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- Progressive rock bands may have influences from psychedelic rock, folk music, traditional music, world music, and jazz or jazz fusion. It is also referred to as "prog rock" as an abbreviation, or as "Hobbit rock" because of frequent medieval or fantasy themes in the lyrics.
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Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music [10] that primarily developed in the United Kingdom [1] through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
Jul 21, 2013 · If progressive music helped set itself apart from mainstream rock by its seemingly limitless amalgamation of music’s variant strains, so to it brought a quintessentially English feel by its...
Oct 10, 2023 · The origins of progressive rock are inextricably bound up with the seismic changes in the British music scene that took place in the mid-60s, when bands that had hitherto forged their reputations playing American rock’n’roll, R&B, blues and soul began writing their own songs. Almost as significant was the advance in music instrument (in ...
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Mar 2, 2020 · Part rock 'n' roll, part anti-pop progressive mindset, Prog-Rock is the music genre you never knew you needed to expand your horizons.
- King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) While it’s not the first progressive rock album, King Crimson’s incendiary debut album is without a doubt the one that put the genre on the map.
- Yes - Close To The Edge (1972) If Crimson were eclectic and ELP bombastic, Yes operated with the finesse of a chess grandmaster. As prodigiously talented as their prog peers like ELP, Yes were on a massive creative roll in the early 1970s, releasing both The Yes Album and Fragile in 1971, both albums building on the promise shown by their first two albums, 1969’s self-titled debut and 1970’s Time And A Word.
- Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (1973) If any band captured the essence of Englishness, long-deemed an integral part of progressive rock’s DNA, it was former Charterhouse schoolboys Genesis.
- Marillion - Script For A Jester’s Tear (1983) Following the wind of change punk brought with it at the tail end of the 70s, many hipsters in the music press decided progressive rock was done, a bloated corpse buried in the ground.
Progressive rock (often shortened to prog or prog rock) is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility."
Jun 9, 2024 · Our list of the best prog rock bands ever ranges from the genre's earliest groups to modern day stalwarts. Dive in!
