[Wildy]

Progressive Rock/Krautrock/Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Avant Garde/Experimental etc Music Recommendations

The term Progressive Rock is very broad and covers really very vast sub genres of music under its wings. Though it may not be everybody's cup of tea, if you get used to it, this music would lead you to listen very broadminded music and in fact changes your music tastes forever.

Like everybody, I too developed my music habits with some regional music (Telugu), then started to explore old Bollywood, Pop music and then whole lot world of music. Though, I explored so much of music in the last 35 years (Now, Iam 43 BTW), I personally feel, I explored only a drop from the ocean of music. Everyday it's a lesson, new explorations and new adventures in my music habits.


Before I start my music recommendations in this genre, I will give you some links where you may understand few things about these things.

Introduction:

• Characteristics of Progressive Rock

• Progressive Rock
• Psychedelic Rock/Acid-Rock
• Kraut-Rock
• Heavy-Prog
• Italian Prog
• Canterbury
• Avantgarde/Experimental
• Jazz-Rock/Fusion

Some Other Important Links: These links may give you broad idea to understand the artists, albums etc... But don't rely on them too much especially, the ratings. Always remember one thing, your ears gives best judgement to understand the music. And certainly, not the so called ratings. But, just use them to understand the music in a better way, especially when you are new into the scene.

• Gnosis: A kind of bible for ratings and reviews of Music.
• Prog Archives
• Vintage Prog
• Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
• Ectagon - the gateway to Progressive Rock Music on the Internet
• Allmusic

I will give some recommendations on each genre, like some essential albums to explore, that is entirely in my experience point of view.

Then, later on, every week, I will try to post five to six songs or an album as my recommendations, usually through youtube links that I found online.


Please note that my updates will depend on your enthusiasm and with your feedback and comments.


You can always feel free to ask for any music recommendations/suggestions if you need.


Hope you enjoy it.


Best Regards,
Raaj

[Wildy]

Beginner's guide to explore:

First let me start with few of my favorite albums

Just click on the link, it will lead you to relevant information to that particular album.

• King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)

• Arzachel - Arzachel (1969)

• Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (1970)

• Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake & Palmer (1970)

• Beggars Opera - Act One (1970)

• Guru Guru - UFO (1970)

• Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)

• Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)

• Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971)

• Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick (1972)

[Wildy]

Phase 2:

If you really interested my first set of recommendations in the above page, I would recommend you to explore the following albums on Prog's sub genre wise.

Please note, these are recommendations on my point of view and on my own experience based only. As always, there's always better albums according to individual choices/tastes

Artist Name follows the album name and the year of release.

[Wildy]

Progressive Rock Recommendations

• Yes - Close To The Edge (1972)

• Camel - The Snow Goose (1975)

• Uriah Heep - Salisbury (1971)

• Atomic Rooster - Atomic Ro-o-oster (1970)

• Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire (1974)

• The Nice - Five Bridges (1970)

• Focus - Moving Waves aka Focus II (1971)

• Focus - Hamburger Concerto (1974)

• Focus - Focus III (1972)

• Comus - First Utterance (1971)

• Gracious - Gracious! (1970)

• Gracious - This is...Gracious!! (1972)

• Aquelarre - Aquelarre (1972)

• The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream (1969)

• Nicholas Greenwood - Cold cuts (1972)

• Babe Ruth - First Base (1973)

• Beggars Opera - Act One (1970)

• Bram Stoker - Heavy Rock Spectacular (1972)

• P.L.J. Band - Armageddon (1982)

• Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By (1970)

• Steamhammer - Mountains (1971)

• Still Life - Still Life (1970)

• Wishbone Ash - Argus (1972)

• Stud - Stud (1971)

• Culpeper's Orchard - Culpeper's Orchard (1971)

• Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (1973)

• King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)

• Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (1971)

• Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of the Moon (1973)

• Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

[Wildy]

Canterbury

• Egg - Egg (1970)

• Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971)

• Soft Machine - Third (1970)

• Matching Mole - Matching Mole (1972)

• Khan - Space Shanty (1972)

• Hatfield And The North - Hatfield And The North (1973)

• National Health - National Health (1977)

[Wildy]

Heavy Prog Recommendations

• T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland (1970)

• Writing On the Wall - The Power Of the Picts (1969)

• Stray - Stray (1970)

• Head Machine (Feat. Ken Hensley) - Orgasm (1970)

• High Tide - Sea Shanties (1969)

• High Tide - High Tide (1970)

• Irish Coffee - Irish Coffee (1971)

• Jericho - Jericho (1972)

• Warhorse - Warhorse (1970)

• Warhorse - Red Sea (1972)

• Leafhound - Growers Of Mushrooms (1971)

• The Norman Haines Band - Den Of Iniquity (1971)

[Wildy]

Krautrock Recommendations:

• Amon Düül - Psychedelic Underground (1969)

• Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei (1969)

• Amon Duul II - Yeti (1970)

• Amon Duul II - Tanz der Lemminge (1971)Guru Guru - UFO (1970)

• Guru Guru - Hinten (1971)

• Guru Guru - Dance of the Flames (1974)

• Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel (1971)

• Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen (aka 2nd, 1972)

• Ash Ra Tempel - Join inn (1973)

• Birth Control - Operation (1971)

• Kraftwerk -Kraftwerk (1970)

• Kraftwerk -Kraftwerk 2 (1972)

• Kraftwerk -Ralf und Florian (1973)

• Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)

• Jane - Together (1972)

• 2066 And Then - Reflections on the future! (1972)

• Dies Irae - First (1971)

• Ihre Kinder - Werdohl (1971)

• Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend (1970)

• Murphy Blend - First Loss (1970)

• Oktober - Uhrsprung (1976)

• Out Of Focus - Out Of Focus (1971)

• Scorpions - Lonesome Crow (1972)

• Silberbart - 4 Times Sound Razing (1971)

• Tyburn Tall - Tyburn Tall (1972)

• Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass (1974)

• Zweistein - Trip - Flip Out - Meditation (1970)

[Wildy]

Psychedelic/Acid Rock:

• Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body (1967)

• Country Joe and the Fish - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die (1967) (1967)

• Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (1967)

• Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love (1967)

• Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)

• Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

• Jeffferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)

• Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)

• It's a Beautiful Day - It's a Beautiful Day (1969)

• Group 1850 - Paradise Now (1969)

• Dark - Round The Edges (1972)

• Corpus - Creation A Child (1972)

• The Doors - The Doors (1967)

• Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver Messenger Service (1968)

• Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trials (1969)

• Big Brother & the Holding Company Feat. Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills (1968)

• Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa (1969)

• The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed (1967)

• Quintessence - Quintessence (1970)

• Mecki Mark Men - Running in the Summer Night (1969)

• Mighty Baby - Mighty Baby (1969)

• Morly Grey - The Only Truth (1971)

• Orang-Utan - Orang-Utan (1971)

• Sam Gopal Feat. Lemmy - Escalator (1969)

• Tea & Symphony - An Asylum For The Musically Insane (1969)

• Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972)

• Toad - Toad (1971)

[Wildy]

Japanese & Other Asian Psych-Prog

• Flower Travellin' Band - Satori (1971)

• Far Out (Later named as Far East Family Band) - Far Out aka Nihonjin (1973)

• Speed, Glue & Shinki - Eve (1971)

• Kimio Mizutani - A Path Through Haze (1971)

• Love Live Life + One - Love Will Make A Better You (1971)

• Juan De La Cruz Band - Up In Arms (1971)

• People - Ceremony~Buddha Meet Rock (1971)

• Strawberry Path - When the Raven Has Come to the Earth (1971)

[Wildy]

Italian Prog

• Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) - Storia Di Un Minuto (1972)

• Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) - Per Un Amico (1972)

• Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin! (1972)

• Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso (1972)

• Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (1973)

• Le Orme - Felona E Sorona (1973)

[Wildy]

Space Prog

• Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)

• Gong - Camembert Electrique (1971)

• Gong - Flying Teapot (1973)

• Gong - Angel's Egg (1973)

• Gong - You (1974)

• Gong - Gong Live Etc (1977)

• Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974)

• Steve Hillage - Fish Rising (1975)

• Steve Hillage - Green (1977)

[Wildy]

Jazz Rock/Fusion

• Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)

• Tony Williams - Emergency (1969)

• Tony Williams - Turn It Over (1970)

• Larry Coryell - Spaces (1970)

• Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)

• Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (1973)

• Mahavishnu John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - Love Devotion Surrender (1973)

• Oregon - Music of Another Present Era (1972)

• Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973)

• Shakti With John McLaughlin - Shakti With John McLaughlin (1975)

• Collin Walcott - Cloud Dance (1976)

• Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior (1976)

• The Flock - The Flock (1969)

• Colosseum - Those Who Are About to Die Salute You (1969)

• Colosseum - Valentyne Suite (1969)

• Colosseum - Colosseum Live (1971)

• Colosseum II - Strange New Flesh

• Boud Deun - Astronomy Made Easy (1997)

• Jonas Hellborg & Shawn Lane - Zenhouse (1999)

[Wildy]

Avant Prog/Avant Garde/Experimental/Zeuhl/Rock In Opposition

• Frank Zappa - Freakout (1969)

• Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)

• Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (1969)

• Can - Tago Mago (1971)

• Henry Cow - Legend (1973)

• Magma - Magma aka Kobaia (1970)

• Magma - 1001° Centigrades (1971)

• Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh (MDK) (1973)

• Magma - Ẁurdah Ïtah (1974)

• Magma - Live/Hhaï (1975)

• Univers Zero - 1313 (1977)

• Univers Zero - Heresie (1979)

• Slapp Happy - Slapp Happy (also known as Casablanca Moon) (1974)

• Slapp Happy & Henry Cow - Desperate Heights (1975)

• Henry Cow & Slapp Happy - In Praise of Learning (1975)

[Wildy]

Well, for the time being, I hope that's more than enough to explore proper Prog-Rock. I left few other sub genres like Symphonic Prog, Hammond Prog, Prog Folk etc... But I covered all the essential albums of those genres in the Prog-Rock recommendations.

I hope you enjoy this thread and the music that I recommended. I would love to see your feedback now.

[GTO]

Thread moved from the Assembly Line to the Shifting Gears Section. Thanks for sharing!