Desert Island- 5 Non-Prog

[markinottawa]

5 discs I keep going back to and would hate to leave them behind

Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Mick Karn - Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters
Mountain - Flowers of Evil
David Torn - Cloud About Mercury
Allman Bros. - Beginnings

[Supersonic Scientist]

Hendrix - Band of Gypsy's
Deep Purple - MiJ
Beatles - Abby Road
Sabbath - SBS
John Coltrane....hard to pick just ONE album but I would HAVE to have me some Coltrane.

[Zeuhlmate]

Impossible task but here we go

Hendrix - Electric ladyland
Allan Holdsworth IOU
Terje Rypdal - Odyssey
Claude Debussy - His pianoworks
Jan Johansson - Jazz på svenska

Tomorrow it will be something else
Beatles - Revolver, Mountain - Flowers of Evil are also good calls

[mozo-pg]

I'll do three because these are the ones I'm certain about:

1) Allmans Filmore
2) ELO - Eldorado
3) Supertramp - Crime

[Lopez]

The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Move - Shazam
Spirit - The Family that Plays Together
The Clash - London Calling
Eli Radish - I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier

[winkersnufs]

OK.... I'll play!

1. One choice from the music by David Buchbinder solo, (his association with) Flying Bulgar Klezmer band and/or his Odessa Havana involvement.
2. Heart - Little Queen
3. I'd pick one from the 'Traffic' catalogue
4. Rubber Soul release from the Beatles
5. POVO - We are Povo

***** THIS is a tough one! If it's not under the 'Pprog umbrella, and it's in my collection - any single one of those releases by 'non' could make the island trip.

Carry On
Chris Buckley

[Jerjo]

I usually file The Beatles, Who, Zep, and Sabbath as progressive in spirit. Plus that makes this easier.

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Gov't Mule - Dose
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus

[frinspar]

I'm not going to include any Beatles, because they're all Desert Island discs for me. As far the rest goes...

Extreme - Waiting for the Punchline

+1

Alive - Oingo Boingo (I get 2 discs here, but it still counts, dammit! )
Waiting for the Punchline - Extreme
The Reality of My Surroundings - Fishbone
Heartwork - Carcass
King For a Day, Fool For a Lifetime - Faith No More

[zumacraig]

Great lists! Who said prog heads were myopic :-)

[davis]

Since there are several mentions of Electric Ladyland, some of you may want to include these:

Beyond Electric Ladyland 63:01 A+
Voodoo Chile, Crosstown Traffic (unfinished version), Rainy Day, Dream Away, Still Raining, Still Dreaming, Gypsy Eyes, House Burning Down, Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

Electric Ladyland outtakes 73:03 A+
[Have You Ever Been To] Electric Ladyland, All Along the Watchtower, Come On [Part 1], Voodoo Chile [Slight Return], Room Full of Mirrors, Gypsy Eyes (2), House Burnin’ Down, Cat Talkin’ To Me (2), Taking Care of No Business, Angel, 1983… A Merman I Should Turn To Be (3), Valleys of Neptune… Arising (2), Freedom

[Hobo Chang Ba]

Hmmm...

Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bang On A Can - Cheating, Lying, Stealing
S Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Merzbow - 13 Japanese Birds
Igor. S - The Rite Of Spring

[Svetonio]

Not in any particular order...

Azra Filigranski pločnici (1982)
J.S. Bach Die Kunst Der Fuge (Karl Münchinger, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, DECCA 2000)
Karlowy Vary La Femme (1985)
Atomsko sklonište Infrakt (1978)
Hashima Tideland (2015)

[Svetonio]

Been done before, I know. Still fun.

(...)
4. Grateful Dead-Blues For Allah (prog?)
(...)

Of course.

[Svetonio]

Rock Division:

(...)

Family - Fearless

Non-prog? really?

[mogrooves]

Non-prog? really?

progressive, yes; "Prog," no.

[Shadow]

But everything is prog.

[Joe F.]

As with any top 5, 10, 20, 50 list, there are too many things to choose from. Today I will pick:

Bowie- Station to Station
Sabbath- Sabotage
Alice Cooper- Killer
Joe Walsh- Barnstorm
Black Mountain- IV

[Progmatic]

Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Antonín Dvořák - From the New World
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Igor Stravinsky - "The Rite of Spring," "Firebird," "Petrouchka" and "Orpheus."
Philip Glass - "Koyaanisqatsi."

[Svetonio]

progressive, yes; "Prog," no.

LOL! What a bullshit!
*PROG* is just an abbreviation of *PROGRESSIVE*.
You should be ashamed because you wanted to smuggle one classic prog album to desert island...

[Trane]

But everything is prog.

A lot of the rock album choices in this threads were "proggy" to me (for ex: to moi, Ladyland is proggy, so are some of those Bowie albums), and since I'm really not into "pure pop" music, soooooo that's why I choose to go "pure jazz" in my list on the second post.of this thread

[mogrooves]

*PROG* is just an abbreviation of *PROGRESSIVE*.

[moecurlythanu]

LOL! What a bullshit!
*PROG* is just an abbreviation of *PROGRESSIVE*.
You should be ashamed because you wanted to smuggle one classic prog album to desert island...

I know English isn't your first language, but mogrooves was drawing the difference between "progressive" as a describing adjective, and "Prog" (or "Progressive Rock") as a genre noun. This is often referred to on PE as "little p progressive" and "Big P progressive."

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

What this thread proves is that the term "prog" is polymorphous; in almost every list here I've seen at least one album that some people would call "prog."

[Svetonio]

I know English isn't your first language, but mogrooves was drawing the difference between "progressive" as a describing adjective, and "Prog" (or "Progressive Rock") as a genre noun. This is often referred to on PE as "little p progressive" and "Big P progressive."

I've been in school and I know that an abbreviation sometimes could get a new meaning as well. So I know that for some people the abbreviation *prog* (and/or *prog rock*) has become a synonyme for *symphonic rock*. And indeed, *progressive rock* the term was reserved for the albums like above-mentioned Fearless or, for example, KC's Larks' Tongues in Aspic - they are not *symphonic rock* sub-genre of progressive music a la Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis and Yes, but they're also a classic prog stuff. Personally, I think that abbreviation *prog* is not good as a [relatively new] synonyme for *symphonic rock* simply due to the fact that these terms *prog* (or *prog rock*) and *progressive rock* are too close to each other and always will make a confusion; that old *symph* abbreviation is far more precise than *prog* abbreviation if you want to describe the music on the trail of symphonic rock bands like Genesis and Yes.

[Shadow]

LOL! What a bullshit!
*PROG* is just an abbreviation of *PROGRESSIVE*.
You should be ashamed because you wanted to smuggle one classic prog album to desert island...

proglodyte
(accurate) term of abuse/contempt/description for an unthinkingly reflexive and personally unpleasant leftist shit-thrower. A diagnostic term, to distinguish the over-medicated NPR-listener, the slobbering burn-out druggie, the perpetual undergraduate, and other leftist menagerie members from their most vocal exemplar.