"Essential" Prog

Good article.

I haven't got time to go through the entire list, but I would choose Nursery Cryme for the Genesis album, and Red for KC. No list would be complete for me wiothout essential neo-prog, and the seminal example to me is Marbles by Marillion.

The link works fine for me.

Agree with BaldFriede about Lamb.  Also, instead of the ELP debut, would have had Tarkus.

Have you revised the list? 

Amongst many others I could think of, I would consider Soft Machine's Third, Magma's MDK (not my fave Magma, though excellent, but for list purposes), Herbie Hancock's Crossings or Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (while not a favourite Davis one of mine, it would be a good one to consider if it could fit one's progressive rock parameters), Faust's self-titled and Can's Tago Mago, Tangerine Dream's Zeit or the better-known Phaedra for list purposes, Univers Zero's debut would have been cool for your time-frame, and Comus' First Utterance and Fifty Foot Hose's Cauldron as another possibility if you had made it pre-69..  I would have included Amon Duul 2.

Of course with such limited space one can't represent many of the various styles we recognise at PA as Prog, nor does one have space to represent many countries, nor is there space to represent all of the decades (temporal limits was a good idea, but I would say that I don't think the list diverse enough to give a broad perspective of progressive rock and some are similar enough in style that the list risks becoming more tedious (rather anglo symph oriented). I do think you were right to impose temporal limitations for such a list, and it is seminal prog, but I would've tried to represent more diversity (maybe limited the years more, and I would've started pre-69...).


Edited by Logan - May 01 2010 at 00:37