Prog Rock

do VdG have any good covers? godbluff is at least not embarrassing i guess

I guess you're talking about the photo inside the gatefold, but in general VdGG must win some sort of award for shittiest prog rock cover art. Other than Still Life, which is OK-ish, every album looks like it was knocked out on someone's tea break.

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The front album cover art, whatever you call it. Felt revulsed by it, and I usually never comment on that kind of thing.

i love when VDG gets all chessed out

I love Pawn Hearts but agree that the cover art is horrible. Also the gatefold is arguably worse, with the four of them goofin' around with Nazi salutes. Didn't age very well, that.

The live album has not a bad cover and "Still Life" is better than OK-ish.

WFMU's prog show "It's Complicated" (Monday evenings, next show in 35 min.) is a decent place to make new discoveries -- https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/GX

So this is the guy that designed the cover.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Whitehead

OK @ that wire sculpture of Lennon

young robert wyatt tardises into the super furry animals after gruff quits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNAiWrzomUk

Yeah, that Wizrd record is really good!

glad you like it, definitely my prog discovery of the year thus far

speaking of VdGG I'm revisiting the 1st album, kinda funny to hear them before they figured their sound out, especially since on "Octopus" they seem to figure it out all at once. what a monster of a track that is. but "Aguarian" is the best track I think

A recent and really excellent discovery, should maybe be on a Krautrock thread, but belongs here as well I feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh8D0U-lfwY

Funnily enough I was listening to that album last week. I like the track "Big City" but that's it. Stretching the concept of Krautrock to breaking point there. Their second album is probably better.

Loving the first Cairo album, they get compared to ELP a lot but I think I like Cairo more!

i think they really mean it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVbXHQ47YB0

I think this is the right thread.

My friend did this. She's into uhhh The Mars Volta and Cardiacs and other good stuff. It's amazing and I say that with as little bias as I can muster. Leafy and frogbs can vouch for her too

https://april1830.bandcamp.com/album/the-adventures-of-space-pig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rjGhCRvWBc

Great stuff in the last three posts but *taps thread again* but Azure and April 1830 belong in here
Prog V3.0 Discussion Thread

new setlist!!

Tangent -> Spark in the Aether
Jethro Tull -> Cross eyed mary
Tangent -> Spark pt. 2
Echolyn -> Warjazz
Todd - International feel
something else?
Todd - When the Shit Hits the Fan and International Feel pt 2
Can - One More Night
Yes - Yours is No Disgrace
PFM - E'Festa, cut into the end of Yours is No Disgrace
Popol Vuh - some of side 1 of seligspresiung
Frost - Hyperventilate
Rush - Limelight
Nazz - Open My Eyes
ELP - Love Beach...had to troll 'em a bit lmao
King Gizzard - Am I In Heaven?
Animal Collective - end of Alvin Row
Battles - Sugar Foot (with Jon Anderson!)
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Ashra - Sunrain
Genesis - Duchess
IQ - Born Brilliant
Utopia - Communion with the Sun
ELP - Knife Edge
Fripp - Disengage
Renassiance - Carpet of the Sun
Magma - Emehenteaheh-re part 2 (the "Hhai" part)
Gentle Giant - Mister Class and Quality
Zappa - St Alphonzo/Father Oblivion
Riverside - track 2 off some album ?? idk someone brought this
Frost - Day and Age
Wobbler - Fermented Hours
Yes - Close to the Edge
Marillion - Fugazi
Genesis - All in a Mouse's Night
Vdgg - House with No Door
something by Alan parsons??
Porcupine Tree - Trains
Can - I'm so Green
Steve Hillage - Salmon Song
WIZRD - Spitfire
Camel - idk something that ruled
Triumvirat - Viva Pompeii
Rush - YYZ
King Crimson - Frame by Frame
Zappa - Gumbo Variations
King Crimson - Cat Food
Midday Veil - Divide by Zero

Nice! Sowiesoso > Sun Rain > Duchess is a brilliant run

when i was doing that I had Duke on the "Now Playing" sign while Sunrain was on because I don't have that Ashra New Age of Earth vinyl (it's really hard to find!), someone came back and was like "this is blowing my mind, I had no idea Genesis did stuff like this"

You should record it for us next time you do a set, frogbs!

that must have been an amazing time. two requests for the next one -- Ring Van Möbius and Chronicles of Father Robin

good shit! loving that midday veil

the nerd in me wants to ask which version of "disengage"