Mind blowing prog sections?

I was listening to the part that starts at the 4 minute mark here and get absolutely blown away by this for the last 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV-G4uWuAJs

It comes so unpredicted and the chord progressions are so radical.


Anyone else have some mind blowing sections in prog songs they'd like to share?

I guess another one is the scream in "Careful with that axe eugene" on Floyd's Ummagumma.

Hi,

The main idea behind any "new music" and its specific details, is the individuality that brings some ideas way beyond what we thought or understood before, and as such, generally, it gets remembered and appreciated.

Screams were not new when PF did their piece, as PH had already given us some of that, although not within the context that PH did in his own music. It's probably easy to say that RW did this at first for a laugh, but it made a strong point, and ended up being heard and talked about. It also might have been the same as the comment bit that Syd had and PF used ... "people have stood and cheered, something they did not understand" ... and the scream might have been an attempt at getting away from the sleepy nature that PF had kinda become in some of their music! A good choice!

In some ways, nothing has changed in the history of the music ... it always needs something that wakes us up from our own sleep of laziness in listening to music, in favor of the "favorite" things we like, an illusion that is sad, and maybe, not studied enough for us to know why we get stuck in one place a few times, specially with songs, and various pieces of music.

You can always remember the 5th ... and the Strauss piece, and even at least one part of Debussy. It never goes away.

In many ways, this is what "progressive" is really about, not the format stuff found in a lot of progrock, that probably should not be considered progressive, because it is a format and copy and copy and copy. That kind of stuff is not likely to be remembered for a long time!

Edited by moshkito - June 11 2025 at 17:31

This part makes my head explode when I listen at full blast with head phones on.

https://youtu.be/-V0CVXV_pkI?t=521

proggy123 wrote: This part makes my head explode when I listen at full blast with head phones on. https://youtu.be/-V0CVXV_pkI?t=521

Hi,

Such a good album ... Anglagard, and this is Kung Bore. I think that some folks wanted to compare this to KC, but I think it was more "classical" minded than the more modernistic KC.