100 GREAT PSYCHEDELIC ROCK ALBUMS!
Compiled at MAC.



13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of (1966)
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (1967)
The Action - Rolled Gold (Retrospective, 2002)
Arzachel - Arzachel (1969)
The Bachs - Out Of The Bachs (1968)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
Bent Wind - Sussex (1969)
Bolder Damn - Mourning (1971)
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill (1971)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk (1967)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Chamaeleon Church - Chamaeloen Church (1968)
The Chambers Brothers - The Time Has Come (1967)
The Chocolate Watch Band - No Way Out (1967)
Cream - Fresh Cream (1966)
Cromagnon - Orgasm (1969)
The Cyrkle - Neon (1967)
Damin Eih, A.L.K. And Brother Clark - Never Mind (1973)
The Deep - Psychedelic Moods of the Deep (1966)
Dr. John, the night tripper - Gris-Gris (1968)
Dragonfly - Dragonfly (1970)
The Electric Prunes - Mass in F Minor (1968)
The Eyes - The Arrival of the Eyes (2006)
Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron (1967)
Final Solution - 1739 Page Street Studio, SF (1967)
Forever Amber - The Love Cycle (1969)
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori (1971)
the fox - For Fox Sake (1970)
Funkadelic - Funkadelic (1970)
Fraction - Moon Blood (1971)
The Godz - Godz 2 (1967)
The Golden Dawn - Power Plant (1967)
Gong - Flying Teapot (1973)
Gong - Angel's Egg (1973)
Group 1850 - Paradise Now (1969)
Growing Concern - Growing Concern (1968)
Heron - Heron (1970)
Hidria Spacefolk - Symbiosis (2002)
Hunger - Strictly from Hunger (1969)
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Incredible Expanding Mindfuck - 1996-1999 (2007)
International Harvester - Sov gott Rose-Marie (1968)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (1967)
Kingston Wall - III - Tri-Logy (1994)
Kraan - Kraan (1972)
The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (1968)
Les Fleur De Lys - Reflections (1996)
Limbus 4 - Mandalas (1970)
The Lollipop Shoppe - Just Color (1967)
Love - Forever Changes (1967)
Mad River - Mad River (1968)
Mainliner - Mellow Out (1996)
The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)
Mighty Baby - Mighty Baby (1969)
The Misunderstood - Before the Dream Faded (1982)
The Monkees - Head (1969)
The moon men - The Moon Men (1969)
Morgen - Morgen (1969)
The Music Machine - (Turn On) The Music Machine (1966)
OM - Variations on a Theme (2005)
Oriental Sunshine - Dedicated to the Bird We Love (1969)
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (1968)
The Other Half - The Other Half (1968)
Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound (2001)
Peacepipe - Peacepipe (1970)
The Pentangle - Sweet Child (1968)
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
Qoph - Pyrola (2007)
Quintessence - In Blissful Company (1969)
The Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land (1967)
Relatively Clean Rivers - Relatively Clean Rivers (1975)
La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata - La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata (1971)
Sainte Anthony's Fyre - Sainte Anthony's Fyre (1970)
Skip Bifferty - Skip Bifferty (1968)
T2 - It'll All Work out in Boomland (1970)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
The Seeds - Evil Hoodoo (1988)
Soft Machine - The Soft Machine Volumes One and Two (1989) [68 & 69]
Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)
The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flakes
The Smoke - The Smoke (1968)
Speakers - En El Maravilloso Mundo de Ingeson (1968)
Spirit - Spirit (1968)
Stalk-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints (1967)
St. George & Tana - Is Now! (1967)
Tomorrow - Tomorrow (1968)
The Trees - The Christ Tree (1975)
Truth and Janey - Erupts! (1988)
Twink - Think Pink (1970)
The United States of America - The United States of America (1968)
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle (1968)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One (1967)
White Noise - An Electric Storm (1968)
ya ho wa 13 - Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony (1974)
Yesterday's Children - Yesterday's Children (1969)
Zerfas - Zerfas (1973)
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (1968)

Thanks to everyone at the Psychedelic Rock Desk.

Dit is een lijst van bands waarop ik wacht, tot ik ze live kan zien. Op deze manier kan ik er op klikken en zie ik meteen of ze op tour zijn. Als jullie van de tour afweten, comment dan even.
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This is a list of bands i'm waiting for to see live. This way I can click on each artistname and see if they're on tour right now (last.fm events). If any of you know if these bands will tour the Netherlands (or Europe), let me know.

Moet ik zien (nog niet gezien)
400 Blows
An Albatross
At the Drive-In (stopped playing)
Birchville Cat Motel
Coughs
Electric Wizard
Flower Travellin' Band
The Fucking Champs
Hella
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Jim O'Rourke
Les Rallizes Denudes (stopped playing)
Lightning Bolt
Merzbow
MF DOOM
My Bloody Valentine
OOIOO
OXES
Prurient
Shellac
Some Girls (stopped playing)
Test Icicles (stopped playing)
Thurston Moore
Trans Am
Wooden Wand
Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice (stopped playing)

Wil ik (weer) zien (al gezien, maar zin in)
Circle
Dark Meat
Holy Fuck
Sigur Rós
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
ゆらゆら帝国

Aquí va una lista de algunos de los álbumes de rock progresivo desde el '69 al '79 que he escuchado. Poco a poco iré añadiendo más (que todavía me quedan), y cambiando alguna puntuación si veo que algún disco me va gustando más (o menos).

1969
~ King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (Symphonic rock)
~ Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (Jazz-fusion/Avant-garde)
~ Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei (Krautrock)
Algunos discos por puntuar: Colosseum - Valentyne Suite, Renaissance - Renaissance.

1970
~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Symphonic rock)
~ King Crimson - Lizard (Symphonic rock)
~ Santana - Abraxas (Latin rock/Jazz-fusion)
~ Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant (Eclectic Prog)
~ Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One (Eclectic Prog/Symphonic rock)
~ King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon (Symphonic rock)
~ Bo Hansson - Lord Of The Rings (Symphonic rock)
~ Il Balletto Di Bronzo - Sirio 2222 (Italian symphonic prog/Eclectic prog)
~ Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (Symphonic rock/Experimental)
Algunos discos por puntuar: Genesis - Trespass.

1971
~ Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame (Electric jazz-fusion)
~ Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste (Eclectic Prog)
~ Yes - Fragile (Symphonic rock)
~ Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (Eclectic Prog/Symphonic rock)
~ Genesis - Nursery Crime (Symphonic rock)
~ McDonald & Giles - McDonald & Giles (Symphonic rock)
~ Egg - The Polite Force (Symphonic rock)
~ Cressida - Asylum (Symphonic rock/Canterbury scene)
~ Genesis - Nursery Crime (Symphonic rock)
~ Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Symphonic rock/Folk)
~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition (Symphonic rock) LIVE
~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (Symphonic rock)
~ Pink Floyd - Meddle (Symphonic rock)
~ Santana - III (Latin rock/Jazz-fusion)
~ King Crimson - Islands (Symphonic rock/Eclectic prog)
~ Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink (Canterbury Scene)
~ Flower Travellin' Band - Satori (Symphonic rock/Psycodelic prog)
~ Jade Warrior - Last Autumn's Dream (Prog-fusion/World music)

1972
~ Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (Symphonic rock)
~ Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin! (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia di un minuto (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Santana - Caravanserai (Jazz-fusion)
~ Deep Purple - Made in Japan (Rock/Symphonic rock/Blues) LIVE
~ Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys (Italian symphonic prog/Eclectic prog)
~ Gentle Giant - Octopus (Eclectic Prog)
~ Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un amico (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Yes - Close to the Edge (Symphonic rock)
~ Quella Vecchia Locanda - Quella Vecchia Locanda (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Genesis - Foxtrot (Symphonic rock)
~ Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Gnidrolog - Lady Lake (Symphonic rock/Eclectic prog)
~ Le Orme - Uomo di pezza (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Gentle Giant - Three Friends (Eclectic Prog)
~ Focus - Focus III (Symphonic rock)
~ Aphrodite's Child - 666 (Symphonic rock)
~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy (Symphonic rock)
~ Triumvirat - Mediterranean Tales (Symphonic rock)

1973
~ Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Electric jazz-fusion)
~ Yes - Yessongs (Symphonic rock) LIVE
~ Le Orme - Felona E Sorona (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (Symphonic rock)
~ Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Symphonic rock)
~ Camel - Camel (Symphonic rock)
~ Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Io sono nato libero (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (Zeuhl/Avant-garde)
~ Gentle Giant - In A Glass House (Eclectic Prog)
~ Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (Symphonic rock)
~ Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Focus - Hamburger Concerto (Symphonic rock)
~ Metamorfosi - Inferno (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Campo di Marte - Campo Di Marte (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il tempo della gioia (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (Electric jazz-fusion)
~ Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Symphonic rock)
~ King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Eclectic prog/Symphonic rock)
~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (Symphonic rock)
~ Riff Raff - Riff Raff (Symphonic rock/Jazz-fusion)
~ Gryphon - Gryphon (Symphonic rock)
~ Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Crossover Prog)
~ Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans (Symphonic rock)

1974
~ King Crimson - Red (Eclectic prog/Symphonic rock)
~ Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (Canterbury scene)
~ Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three (Symphonic rock/Classical music)
~ Camel - Mirage (Symphonic rock)
~ Le Orme - Contrappunti (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Los Canarios - Ciclos (Symphonic rock/Classical music)
~ Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'Isola di Niente (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before (Jazz-fusion)
~ Som Nosso De Cada Dia - Snegs (Symphonic rock)
~ Frank Zappa - Roxy and Elsewhere (Avant-garde/Jazz-fusion) LIVE
~ Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Symphonic rock)
~ King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black (Eclectic prog/Symphonic rock/Jamming)

1975
~ Atoll - L'Araignée-Mal (Symphonic rock)
~ Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième Saison (Acoustic prog)
~ Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Seguendo le Tracce (Italian symphonic prog) LIVE
~ Triana - El Patio (Symphonic folk-rock/Flamenco)
~ Yezda Urfa - Boris (Symphonic rock/Eclectic prog)
~ Finch - Glory of the Inner Force (Symphonic rock)
~ King Crimson - USA (Symphonic rock/Eclectic prog) LIVE
~ Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club (Canterbury scene/Jazz-fusion)
~ Maxophone - Maxophone (Italian symphonic prog)
~ Gualberto - Vericuetos (Symphonic folk-rock/Indian)
~ Camel - The Snow Goose (Symphonic rock)
~ Maneige - Maneige (Symphonic rock)
~ Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Symphonic rock)
~ Goma - 14 de Abril (Symphonic rock)
~ Kaipa - Kaipa (Symphonic rock)

1976
~ Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool (Eclectic Prog) LIVE
~ La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros - La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros (Symphonic rock)
~ Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo (Avant-garde/)
~ Camel - Moonmadness (Symphonic rock)
~ Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior (Jazz-fusion)
~ Finch - Beyond Expression (Symphonic rock)
~ Ethos - Ardour (Symphonic rock)
~ Atila - Intencion (Symphonic rock)
~ Gualberto - [album artist=Gualberto] A la vida, al dolor[/album](Symphonic folk-rock/Indian)
~ Jon Lord - Sarabande(Classical music/Symphonic rock)
~ Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Symphonic rock/Classical music)
Algunos discos por puntuar: Eloy - Dawn.

1977
~ Atila - Reviure (Symphonic rock)
~ Pink Floyd - Animals (Symphonic rock)
~ Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood (Symphonic folk-rock)
~ La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros - Películas (Symphonic rock)
~ Triana - Hijos Del Agobio (Symphonic folk-rock/Flamenco)
~ Azahar - Elixir (Acoustic prog)
Algunos discos por puntuar: Eloy - Ocean.

1978
~ Bubu - Anabelas (Eclectic Prog/Avant-garde/Symphonic rock)
~ Imán, Califato Independiente - Imán Califato Independiente (Symphonic rock/Fusion/Flamenco)
~ Grobschnitt - Solar Music - Live (Symphonic rock)
~ Ibio - Cuevas de Altamira (Symphonic folk-rock)
~ Gotic - Escenes (Symphonic rock) LIVE

1979
~ Atlas - Bla Vardag (Symphonic rock)
~ Tabletom - Mezclalina (Folk rock/Fusion/Symphonic rock)
~ Happy the Man - Better Late (Symphonic rock)

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Ratings:
=> 10: Masterpiece
=> 9: Near perfect
=> 8: Excellent
=> 7: Great
=> 6: Normal
=> 5: Weak
=> 4: Bad
=> 3: Very bad
=> 2: Not hear
......

Conexiones de artistas: King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Amon Düül II, Colosseum, Renaissance, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Santana, Gentle Giant, Bo Hansson, Il Balletto Di Bronzo, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Yes, Jethro Tull, Caravan, Jade Warrior, Flower Travellin' Band, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Deep Purple, Quella Vecchia Locanda, Aphrodite's Child, Le Orme, Triumvirat, Return to Forever, Camel, Magma, Museo Rosenbach, Rick Wakeman, Gryphon, Mike Oldfield, Focus, Los Canarios, Som Nosso De Cada Dia, Triana, Harmonium, Yezda Urfa, Finch, Hatfield and the North, Gualberto, Kaipa, Ethos, Jon Lord, The Alan Parsons Project, Eloy, Atila, Gotic, Bubu, Imán, Califato Independiente, Happy the Man, Campo di Marte, Picchio dal Pozzo, La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, Metamorfosi, Tabletom, Atlas, Atoll, Azahar, Cressida, Riff Raff, Flower Travellin' Band, Gnidrolog, Goma, Ibio, Semiramis.....

Comments in spanish, italian or english. Thanks!

10cc
AC/DC
Acid Mothers Temple
Adagio
Aerosmith
Alice In Chains
Allman Brothers Band
Anathema
Angra
Anthrax
Arena
Ars Nova
Artension
Atomic Rooster
Avanstasia
Ayreon
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Bigelf
Black Mountain
Black Sabbath
Black Widow
Blackfoot
Blind Faith
Blind Guardian
Blue Cheer
Blue Oyster Cult
Blues Traveler
Bob Dylan
Boston
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Springsteen
Budgie
Cactus
Camel
Caravan
Canned Heat
Chroma Key
Circus Maximus
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Danko Jones
Danzig
Dark Crown
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Demons & Wizards
Derek and the Dominos
Devil Doll
DIO
Dominci
DragonForce
Dream Evil
Dream Theater
Dreamscape
Dungen
Eagles
Edguy
Electric Eel Shock
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Enchant
Eric Clapton
Evergrey
Fairport Convention
Fates Warning
Fleetwood Mac
Flower Travellin' Band
Foghat
Foo Fighters

Well it took quit a while to listen to some of those few artist, many songs and so on...

A nice suprise was the great progressive Metal band Fates Warning. Even tho they aren't as skilled as Dream Theater, they are a nice band, kinda sad almost nobody knows about them (exept for people that are kinda into Progressive music...)

Flower Travellin' Band is a japanese 70's group that sounds like a fusion between Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd, hard rock and psycadelic at the same time... and it sounds really cool! Kinda sad i only have one record on the computer, it's hard to find those kinda bands on the net...

Last a little bit of... disappointment... yep Foo Fighters. I have heard from a friend how great they are... but for me, they are just to... mainstream radiofriendly rock, even tho some songs are good.

やっと第一弾が発表された今年のフジ・ロック。みなさん、喜んだり、ガッカリしたりしているようですが、毎年何百というアーティストが出るわけで、今の時点でそこまで反応することはないんじゃないかなぁ...　なんぞと思ってしまうのです。

とはいっても、自分も正直言ってBootsy Collinsにはびっくりしましたな。fujirockers.orgにも書きましたけど、かつてジョージ・クリントンがフジにやってきたときの、あのウルトラ・ファンク・パーティが再び体験できるのかと思うと、確かに興奮気味になってしまいます。しかも、30名を越える一行がやって来るというのですな。想像しただけで、おしっこをチビリそう。それに、個人的な好き嫌いは別にしても、My Bloody Valentineの出演はでっかいなぁ...　なんて思いました。加えて、奇跡的な再結成となったFlower Travellin' Bandの出演もいろいろと妄想させてくれます。なにせ、彼らはウッドストックあたりの時代にカナダに渡って、あの時代の空気を直接体験している人たちで...　メンバーみなさん還暦を超えている様子で、失礼ながら「親父」の世代なんだろうけど、今もどこかでロックする「親父たち」を体験したいなぁと思ってしまいます。

でも、実をいうと、まだまだこれからに期待をしているのです。毎回、なにやら渋めのアーティストが来るじゃないですか。例えば、数年前のThe Blind Boys of Alabamaなんてぶっ飛びませんでしたか？あれ以降、何枚のアルバムを買ったことか...　最初に買ったのはHigher Groundで、その次がGo Tell It on the Mountain。あんまりすごいってので、安い値段で出ていた昔のアルバムも数枚買ったものです。それに、1曲だけだったけど、オレンジコートでベン・ハーパーと一緒にやったときの感激なんぞ、涙なくしては語れません。というので、当然、彼らが一緒に録音したThere Will Be a Lightも買っているし、その前後に行われたときのライヴDVD、Live at the Apolloも手に入れました。そうしたら、その後かなぁ、メンバーがひとり他界したというニュースが入ってきたり...　複雑なものです。っても、彼ら、今も元気に活躍しているようで、今年の1月にDown in New Orleansというアルバムを発表しているようです。

彼らの他にも、Little Joe Washingtonとか、感激しませんでした？　鼓膜が破れちまうぞってな音で、ぶっ飛ばされましたが、これも例によって例のごとく、オリジナル・ヒューストン・ブルース・ギター・ブラスターってアルバムを買ってきたり...　と、言い方が難しいんですけど、「オリジナルのルーツ的なもの」を発見できるのがフジ・ロックの魅力のひとつなのです。

というので、そのあたりを期待しているのですが、どんなものでしょう？まぁ、じゃ、誰がいい？　となるとなぁ...即答はできないのです。Allen Toussaintも来日したし、Tony Joe Whiteもいいライヴを見せてくれたし...　とはいっても、シンプルなバックでやったり、ソロだったりと、それそれで素晴らしく感動したんだけど、フジ・ロックだったら大きなバンドでやってくることも可能だろうし...　と思ってしまうのです。

さて、みなさんは、どんな「地味系」を期待されていますか？　おそらく、こういったものを期待しているのって、結局、親父系のロック・ファンなのかもしれませんが。

The description and playlist below are from the weekly radio show (A Brief History Of…) that my friend and I host on WSUM 91.7fm Madison (the University of Wisconsin's radio station). We selected songs we felt were either historically important or just representative of each specific topic. Please comment if you feel we missed something or just to give your opinion. Remember, however, that we do this show in an hour (about 50 minutes of music). Track length is a major factor in our decisions (shorter is usually better). Thanks! (Thanks to Winter break open scheduling, we were able to make this a three-hour Brief History of Progressive Rock. A one-hour History of Prog show would have been nearly impossible, since many of the most important songs run 8 minutes if not 20. Even so, the show remains far from comprehensive.)

A Brief History of...Progressive Rock is an oxymoron. This show takes a not so brief look at the results of musicians' realizations that rock could be more than just a form of pop music; it could be art. The first hour describes Progressive Rock's origins from a specific subsection of psychedelic music and attempts to delineate when Prog as we know it actually began. The remainder of that hour illustrates the varied sounds of the first wave of popular Progressive Rock bands that exploded onto FM radio in the early 70s.

The second hour asks the question, "how much is too much?" regarding both track length and lyrical content. The final song of the second hour segues into the theme of the final hour in that it is the first track in the playlist not to originate in England. The final segment shows that during Progressive Rock's heyday, similar and often immitation musical forms were common from Japan to America and Germany.

Here's the playlist from this show (notice that in terms of number of songs, this playlist is on par with many of our other one-hour shows!):


Hour 1: The Beginning

Rock and Roll as Art? / Classical + Rock = ???:
Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues (1967). I wished this linked to the full 7-minute version including Graeme Edge's poem (which we used for the radio show), but alas last.fm only has the single in a full-track playable version. The Moody Blues had been a mediocre R&B-styled band in 1965 and '66, but they didn’t produce consistent hits. In response to their failure, their record company (Decca Records) wanted them to make a rock version of Dvorak's "New World Symphony." Producer Tony Clarke and engineer Derek Varnals, however, reworked the project into Days of Future Passed (without Decca’s permission). Clarke enlisted the London Festival Orchestra conducted by Peter Knight to fill the orchestral portions of the songs. To everyone's surprise, the album was a success that spawned two huge singles (including this song). This surprise psychedelic hit in addition to the revelation caused by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that rock & roll could be art led to a creative explosion that we call Progressive Rock. Prog's earliest incarnation, based on Days of Future Passed, was what we now call a separate genre: Symphonic Rock. The following tracks are from this earliest period of Progressive Rock, while it still fit under the term Pyschedelic Rock.
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum (1967). Procol Harum derived much of their sound from Classical music. "A Whiter Shade of Pale," the band's first and biggest hit, has a sound styled on some of Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard compositions.
Bouree by Jethro Tull (1969). Ian Anderson, the most famous flutist in Rock history, rearranged Bach's "Bourrée in E minor" into this bluesy rock instrumental. Symphonic Rock did survive as a genre unto itself in the work of bands like Caravan and Electric Light Orchestra.

The First "Real" Prog:
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson (1969). Progressive Rock is notable for the professional-level of musicianship of many of the bands. Listen four-and-a-half minutes into this song for an amazing example of group timing. "21st Century Schizoid Man" is the opening track off In The Court Of The Crimson King, the album that started what we now call Progressive Rock in the narrower sense. The music is still somewhat Class