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Die britischen Bands Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd und die kanadische Band Rush sind jeweils mit drei Alben vertreten, gefolgt von der britischen Band Yes mit zwei Werken. Mit den Bands Amon Düül , Can , Tangerine Dream und Triumvirat schafften es vier deutsche Bands in die Top-50-Liste.
Das liegt nicht nur an den zunehmenden Experimenten der Beatles, der Rolling Stones oder der Beach Boys. Nein, auch der Prog-Rock nimmt ab 1965 gehörig Fahrt auf und zeigt die Gitarrenmusik von ihrer innovativsten und versiertesten Seite. Wir haben die 15 wichtigsten Vertreter des Genres für Euch zusammengestellt.
- Aphrodite’s Child
- Tangerine Dream
- Fragile
- Nektar
- Camel
- Kansas
- Spock’s Beard
- Sky
- Babe Ruth
- Premiata Forneria Marconi
Originally a heavy psychedelic band, the Greek band Aphrodite’s Child delivered one of prog rock’s visionary concept albums in the double epic 666, a wild mind trip loosely about a traveling circus show that plays during the apocalypse. Unsurprisingly, famed visual artist Salvador Dali was a huge fan. Aphrodite leader VangelisPapathanassiou had gra...
Along with Kraftwerk, no band did more than Tangerine Dreamto expand the possibilities of the synthesizer. During their heyday they used almost nothing else, and conjured up a remarkable set of soundscapes and atmospheres, improvising freely during live shows.
A modern band with a classic sound, the European-based Fragile worked as a Yes tribute band before they started writing their own material. Their 2022 original release Beyondis close as it gets to a lost Yes album, in the classic mold of a side-long and two half-side tracks. It’s all upped a few notches by the singing of Claire Hamill, whose resume...
Admired by Frank Zappa (who picked them as his opening band in 1973), Nektar expanded the spacier side of early Pink Floyd with a heightened sense of songcraft. Their two peak albums, A Tab in the Ocean and Remember the Future, are as tuneful as they are trippy.
The original Camelwas built around two world-class soloists – guitarist Andy Latimer and the late keyboardist Peter Bardens – and was largely a springboard for their instrumental fireworks. Over time the band became more song-oriented, Bardens departed, and a rotating cast of players came in, including a handful of ex-Caravaners. The one constant i...
Embraced by AOR radio and championed by Don Kirshner, Kansas are often pegged as the commercial side of prog rock. And while there was a lot of heartfelt music on their vintage albums (at least before the original lineup splintered in 1982), they always insisted that the singles success of “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind” were accident...
Reviving classic-model prog rock when it was mostly out of style, Spock’s Beard introduced the talents of Neal Morse, who’d go onto become one of prog’s most prolific and melodically inventive composers (and, eventually, the godfather of Christian-themed prog). The Morse lineup bowed out with its magnum opus, the double epic Snow, but later release...
What do you get when one of the world’s finest classical guitarists decides to form a rock band? You get Sky, which joined the acclaimed John Williams with a lineup including Curved Air’s keyboardist Francis Monkman, and the bassist (Herbie Flowers) who made Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” so indelible. While many prog rockers dabbled in classic...
This early 70s band was unique in a few ways: They had a strong frontwoman, they did prog rock with a strong jazz/blues slant, and their first album cover (First Base) marked the only time Roger Dean ever drew baseball players. Guitarist Alan Shacklock went onto become an 80s producer of note; he and singer Jenny Haan remain in the revived lineup.
This long-running Italian band had a relatively brief, but glorious stint making English-language albums for ELP’s Manticore label. Over those five albums they gradually transformed their gentle pastoral sound into something much harder charging. Their US live album Cook, largely recorded at a Central Park show with ELP, is one of the more explosiv...
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5. Feb. 2020 · A list of the best progressive rock albums from 2000-2019. We have turned the corner on another year and another decade. Not only was 2019 an incredible year for prog, as we enter yet another decade, we can see what an amazing 20 years it has been for modern progressive rock.
3. Juli 2023 · 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums Of All Time. Side-long concept pieces, walls of Mellotrons, keyboardists in capes…such were the glories of the greatest prog rock albums. Published on. July 3,...
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17. Juni 2015 · The 50 greatest progressive rock albums of all time, including Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Rush and more
24. Juni 2021 · From 'The Lamb' to 'Octopus' to 'The Snow Goose' — the best LPs that dream beyond 4/4. A list of the 50 greatest progressive rock albums.
