Songs about prog rock

Regarding Jethro Tull's "thick as a brick" album I heard Ian say in a radio interview once that "Thick as a brick was to progressive rock what Airplane was to Airplane movies." So yeah he did view it as a parody of prog. That said TAAB does work as a serious piece of prog music(even if the lyrics aren't always that serious). 

cstack3 wrote: The.Crimson.King wrote:   I guess that makes Ian's "Thick as a Brick 2" a parody of a parody  Har!  I've lived that life, myself!  Here, I'm playing lead guitar in the Tulsa, OK band "Casual Crobar," which was a Spinal Tap cover band = a parody of a parody!  Someday I have to load some vids and share them, we were wild!

Toaster Mantis wrote: Not to mention that Faust actually have a song titled Krautrock.

"It was good, you know, to be called Krautrock.  We even made a song like this."
-Jean-Hervé Péron

cstack3 wrote: Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" was a deliberate parody of the bombastic prog (ELP, Yes etc.) of the era: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick_as_a_Brick Band frontman Ian Anderson was surprised by the critical reaction to their previous album, Aqualung (1971), as a "concept album", a label he firmly rejects to this day.  In an interview on In the Studio with Redbeard (which spotlighted Thick as a Brick), Anderson's response to the critics was: "If the critics want a concept album we'll give the mother of all concept albums and we'll make it so bombastic and so over the top".[6]  Ian Anderson has been quoted as stating that Thick as a Brick was written "because everyone was saying we were a progressive rock band, so we decided to live up to the reputation and write a progressive album, but done as a parody of the genre."  With Thick as a Brick, the band created an album deliberately integrated around one concept: a poem by a super-intelligent English schoolboy, named Gerald Bostock, about the trials of growing up. Beyond this, the album was a send-up of all pretentious "concept albums". (The idiom "thick as a brick" is an expression signifying someone who is "stupid" or "slow to learn or understand").[citation needed]

Instrumentals: but Enchant has a song called Progtology and Steve Morse has a song called Prognosis.

zravkapt wrote: Other than artists who make self-references in their work, this is about all I can come up with...

too slow

Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin ~ Arjen Anthony Lucassen

It's kind of a stretch but when Pink Floyd references themselves in lyrics they're technically singing about prog ("The band is just fantastic that is really what I think, oh by the way which one's Pink", "Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel").  Then there's always Crimso's '74 lyrics that were supposedly a dig at Sinfield ("health food fa**** with a bartered bride", "as you twinkle by in moccasin sneakers").

The Sun In My Eyes - The Tangent

Edited by Horizons - November 25 2013 at 16:20

none that i could think of.