Hi there, I was thinking about the planet Gong, and planet Kobaia, which are two planets created (or, depending on your philosophy, which inspire) by musicians that we love (Daevid Allen and Christian Vander). I was wondering if you knew any other prog-planets ? I could only think of the earth-planet like on the Fragile cover, with no name.
Felona and Sorona come to mind.
Bill
Nice!Originally Posted by Sputnik
We'll have a prog solar system before long at this rate.
Perelandra (a name for Venus) from Glass Hammer, which of course is based on CS Lewis' Space Trilogy (awful awful books in my opinion).
Ziltoidia 9, the home planet of Ziltoid the Omniscient, who travels to earth to get the ultimate cup of coffee.
When appalled by the taste, he declares war on earth.
From the prog-metal epic by Devond Townsend.
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
How about all of the "Planets of the Solar Federation," from Rush' 2112?
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
(The Kinks - Cliches of the World (B Movie))In his dreams he's taken away by alien beings
To another galaxy, deep in space
To a planet where a man can live out his fantasies
And experience unimaginable pleasures
Eloy has an album named Planets... dunno if they have names though
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
For myself, its not that they were terrible but more that they were too obsolete for me to enjoy
Toy Planet - Irmin Schmidt
whichever planet Jon Anderson is on
duh, beat me to it ;-)>
Salta is the name of the protagonist's home planet and a "planet of silence" he visits is called Syton. I don't think the others are named.
Progres 2's marvelous science-fiction concept album Dialog s Vesmírem does talk about "Hieronymous Bosche's planet", but I dont know if that is its name or simply an attempt at description. The part two of the song suggests that the place is ruled by heroin and tells any visitor to piss off while they still have the chance, so it could simply be away of telling that the going gets rather surreal down there.
That's good. I'll make a map of it all. I need more planets! I think it can be worthy to determine for those planets if the bands pretend to be from there, or just talk about it, or plan to go there…
CMX's space opera Talvikuningas takes place across the galaxy, but the only planet named is Laertes Prime. Well, there is a mention of a rebellion in the Pleiades and an uprising in Orion, but those only count if you think of them referring to invented planets in those constellations/clusters.
José Cid meets "a fantastic planet" called Mellotron in his space odyssey 10 000 Anos depois entre Vénus e Marte!
David Bedford's Rigel 9 probably doesn't count, especially as he didn't invent it but borrowed it from Ursula Le Guin.
There are a couple prog musicians who have tackled suites from Holst's The Planets. Nobody's done the whole thing that I know of.
Sunhillow
FM - "Aldebaran" from Black Noise
OK, it's a giant star. Close enough.
High Vibration Go On - R.I.P. Chris Squire
Is there a blank planet?
T.Rex..... Planet Queen
She came from planet claire... I knew she came from there... She drove a plymouth satellite faster than the speed of light.
Spiders from mars
Venus in furs
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Still alive and well...
Fronabulax
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Frunobulax, and it wasn't a planet, it was a poodle.
I thought it was a planet inhabited by poodles? Poodle planet.
Still alive and well...
Would Tomita count?
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Cheepnis
Yes covered them all with The Order of the Universe.
If all these are admissible as "prog" then "Night Flight to Venus" by Boney M counts as well!Is there a blank planet?
T.Rex..... Planet Queen
She came from planet claire... I knew she came from there... She drove a plymouth satellite faster than the speed of light.
Spiders from mars
Venus in furs
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