Prog Rock

I did give it a more fair listen last night and agree that it is less snoozy than the previous two records. It doesn't hit the highs of everything through Take off and Landing, but it's not terrible. I don't know that I'd call it extremely proggy though, despite them naming a song Lover's Leap. But they don't shy away from the genre the way they did early on (I swear I read somewhere that Elbow, when starting out, actually played a Marillion Weekend, but have been unable to find that documented anywhere, like they buried it after getting signed and told it was uncool).

Digging the first Cairo album, gives me nice science fantasy vibes

got to do another set yesterday, heard some guy was coming who was big into "German prog" so I brought Can, Faust, Amon Duul, and so on

turns out he was talking about Triumvirat. which I also brought, lmao

anyway favorite moment was going from the drum freakout part of Phallus Dei to the bit on the first track of Vision Creation Newsun where the drums kick in. some guy remarked "hmm you're a bit different than the other guy"

Van der Graaf are pretty good. At least Pawn Hearts.

(Which I posted about on ilx before but could not recall lol)

I despise the cover though. Needs AI redesign

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