My own example is that my favourite song off of In The Court of The Crimson King is Moonchild. 

Snarky Puppy should be on here because they've experimented with more genres than many of the bigger bands on this website and the last album of theirs I've heard was very rock-ish. (We Like it Here)

Not a strange opinion, I think, but I think Progarchives should take a page out of Metal Music Archives book and allow bands to have albums from multiple genres. Like Opeth's Heritage should be heavy prog and maybe prog folk, not tech/extreme prog metal. Also adding a 'not prog' genre would be nice for, say, early fusion bands to exclude that album from the top 100. (*Cough* Kind of Blue *Cough*)

I agree with you on the genre classification. I think it would make a lot of sense to be more selective over how an artist's discography is categorized. It doesn't really make sense to call every album by an artist who develops and redefines their sound a lot over the span of their career just one genre. Surely no one would consider "Nursery Cryme" and "Invisible Touch" to both be "symphonic prog". Plus it could help alleviate a bit of the angst that fans feel when bands they like are labeled as "prog-related", even if some of their albums could be better classified under actual prog sub-genres.

Also, a lot of the metal bands are somehow considered prog, which is a long stretch by far, since they show very little innovation or uniqueness.

It's one of the only two Genesis albums that I like...

 

Regarding Santana,,,,they are listed here as jazz fusion...not prog per se.

But I have similar opinions, no that unusual,  about the prog related and crossover prog categories....either a band is prog rock or it isn't so why even have these categories and list bands like The Who and Zep who aren't really prog rock at all.

 

You aren't the only one who feels that way about Floyd.

 

 

btw....welcome to Prog Rock Archives.....

 

I love Yes (up to 1974) but can't stand Jon's lyrics (at any point).

 

Similarly I would like all King Crimson albums from ITCOCK to Red better if they were instrumental.  The lyrics (with one or two honourable exceptions) are embarrassing and I find both Greg Lake and John Wetton overdo the vocal histrionics. I actually prefer Boz.

 

I have never managed to listen to a Jethro Tull album all the way through.

 

I liked Rush more when they were a hard rock band with ambitions than when they went full on prog.  Caress of Steel rocks!

 

Likewise, the more progressive Mastodon got, the less interested I was. 

 

Love Beach is a better album than Works Vol. 1.  At least it ends sooner

Nobody will ever have a more "unusual prog opinion".

Oddly enough, I'll have to second Guldbamsen on this one. I feel that everything Yes did until Relayer was exceptional, but The Yes Album is simply the one that I enjoy the most reliably and consistently.

Another few of mine: 

Seconded.

I think almost everyone agrees with that

-> Atom Heart Mother it's the biggest masterpiece from Pink Floyd, and my prefered music from PF is Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast.

->For me, PF's A Saurceful of Secrets it's the first Prog album ever, Celestial Voices part it's like the rupture from Psychodelic and the beginning of Prog.

->I can't stand Rush, not because the Hard-Prog style, but the Lee's Vocal are terrible!

->Italian Classic Scene is MILES better than the English Classic Scene, Carnascialia only album it's more beautiful and diverse than anything that Yes has made.

->Os Mutantes is the worst prog band from Brazil.

->Gong is the best Cantebury Scene band, i can't stand Soft Machine 3.

Well, in the moment this is what i feel 

      Gentle Giant's The Missing Piece is a masterpiece, and I really am bored by their Three Friends album.

    Floating by Eloy is also quite boring for me, and I think their first two albums are by far the best they did.

         Helmut Koellen  of Triumvirat as a solo artist should be considered Prog Related, and part of PA.

Agreed. The first two experiences are the best IMHO

I thought that this was the prevailing opinion, though, seeing as Octopus has a score of 4.28 compared to 4.11 for Three Friends and Octopus is in the top 60 here on PA while Three Friends isn't even in the top 100.

An oft-unchallenged assertion here, especially among fellow Rush fans, is that the coming of the 80's, with greater emphasis on synthesizers and shorter-form compositions, was a time of musical degradation.  My own view is that you can hear how tired the progressive rock genre was getting at the end of the 70's, and that the New Wave influence on our favorite bands revitalized most of them, and brought them melodic and lyrical focus.

I have lately been feeling that Robin Trower's music should be included here as a form of progressive rock.  It usually gets categorized as blues-rock, and most progressive rock is based on classical melodies rather than the blues.  But if you listen to the song structures, and hear Robin's creative use of guitar effects, you can tell that more is going on than your average blues rock.  The lyrics as well are often mythical in scope, just like you find in Progressive Rock.

One last orthodox opinion to offer: I think that spirituality is an essential component of Progressive Rock which doesn't get recognized often enough.  I define spirituality not necessarily as being connected to religious belief, but more in the sense that a quest for meaning is central to one's understanding.  I think that part of the motivation for making music this different was that something more complex needed to be said.

well, let's see

I've always liked Genesis - Nursery Cryme and SEBTP more than Foxtrot. Last time I listened to Foxtrot, I only listened to the short ones (haven't listened to Supper's Ready in a long time, I need a special mood for it, it seems)

Yes - the debut and Drama are two of my favorite from them. Don't remember the last time I listened to CttE (great album, no doubt about it, but I rarely listen to it).

I also like 80s Rush more than 70s Rush

Pink Floyd's debut is one of my least favorite albums from them.

In recent years, I've listened to Hogarth Marillion albums more than the Fish ones.

I'm appalled when I see DT fans/listeners saying they enjoy the later days albums more than the early/90s albums.

I haven't listened to Jethro Tull's TaaB in years.

The clean vocals Opeth albums are my favorite from them (I rarely listen to the death metal Opeth).

I like 80s Kansas

I don't hate the Trevor Rabin Yes Era.  I rather like it.

I'm pretty sure I understand most Jon Anderson lyrics.

Works 1 is my favorite ELP album 

Lizard and Islands are my favorite King Crimson

2015 was my favorite year for Prog rock since the 70's

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I don't really think that Alex Lifeson can cope with filling long tunes with guitar lines. And I can't stand "Tom Sawyer". Actually, I think they're the best at playing more conventional hard rock.

I prefer Japan to David Bowie.

Anathema left metal riffs and growling vocals, but all the things I find cheesy and frustrating in modern metal remained in their sound.

I love some new age and smooth jazz.

Magma's and Queen's music contain too many massive vocals for me to really enjoy it.

I can't deny their originality and lyrical diversity, but I always considered VdGG to be the second rate prog band.

I adore "Lizard" and "Islands".

    Helmut Koellen's song "Main Street" off of his solo album "You Won't See Me"  should have been released as a single, and could have been a huge rock anthem.

       Atomic Rooster's early 80s EPs with John du Cann are the best recordings the band ever recorded.

           

         

Fortunately not much of a problem in prog rock, but I absolutely hate bagpipes. Here, however, is one application of bagpipes I can get behind...

 

I agree , which is why I have not gotten into VdGG.  Some other opinions of mine, many similar to some above:

 

PFs debut album is my least favorite album of theirs; Sid Barrett had his moments but usually not.

In many ways, 80s King Crimson was a better band than the various 70s versions.

Hold Your Fire by Rush is one of their best albums.

Out of the eight Gentle Giant albums I have, Three Friends is my least favorite because it's supposed story line doesn't hold together.

Foxtrot is my least favorite of PG era Genesis even though I still consider it 5 star.

Can is noise.

So is most Prog Metal and almost all of Extreme/Tech Metal.

We're Only In It For the Money is random garbage.

Soft Machine's Elton Dean sounds like he is strangling a goat.

Roxy Music's Andy MacKay could not play his instruments until 3 or 4 albums in.  In fact, I don't think any of them really knew how to play when they recorded their first album.

Fear of a Blank Planet is either derivative or dull and turned me off from Porcupine Tree.

Renaissance's 80s pop music is listenable.  So is Triumvirat's A La Carte.  As I said, pop.

It is disappointing that Steve Hackett's greatest commercial success lies in revisiting Genesis.

Dave Cousins is one of the best songwriter's found on this site.

Both Steve Morse and Mike Oldfield have played the same guitar solo in different songs too many times (and I still love their music).

 

Some of these I have expressed before.  Remember kids, it is your own ears that are doing the listening; you do not have to like or dislike anything simply because somebody else says you should.  At the same time, keep an open mind, listen, and expand your horizons.

 

You can check out Pale Communion (pretty good and PA's Album of the Year 2014). Its predecessor, Heritage, may be clean as well (I have not yet heard that one).

 

I think that The Yes Album is in fact the first real Yes album, and that if Steve Howe had not joined the band, they would never have been half as amazing. Which is not to diss Anderson, Squire et al., I just think that Howe's guitar sound is what made Yes into Yes.

 

I like A Trick of the Tale best of all Genesis albums because it seems to me the perfect intersection between their prog and pop iterations. It's the most accessible. I don't consider accessibility a bad thing. I love Selling England by the Pound, but still prefer ATOTT. 

 

I have never once knowingly listened to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (although I may have listened to it unknowingly when my husband was playing it). Nothing I have read about TLLDOB has ever made me want to listen to it, although I do feel obligated to listen to it someday, in the same way I feel obligated to read Joyce's Ulysses someday, but I don't see either day coming up on the horizon anytime soon.

 

I think Pink Floyd would have been a much better band had Roger Waters been less of a self-pitying narcissist.  The only Pink Floyd album that manages to be completely wonderful in spite of Roger Waters is Wish You Were Here.  Other than that, I would be okay with never hearing another Pink Floyd album ever again.

 

I really want to like Rush, and would do so if the vocals weren't so damn annoying.  I do like a few songs here and there (Limelight, for example) but it's in spite of the singing, not because of it.  I do wonder what they would sound like had they kept the band exactly as it is but added a singer who didn't make me cringe every time he/she opened his/her mouth.

 

I like King Crimson's work a lot, but wish I could just enjoy it without feeling obliged to enjoy it. 

 

I'm kind of thinking about liking Dream Theatre, but I'm waiting to see if the urge goes away before I invest in any of their CDs.

 

I like Opeth.  Not love, but like. I kind of like Swedish prog generally and am hoping to find time to expand my knowledge of it.

Lewa wrote: Hi. Could you perhaps recommend a clean vocals Opeth album? I didn't even know they had them and might give them another chance.

Damnation (2003)

Heritage (2011)

Pale Communion (2014)

I...

--haven't heard an RPI release that disappointed me. That genre dominates my CD purchases and most of the content on my Ipod. Being Italian helps.

--when Peter Gabriel left Genesis, I quit listening to them. 

--Jethro Tull is my favorite band, yet I have not purchased Under Wraps because I cannot get through one minute of any song. 

--still think Roger Waters made Pink Floyd a great band. Hell with his tendencies. 

--am not a fan of Rush, though I did love 2112.

--Opeth and Dream Theater are my favorites in the metal genre. Sorry, but not much else touches these two. 

--Gentle Giant (they lost me after Power and the Glory), and King Crimson (up to Red) are pure masterpieces.

--wonder why Neo-Prog bands are hated...

--love classic era Ange.

--not a fan of Progressive Electronic, Post Rock/Math Rock, Jazz Rock/Fusion genres.

--not a fan boy for Steven Wilson...but damned close to being one.

--check Prog Archives several times a day. 

 

I think these would count as "usual" prog opinions rather than unusual ones.

-I think Beefheart needs to be higher rated, probably even at the top of the RIO/Avant section.  

-I actually didn't really enjoy Hand Cannot Erase, even though I enjoyed The Raven quite a bit.

-I love Frank Zappa, but out of his 100 or so albums, I'd say only about 3 (excluding archival whole live shows) are completely solid all the way through