The first prog album ever?????

[kevishev]

...I've heard others mention "Pet Sounds". Did that precede the Moodies?

Hmmmm....The Beach Boys......Progressive Rock......like the opposing ends of two magnets, I just can't put the two together no matter how hard I try. I know all about the supposed genious of the heavily drugged Brian Wilson and all that, but seriously folks...

I suppose if the initial offering that defines this genre is deemed to have come from the Beach Boys, we should all take a moment and reflect.

[zvinki]

I'll play.

2112 by Rush. The first always has a permanent place in your heart. I remember hearing for the first time Neil's sticks hitting the edge of the drum and thinking "wow, this is new and exciting!" The whole experience of hearing a long single theme piece that goes up and down like a breathing organic thing completely shifted the way I was going to listen to music in the future. And words that mean something...

"See how it sings like a sad heart and joyously screams out its pain. Sounds that build high like a mountain or notes that fall, gently like rain"

[mailotron]

.. the first I bought prog LP I bought was Foxtrot followed soon by NUrsery Cryme and Genesis LIve....In those teen years I was a Led Zep fan ( I dislike this word) ..

One of the first Prog LP is perhaps SF Sorrow ( a concept) LP by the ¨Pretty Things" in 1967 ... this is just an info or an idea .. don't flood my e-mail box with your pro and cons .. thx.. mailo

[Hawksun]

I see the history of prog as this following allegory: Brian Wilson and The Beatles were the field where the seeds of prog have been planted. Their innovations are too important to be ignored.

Procol Harum and the Moody Blues were the seeds of prog. They brought key elements (instruments/sounds) of the genre into play while not using these in a Prog goal/environnement.

King Crimson's first album was the sprout. It was the first album where all the elements of Prog were assembled in a coherent package with a definitive sound.

ELP, Yes, Tull and the 70's bands were the plant/trees. They are the foundation of what is prog.

Then finally came the fruits. These are the prog bands who do not come from the "classic" era. Some years produced good fruits, while some others had rotten harvests or no harvest at all.

And I hear you ask "Where's Pink floyd?". Well, in the 60's, PF was the farmer who decided one day to do an Acid drop and then proceeded to water the seeds of prog. The years passed, the drops continued, and one day, the farmer awoke to see the trees of prog. He thought that it would be great to be one with the trees, and thus proceeded to do an astral voyage and became one with the trees.

The end.

Yes, I know, none of it makes sense and there's probably around fifty historical mistakes in there. I just thought about it for fun.

My point is that I think KC's first album is prog's real starting point. See, that sentence alone would have made a pretty boring post.

Originally Posted by Hawksun

I see the history of prog as this following allegory: Brian Wilson and The Beatles were the field where the seeds of prog have been planted. Their innovations are too important to be ignored.

Procol Harum and the Moody Blues were the seeds of prog. They brought key elements (instruments/sounds) of the genre into play while not using these in a Prog goal/environnement.

King Crimson's first album was the sprout. It was the first album where all the elements of Prog were assembled in a coherent package with a definitive sound.

ELP, Yes, Tull and the 70's bands were the plant/trees. They are the foundation of what is prog.

Then finally came the fruits. These are the prog bands who do not come from the "classic" era. Some years produced good fruits, while some others had rotten harvests or no harvest at all.

And I hear you ask "Where's Pink floyd?". Well, in the 60's, PF was the farmer who decided one day to do an Acid drop and then proceeded to water the seeds of prog. The years passed, the drops continued, and one day, the farmer awoke to see the trees of prog. He thought that it would be great to be one with the trees, and thus proceeded to do an astral voyage and became one with the trees.

The end.

Yes, I know, none of it makes sense and there's probably around fifty historical mistakes in there. I just thought about it for fun.

My point is that I think KC's first album is prog's real starting point. See, that sentence alone would have made a pretty boring post.

Excellent allegory Hawk..........nice post.