Dudes, if you wanna hear prog whose pretensions are almost bearable
check out mid-70's era King Crimson:
"Larks' Tongues in Aspic"
"Starless and Bible Black"
"Red"
and the various live recordings from that period which have appeared in
recent years.
And if you wanna hear prog with impossible time signatures done by people
who can actually improvise I'd suggest the first 2 Mahavishnu Orchestra
albums.
Truth is the only group which might be labeled prog that I can honestly
say I like are This Heat.
And as far as Pink Floyd, my recommendation would be "Piper At The Gates
Of Dawn". Really, really great. I also like "1967: The First Three
Singles" cuz it's the only place to find "Apples and Oranges", a song I
personally really love, besides the box set. Syd, man !
Andrei
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Aaron Ximm wrote:
quoted 19 lines Hey if your gonna do a time warp, why not check out some old Jethro Tull - say fer instanc
> > Hey if your gonna do a time warp, why not check out some old Jethro Tull - say fer instance, Aqualung...?
> > Not psychedelic per se, but I think you'll like it.
>
> Uh oh, this is a very slippery slope. But of course, you have to then
> also listen to langorous Yes -- e.g. Close to the Edge, and its sequels
> which in a better universe would have been correctly named OVER the edge,
> Tales from Topographic Oceans and Relayer. Sprawling, intricate,
> undanceable, meticulously produced (to a very personal aesthetic) -- why,
> one step more and you're at Can, and perhaps swimming the Ur-sea from
> which IDM might have sprung via Kraftwerk. Well, maybe. (Blow off course
> and you end up in the Zappa archipelago. There there be monsters.)
>
> Re: PF, my heart is always with "Echoes" on Meddle.
>
> Re: psychedelia... dukes of stratosphere, collected on CD. (Anyone
> familiar with those weird solo andy partridge albums?)
>
> Oh, such innocent days those were..
> aaron