A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
Progressive Rock was a revolutionary music genre that emphasized flashy musicianship and wild experimentation. In the wake of the psychedelic 60s, Prog Rock would scale the heights of commercial and critical success. Its star burned brightly, but only five years later it was in terminal decline, destined to be lost to the sands of time. Join your host Ian Prise and his guests each week as we trace the rise and fall of Prog Rock, album by album.
Episodes
A heartfelt thank you and an intriguing proposal
Today, on 1972's Trilogy, we explore the many complex emotions of ELP: epic, bombastic, virtuostic
What can't these guys do?
Refrain from rocking apparently
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We return for the second half of Yes's classic Fragile. By the end, your hunger will be sated
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We welcome Yes back with 1971's Fragile, the album that would cement them as prog legends.
Also, making his first appearance in our story: the caped crusader, keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman brings his magic touch
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And we're back!
Pink Floyd starts their string of classic albums with 1971's exceptionally mellow Meddle
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Santa Ian spreads some Progmas cheer and drops some tunes down everyone's chimney
Prog bless us every one
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In the first half, we say adios to Season 1, looking backwards and forwards to all the Prog that ever was and ever will be.
In the second half, our tech wizard Ed takes us through the development of multitrack recording
We look forward to seeing you soon for the classic era of 1970s Prog Rock in Season 2
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We end our first series with a heaping helping of organ as we introduce the Bad Bois of prog. It's our first prog rock supergroup: Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Join us as we marvel at ELP cramming as many notes as they can into their self titled debut.
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This week, we travel down to Kent, the garden of England, for a gentle diversion.
Caravan were leaders in the Canterbury scene, a jazz-obsessed, offbeat, more relaxed Prog genre. It all came together, for them and for the scene, in this 1971 classic, In the Land of Grey and Pink.
We welcome the theatre kids of Prog Rock, Genesis.
Join us as we're whisked away to the Fountain of Salmacis.
Along the way we'll meet ghosts, stones and murderous plants.
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Do you enjoy sitting on a park bench?
Do you enjoy... learning about Jethro Tull's classic album Aqualung?
How fortuitous! Join us this week and we get into the heady concepts, the beautiful guitar work and, of course, the flute solos of 1971's Aqualung.
We welcome Prog Rock legends Yes to the podcast with their breakthrough album, the Yes Album.
Come marvel at the musical acrobatics of Steve, Chris, Bill and Tony and help us figure out what Jon's trying to say.
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Soon after recording their successful debut, King Crimson completely imploded, for the first of many times.
Left with a recording contract and no band, Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield went into the studio and patched together In the Wake of Poseidon.
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In 1969, King Crimson smashes free jazz, classical music and mellotron together to make the first true Prog Rock masterpiece, In the Court of the Crimson King.
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We return to the origins of Prog Rock legends Pink Floyd and discuss their debut album, the psychedelic grab-bag, Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
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In 1967, the Moody Blues went into the studio and accidentally recorded one of Prog Rock's first concept albums. Join us for the orchestral rock masterpiece, Days of Future Passed.
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Join me in this whimsical diversion, as the guitar maestro Ed Thomas takes us on a journey through some of the technologies that make Prog Rock rock.
Ed walks us through Mellotron, Moog and the development of guitar pedals.
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And we're back! We got meter maids, waltzing horses, cottages on the Isle of Wight and the most famous piano chord ever recorded!
Join us for the second half of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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In 1967, in the heat of the summer of love, the Beatles were wondering how to build on Revolver.
Looking within and without themselves, they camped out in the studio and took the 3 min song to its sonic limit, creating a psychedelic masterpiece.
Join us as we explore Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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The Beatles just keep rocking.
Join us for the second half of the Beatles' Revolver.
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