Songs that Epitomize Each Sub-genre

Sheavy wrote: For Prog Electronic, if time is an issue try these. Not sure I would say any of them exactly epitomize PE like any of the longer songs, but they are killer tracks. Klaus Schulze - Frank Herbert Tangerine Dream - 3A.M. At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee Kraftwerk -Trans Europa Express Zanov - Machine Desperation Jean Michel-Jarre - Oxygene Part One Ose - L'Aube Jumelle Harmonia - Watussi Vangelis - Pulsar Conrad Schnitzler - Black Nails Igor Wakhevitch - Twilight And Call Of The Ascending Spirit Gave about ten more songs than you asked for and much more of a varied sound than you asked for.

lazland wrote: Stargazer was simply brilliant. Rising remains one of my favourite albums ever. A tribute to RJD might well follow later.

Svetonio wrote: Avant/RIO - Frank Zappa Bogus Pomp   Crossover - Supertramp Breakfast In America   Canterbury - Robert Wyatt Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road   Eclectic Prog - King Crimson The Talking Drum   Electronic - Tangerine Dream Movements Of A Visionary   Heavy Prog - Uriah Heep Salisbury   Jazz Rock - Steely Dan Aja   Jazz Fusion - Return to Forever Vulcan Worlds   Krautrock - Can Peking O   Prog Folk - Jethro Tull The Whistler   Progressive Psychedelia - Pink Floyd Alan Psychedelic Breakfast   RPI - Le Orme La fabbricante d'angeli   Space Rock- Steve Hillage Lunar Musick Suite   Symphonic Rock - Yes Heart of the Sunrise   Neo Prog - Genesis One For The Vine   Zeuhl - Magma Nebehr Guttahtt   Indo/Raga - Codona Codona   NeoClassical Prog - Sky Where Opposites Meet   Atmospheric - Brian Eno Music For Airports 2/1 -------   Proto Prog - Deep Purple Anthem Prog Related - The Who Doctor Jimmy

 That's an amazing list, comrade Svetonio!  "Heart Of The Sunrise" is probably the best proposal to portray symphonic prog. "Salisbury"(title track) as an example that have to describe clearly the 70s heavy prog is quite understandable. "The Talking Drum" is a perfect choice for eclectic prog  - i see that people tend to favour "Starless" - undoubtedly it is a great KC song but "Starless" could be a symph too because of a lot of melodic 'tron and that famous Fripp's melancholic guitar solo.

Edited by Komandant Shamal - March 18 2015 at 09:30

Guldbamsen wrote: ^Do you even bother reading the OP before you post? Drew is preparing to do a radio show where he seeks to enlighten his listeners with progressive music found in the different subs. He is merely asking us for recs from each of em to cover as much ground as possible. That's how I read it anyway, but you are of course free to believe whatever you want.

My comment was honest and not meant to be derogatory, but if you can not see anything else, you always point to the other person!

Going on the radio and "thinking" that you can "represent" a lot of music scenes is naive ... and probably silly. It's a nice idea, but not something that most folks will agree on, and in the end, he will likely put together song after song that do not gel properly or segue properly with each other, and end up turning off his audience instead of getting them excited about hearing something else.

NOW, if this was about songs from TODAY's BANDS that could be considered to approximate that particular description that is now used for a style or two, I think it would be much more interesting ... but I would agree, that is cheating on my part, because I have heard the older stuff ... but the older folks that liked most of this stuff were not into a singles/hit/song style of thing ... and it might turn them off.

Radio, is a finicky and strange place ... and a lot of folks "up there" love spending their time putting down the listeners, btw, for their uneducated tastes!

I would imagine that it would be far easier to just do his show, get attention towards it, and then find an audience because of his choices ... but if this is as dry as a dictionary or an encyclopaedia, I am not sure that he will get enough support beyond that which he can drum up!

Trust me, I got to see Space Pirate Radio get off the ground and into the air ... and while, in the end, it became fantastic, the rest that went around it was not exactly a party, and the effort was insane ... with the folks in the station even making fun of the music on top of it! For them it was not about the music, but the ego! And music that was not top ten was not considered music or worthy of attention ... and you live in that environment, right here, in a way.  That has not changed in 45 years!!!!!! Think about it!

All in all, if the gentleman is into the music itself, he will likely survive ... but it won't always be fun. But when he is looking for "examples", instead of him feeling out the music for himself, I am not sure that this is going to make it ... you need every bit of yourself in the 3rd and 4th and 5th and all the way to the umpteenth effort to make it, and when you are just feeling out "examples", you are merely making it look like you know the music, and you probably don't!

It's not about the "style" ... and I can say that Space Pirate Radio showed that 45 years ago! But for a top ten audience it is hard to discuss styles, but it can be done ... do you want to? ... can you do this week in and out without being repetitious? ... because if you think you can keep an audience happy by just playing this or that ... you will lose them after 20 minuntes or something like it.

It's his choice!

Edited by moshkito - March 18 2015 at 11:11

^^Do you think people who make use of these stickers naturally develop a top of the pops, hit single, music is sports type of thinking? 

Edited by Guldbamsen - March 18 2015 at 11:27

Komandant Shamal wrote: Svetonio wrote: Avant/RIO - Frank Zappa Bogus Pomp   Crossover - Supertramp Breakfast In America   Canterbury - Robert Wyatt Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road   Eclectic Prog - King Crimson The Talking Drum   Electronic - Tangerine Dream Movements Of A Visionary   Heavy Prog - Uriah Heep Salisbury   Jazz Rock - Steely Dan Aja   Jazz Fusion - Return to Forever Vulcan Worlds   Krautrock - Can Peking O   Prog Folk - Jethro Tull The Whistler   Progressive Psychedelia - Pink Floyd Alan Psychedelic Breakfast   RPI - Le Orme La fabbricante d'angeli   Space Rock- Steve Hillage Lunar Musick Suite   Symphonic Rock - Yes Heart of the Sunrise   Neo Prog - Genesis One For The Vine   Zeuhl - Magma Nebehr Guttahtt   Indo/Raga - Codona Codona   NeoClassical Prog - Sky Where Opposites Meet   Atmospheric - Brian Eno Music For Airports 2/1 -------   Proto Prog - Deep Purple Anthem Prog Related - The Who Doctor Jimmy        That's an amazing list, comrade Svetonio!  "Heart Of The Sunrise" is probably the best proposal to portray symphonic prog. "Salisbury"(title track) as an example that have to describe clearly the 70s heavy prog is quite understandable. "The Talking Drum" is a perfect choice for eclectic prog  - i see that people tend to favour "Starless" - undoubtedly it is a great KC song but "Starless" could be a symph too because of a lot of melodic 'tron and that famous Fripp's melancholic guitar solo. Though, i think that "Songs From The Wood" (title track) is without a real rivarly for a sample of prog folk.

BrufordFreak wrote: Svetonio wrote:  (...) Eclectic Prog - King Crimson The Talking Drum  (...) I gotta check out this song "The Talking Drum"!