The Song that Screams Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

DAH (engl. "Breath") was Yugoslav heavy prog band from Belgrade.

Discography:
Veliki cirkus studio album (1974)
Povratak studio album (1976)

Edited by Svetonio - April 27 2014 at 23:55

[QUOTE=ebil0505]In my experience with prog, short as it may be, I have found that some songs for me seemed to just scream "YOU ARE LISTENING TO PROG! THIS IS PURE PROG!" when I heard them for the first time. It happened when I heard:

Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa
Roundabout - Yes
Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 1 - King Crimson

among others . . .

The song "People sucks ass"

when I am jerking offf.

Language is a virus from outer space.

-William S. Burroughs

Didn't go through all the posts, so not sure if (or how many times!) these were mentioned: Return of the Giant Hogweed and Fountain of Salmacis.

Couple prog metal examples are jumping to mind now:

Hybrid Times by Riverside and A Trace of Blood by Pain of Salvation.

Then again, basically all of their stuff screams prog to some degree. These are just the two foremost in my mind at the moment.

May God bless you all in Jesus' name. No matter who you are, you're special, you're loved, and you matter.

Svetonio wrote:

One of my favorites.

To me it was definitaly Gentle Giant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RdqSmXXFQ7Y&list=PL1D294433989AC586

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

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I'm not so sure these two examples actually "scream" prog, though maybe they do in their own way. I was 14 years old, summer before high school, listening to 96Rock in Atlanta late one evening and on came this interesting tune, alternating between light and heavy changes with tripped out lyrics, when Steve Howe's first guitar break zapped me right in the melon (Yours Is No Disgrace), had never heard anything that good before, went out the next day and bought The Yes Album.

Many years later I was listening to a Genesis boot from '75 maybe? A period of time when Bruford was filling in on the tour, and on Cinema Show after "there is in fact more earth than sea...", where the pace quickens a bit and the music becomes enjoyingly intense, a little drum fill and Tony plays the most beautiful melotron melody, where the drums provide an end to each melotron line, and it builds and builds, until an angelic chorus wraps up this most amazingly beautiful segment of one of the best tunes of all time.

In two different ways, in two different life times, this music spoke to me very personally. Maybe even bookends to a certain part of an uncertain life.

: )