25 Albums That Built Prog

[@michaelwalters3004]

Another early prog album, 1968, Family, their album Music in a Doll's House. Great album.

[@TheProgCorner]

Family!!!! They were on my list. And I forgot them!!!!

[@charleswagner2984]

​@@TheProgCornerMaybe a group called Love that Rush covered on their album Feedback.

[@TheProgCorner]

@charleswagner2984 I had Love on my shortlist!!!!!

[@davidmorgen4558]

I think roger Chapman still plays live in the uk performing Family as well aa solo matertial I Last h eard! ..Unfortunely Rob townsend didnt want to be apart of the family Reunion..oh welll!

[@multi-purposebiped7419]

Family were the group that really got me into prog (to be fair I'd been sniping round the edges for a while). John Peel's Top Gear, BBC Radio One, Saturday afternoons was the culprit.

[@TheDavidtk240]

Moody Blues, "In Search of The Lost Chord", no orchestra just the band. Great prog rock and 16 months earlier than Crimson's "Court". Love that mellotron.

[@visualizeprog2874]

Absolutely true, and KC fans HATE to hear this fact pointed out.

[@stuartraybould2574]

Very big KC fan here and I don't mind a bit. There were loads of albums before Court was released, any music fan knows this. Plus, people forget or just don't know the plentiful classical music that was as progressive, if not more so, than anything in prog rock. ​@@visualizeprog2874

[@TheDavidtk240]

@@visualizeprog2874 Absolutely!

[@petercena9497]

Not to mention Crimson's first sounds like the Moodies.

[@haga2519]

@@petercena9497 Indeed. They even enrolled Moody's producer at the start of the work with In the court...

[@michaelbaucom4019]

In The Court Of The Crimson King is the coronation of prog as a genre. Good call on Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis

[@TheProgCorner]

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[@charleswagner2984]

​​@@TheProgCornerI see you have a great gap between 1959 and 1966. Certainly you don't mean to indicate that nothing happened to progress music towards progressiveness during those 7 years, right? You missed this great cornerstone of progressive melodies. Cast Your Fate To The Wind in its original instrumental form no doubt steered jazz towards a musical melodic sensibility that is definitely progressive. Soon after Vince Guaraldi Trio released it, the wife of another bands manager wrote lyrics to it and a couple pop bands recorded it. That got Vince noticed. He got the Charlie Brown job because of the music of that song. I consider it to be the most progressive tune of the early sixties and should be in your list. I do understand how you missed this gemstone, the CORNER stone of progressive jazz. It flies under everybody's radar.

[@Soundbrigade]

AMEN!

[@williambaldridge1203]

All of these albums that you're naming.You know frank sinatra to Arlo guthrie and so forth, it's a stretch to call them prog. I think Iron Butterfly, Ina-gada-da-vida isn't a stretch at all. I think it really is the first true prog album. Think about it .

[@williambaldridge1203]

I forgot about the Moody Blues.Being that old. They might be considered the first over Iron Butterfly.

[@thebeanmaster-pppp]

Psychedelic music definitely was a huge milestone for the development of prog

[@TheProgCorner]

For sure!!!

[@charleswagner2984]

​@@TheProgCornerYou have a huge gap between 1959 and 1966. You meant to imply that nothing happened at all to develop progressiveness in different genres during those 7 years? There is definitely one band in that time gap that definitely help musically change a bit with Cast Your Fate To The Wind. Vince Giraldi Trio definitely should be on this list, just to fill that early sixties gap. When I dug deep into that song, I realized that that instrumental is more prog than jazz for sure. Then the wife of a bands manager wrote lyrics to it without Vince knowing about it. And because of that, Vince got the Charlie Brown job. Totally changed his life.

[@mikereiss4216]

In my view psych paved the way and made prog possible although you could argue that both genres developed somewhat concurrently. They both came from the same zeitgeist nonetheless.

[@silvertube52]

I'd say psych evolved into prog, and it had to happen. Psych lacks coherence and direction, if it was going to improve, it would become prog.

[@katesjanice]

You are my favorite prog analyst. So knowledgeable and interesting. And I have to let you know that Kansas is my FAVORITE band, particularly 1974-1982. I think that Kerry Livgren is the finest composer, orchestrator, lyricist, and multi-instrumentalist, surrounded by amazing musicians and vocalists. I could listen to them all day - and I always hear something new in his compositions. What a great songwriter and humble man!😊

[@TheProgCorner]

Kerry is a genius!!! What a songwriter. What a musician. I’ve always loved Kansas. I am on an Audio Visions binge of late. Never loved it. Boy, was I wrong!!!!😑❤️👍🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾

[@MARTY-p8q]

I L❤VE LEFTOVERTURE - POINT OF NO RETURN - MONOLITH AND MORE!

[@williambaldridge1203]

I think the first prog rock album is Ina-gada-da-vida by Iron Butterfly. In fact I think they're the reason most bands started doing drum solos. Theirs was the first album that had a 17 minute long song that I know of, maybe there was others. But that's the first one I know of.

[@TheProgCorner]

There were others but by fairly obscure bands. Iron Butterfly kicked that door in.

[@petercena9497]

The first was Revelation by Love (1966), but it wasn't successful.

[@richardthorne2804]

Your knowledge of music blows me away.

[@TheProgCorner]

Richard!!!!! It’s all I know!!! Don’t ask me about History or Biology…

[@Norshammar72]

To me Psych and Prog are musical siblings. Great list Scot!

[@TheProgCorner]

Absolutely!!!

[@TheProgCorner]

Are you ready for Sunday?????

[@charleswagner2984]

​@@TheProgCornerIf psyche and prog are siblings, early sixties jazz is their older cousin. Here is the proggiest tune of 1962. How could you miss this gem? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIWkZJSFm9d3fqMsi=XdJ88kTzEux2LSEY

[@charleswagner2984]

​​@@TheProgCornerB side of a single, the original instrumental of the proggiest tune of 1962. Right in that gap you have between 1959 and 1965. Can there be anything else in that time period? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIWkZJSFm9d3fqMsi=XdJ88kTzEux2LSEY

[@ronaldchives2486]

@@charleswagner2984 Night Of Fear by The Move, the b side Disturbance, She’s Not There by The Zombies?

[@DepecheMuse-q1z]

Small Faces " Odgens Nut Gone Flake" also is a conceptual Proto Prog album previous to In The Court Of The Crimson King

[@TheProgCorner]

Great album!!! I love (Small) Faces.

[@silvertube52]

Yes, that one should be on the list too. The Happiness Stan suite is very prog.

[@briangonigal3974]

The concept album goes back even further than Wee Small Hours (which is really just a bunch of pre-existing unrelated songs by various different writers collected together because they all happen to share a similar "Saloon Song" aesthetic and recorded in such a way as to emphasize their shared mood, almost more similar to a themed playlist than a true concept album actually written as a unified work). Woody Guthrie's "Dust Bowl Ballads", a group of six 78rpm discs collected together in an actual bound "album", is a true concept album all about Guthrie's experiences among actual Dust Bowl migrants, (along with a couple songs that were directly inspired by and actually reference the 1940 movie adaptation of Grapes of Wrath, also about Dust Bowl refugees).

[@TheProgCorner]

I should have included Woody but it was 1940 and I focused on actual LPs. Anything on 78 was excluded!!!!

[@lisachristensen4558]

Hello Prog Professor Scot!! So ready to learn about THIS subject!! 🙋‍♀️ This is Great!! ❤️ You Scot so 🎸🎶 ROCK ON!! 👏👏👏

[@TheProgCorner]

Lisa!!!! How are you?

[@charleswagner2984]

​@@TheProgCornerEarlier I suggested what I know as the proggiest tune of the early sixties, the B side of a single by Vince Guaraldi Trio in July 1962 titled Cast Your Fate To The Wind. A year later, We Five released the tune with lyrics added by Carel Werber, the wife of Frank Werber who had managed another band. (Might have been We Five or Sandpipers who also covered the tune.) This is how that worked out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2XViH5qaKp_eLssi=v0m_cP916Vo7TSav

[@AngryCalvin]

Spirit, Traffic, Family, Blood Sweat and Tears, It’s a Beautiful Day, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues all come to mind. John Coltrane also had an impact. Glad you listed Shine On Brightly from Procol Harum. Definitely deserves to be on there.

[@TheProgCorner]

Coltrane!!! Absolutely!!! (And Family should have been there…)

[@Phil-r6k]

Another that I might suggest is Vanilla Fudge’s first album, and perhaps more importantly, their second album THE BEAT GOES ON, which is highly conceptual.

[@TheProgCorner]

I thought about that one!!!!

[@markspooner1224]

That's a very good list and those albums still sound good today!

[@TheProgCorner]

Indeed they do.

[@MARTY-p8q]

7❤'S PR❤G. - YES - ELP - GENESIS - KING CRIMSON - KANSAS AND MANY MANY MORE!

[@jaybee7890]

Love it Scot! I think Love-Forever Changes was groundbreaking but perhaps it was more the Zenith of psych rock than proggy. But it appeals to that era and they were respected by everyone. Too bad Arthur Lee couldn’t hold it together.

[@TheProgCorner]

I probably should have included Forever Changes!!!!

[@AlmostEthical]

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was 1967, with long tracks, improvisation and experimental ideas.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yep!!!

[@uncletom618]

Outstanding Scot! Thank you!

[@TheProgCorner]

👍👍❤️❤️

[@OutOnTheTiles]

An absolute killer list here,Scot! Many of these albums and artists I love. Great episode. I love your knowledge of music and your wide spectrum of different artists. Your musical tastes are definitely not boxed in. Well done,sir. 👍❤️

[@TheProgCorner]

It’s all music!!!!!

[@michaelbenz8092]

That's a huge topic. Prog is built from hundreds, if not thousands, of years of music, including Gregorian chant. Rites of Spring. Beethoven's Fifth. Westside Story.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!!!!

[@MisterWondrous]

Your brilliant chronology, with the Court at the end instead of the beginning reminds me of what James Joyce said about Christopher Columbus...that he was the last man to discover America. You gave me much I want to hear. Create ye a playlist with them on it, in order. Very useful. I am midway through a playlist with over 200 videos, called All the Countries in the World A-Z. Travel is a boorish tedium, but seeing places, I can dig. Hearing roots music, I can dig.

[@TheProgCorner]

That sounds very cool. I might have to search for that!!!

[@MisterWondrous]

@@TheProgCorner Just finished it. There was a dozen or so I had never even heard of before. kzbin.info/aero/PLZEINYIMlZTLiVtvZjTBrUYi8yjyyibUp

[@NelsonMontana1234]

Love the choices. Good calls. I might replace Tull's This Was, Colosseum and Led Zep's first and maybe even West Side Story and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as being more instrumental to the concept of prog than Alice's Restaurant but...I'll give it to you. : )

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!🙏

[@adelharduslange9955]

I agree, it's impossible to just point to one album as the very first. Great list! All very important albums

[@TheProgCorner]

👍👍👍

[@davedmusic3598]

Fair play for mention of Clouds / 1-2-3!!!

[@TheProgCorner]

They have been all but forgotten…

[@davedmusic3598]

@@TheProgCorner Sadly I think there's more to it. Billy's a mate and with his consent I tried to write a biography 10 years ago on his legacy, and whilst Ian Anderson was gracious enough to grant me an hour interview, another prog legend took GREAT offence at the questions I posed.. After that, ALL doors were closed to me and I had to abandon the project.

[@jms1086]

Great choice mentioning Dave Brubeck, the ultimate mid-mod sound and considered cross-over jazz, making it more accessible listening for non-jazz music fans.

[@TheProgCorner]

I love Brubeck!!! I grew up with him.

[@jorgep.1877]

Excellent list! I would add “Village Green Preservation Society” and “Arthur” by The Kinks. Both very British, conceptual, with poignant characters, and interesting arrangements (harpsichord, mellotron, etc)

[@TheProgCorner]

Good call!!!!!! I need to spend some quality time with The Kinks. Great band.

[@mikageric9436]

I am very interested exploring prog rock and the roots of prog rock. Thank you Scotty for this video and infos.

[@TheProgCorner]

👍👍👍

[@memory-nownow-anticipation7087]

Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteen Confessions 1968. A Jazz-rock masterpiece..

[@TheProgCorner]

Laura Nyro. I really need to spend some time with her music…

[@dano1962]

Great concise and informative video. You nailed the origin story of Prog! Spreading the word of great music to the World Wide Webers and beyond. Keep up the great work. You da man!!!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thanks, Dano!!!! Book ‘em!!!

[@wizardofoz6811]

Hi Scot! Congrats for the 10k subscribers!! I am really glad. Thanks for everything you do for the music we love

[@TheProgCorner]

And you have been with me since the beginning!!!! Thank you!!!

[@lucasnering7353]

Hi Scott. Been watching your videos for a while now. I’m 23 and I’ve been immersing myself in prog for the past few years. Just wanted to say I love your channel and you’ve helped me discover great albums by great bands/artists! Really appreciate your channel giving guidance to enjoying the best genre of music. Keep it up! 👍👍

[@TheProgCorner]

Lucas!!!! Thank you so much for showing me and the channel some love.

[@kevinogracia1615]

Wow! Blasts from the past. Peace on earth.

[@TheProgCorner]

Old school today!!!

[@paulwelch1992]

Brilliant stuff Scot. A very eclectic twenty-five. Kudos for referencing Sinatra who recorded a number of concept albums from The Wee Small Hours through Come Fly With Me (1958), Only the Lonely & No One Cares (1959) right up to A Man Alone (1969) and Water Town (1970). Good to see Miles and Dave Brubeck included too.

[@TheProgCorner]

And Songs for Swinging Lovers!!!!

[@mariolafrance5806]

Your erudition never ceases to impress me Scot. Eye opening.

[@TheProgCorner]

I LOVE PROG ROCK (and doing KZbin videos about Prog Rock.)

[@TheAlbumReviewchannel]

Very interesting, well researched and presented article. As ever with so much enthusiasm

[@TheProgCorner]

Dave!!!!

[@jeffschielka7845]

Hey Dave!!👍😎

[@TheAlbumReviewchannel]

@@jeffschielka7845 Hi Jeff. You ok?

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@TheAlbumReviewchannel Hanging in there Dave. Thanks for asking.👍😎

[@TheHarold1966]

Nice episode. For me Sgt. Pepper, Ars Longa Vita Brevis, Tommy and In The Court Of The Crimson King.

[@TheProgCorner]

Harold!!! When are you coming back on the Sunday show? Let’s talk.

[@mythoflogic]

For me the two cornerstones are Sgt. Pepper's and In The Court Of The Crimson King.

[@TheProgCorner]

You know it!!!!!!

[@philipmorrissey9142]

Great list man! I would have thrown in albums by the likes of The Incredible String Band, Grateful Dead, Silver Apples, Fairport Convention, The Velvet Underground, Spirit, and The Small Faces

[@TheProgCorner]

Excellent choices!!!!

[@ABC-p4m]

I think another album that is usually overlooked as a forerunner of what would become known as Prog....is Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces, from 1968. One of the first true concept albums and contained a lot of the early elements that would feature as the genre progressed through the 70s. That album opener title track really sounds like it's playing a shape of things to come in rock music!

[@TheProgCorner]

I love that album!!!! And the artwork is super cool too.

[@ABC-p4m]

I love it too! It's a real trip of an album. What an immense talent Marriott was huh!

[@RythymBeast]

What a killer video! Well done, sir!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!🙏

[@timdoggart6787]

Great video, Scot. Really enjoyed that. You obviously can't cover everything that happened in that gradual build up you described, but I think you did well to capture highlights and the most significant. A few others that might merit a footnote could be Jimi Hendrix, Spirit, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, It's a Beautiful Day, Deep Purple, Spooky Tooth, The Collectors, The Move, H.P. Lovecraft, Kaleidoscope, Andromeda... and probably a lot more. It was a complex scene. Some of those I've mentioned were admittedly more on the psychedelic and/or folky side of things.

[@TheProgCorner]

Every band you mentioned got serious consideration. In the end, it’s kinda just the stuff I want to talk about on a particular day because Vanilla Fudge, The Move, Spirit, Hendrix - all part of the story!!!!

[@timdoggart6787]

​@TheProgCorner Absolutely, and I think you got the calls right on the major ones. These were kind of honorable mentions.

[@myprogrockshow3025]

Nice work! Very similar to my proto prog videos. Glad we are on the same wavelength. Sound waves that is!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!

[@PhilippeDumont73]

my god... you really know your music, I'm impressed !

[@TheProgCorner]

It’s all I’ve ever really cared about!!!

[@PhilippeDumont73]

@ 😂🤣

[@mehcol]

We Brits were good and lovely to see our cousins across the pond enjoying our creativity. Peace.

[@sunlightglider6772]

Excellent video and good choices, it's all subjective, love the Pretty Things album x

[@TheProgCorner]

Outstanding album.

[@ianemery4355]

Brilliant Scot! This is so well thought through and I agree 👍 excellent!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!

[@charlesbritzman501]

I agree with your analysis. Just going by first album years, Van der Graaf Generator and Nektar might fit on the list.

[@TheProgCorner]

The first VDGG album came out before ITCOTCK!!! So they were under consideration. Man, I could have done 50 albums that pre-date ITCOTCK but you know…

[@charlesbritzman501]

@@TheProgCorner yeah I knew you had to draw the line somewhere, but your list made some good points and charted a path that I was vaguely aware of in my own life. I bought Brubeck’s album before I started my Prog journey with the Moody Blues in high school (class of ‘71) Keep up the good insights !

[@ericdinse5047]

Wow ! Great list. Very well thought out ! 👍

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you so much for watching!!!! ❤️👍👍👍

[@brentbristow2200]

A lot of good points here, Scot. And a few albums I need to go check out.

[@TheProgCorner]

Brent!!!! Big ole Rock Star you…

[@danaaronmusic]

Cool! I've got a full-on concept album in my collection called Dust Bowl Ballads. It's by Woody Guthrie and was recorded and released in 1940.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!! Originally on 78 rpm!!!

[@keithparker1346]

Interesting video. Unusually for what is in effect a list video i actually do want to check out some albums mentioned

[@TheProgCorner]

I tried to take a slightly different angle!!!!📐❤️👍

[@seanwelch71]

Hi Scott- great list idea! Orchestras are the secret sauce for Prog weirdness.

[@Paul_Progressive]

What a fantastic video and what a fantastic list! That's the way it has to be done. A history lesson in fifteen minutes which sweeps away the established opinion that everything started with King Crimson. I love it that it was Frank Sinatra who you did mention first. And it is so true that people had to get used to side long epics (such as "Alice's Restaurant" and "In-A-Gadda-da-Vidda") in order to establish Prog in its purest form in the seventies.

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you, Paul!!!!!!

[@silvertube52]

Wow, so glad you included Touch-Touch! I keep trying to get reviewers like Just JP to give Seventy-Five a listen. Yes, Touch was early proto-prog. Side one of the album is... eh, not that good, but side two is a masterpiece, it flows together so well, and Seventy-Five totally kicks proto-prog, psychedelic butt. Seventy-Five builds and builds to a climax, but never ends. On the original vinyl, it was mastered to go into an infinite loop if you didn't pick up the tone arm.

[@TheProgCorner]

Seventy five is the reason Touch is in this list!!! Absolute masterpiece!!!

[@kenl2091]

@@TheProgCorner Fully agree (though Down at Circe's Place is very Prog) but the other tracks are also of high quality and, to my ears, just as good a listen. btw: Touch owed something to Vanilla Fudge who should have made this list.

[@josephgerard5473]

A lovely educational video for people new to prog rock. I would add The Family to the list, especially A Song For Me and the early singles.

[@TheProgCorner]

Family was an oversight. They definitely deserved a spot here.

[@stuartfishman1044]

Pretty convincing argument, Scott. I think King Crimson's ITCOTCK will always be considered the first "official" Prog album by a majority of the Prog Rock diaspora. But it was fun watching you go through the time line from Frank Sinatra to the big bang in '69. Pink Floyd's debut is a reminder that Prog was an outgrowth of Psychedelia, the idea of a musical form that knows no borders. And thanks for including In A Silent Way, which along with On The Corner is one of my two favorite Miles Davis albums of all time. And while we're at it, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme might be a dark horse choice, spirituality and taking Jazz saxophone beyond the norm being ever present in his work. Or how about Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz? Talk about a game changer. And I have the first two Frank Zappa albums. Only 600 more to go.

[@TheProgCorner]

Coleman, Davis and Coltrane. Oh my!!!

[@PJprog]

A fantastic episode Scot !!! In fact the origins of prog would be a best seller in book form !! Fancy it ?? Absolutely loved this my friend , phenomenal !!! 😍

[@TheProgCorner]

There’s a few bands I wish I had included but more than 25 would be crazy, right? And the good people in the comments ALWAYS set me straight!!!

[@PJprog]

@@TheProgCorner I would maybe mention Simon and Garfunkel... strangely Bookends for me personally has folky/proggy tendencies. 😍

[@markjacobsen8335]

Love this and that you mentioned Frank Sinatra "In The Wee Small Hours" and the Brubeck "Time Out" albums. I consider Duke Ellington and Igor Stravinsky to be grandfathers of prog, and both Coltrane and Miles Davis to be uncles! But hey, Scott - dude, you got one GLARING OMMISSION that I am actually quite shocked you missed, and that is the West Side Story soundtrack from 1961 - that is absolutely 100% prog and extremely important to the pioneers of the prog rock genre!!!!

[@TheProgCorner]

West Side Story!!!! America. The song that started Prog?

[@stukevideo]

This program contained all the elements of Prog!

[@TheProgCorner]

Yeah!!! Mix and serve.

[@fenderstratocastertelecast8479]

Robert Fripp mentioned he was driving, and then he turned on radio. "A day in the life" was aired... So he though that was the kind of stuff he would like to develop... A few years later KING CRIMSON opened for the Rolling Stones.... The crowd was blew away, about the material and perfection of such presentation It could be the same venue, Jon Anderson and Chris Squire attended, so Jon said to Chris "we need to rehearse More" "Every little thing" by Lennon and MCcartney was included on 1969 YES ephonimous album

[@TheProgCorner]

👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍

[@johnmedland3399]

Happy to say I own most of these albums! Including the Sinatra! Frankie made a great string of albums in the late 50's, featuring tons of minor keys and Gordon Jenkins' lush orchestrations that would sound amazing if they were reimagined on the mellotron. When my brothers and I get together for tunes we say "how about some Frankie" and on comes Sinatra, Zappa, or Marino!

[@TheProgCorner]

Mahagony Mothers!!!

[@davereese6614]

Dont forget "Dust On Mother's Bible" by Buck Owens and His Buckaroos! It was a watershed album for Prog back in its day with cuts like "Satan's Gotta Get Along Without Me," and "I'll Go To Church Again With Mama."

[@TheProgCorner]

Good old Buck!!!

[@kratino]

Such a cool idea! Great one, Scot!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!

[@daveycretin664]

Fascinating topic. One could go in a myriad of different directions and other genres. You had a lot of solid choices, including The Chairman of the Board, who later returned with another concept album in 1970 with Watertown. You even had a pair of other bands that l have never encountered: Clouds and the one l can’t spell or pronounce. Keep up the stellar content! Cheers from The Big Apple. Rock Out, Prog On & Pogo! Your clone and mine, ~ The Decibel Destroying Doppelgänger of Davey Cretin, from CRETIN CLASSICS.

[@TheProgCorner]

Billy Ritchie: The Man Who Invented Prog (123/Clouds were massively influential…)

[@tonyjedioftheforest1364]

You made me smile when you said “wonky and not correct”. You can make an argument for almost anything but I need to watch this again and write a few down but I do have several of the albums that you mentioned.

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you, Tony!!! My fellow Jedi.

[@shawn1928]

Awesome list!

[@bren1850]

SF Sorrow yes indeed. Also ones that could have been included here but are very much overlooked are Renaissance first album is highly significant, also Van Der Graaf Generator The Aerosol Grey Machine is another one which bridges that Psych and Prog thing, as does Reality by Second Hand on Polydor. I would agree with Music in a Doll's House due to the segues and reprises of certain tracks with the Dave Mason production etc.

[@TheProgCorner]

I almost included that Renaissance debut!!!!! Should have done 50 albums!!!!

[@bren1850]

@@TheProgCorner Yes but you covered the Classical symphonic stuff with The Nice and The Moody Blues. I think because that Renaissance album came out around the same time as In the Court of the Crimson King there were more of these movements toward more Progressive stuff from the Psychedelic era, Traffic and Family both became more Progressive as did Soft Machine and many more examples not just bands who did a prog or proto prog number on an album (Prog? Non Prog?). It is interesting how a lot of these bands who transitioned came from Soul, Blues, Jazz, Beat or R&B backgrounds, even skiffle, or they were classically trained products of music colleges Gryphon or Dis dwelling Rick Wakeman. Just as Ian Carr's Nucleus and The Graham Bond Organisation cultivated some fine musicians who were abundant interplaying on other British Prog albums and beyond such as Pete Brown's Piblokto and Battered Ornaments, Colosseum and other fine examples, significant others in the very early part of the 70s such as Brian Davison's Every Which Way with Graham Bell who also came from that Psychedelic background with Skip Bifferty and the absolute belting I Keep Singing the Same Old Song by the none band Heavy Jelly.

[@perrylow1128]

Brilliant ... loved it. I see you have a Colosseum album.. Cool!

[@TheProgCorner]

Amazing band.

[@peerayuthcharnsethikul5122]

Astral Weeks of Van Morrison in 1968 is another one, IMHO.

[@TheProgCorner]

Madame George!!!

[@neil1958-s5k]

Caravan Jan '69, the track "Where but for Caravan Would I?" has bits that sound like King Crimson before aforesaid band - listen to the last few minutes.

[@TheProgCorner]

I almost included Caravan on the list …

[@larrysmith5249]

Very interesting with a well thought out timeline. I learned a lot, thanks:)

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!

[@danielfuentes3226]

Great review of albums that built prog Scot."Piper at the Gates of Dawn" by Pink Floyd is one of the most important psychedelic albums of all time.

[@TheProgCorner]

Absolutely!!!

[@danielfuentes3226]

@@TheProgCorner 👍

[@Prog-Radio]

GREAT list! Another one I think would be worth mentioning, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967). More often associated with art rock and proto-punk, but it's experimental approach, unconventional sounds, and themes I think contributed to the broader progressive rock ethos.

[@TheProgCorner]

Absolutely

[@christianhaynes1954]

Great history lesson Scott 👍

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!

[@shanocles]

Love the Zombies! For sure influential to our genre ❤ and def procol harum

[@thedp17]

Was not expecting the Arlo Guthrie shoutout.

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Scot ❤😊

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you for everything you do!!!

[@danagur]

were gonna dance with snakes scot!! awesome video loved it

[@TheProgCorner]

Snakes Alive!!!!

[@Realbillball]

Some of these albums I haven't heard yet, though I've heard about them. But I believe you. Great list that starts and ends exactly like mine if I had made one. I was afraid you weren't going to mention Frank Sinatra's excellent concept album, but boy was I wrong. Sgt.Pepper is not a concept album, but it has so much prog relish that to me it is deffo prog. Pet Sounds is all about new and progressive ideas, so therefore it's prog in my book. And I could go on and on. There are so many gray areas in this genre that makes room for personal definitions. Prog was developed and your collection of pebbles pretty much shows the geological story, if you get my drift. Peace, love and all the rest from the very sunny and warm Oslo to you, Scot.

[@TheProgCorner]

🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️🇳🇴🇳🇴

[@kenl2091]

Excellent video. I've said before that there must be a great book in this particular subject (there's plenty of Prog books and Psych books but none about the hinterland and the antecedents of Prog) and if I had the time and connections, I'd write one, but what about yourself, Scot? If anyone knows of such a book, let me know!

[@TheProgCorner]

I started a KZbin channel because I hate writing. I have tried so many times!!! There are at least three unfinished novels in my desk drawer…

[@lupcokotevski2907]

Good call on Sinatra. I have the Australian original on 10 inch vinyl.

[@TheProgCorner]

Awesome!!! I love Sinatra.

[@MrNeiltonoman]

A really good video and an interesting topic. Definitely agree with Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis maybe would have added Charlie Mingus to that list.

[@TheProgCorner]

Mingus? Coltrane too?

[@MrNeiltonoman]

@@TheProgCorner yeah Coltrane's a good shout. To be honest lots of Jazz could be considered a forerunner of Prog.

[@williamlangan5902]

I’m surprised the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society. Not really prog and even really psychedelic (ok, a little). Picture Book, Wicked Annabella and the title track. You could even make a defense for Waterloo Sunset with its unique chord changes. They can’t all be mentioned. But hey, good call on including Frank Sinatra!

[@TheProgCorner]

Kinks are a FANTASTIC call here. Arthur. Village Green. Oh yeah. Very progressive.

[@Mister_Jahn]

Very good episode. Prog wasnt "invented" it coaleced from what a lot of musicians were doing from Brubeck to the Beatles and yes Bob Dylan... he really opened up conceptual lyric and song topics. You should doa post on classical music and Prog... Beethoven really threw people fora loop with the 9th symphony and his late piano pieces, Bach etc. Also, great that you stated the thing about the USA's contributions...

[@TheProgCorner]

It all starts with Bach!!! Or does it…

[@multi-purposebiped7419]

Oh Scott, not only did you not mention Family (even if you meant to), you also didn't mention Traffic, which is a bit weird because they were the first group I ever saw the word "progressive" attached to in print, and that was in 1967.

[@TheProgCorner]

Family was on my list and mysteriously disappeared on me!!!!!! Traffic is another great call!!!! 👍👍👍

[@Prog-t9d]

King Crimson In the Court may not have been the first in Prog but no other record from that time still sounds as powerful and creative.

[@TheProgCorner]

Well said!!!

[@elrobertoreal]

I agree with this list, I would add John Coltrane ("A Love Supreme", "Ascension"), his music was a big influence especially to the Canterbury Sound and bands like East of Eden.

[@TheProgCorner]

Coltrane. For sure!!!

[@Mellbergfan]

I've got a lot of albums to check out now, thanks! 😂

[@TheProgCorner]

No rest for the weary!!!

[@TheTornadoMan]

Even though this is really obscure. Imo, I would also add the duo Hansson and Karlsson as their album “Monument” is way ahead of its time. It’s a Jazz-Fusion and Psychedelic album with heavy prog influences as it’s very technical and three of the songs are more than 7 minutes long in a 36 minute album and considered it came 1967, it was ahead of its time.

[@TheProgCorner]

Bo Hansson!!!!

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

Very cool piece. Great to see Time Out and In a Silent Way in there! I would consider beyond The Doors, some of the heavier Blues Rock, especially just from a standpoint of Reaching wide levels of exposure. Electric Ladyland Disreali Gears Led Zeppelin I

[@TheProgCorner]

Absolutely!!!!!

[@jhillst]

A couple other artists that deserve a mention: Burt Bacharach -- Arguably the first songwriter to use odd time signatures in a pop (as opposed to jazz) context. Check out "Anyone Who Had a Heart" or "Promises, Promises" for some mind-bending examples. The Velvet Underground -- Probably more of an influence on alternative rock than prog, but still, if you define prog as music that pushes envelopes, you can't deny they did that.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes to both.

[@Soundbrigade]

I think it’s a great list. It is after all your list and no one can take that away from you. Before I write what I wanted to write, I’d say for me, Moody Blues - Question of balance, Quintessence, Black Sabbath 1st AND of course King Crimson set me right into the progressive groove. NOW, AND LISTEN CAREFULLY! Arlo Guthrie made an Alice’s Restaurant Revisited not so many years ago. That song is there with an explanation where Richard Nixon’s deleted 18 minutes from his tape went.

[@TheProgCorner]

Sweet!!!

[@antonnee]

It's almost as if the genre progressed through the years to become what we now know as progressive rock.😎

[@TheProgCorner]

👍👍👍

[@skallagrimr_kveldulfsson]

Very interesting video, thanks! I think the debut album of The United States of America is also worth checking out as a potential early prog influence. Not really prog but pretty experimental. Also, Don Ellis, probably the jazz musician who worked most passionately with odd time signatures (Electric Bath 1967 and several other albums).

[@TheProgCorner]

I thought about them about ten seconds after I shot this video!!!! Good call!!!!!

[@Phil-r6k]

I had the TOUCH album, it was great! My only selection that isn’t on this list is PUZZLE by The Mandrake Memorial. Earth Opera’s first album was interesting as well.

[@TheProgCorner]

Very cool picks!!!!!

[@artyomkurakin3393]

Wagner was very important for prog imo with all those leitmotif composition thinking.

[@TheProgCorner]

Absolutely!!! And…the bombast!!!!!!!

[@paulayers1111]

Phil Collins once said that the first prog song is “a day in the life.”

[@TheProgCorner]

Hard to argue with that!!!

[@richardfurness7556]

@@TheProgCorner Good Vibrations?

[@marhill77]

What about the early Amboy Dukes albums? I think their early stuff could be considered proto psyche/prog rock. A pre-cursor if you will 👍

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes indeed!!!

[@antonnee]

Congratulations on 10,000 subscribers

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!

[@bbchronicles736]

Thanks for tackling this one! I'm really tired of hearing people say that KC-ITCOTCK was the 1st real Prog album. As you pointed out, there were literally dozens that came before it. And there were many more that were not mentioned, including The Moody Blues subsequent albums In Search of The Lost Chord (1968) and On the Threshold of a Dream (1969), and Procol Harum's next album, A Salty Dog (1969), and others that really advanced Prog, all before KC came on the scene. KC's album was very important, but I look at that as more of the inflection point for Prog, after which Prog rock as a concept really took off, rather than as the actual beginning.

[@TheProgCorner]

Exactly!!!