Greatest Proto-Prog Rock albums

[Midas]

Greatest Proto-Prog Rock albums

The denomination Proto Prog comes from the combination of two words, Proto from the Greek The earliest,. and Prog which as we know is a short term for Progressive Rock, so as it’s name clearly indicates, refers to the earliest form of Progressive Rock or Progressive Rock in embryonary state.

1- 1967 THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN Pink Floyd
2- 1966 REVOLVER Beatles, The
3- 1967 THE DOORS Doors, The
4- 1966 FREAK OUT Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
5- 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles
6- 1968 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly
7- 1967 Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane
8- 1967 Days of Future Passed The Moody Blues
9- 1969 Deep Purple Deep Purple
10- 1969 Tommy The Who
11- 1968 Saucerful Of Secrets Pink Floyd
12- 1969 Arzachel Arzachel
13- 1967 Strange Days The Doors
14- 1968- The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown The Arthur Brown Band
15- 1969 It's A Beautiful Day It's A Beautiful Day
16- 1967 Procol Harum Procol Harum
17- 1967 Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Fudge
18- 1967 Mr. Fantasy Traffic
19- 1967 The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack Nice
20- 1968 Tomorrow Tomorrow
21- 1968 Music in a Doll's House Family
22- 1968 Caravan Caravan
23-- 1968 The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp Giles, Giles and Fripp
24- 1968 Fairport Convention Fairport Convention
25- 1968 Shine on Brightly Procol Harum

[JohnnyRocketFingers]

I wouldn't consider some of your choices proto-prog. ie the beatles, the who, fairport convention.
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[Midas]

The Beatles were the most important progressive band in the rock era, as they translated those ideas into popular rock music. Though the sounds they initiated do not fit into the classical idea of "prog" as Genesis or Yes. But they used mellotron, had extended suites, dabbled classical Indian, musique concrete, odd time signatures, backward collages and whatever they got there hands into. Songs like "Eleanor Rigby", "Love You To", "For No One" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" are all very progressive songs on Revolver.

The Beatles and the Moody Blues are the biggest influence on the classic prog sound.