Is 70s progressive rock too overblown? - Music

bobbyb5 Profile
Location: New York

Question: Is 70s prog-rock too overblown? Answer: Of course not!!!! The bigger the better!

What are your favorite 70s progressive rock albums? I like these ones.

Emerson Lake and Palmer. Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends, Brain Salad Surgery
Yes. Tales From Topographic Oceans, Close to the Edge
Nektar. Remember the Future
Rick Wakeman. Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Procol Harum. Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
David Meesham and the London Symphony Orchestra. Tommy
Moody Blues. A Question of Balance, Seventh Sojourn, Every Good Boy Deserves favour
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Electric Light Orchestra. Eldorado, On the Third Day, Face the music
King Crimson. In the Wake of Poseidon

What do you think are the best ones?

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Tha1ChiefRocka Scank Stinatra Profile
Location: Ohio

Here is my answer in jello form.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1lpr5Ypvw

Repo BeA Sunflower Profile
Location: Forest Park

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Here is my answer in jello form.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1lpr5Ypvw

lol. Nice!

bobbyb5 Profile
Location: New York

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Here is my answer in jello form.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1lpr5Ypvw

😲 🤣 🤣 🤣

RoundTheBend I miss the comfort in being sad Profile
Location: Ground Control

I don't really know any of that music you listed intimately, but I'm pretty sure the definition of progressive rock is overblown rock.

So Tha1ChiefRocka's reply is absolutely appropriate. That's the answer to bloated progressive rock: punk rock.

bobbyb5 Profile
Location: New York

True, but what albums dominate the BEA charts today 40 years later? Pink Floyd or the Damned?

Graeme2 Profile
Location: The Upside Down

sethmadsen wrote:

I don't really know any of that music you listed intimately, but I'm pretty sure the definition of progressive rock is overblown rock.

So Tha1ChiefRocka's reply is absolutely appropriate. That's the answer to bloated progressive rock: punk rock.

This thing about punk being an answer to prog is something always mentioned when talking about the origins of British punk. Prog had long since had its prime and was fading in popularity by 1976. There may be something to it but I'm not sure it's as big a factor as has been insinuated. Uk punk was more inspired by the pub rock scene in London than being a movement against prog.
The best of prog isn't overblown at all. The worst of ELP most certainly is but that doesn't represent prog.
My faves

Moonmadness by Camel

Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison by Harmonium

In The Land Of Grey And Pink by Caravan

Yann

bobbyb5 wrote:

True, but what albums dominate the BEA charts today 40 years later? Pink Floyd or the Damned?

True, but there a sort of bluesy economy of means in Pink Floyd that makes them stand out from regular progressive music like ELP

Graeme2 Profile
Location: The Upside Down

Yann wrote:

True, but there a sort of bluesy economy of means in Pink Floyd that makes them stand out from regular progressive music like ELP

Still prog. Maybe only just. What makes ELP the definition of prog?

bobbyb5 Profile
Location: New York

Graeme2 wrote:

sethmadsen wrote:

I don't really know any of that music you listed intimately, but I'm pretty sure the definition of progressive rock is overblown rock.

So Tha1ChiefRocka's reply is absolutely appropriate. That's the answer to bloated progressive rock: punk rock.

This thing about punk being an answer to prog is something always mentioned when talking about the origins of British punk. Prog had long since had its prime and was fading in popularity by 1976. There may be something to it but I'm not sure it's as big a factor as has been insinuated. Uk punk was more inspired by the pub rock scene in London than being a movement against prog.
The best of prog isn't overblown at all. The worst of ELP most certainly is but that doesn't represent prog.
My faves

Moonmadness by Camel

Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison by Harmonium

In The Land Of Grey And Pink by Caravan

Exactly. Thats just a cliche that punk was a reaction against prog.. As if people could only like one or the other. And you're right, there's so much variety within prog that it could never alll be lumped together. I happen to like all kinds from the more minimal to the more overblown. What I have also discovered is that people who bad-mouth Prog are often the same people whose favorite album is Dark Side of the Moon or OK Computer. They don't know what the fuck theyre talking about.