/prog-rock/

ITT: concept albums inspired by literature.

Starting with an easy one.

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really good album but the lyrics are pure fucking garbage tbqh

You are dead fucking wrong pal. How many times have you even listened to it?

Another easy one

>Close to the Edge
>garbage lyrics
There's no way you've actually listened to this album.

Did prog bands know they were making prog at the time? Or was it just a stupid label like "indie"?

Yes. Fripp has said he hated the term but admitted that's what King Crimson was making. Jethro Tull's 1976 "Too Old to Rock n Roll, To Young to Die" is based on Punk overtaking Prog.

I think they new they were making stuff that was more than simply "rock", but it got buzzed real fast I'm sure

youtube.com/watch?v=Eln3J6BxWN0

Yeah, although it was called "progressive pop" at the time because it tried to break how pop was structured. Also Google "proto-prog"

Loads of times, I really like it.

They sound nice but they're just typical fantasy proggy bullshit at the end of the day. Genesis had waaay better lyrics.

>fantasy proggy bullshit
holy fuck get the fuck out of here you fucking idiot. You have clearly not read Siddartha

No I clearly have not read that book, if I have to read a novel from almost a century ago to comprehend the lyrics to a rock album without perceiving them as pure, dense word salad then I think the lyrics suck anyway.

I mean it's not a diss, I don't listen to prog for lyrics.

please leave and never come back

>A man conceived a moment's answer to the dream
>Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes
>As a foundation left to create the spiral aim
>A movement regained and regarded both the same
>All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you

none of this shit fucking even means anything unless you're given context by a book, apparently. compare it to this by joni mitchell.
>Photo beauty gets attention
>Then her eye paint's running down
>She's got a rose in her teeth
>And a lampshade crown
>One minute she's so happy
>Then she's crying on someone's knee
>Saying laughing and crying
>You know it's the same release

so read the god damn book you uncultured swine

It had a lot of different names like Classical Rock, Symphonic rock, Art Rock, e.t.c

My dad grew up back then and he calls it simply "progressive music"

what's your fathers background? curious if it involves Classical enthuse

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I have never listened to Jethro Tull, how do i start?

This album and thick as a brick. OH AND USE GOOD HEADPHONES.

He's a self-taught guitar player so no training but he loves Stravinsky and Mussorgsky.

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I've got HD598s and hi fidelity music player

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>a novel from almost a century ago
Would you read it if it was released a year ago?

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surprised this wasnt already posted

Welcome to the Machine shows obvious influence from Adorno and Horkheimer

Thick as a Brick, then Passion Play if you like the giant single-song album format, or Aqualung for shorter songs with a more late-60s-early-70s "hard" rock sound, Heavy Horses and Songs From The Wood for shorter, proggy folk tunes or Minstrel in the Gallery for a good mixture of all those things.

The rest of the albums are good, but not essential, except Under Wraps which is just plain bad- an 80s experiment gone horribly wrong

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INFINITELY superior Moby Dick album incoming

YES

>being inspired by Eastern religions
>anything but vacuous rambling

Literally almost any BG album

>Literally almost any

This makes as much sense as saying 'literally some'.

I recently bought Thick as a Brick and Close to the Edge on vinyl. Which one is better in your opinion?

what a stupid fucking post what do they have to do with each other

Fucking godlike album

TaaB though both are great

>Literally almost any BG album
>I can't even even odd

im sure there's something based on the bible

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>based on the bible

>literally what is Genesis

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this

man, what a great photograph

>I like prog rock
Thick as a Brick

>I like folk rock
Songs from the Wood
Heavy Horses

>I like blues rock
Stand Up

Benefit and Aqualung are somewhere in between these but are also excellent

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a band that only made one concept album that isn't based on the bible

Does anyone actually like this album?

moonchild is literally named after a book

This one is quite obvious as well.

yes

lyrics were only meant to go with the music

BroadSword and the Beast is GOAT

Close to the Edge

One of my GOATs actually.

Its so hard to choose between this and CttE as the best Yes album.

>I don't listen to prog for the lyrics
Then your severely hampering your enjoyment of albums like pic related that explicitly tell a story.

March of Ghosts is growing on me, maybe one day i'll finally see why you shill that band so hard.

The fountainhead
lol Geddy looks back on that one and cringes

masterpiece this
and this

Regarding Close to the Edge's lyrics: yesworld.com/2012/12/jon-anderson-talks-yes-close-to-the-edge-track-by-track/

Turn of the Century is inspired by one of the objectively best literary pieces in history.

Genesis is so cheesy. Their lyrics sound like the singer thinks they're so deep. I can't take them seriously.

who the fuck cares about lyrics
if you dont like suppers ready you should kill yourself

Really? I find them to be the complete opposite. For one thing, I think Peter Gabriel had something wonderful to say, so I may be biased. But the way I see it, the lyrics have enough humor and sillyness to them to take away any pretentiousness. I also think theyre very well written.

The first time I heard Supper's Ready, It was on a weird MP3 rip of the album version with the vocals cut out, so it was essentially just a 20-minute long instrumental.


And I fucking loved it

>who cares about lyrics
wew there bud I do.

I like this song though m.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_3yOUKSOc

This isn't prog dipshit

how can you not? all the songs are great! it's almost hilariously edgy, but it's done in such an earnest way that it doesn't feel overstated, it's just crazy songwriting

when he says he likes prog

>what you think he means
gentle giant
vdgg
genesis
yes

>what he actually means
henry cow
cardiacs
magma
[Italian band]

I'm wet already

goblin