colournoise – Member
CountZero – Member
much more about jazz than epic fantasy.
That’s selling it SO much better…
Well, what do you know about prog music that puts you off? What have you actually heard?
The very first rock album I ever listened to, that I borrowed from a school mate was King Crimson’s ‘In The Court Of The Crimson King’, which opens with ’21st Century Schizoid Man’, a pretty blistering piece of heavy rock, with significant jazz influences, and for 1968, different to anything I’d ever heard on the radio. Prog is, after all, short for ‘progressive rock’, meaning it’s anything that isn’t 12-bar mindless boogie.
Sadly, it degenerated into the musical equivalent of 1000 page fantasy trilogies that infest the shelves of bookshops;
a load of self-indulgent twaddle. Or should that be twiddle? Either works…
Jethro Tull is classed as Prog, as is Opeth, Metallica and Slayer aren’t, it’s a very broad church, and has much that’s worth investigation, like Crimson’s later albums such as Discipline, Red, Three Of A Perfect Pair; Starless, from Red, is a stunning piece of music, about as far removed from the excesses of Tales From Topographic Oceans as it’s possible to get!
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