Looking for 70s obscure Prog...Suggestions...????

[Digital_Man]

Not yet listed:
Camel
Flower Kings
Glass Hammer
Kansas
Magenta
Saga
Zappa

About half of those artists aren't from the seventies though. Technically Saga are but they only had two albums in that decade. You listed all quality stuff regardless though.


[So, Scruffynerfherder, how deep have your dived so far? Have you tried bands like UK, Gentle Giant and Caravan? Or are we getting deeper and the likes of Gnidrolog and Nektar?]

Nektar aren't really any deeper than the first few you mentioned. They might not be as widely known in prog circles these days I suppose but they had albums in the top forty in the US which is more than I can say for the other bands.

[Scruffynerfherder]

Great suggestions!!! Some I really like already.
Over the past year or so I've also listened to:
The strawbs
UK
Mike oldfield
Vandergraff generator
Gentle giant
Fever tree
Gandalf
Glass hammer (saw them live!!)
ELP (saw Palmer live with his band. Fucking sick ass show)
Transatlantic
Spocks beard
Neal morse band
Yezda urfa. ( cancer of the band has the most ridiculous lyrics. I'd pay someone $1k if they can tell me what it's about hahaha)
Romantic warrior
Keith Jarrett. (Arbor zena is amazing)

[Progatron]

There are already more great suggestions in this thread than you need to keep you busy for a while, but I'll toss in a nice obscurity:

Faithful Breath - Fading Beauty

[Digital_Man]

Another one from Germany(and a must have if you like mid 70's Genesis even though it doesn't sound too much like them):

Epidaurus- Earthly Paradise

[Progbear]

Except: Second Hand - Death May Be Your Santa Claus from 1972. Jonesy - Keeping Up from 1973. Jody Grind - Far Canal from 1971. (Arthur Brown's) Kingdom Come - s/t from 1972. Marsupilami - s/t from 1970.

And these were just five British ones.

Allow me to second the Second Hand, Jonesy and Marsupilami suggestions. The Second Hand album is really weird and totally unique. Jonesy’s album really is a missing gem of 70s prog, their other two albums don’t come anywhere close to it. On the other hand, I think both Marsupilami albums are must-haves.

Allow me to add Atlas, from Sweden:

[Digital_Man]

[Romantic warrior ]

Are you referring to the band Return to Forever who had an album with this title or something else? There was an obscure Italian band from the 90's called Romantic Warriors but I get the feeling that's not what you meant.

[Svetonio]

Smak, Put od balona, (1975)






Smak, Tegoba (1977)






Smak, Ponoćni lovac, (1979)




http://www.discogs.com/artist/517378-Smak-3

[nosebone]

If you're looking for "obscure" organ grinding--as some posts imply--go with:

Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill

Twenty Sixty Six & Then - Reflections On The Future

Yes, that 2066 is a must!

Mo, do you still haave that top 50 proto prog list?

[Scruffynerfherder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10PwGSLDGwY Found this Gem....gooood shit....

[Svetonio]

Igra Staklenih Perli, Pečurka, 1979





http://www.discogs.com/artist/335390...taklenih-Perli

[Digital_Man]

There was a top 100 proto prog list a few years ago. I didn't know anyone narrowed it down to 50. Isn't that kind of like taking half of the nachos out of the bag and throwing away the rest?

[Progatron]

Another one from Germany(and a must have if you like mid 70's Genesis even though it doesn't sound too much like them):

Epidaurus- Earthly Paradise

Some of this album is extraordinarily beautiful, but I do find the vocals a serious weak spot. Still a worthy recommendation however. Funnily enough, it's on my shelf right beside my earlier Faithful Breath suggestion, and on the same reissue label (Garden Of Delights)!

[Digital_Man]

The female lead singer was still better than many male vocalists though. Typically us prog fans learn to live with weak vocalists and most of us don't really listen to prog for the vocals anyway. Do we?

[Progatron]

The female lead singer was still better than many male vocalists though. Typically us prog fans learn to live with weak vocalists and most of us don't really listen to prog for the vocals anyway. Do we?

Not really. But it's always nice when the vocals ARE good. I do like that Epidaurus album a lot despite its shortcomings.

[Svetonio]

Tako, s/t debut 1978




http://www.discogs.com/artist/759531-Tako-2

[Meme Prog Mutation]

[Progatron]

Yes, the Babylon album is great! And the England album mentioned earlier in the thread.

[Svetonio]

Galija, Ej hladna noć...ehej vreli dan, 1979





http://www.discogs.com/artist/471025-Galija

[Buddhabreath]

Not sure if these have been mentioned, but a few more pretty good and obscure ones, early 70's English that have that good old sound:

• Indian Summer - Indian Summer (1971)
• Khan - Space Shanty (1972)
• Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft (1971)
• Cressida - Cressida/Asylum (1970/1)
• Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail, Lady Lake (1972)
• Locomotive - We are Everything You See (1970)

[zravkapt]

Etron Fou Leloublan

[Digital_Man]

Yes, the Babylon album is great! And the England album mentioned earlier in the thread.

Speaking of weak vocals(the Babylon that is).

[Progatron]

Speaking of weak vocals(the Babylon that is).

touché!

[mogrooves]

Mo, do you still haave that top 50 proto prog list?

At your cervix:

Gracious - s/t
Spring - s/t
Marsupilami - s/t
Beggars Opera - Waters of Change
Cressida - s/t
Web - I Spider
Cressida - Asylum
Gracious - This is... Gracious!!
East of Eden - Mercator Projected
Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By
Samurai - s/t
Diabolus - s/t
Marsupilami - Arena
Raw Material - Time is...
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Tonton Macoute - s/t
Indian Summer - s/t
Egg - The Polite Force
Khan - Space Shanty
Egg - s/t
Culpepers Orchard - s/t
Comus - First Utterance
Rare Bird - s/t
Quicksand - Home is Where I belong
Second Hand - Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Beggars Opera - Pathfinder
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland
Jody Grind - Far Canal
2066 & Then - Reflections
Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier
Quatermass - s/t
Fields - s/t
Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail
Julian's Treatment - A Time Before This
Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly
Still Life - s/t
East of Eden - s/t
Greenwood, Nicholas - Cold Cuts
Catapilla - s/t
Beggars Opera - Act One
Parlour Band - Is a Friend?
Fusion Orchestra - Skeleton in Armour
Gravy Train - Second Birth
Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice & Rats in the Loft
Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Jonesy - Growing
Gravy Train - Ballad of a Peaceful Man
The Greatest Show on Earth - Horizons
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
Catapilla - Changes
Kingdom Come - Journey
Warm Dust - And It Came To Pass
Krokodil - An Invisible World...
Orange Peel - s/t
Titus Groan - s/t
Julian Jay Savarin - Waiters on the Dance
Manfred Mann's Chapter Three Vol. 2
Out of Focus - s/t
Family - Family Entertainment
High Tide - Sea Shanties
Missing Link - Nevergreen!
Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - WWW
Out of Focus - Wake Up
Room - Pre-Flight
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Dear Mr. Time - Grandfather
Cirkus - One
Tractor - s/t
High Tide - s/t
Kestrel - s/t
Fantasy - Paint a Picture
Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs
Locomotive - We Are Everything You See
Arc - At this
Skin Alley - s/t
Odin - s/t
Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - M144
Ache - De Homine Urbano
Bodkin - s/t
Bram Stoker - Heavy Rock Spectacular
Fantasy - Beyond the Beyond
Greenslade - s/t
Subject Esq - s/t
Affinity - s/t
Fuchsia - s/t
Fuzzy Duck - s/t
Colosseum - Daughter of Time
Touch - s/t
Fairfield Parlour - From Home to Home
Pete Brown & Piblokto - Thousands on a Raft
Ache - Green Man
Galliard - Strange Pleasure
Arzachel - s/t
Sandrose - s/t
Galliard - New Dawn
Love Sculpture - Forms & Feelings
Aquila - s/t
Frumpy - Frumpy 2
Arcadium - Breathe Awhile
Wind - Seasons
Earth & Fire - s/t
Abacus - s/t
A-Austr Musics from Holy Ground
Czar - s/t
Black Widow - Sacrifice

[Scruffynerfherder]

Allow me to second the Second Hand, Jonesy and Marsupilami suggestions. The Second Hand album is really weird and totally unique. Jonesy’s album really is a missing gem of 70s prog, their other two albums don’t come anywhere close to it. On the other hand, I think both Marsupilami albums are must-haves.

Allow me to add Atlas, from Sweden:

awesome shit..... Im diggin this.... so many awesome albums and suggestions on here...gonna take me a while to get through them all!

[Progbear]

Good list, I would question the “proto” status of some of the later releases, though. I mean, my God, that Kestrel album was released in 1975! Isn’t that a bit long in the tooth to be considered “proto-prog”?