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Loving the Green theme :)

Great selection of bands like Yes.
Thanks for posting music I'm not familiar with, like Can and S.O.S

My favs of the 80's(re: your earlier post) were mostly Blues based eg; SRV, George Thorogood, Dr Feelgood, Albert Collins, BB King, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Magic Sam, Eric Clapton and so many others I discovered along the way.

Radio and T.V gave us Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, The Eurythmics, The Stranglers and so many others.

My prog rock discovery didn't come until the 2000's when I uncovered King Crimson, so much music!!! Woohoo!
 
Larks' tongues is really quintessential king crimson... perhaps their most famous work.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIDrvoI_hJ0
My old music teacher at school thought it was totally decadant... of course that made me like it even more. 😂

The full classic album is here, this is required listening!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyf0ofV5n4

I guess I was lucky, I grew up listening to all this stuff as a teenager. We used to sit around in the classroom at school listening to it on an old record player that someone had brought in :)
I had a paperback copy of the NME Book of Rock, sadly I don't know where it is now, lost in the mists of time, like my copy of the Hawkwind Log.
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This was another great album, from Spirit, another very inventive band; Future Games; I always thought this was one of Spirit's best albums.
I don't know if 'prog' really happened in the states, I always thought it was more of an English and German (Can, Nektar, etc) thing, but perhaps this Spirit album was about as close as it got in the US. Maybe American friends will correct me. The Dead never seemed to really be 'prog' to me, they had their own thing; hmm, maybe 'Terrapin Station', though. Well, I guess there was always Beefheart! I don't remember it being called 'prog', short for 'progressive rock', at the time either, it was all just 'rock music' to us. I think the 'prog' label got stuck on later.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcTZIBMfHm0
 
There's gotta be one more, Hawkwind's sci-fi space-opera masterpiece. This was when Simon House had joined them, he added a lot of classical elements to their music. I can't leave this one out of this little list. Another great band, brilliant record. The brits were really spoilt for great music around that time.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1B1Boj_QMM

This chap has made a good video that tells the story of how that album was made.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjVuAsEjJz0
 
OK, one more artist that I simply cannot leave out, Mr Steve Hillage. Hillage was interesting, he managed to keep going with a version of the 'prog' thing during the punk period. Classic Gong was long gone by then, of course. Both of these two albums, "L" and "Motivation Radio" are also required listening, in fact, everything I've posted today is. 😁

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTpKG5jQIo&list=PLy4wFqpyLXkk79Ai_VnqJcL2RrpdzL2Xu


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJIMNOeLCzY

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSt2-vO4V1g

This short list just scratches the surface, of course. Right, I must stop there! 😂
 
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