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Alan Davey - 'Rock Palace' (from 'Bedouin', 2017)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPVSMFTG5cw

Wojtek Pilichowski Band - 'Fair Of Noise' live 2017


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtc3SJu820

I'm not a musician myself either, but Rick Beato is great and certainly has enough of charisma to keep attention of us who aren't musicians. Also if we want to find out a lot of info from someone who...

^^ It's great. Thank you so much for putting me in the music of this great band!

^^ As someone who is pro-Israel oriented as I do, Roger Waters' strong pro-Palestinian position casts a shadow to my liking of his interviews and I avoid to listen to them.

Nah. Imo, 'Music In a Doll's House' has that "warm" atmosphere which 'Church of Anthrax' doesn't have.

P.S. I'm not Sventionio but you can to call me like that if it makes you feel better.

Progressive rock by Prysma from Greece.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjh4lQWaQz0

I've never heard of this Japanese band before, thus thanks to YouTube and PE. A truly incredible jazz-rock parts in the vein of Frank Zappa but also too much of free jazz to these ears.

How I attacked on Progarchives?!

Something by more recent releases that are off the top of my head: incredible Jean-Francois Desilets' bass-line & solo at 'Fall'n Fly' from 'The Black Hole' album by Hamadryad (2017).

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Off the top of my head: 10 album-jacketts with illustrations and 10 with the photo-works:

Fantasy - 'Paint A Picture'
King Crimson - 'A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson'
Genesis - 'Trespass'...

Awesome fuzzy Miroslav Vitous' bass at trippy 'Crystal' from 'I Sing the Body Electric' have to be mentioned.


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

Amazing angelic female-vocal at this beautiful proggy folk song by the band from beautiful former-homeland of beautiful the First Lady. And amazing artwork too.

Sedmina - ''v polju gre v psenica...

Computers can't destroy Prog. But computers already destroyed mainstream imo.

It's a Jazz-Rock album and it is a great Jazz-Rock album, man. With a great guitar-work and excellent compositions, and with a track with great female-vocal on it. The opening track is charming...

Experimental rock by F.O.R.S. from Switzerland.

https://fors.bandcamp.com/album/f-o-r-s-before

Maybe you should check other songs too.

Jazz-Rock by Smash the Crash from Poland.

https://smashthecrash.bandcamp.com/album/pl-lady


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1f4Jw5RXr2M

Yeah... big bravo for Rick Beato!

This track is another example of Alan Parsons' geniousity. He did it exactly in "retro" style of Adult Oriented Rock genre that was recognized as such by British journalists and the records dealers...

^^The video with that Bill Bruford cover is not available, but nevemind, here is the original version:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s09GOrBUrKY


Well if we discuss about hooks from the...

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

IMHO, a prog-hook, if we talk about Symphonic Rock, is a song that is loosely based on a Pop-Rock idiom but with odd time signatures and with an orchestration that is suitable for the genre...

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand about your attitude, mister.

I don't exaggerate anything; I think that there aren't that much memorable hooks in contemporary Prog like it use to be in the Golden Era and hence I'm wondering why there are less of them at the...

They certainly were.. (some of my all time favorities that are off the bunch of immortal hooks created by these three great Prog bands) :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ld3prHzbdY

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An astonishing album by very talented American keyboardist. I remember the day when I bought this record back in 1975 and my fav track is still the title track actually, as I am a huge fan of Return...

There are certainly cases where listeners for some reason "don't hear" a hook.
For example, The Vorticists' album 'Show' is plenty of hooks, but it's still an extremely overlooked album. 'Show', an...

I'll return to King Crimson catalogue once again on this thread. At ItCotCK, 'Moonchild' starts as a ballad-like sympho-rock song, but throughout the song, it turns to avantgarde-like jam and it's...

A few examples:

M.E.V. (Musica Elettronica Viva) - 'Spacecraft', 1967


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzxLoCwiEy0


Richard Maxfield - 'Night Music', 1967

Actually, every musicologist on this planet will say that the music don't "progress". Thus, "progressive" the tag doesn't mean that a song is literaly progressive nor we, the original prog-heads,...

No problem, man. Univers Zero is not the only Experimental rock band that has been smuggled into the progland.

I had in mind the real avant-garde of that era, not the avant-garde "light" that is merged with popular music i.e. with pseudo-rock beats and hence such records could have been sold to the prog-heads.

Sadly, an article from 1990s is not valid to show if the album is underrated or not 'cause now is 2019 and people vote on a website.
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The fact is that the real prog-rockers from the past were grow up on proggy Pop-Rock by The Beatles. Surely it has a lot to do with their ability to create their mind blowing songs that so often use...

Honorable mention; a nice hook from an underrated album by Fantasy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5r09Nqc1bw

Prog would be a boring place without hooks like this.

Kornelyans - 'Not An Ordinary Life' live in Belgrade 2019 (Serbian language version)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZfs40xrMkY

King Crimson were / are Progressive rock band that recorded many great instrumental parts. However, all those frippy soundscapes in KC's catalogue would be just bitter if they are packed on their...

Symphonic rock by Lost World Band from Moscow.

https://lostworldband.bandcamp.com/album/spheres-aligned

There are some nice hooks today also (for example this ECM clip), but not as much as it was the case in the Seventies in all of the genres, and the real question is - why?

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An abundance of hooks like in this vid?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5a04Muv7YE&t=2773s


There's not such abundance of hooks in prog anymore and never will be again. Well I could to...

Abul Mogard - 'Above All Dreams' 2018


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

Perhaps the generations that grew up listening to anti-music genres like rap and techno music have lost their sense for a hook?

Regarding contemporary Progressive music, the choice is larger because instrumental prog albums - aside of jazz-rock albums that always were mostly instrumental - are the usual thing today. Here are...

Math Rock by Town Portal from Copenhagen.

https://townportal.bandcamp.com/album/of-violence


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vH_8wxO1xs

Another exception of the rule...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh4UpNsIb_Y

There are always some exceptions of the rule; three such examples regarding contemporary Prog & off the top of my head:

Napier's Bones - 'Psychic Driving'

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Technical Metal by Sydney-based guitarist and composer Stephen Taranto.

https://stephentaranto.bandcamp.com/album/permanence


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpUiw0shLqY

Hey now I think that I should have to put 'Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away' by Terje Rypdal on my list instead 'Hergest Ridge'.

I think it's slightly better.

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Yeah you're right. Well, instead of those two albums by Mike Oldfield, I would put on my list 'Solstice' by Ralph Towner and 'Cloud About Mercury' by David Torn.

David Bowie - 'Little Bombardier'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVi6-PVq4To





The Zombies (feat. Colin Blunstone) - 'Care Of Cell 44'

Kate Bush - 'Babooshka'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c




Loreena McKennitt - 'Come By The Hills'

Another "Canterburian" is hailing from beautiful Devonshire! Billie Bottle & The Multiple is one-man band that is keen to evoke the magical sound of Phil Miller, Robert Wyatt and the others heroes of...

Goblin - 'Roller'
The Enid - 'In The Region Of The Summer Stars'
Mike Oldfield - 'Tubular Bells'
Mike Oldfield - 'Hergest Ridge'
Mike Oldfield - 'Ommadawn'
The Soft Machine - 'Fourth'...

Paleowolf - 'Global Migrations', from 'Primordial' CD, 2015


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0OWZNCa3U

Young songwriters, although they evidently love to listen to some old hook at the daily basis, for some reason they don't like to write a hook, or the human brain is not able to write a great hook...

'Gazeuse!' is surely one of the best Jazz-Rock albums of the Seventies and beyond, while 'Shamal', with a touch of Jazz-Rock, is one of the very best Progressive rock albums ever recorded. Some...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dpHX4OSXeM

Meredith Monk - 'Dolmen Music'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZyOkjaUHY