A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
Progressive Rock was a revolutionary music genre that emphasized flashy musicianship and wild experimentation. In the wake of the psychedelic 60s, Prog Rock would scale the heights of commercial and critical success. Its star burned brightly, but only five years later it was in terminal decline, destined to be lost to the sands of time. Join your host Ian Prise and his guests each week as we trace the rise and fall of Prog Rock, album by album.
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Episodes
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
We return for the second half of Yes's classic Fragile. By the end, your hunger will be sated
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Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
We welcome Yes back with 1971's Fragile, the album that would cement them as prog legends.
Also, making his first appearance in our story: the caped crusader, keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman brings his magic touch
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Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
And we're back!
Pink Floyd starts their string of classic albums with 1971's exceptionally mellow Meddle
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Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Any we're back for season 2!
We rejoin the same great bands on the very edge of greatness
But this time the songs are harder, better, faster, longer
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Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Santa Ian spreads some Progmas cheer and drops some tunes down everyone's chimney
Prog bless us every one
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===== SPOILER ALERT=====
Songs in this Episode:
1. I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
2. Signed Curtain - Matching Mole
3. Four Horseman - Aphrodite's Child
4. Blown' Free - Wishbone Ash
6. Asforteri - Caravan
7. The Story in Your Eyes - Moody Blues
8. Toe the Line - GTR
9. Udu Wudu - Magma
10. The Last Seven Minutes - Magma
11. Spem in Alum - Thomas Tallis
12. Nothing More - Fotheringay
13. I Lost My Head- Gentle Giant
14. Out of the Blue - Elton John
14. Drunkship of Lanterns - Mars Volta
15. Precious Things - Tori Amos
16. Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
In the first half, we say adios to Season 1, looking backwards and forwards to all the Prog that ever was and ever will be.
In the second half, our tech wizard Ed takes us through the development of multitrack recording
We look forward to seeing you soon for the classic era of 1970s Prog Rock in Season 2
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Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
We end our first series with a heaping helping of organ as we introduce the Bad Bois of prog. It's our first prog rock supergroup: Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Join us as we marvel at ELP cramming as many notes as they can into their self titled debut.
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Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
This week, we travel down to Kent, the garden of England, for a gentle diversion.
Caravan were leaders in the Canterbury scene, a jazz-obsessed, offbeat, more relaxed Prog genre. It all came together, for them and for the scene, in this 1971 classic, In the Land of Grey and Pink.
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Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
We welcome the theatre kids of Prog Rock, Genesis.
Join us as we're whisked away to the Fountain of Salmacis.
Along the way we'll meet ghosts, stones and murderous plants.
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Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Do you enjoy sitting on a park bench?
Do you enjoy... learning about Jethro Tull's classic album Aqualung?
How fortuitous! Join us this week and we get into the heady concepts, the beautiful guitar work and, of course, the flute solos of 1971's Aqualung.
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