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.
Episodes
Nov 8, 2023
Nov 8, 2023
52 min
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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Oct 25, 2023
Oct 25, 2023
53 min
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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Oct 10, 2023
Oct 10, 2023
1 hr 45 sec
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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Oct 3, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
1 hr 11 min
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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Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023
1 hr 1 min
We welcome Prog Rock legends Yes to the podcast with their breakthrough album, the Yes Album.
Come marvel at the musical acrobatics of Steve, Chris, Bill and Tony and help us figure out what Jon's trying to say.
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Sep 20, 2023
Sep 20, 2023
37 min
Soon after recording their successful debut, King Crimson completely imploded, for the first of many times.
Left with a recording contract and no band, Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield went into the studio and patched together In the Wake of Poseidon.
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Sep 18, 2023
Sep 18, 2023
57 min
In 1969, King Crimson smashes free jazz, classical music and mellotron together to make the first true Prog Rock masterpiece, In the Court of the Crimson King.
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Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023
1 hr 18 min
We return to the origins of Prog Rock legends Pink Floyd and discuss their debut album, the psychedelic grab-bag, Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
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Sep 7, 2023
Sep 7, 2023
1 hr 6 min
In 1967, the Moody Blues went into the studio and accidentally recorded one of Prog Rock's first concept albums. Join us for the orchestral rock masterpiece, Days of Future Passed.
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Sep 5, 2023
Sep 5, 2023
1 hr 10 min
Join me in this whimsical diversion, as the guitar maestro Ed Thomas takes us on a journey through some of the technologies that make Prog Rock rock.
Ed walks us through Mellotron, Moog and the development of guitar pedals.
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