Heart Mother" (Atom Heart Mother)
Soft Machine "Moon in June" (Third)
Supersister "Present From Nancy" (Present From Nancy)
Van der Graaf Generator "Darkness (11/11)" (The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other)
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Atomic Rooster – "Death Walks Behind You"
Black Sabbath – "The Wizard"
Can – "Don't Turn the Light on, Leave Me Alone"
Deep Purple – "Into the Fire"
ELP – "Knife Edge"
Genesis – "White Mountain"
Hawkwind – "Hurry On Sundown"
Jimi Hendrix – "We Gotta Live Together"
Iron Butterfly – "Butterfly Bleu"
Jethro Tull – "To Cry You a Song"
King Crimson – "Cat Food"
Mandrill – "Warning Blues"
Linda Perhacs – "Parallelograms"
Rare Bird – "Flight"
Santana – "Incident at Neshabur"
Spirit – "Love Has Found a Way"
Tangerine Dream – "Ashes to Ashes"
Uriah Heep – "Bird of Prey"
Yes – "The Prophet"
Frank Zappa – "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"
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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


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1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – The Barbarian
2. The Mothers Of Invention – The Orange County Lumber Truck
3. Egg – I Will Be Absorbed
4. Genesis – Visions Of Angels
5. Atomic Rooster – Gershatzer
6. ID Company – He’s Out Now
7. Can – Mother Sky
8. Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck
9. Gentle Giant – Alucard
10. Soft Machine – Slightly All The Time
11. Miles Davis – Spanish Key
12. Magma – Aïna
13. Pink Floyd – Summer ‘68
14. Supersister – Present From Nancy
15. The Nice – Intermezzo ‘Karelia Suite’
16. Third Ear Band – Earth
17. Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun
18. The Tony Williams Lifetime – Allah Be Praised
19. King Crimson – The Devil’s Triangle
20. Jean-Luc Ponty – America Drinks And Goes Home
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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Now That's What I Call Prog 1970

Barclay James Harvest - Dark Now My Sky
Caravan - Can't Be Long Now
Colosseum - Daughter of Time
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
Jethro Tull - Inside
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
The Moody Blues - Question
Procol Harum - Whaling Stories
Rare Bird - You Want to Know
Spooky Tooth - I Am the Walrus
Uriah Heep - Come Away Melinda


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.
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^ Ironically, the only song on my list I was familiar with back in 1970 was the Moody Blues "Question". I had to wait forty years to discover the other nineteen songs on my list after going online in 2010. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ Ironically, the only song on my list I was familiar with back in 1970 was the Moody Blues "Question". I had to wait forty years to discover the other nineteen songs on my list after going online in 2010. Embarrassed

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.


Edited by moshkito - May 28 2024 at 06:30
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^ I'm sensing some negativity there. Tongue 

I actually like the "stupid yummy yummy stuff". Wacko

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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ I'm sensing some negativity there. Tongue 

I actually like the "stupid yummy yummy stuff". Wacko
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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!


Edited by moshkito - June 05 2024 at 06:44
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Some amazing Prog-Related releases as well! 

Deep Purple "In Rock" 

Led Zeppelin "III" 

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

etc. 
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Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
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

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
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! 


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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

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


LZ certainly had a knack for cracking album opening tracks to assault your earholes (on their first 5 albums at least):

Good Times, Bad Times
Whole Lotta Love
Immigrant Song
Black Dog
The Song Remains the Same
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Albums that came out in 1970? that were real Prog? or Not prog related or Hard Rock/Blues?! like LZ Sabbath, The Who as I see that!! that was not Prog!!! I see that many people are very confusedof what prog is! 
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!!!!! 
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Colosseum Lost Angeles
Santana Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
Miles Davis Pharaoh's Dance
Soft Machine Moon in June
Larry Coryell Spaces (Infinite)
The Tony Williams Lifetime Vuelta Abajo
Hawkwind The Reason Is?
Gong Mystic Sister-Magick Brother
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Take a Pebble
King Crimson Cadence and Cascade
Gracious The Dream
Genesis The Knife
Gleemen Spirit
Formula 3 Dies Irae
Yes Astral Traveller
Il Balletto di Bronzo Meditazione
The Trip Visioni dell'Aldilà
Atomic Rooster Gershatzer 
The Nice Hang on to a Dream 
Uriah Heep Gypsy







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