the best sounding prog rock al*** ever.

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Manfred's Mann Earth Band did the seemingly impossible by recording Blinded By The Light and making Bruce Springsteen palatable to the sensitive man and woman too (John Peel quote).

Off topic slightly, but local Northampton singer/guitarist/songwriter Katie Malko offered me a similarly new experience by performing a fine acoustic version of 'Dancing In The Dark' - far better than the original!

Are there any samples on the Web - we can listen too? Thanks, Rotf

Hi Rotf,

Strangly I can't even seem to find her name on the world wide ; I felt sure there would be at least a MySpace page. It was about 4 years ago when I heard it at The Labour Club (arguably now Northampton's 2nd most famous music venue since the closure of The Soundhaus) where various local musicians were just getting up and doing a few acoustic numbers. It was very impressive though.

Steeve

From your posts I know all of them except one Home The alchemyst.But none of them sound as good as After Crying album in the first post.But I did not want to compare production of 70's and 90's and After Crying is 90's production.If I want to ibclude prog album from 70's which sounds excellent then it would be Earth & Fire dutch band album Atlantis and Camel 1 from 1970 and sound so goood(you will be suprised how well these albums are copmare to main acts like Yes,ELP etc),I just love Camel's first album, delicious.

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Not only a great LP, but beautifully recorded - sounds terrific..

All true, but prog rock? Surely not.

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Hang on - isnt this one of the best sounding prog albums ever?

You mean better than Yes, Pink Floyd, Marillion etc etc?

Leaves them for dead.

I thought so...

My vote would go for DSOTM...

steve

In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

I checked, it is absolutely and positively Passion Play by Jethro Tull. Definately. Unless it is Earthbound....Or....Oh no I think it is one of those subjective things

best wishes
SJ

Some very elastic definitions of Prog Rock here......

definately some very un prog stuff here floyd after syd ...no way . Bad company... aw c'mon

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This 1968 classic album.

Or is this one of the best ever psych albums - up there with the truly great records of the 60s. Perhaps we need a best ever psych album thread

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definately some very un prog stuff here floyd after syd ...no way . Bad company... aw c'mon

Surely Syd was psych rather than prog - but what is no doubt in my mind is that Piper At The Gates of Dawn was the best PF by a country mile and I do like their other other stuff. I think Atom Heart Mother was definitely prog.

ATB Rotf

just listened to some floyd and I stand corrected. I do like there psychedelic more though,they became a bit robotic later dont ya think ?
I loved elp for their brutality and YES were just the best songwriters ever in totally nonsense mode. genesis just wanted a good slap though !!

that was an interesting era in music. Wild things were coming out, bigger album concepts, art and performance. The 3 minute song standard for the airwaves was in rule, thus you got a lot of that type music fit into a nice neat slot. Country/folk influenced music was vogue in CA and the west.

My last roommate in Ft Collins CO school introduced me to Pink Floyd in 76 tho I'd heard a few pieces on the radio, and once he put on King Crimson, but I wasn't ready for it. He just laughed at the face that I made. I'd really like to hear PF's Piper.

This one sounds really good as well

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Do you still have Tannoy Westminster?I just went to hear them.How do they sound with Naim?Off topic sorry guys.

Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans.

Maybe not the 'best sounding' prog album but for sheer over indulgence not much beats it.

Herecy for some perhaps but surely one of the best sounding non-prog prog albums - on vinyl anyways

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Do you still have Tannoy Westminster?I just went to hear them.How do they sound with Naim?Off topic sorry guys.

Hi Zappadaddy - I'm not a Tannoy Westminster owner (mot sure if you're confusing me with someone) - I'm strictly one brand: Naim system, except for my TT. One of neighbours does own some Westminsters, he drives them with conrad-johnson amplifiers and he has a Musical Fidelity TT - his system sounds superb, but different from mine. His tastes probaly don't extend to Atomic Rooster, but I think if it did then this wonderful album by John DuCann and Vincent Crane wouls sound really good on it.

Goes without saying that on an all Naim system DWBY is revealed as not only one of the artistically great records of 70s, but also one that majors on sound quality. It is a shame Vince's mental state curtailed what Rooster were able to achieve in subsequent releases especially after he forced DuCann out. Vince always described Rooster as a soul band and predicted that mainstream soul music would begin to align itself more and more with Rooster - he was unstable and eccentric, but he did make some exceedingly fine records.

The first Rooster album called Atomic Roooster with three Os is a very interesting and In The Hearing Of .. is a great record, but after that the output is merely OK.

John DuCann was in the Attack (excellent), Andromeda (not too bad), Rooster and then released a solo that included the hit single Don't Be a Dummy - of course with his track record, we expect great things from DuCann, but a listen to his solo efforts shows he doesn't always deliver.

ATB Rotf

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/bbc-tv-to-screen-prog-rock-special/

for those that are still awake and/or barely alive following New Year celebrations then the above being screened on BBC4 (Fri. Jan 2nd) may be worth a view

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http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/bbc-tv-to-screen-prog-rock-special/

for those that are still awake and/or barely alive following New Year celebrations then the above being screened on BBC4 (Fri. Jan 2nd) may be worth a view

Thanks

Contributors include Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield, Pete Sinfield, Rick Wakeman, Baldy Collins, Arthur Brown, Carl Palmer and Ian Anderson.

Though what on earth has PC got to do with prog-rock? Still at least there are two decent drummers in the cast and the God of Hellfire

Oh goody Phil's on the programme great!

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one crappy song that, and you moan about PC .

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Oh goody Phil's on the programme great!

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one crappy song that, and you moan about PC .

Arthur did lots of great songs - who can forget Give Him A Flower. Of course, Crazy World of Arthur Brown was a superb group containing Vincent Crane on keyboards and Carl Palmer on drums who went on to found The Atomic Rooster, before Carl left for ELP.

Arthur's subsequent work was mixed though; there were some innovative and interesting numbers on his Kingdom Come elpees: Galactic Zoo Dossier and Journey (Try A scientific Experiment). He also contributed to Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Alan Parsons Project).

Interestingly Arthur worked again with Vincent Crane on the Faster Than the Speed of Light, but Crane was becoming increasingly unstable and the collaboration didn't last.

Nonetheless the contribution of Arthur Brown to prog-rock should not be underestimated - try Fire - The Anthology and you'll see what I mean.

Don't forget in 1973, he made a major impact on one of the greatest albums ever released: Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters.

Here's Arthur's fantastic version of I put a spell on you - from 1999. What a singer - what a guy (Smoke me a kipper, skipper ....)

What has PC done, compared with that?

I rest my case m'lud.

ATB Rotf

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Couldn't have put it any better.

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Thats got to be worth a look, just for PC

Now there is an advert with people including Bill Grates claiming to be a PC - do these people know not what the say.

Now if they all claimed to Arthur Brown or even Sparticus I could understand it.



"Prelude/Nightmare" (Arthur Brown) – 3:28
"Fanfare/Fire Poem" (Brown, Vincent Crane) – 1:51
"Fire" (Brown, Crane, Mike Finesilver, Peter Ker) – 2:54
"Come and Buy" (Brown, Crane) – 5:40
"Time/Confusion" (Brown, Crane) – 5:11
"I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) – 3:41
"Spontaneous Apple Creation" (Brown, Crane) – 2:54
"Rest Cure" (Brown, Crane) – 2:44
"I've Got Money" (James Brown) – 3:09
"Child of My Kingdom" (Brown, Crane) – 7:01

What an album - Give him a flower.

I can add this to best sounding mines an American issue.





ROTF,

Jethro Tull is that one more step closer to "proper" folk muisc, Hmmm! I wonder.



Dean..