Atheist Prog

Possibly a narrow category, but let's see what anyone can come up with. To give ourselves a bit more scope let's include ‘agnostic but sceptical' for purposes of the thread.

Peter Hammill would be an obvious choice, but instead let's start with an instrumental:



Edited by Mascodagama - July 25 2018 at 06:28

The Only Way from side two of the Tarkus album by ELP springs to mind...

Jethro Tull have their moments

There should be some of it in Roger Waters (and Pink Floyd, by default). The one that comes to my mind is the Breathe reprise after Time.

philipemery wrote: I mean, Dark Side of the Moon all around is pretty nihilistic. I mean Eclipse can be summed up as: Yeah all this crap that everyone does is pointless in the end: "everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon." The album is very much just Roger Waters in a depressed bout of melancholy and nihilism. Great Gig In the Sky comes to mind especially, with the spoken intro.

Though the spoken intro to Great Gig, as well as all the spoken parts on the album, were not written by anyone in the band. They went along (I think within the recording studios) asking people about... well, I don't know about what, but they got all that bunch of answers and they used the ones they felt worked best (they were supposed to have actually asked Paul McCartney too, but his response was too uninteresting and they didn't use it). However, Amused to Death has it's share of atheist philosophy, so to speak (the most obvious ones would the What God Wants).