Scot Lade is a retired musician and a full time advocate of Prog Rock. He has played in many bands: Disorderly Conduct, Foul Existense (sic) and wedgepiece as a singer/songwriter/guitarist. He worked in radio, music publishing, sound engineering, managed record stores, wrote for The Fire Note online music magazine - basically every aspect of the music business.
Many of the videos posted will focus on his vinyl collection as visual aids. Vinyl is always cool. Always has been. The goal is to establish and nourish a community of like-minded music nerds.
Although Progressive Rock is the main focus, there will be features on a variety of musical genres including indie, punk and metal. There are already too many snobs out there: we love all forms of music. Because music is love. It is the language of heaven.
ATTN: Artists Please note that I don’t do a lot of album reviews but if you want to send me your music anyways… Scot Lade PO Box 1015 Bellefontaine OH 43311 miamiscot@hotmail.com
My favorites you've got in the "A" list Acqua Fragile (you should get their first self titled too amazing) and the first 2 Ambrosia releases. Scot how can I contact you? I'd like to send you a album (?maybe you've never heard before?)
Love this album! Heard about this from Nathan, as was not familiar with this band, but it has moved way up in my rankings over the past couple weeks. Just great stuff. Love the way they incorporate so many influences to create something unique and totally their own. Among the best of the year so far.
Missing (but maybe they are in your CD shelf): Centipede - Keith Tippets megaband with all the jazzrockmusicians from King Crimson, Soft Machine etc. Leonard Cohen - Congreso (Chile) - Prog meets jazz, meats Andean folk ... Crusis (Argentina) - You would love Crucis - it can't be more prog that Crucis. Curved Air - ?????? Wish you peace love and a lot of understatements ... understanding, sorry!
I am 73/4 live fan. It's all beautiful noise. No songs necessary. Trex singles a and bs 72 thru 77. Essential, roy harper. Stormcock lifemask lps qualify as prog folk. Jakko. Of course. Stewart and gaskin green and blue comeback. Family original line up with sax bt jim king. Where is king now?
My wife's dirty dozen list: 1. IQ - Road Of Bones 2. Steven Wilson- Grace For Drowning 3. Rush- Moving Pictures 4. YES- The Yes album 5. Pink Floyd- The Wall 6. Haken- Fauna 7. Logos- L'Enigma Della Vita 8. Jethro Tull- Minstral In The Galley 9. The Moody Blues- Days Of Future Passed 10. Crown Lands- Fearless 11. Caligonaut- Magnified As Giants 12.YES- The Big Generator
1. Genesis - Selling England 2. Dream Theater - Images & Words 3. King Crimson - In the Court 4. Yes - Close to the Edge 5. Marillion - Script for a jester's Tear 6. Opeth - Ghost Reveries 7. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 8. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet 9. Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes 10.Arch / Matheos - Winter Ethereal 11.Magic Pie - Circus of Life 12.Peter Gabriel - 3 13.Beardfish - Mammoth 14.Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness 15.Riverside - Love, Fear & the Time Machine 16.Haken - Virus 17.IQ - Subterranea 18.Steve Hackett - SPectral Mornings 19.Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant 20.Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere Hon. Mentions Fish - A Feast of Consqeuences Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land Can - Future Days Disillusion - Ayam Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray in the Woods - Omnio Enslaved - Below the Lights Jon Anderson - Olias Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination Flying Colors - Flying Colors Gentle Giant - Octopus
@@TheProgCorner Some are more borderline prog, but for me they are more prog, than the 100th Yes clone. Especially Green Carnation, if you don't know is worth checking out. Just one 60 minute song and no growlings 🙂
Ooooooooooooooo respect bro! I see a McDonald&Giles album in the back. B-side (Birdman) is one of the absolute greatest prog-songs ever! Interesting to hear what kind of music your better half like! Don't forget to take your medication ... <wink>
My fianceé doesn't always get a good chance to listen to any of my music, prog or otherwise, but it's for a good enough reason - a combination of an intense form of synesthesia and general sensory issues can lead to new music being physically overwhelming sometimes. But she likes what she has heard well enough. It's not usually full albums though, since she's not as generally into that as individual songs, but I did play her Images & Words once and she really enjoyed that. As for individual songs, she's really responded positively to Limelight by Rush, Alley Cat by Seventh Wonder, Abyss by Circus Maximus, and perhaps ironically given the overstimulation issue, both Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus and Wax Simulacra by The Mars Volta. And of course she's open to hearing more when there's a good opportunity, and also likes a fair bit of prog-adjacent symphonic metal (like Nightwish and Within Temptation) and some power metal (she's really into Powerwolf in particular), so prog metal and even prog rock are by no means fully foreign to her. Though she did get with Carry On Wayward Son what your wife did with Uprising because her older sister watched Supernatural and then played the song so much that it ruined it for her. Oh well, it happens I guess.
No Acqua Fragile? 2 albums from the 70's then most recently one in 2017 but I love that band there first 2 are GREAT the first one self titled and then "Mass Media Stars" and then "A New Chant". Happy to see you placed Maxophone in there I like (LOVE) the English version. PFM "Chocolate Kings" is my favorite and "Jet Lag"
@@TheProgCorner ...you mentioned or recommended the Italian version of the Maxophone album I've heard it and the music is arranged a little differently for better or worse (not that different really) BUT for me a person that only understands English I much prefer the English version. This point of view I have runs deep I just can't get into foreign language recordings no matter how good the music is.
Ive only known one woman who liked prog, a French woman who liked Peter Hammill and Van Der Graf Generator...oh and Yes Close To The Edge Cannot say i liked Jazz album by Queen but then i struggled to like any album other than News Of The World and A Night At The Opera Kind of interesting choices by your wife
Yes, "American Idiot" can arguably be placed in the progressive rock category. With this album, Green Day created an epic that displays far more craftsmanship than any "punk" album ever has.
My wife doesn’t even know what prog is. But like yours she loves BNL. Gordon might be the only album that we can both sing all of the lyrics to front to back. (I went through a phase in grade 9. They are still a somewhat guilty pleasure)
Well, I did get my ex-partner into Haken and Devin Townsend, so there's that! She's always been more of a power metal and symphonic metal fan though, so it's mostly Nightwish and Sonata Arctica for her.
Scott, that's awesome that your wife enjoys some prog. I took my wife to see the Musical Box about 8 years ago when they did the Foxtrot show and Selling England show on consecutive nights. After that, I think she's broken. Granted that was a big ask for someone that likes country music. The Bends is an Absolute Epic! They have about 4-5 other songs I like on all the other albums. Rock On Brother!!
So much better than all the other maiden rankings (that put all the classic bruce at the top and dump on all the reunion albums) A very interesting ranking that is hard to argue with but my opinions differ slightly! 17)no prayer for the dying 16)X factor 15)virtual xi 14)somewhere in time 13)fear of the dark 12)senjitsu 11)book of souls 10)final frontier 9)a matter of life and death 8)killers 7)iron maiden 6)number of the beast 5)seventh son 4)dance of death 3)powerslave 2)piece of mind 1)brave new world
1. Scheherazade 2. Turn of the Cards 3. A Song for All Seasons 4. Prologue 5. Novella 6. Ashes are Burning 7. Azure d'or 8. Tuscany 9. Grandine Il Vento 10. Camera camera 11. Time Line
