The Beginners Guide to Prog Rock: Gen Z Edition (w/Tara from Spinnin Prog)

Are you a beginner looking to get into the wonderful world of Prog Rock??!! Join Tara from ‪@SpinninProg‬ and I as we discuss albums from our "Gen Z" perspectives, that we think would be great for a Prog Rock newbie!!
What are other Prog Rock albums that YOU think would be good for a beginner to the genre?! Tell us in the comments!!
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[@SpinninProg]

I really enjoyed this, thanks for having me Cody! ☺️

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thanks for coming!! 😃

[@jeffschielka7845]

Tara ROCKS❣️👍😎

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Indeed she do!!

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@BrockwaysVinylBytes 👍😎

[@jeffschielka7845]

Hey Cody! I've seen many channels tackle this topic before. Definitely a different perspective from you and Tara based on your ages. Great job from you both! Always nice to get opinions from a younger generation. Oh to be young again!!!! Take care, see you soon!👍😎

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

We love you Jeff, your support and respect for all of our channels is well appreciated. You rock and thanks for staying along for the ride! 😃🤘

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@BrockwaysVinylBytes My pleasure Cody!👍😎

[@mauricemorning]

Great job youngsters. Thank you so much for some confirmations of lifelong favorite masterpieces.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thank you Maurice! Stay tuned as we have more cool content coming. Glad you are liking what we’ve done! 😃

[@joeinternetta4535]

YES!1. ELP I'd say people may need a second listen as the first time will just blow you away.. By the time Keith just hits you hard with the Three Fates, and by the end of the album hits you with that Moog solo.. I mean, that put the Moog on the map for the general masses, and it made radio which really pushed the instrument and the genre so much!!

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Masterpiece! Keith is the best 🤘🤘

[@shaynewest8757]

For someone getting into prog Id recommend stuff like early 70s Uriah Heep or Wishbone Ash which is easily digestable than move onto more advanced prog like Tull, Genesis, Yes, Camel etc. Great seeing so many of the younger generation discovering the greatest music ever made and keeping it alive.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thank you so much for your comment!! 🤘😃🎵

[@ilabelle1]

Good stuff Cody. It's nice to know that some young people are into prog. A rare breed.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thanks for being such a loyal supporter of the channel, Ian. You are greatly appreciated

[@ilabelle1]

I just hope I'm not wearing out my welcome. I seem to have lots to say in chat. but isn't that what it's for.🤔@@BrockwaysVinylBytes

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

That’s exactly what it is for!!! You’ll not wear out your welcome here.

[@TheProgCorner]

I can’t wait for this one!!!!

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thanks Scot! We are excited about it too. 😊

[@jeffschielka7845]

👍😎

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Rock on Jeff 🤘 and Scot 🤘

[@richardmccurdy.9420]

A marvelous show folks . Some great choices there .

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thank you Richard! Stay tuned for Next Steps… 😃

[@meanmrmustard7042]

Here are a few that come to mind for me. Not necessarily prog bands, but a good gateway to prog. Radiohead - ok computer Mars Volta - Frances the Mute Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique The Decemberists - The Tain Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Voivod- Outer Limits Jane’s Addiction - Ritual

[@SpinninProg]

Yoshimi and Frances the mute were a couple of my first albums too. Love that list.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

So glad you have enjoyed the video!!! Thank you 😃🤘

[@wonekawa]

Great chemistry. Love ❤️ this! Carry on the Flame!

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@andydio1964]

Great show Cody you and Tara should start your own show.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

I think we might just do that, start our own sub-show here on the channel. Great idea! Thanks for enjoying the content 😃🤘

[@andydio1964]

@@BrockwaysVinylBytesthat would be great.

[@raynaRobichaud]

Lucky man was the first time I heard a moog synthesizer. I was 13 years old in 1968.😎👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Love it!! 😄🤘🎵

[@Norshammar72]

This representative for Generation X is enjoying this!👍👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thank you Pontus! Cheers brother 🤘🎵

[@DaveH-10]

ELP will always be number one for me Keith was just the greatest.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Agree! 😃😃

[@PJprog]

Great Live show guys..!! Really enjoyed it !! 😍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thank you kindly! Stay tuned… Tara is coming back…😃🎵

[@philipmorrissey9142]

Great video folks! It can be a daunting experience for a lot of people getting into the genre so you don't want to scare them off. No Magma or Comus straight off the bat!

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Haha thanks! And exactly. That’s what we will do the “next steps” for 😂🤘🎵

[@zephead64]

Great discussion by you both 😊

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thanks Joe!! 😃🤘

[@MisterWondrous]

Sorry I missed the premiere due to banking matters, but I will catch up tonight. So cool that young whippersnappers are discovering these gems. Great show, and picks...many unexpected but welcome. It was like y'all found my long scattered record collection. What a treat! And nothing better than an Irish-Canadian treat!

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

You’ll dig it Wondrous!! Next one we’ll do is Prog Rock’s Next Steps, Gen Z Edition

[@MisterWondrous]

@@BrockwaysVinylBytes You both have a really good tubeside manner, which adds icing to your depth of knowledge and love of the subject.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

@@MisterWondrous thank you sir! 😃🤘 we do our best.

[@MisterWondrous]

@@BrockwaysVinylBytes It shows.

[@joeinternetta4535]

Uriah Heep, especially the "classic line up". Personally, I see them as an ultra heavy hard rock band. Much heavier than any "metal" band and a bit heavier than Black Sabbath in the early days. Trivia for the day, I helped them load in ("roadie") for a show ('73? or '74) that turned out to be the heaviest, loudest show I ever saw and heard. My ears were still ringing the next day ;-) If you want to go with prog, that's ok, but at that time they were ovr the top heavy, at least in person..

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

UH are awesome!! 🤘🤘

[@mauricemorning]

LOL! I saw them at the Palladium in 1974 just after Demons and Wizards came out. I got there as early as I could and got to be right in front of the stage. Add one point I felt like my eardrums were about to implode so I slightly cupped my hands over my ears to protect them. David Byron saw me and picked me out like I was a heckler at a comedy show. He looked at me and said, "are we too loud? Do you want us to turn it down-- do you want us to turn it down?"--at which point they all turned up! That was my 15 seconds of fame😅

[@patrickmcevoy5080]

You're right: Bungle in the Jungle is a great song. Tull had a sense of humor, and that's awesome.

[@raynaRobichaud]

Dark Side of the Moon was released in 1973 in North America 😎

[@MattCarter67]

How about Crises or Five Miles Out - epics on side 1 and pop songs on side 2!

[@raynaRobichaud]

Limelight on Rush's Moving Pictures is a awesome track 😎👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Agree! 😃😃🤘🤘

[@jessem470]

Fun video I would recommend checking King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Tame Impala Aphex Twins Endless Boogie ( little obscure but great Rock Band from NYC ) But my favorite album of all time not prog but long form and every Gen Z need to know Televisions : Marquee Moon

[@taraoreilly2112]

I have some Tame Impala and King Gizzard in my collection, great stuff;

[@mauricemorning]

Hey you two. I recommend you stop whatever you're doing and listen to Kentucky Woman by Deep Purple. If those aren't two of the most amazing solos you've ever heard I will eat my socks! Listen to grandpa. What do you think of early Kansas? Also, if you haven't heard it, I would recommend Uriah Heep's Look At Yourself. It's right up there with Deep Purple In Rock imo. Thanks again.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Hey Maurice! You’d be surprised we know all of those… (well I’m not that familiar with that particular UH album, but I’m sure Tara is!) for early Kansas… yep… Icarus (Borne On The Wings Of Steel) is one of my favourite songs of all time! And DP too!!! Thank you 😃😃

[@mauricemorning]

@BrockwaysVinylBytes Great! I can go ahead and wash my socks then?

[@mauricemorning]

@@BrockwaysVinylBytes Going the listen to that Kansas song right now. Thanks.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

If you’d like! Take mine too. Hahahaha

[@sunlightglider6772]

The most accessible albums should be the starting place, that is to say albums like from my Favourite group Jethro Tull should be "Songs from the Wood" and "Warchild" should be listened too first before let's say "A Passion Play" x

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Agreed 😃😃🤘🤘 thanks for your comment! stay tuned. We have our Prog Rock - Next Steps video coming out in a short amount of days…

[@jessem470]

Check out Endless Boogie Formed by a legendary Vinly collector Just take a few minutes out of your day and check out Back in ‘74 and the journey will begin.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Love the suggestion! Thank you 😃😃🤘🤘

[@bukeksiansu2112]

Check out: Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Henry Cow (R.I.O pioneer), Caravan (Canterbury scenes), Kenso, Anglagard, Space Out, Miriodor, Saxun, Magellan, Sieges Even, Echolyn, Spastick Ink, Pain of Salvation, Spiral Architect, Karmakanic, The Tangent, Beardfish, Birth Control, Happy the Man, Gryphon and Moon Safari. You'll discover how wide and deep prog-movement realy are.

[@taraoreilly2112]

A great list but not very suitable for beginner Gen Z kids 🤣🤣

[@bukeksiansu2112]

@@taraoreilly2112 I see 🙂

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Great list! We both love most all of those. Was actually just listening to Moon Safari a bit ago!

[@raynaRobichaud]

Revisiting the word metal that it was commonly used in the 70's is a mystery to me cause myself I only started to hear it in the 80's .I am 68 years of age going on 69 and I have been playing bass since I was 15 years of age and played lots of Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad and so on and never did I hear someone use the word metal. Maybe it depends on were you live I guess. Anyway it's just my opinion I just don't see in the ones I mentioned and they don't sound anything like Metallica or Tool or any other metal groups. Don't mean to offend just my opinion. 😎

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

No offence taken here! At the end of the day, those are all labels anyway. The music is what really shines and connects us here! 😃😃❤️❤️🎵🎵

[@tonypeake467]

Cody does all of your prog radio sessions get put on a music platform eg Spotify. Have you got a link? Cheers

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Hi there! No they don’t get put on streaming services like those, but you can listen every Thursday… at 12pm EST I do a show on www.progradio.com (if you go to their site you can stream all of my past shows I’ve done there from their player) and every Thursday night on www.deepnuggets.com at 8pm EST I do a 3 hour show there every week. 😃😃🤘🤘🎵🎵 thank you

[@tonypeake467]

Cheers Cody. Tony from Australia

[@seghj]

Spiral architect.....just kidding😅

[@zephead64]

These days I think that it should be illegal to play only the single edit of Roundabout.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

I think it should have been illegal always. I’ve heard some really bad cuts of that!

[@raynaRobichaud]

You and Tara are still wet behind the ears, ha ha ha. Your friend from Canada.😎👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Howdy my Canadian amigo! 😃🤘 thanks for your comment.

[@raynaRobichaud]

With all do respect please stop using the word metal when describing rock music from the late 60's and 70's. The word metal didn't exist yet it came out in mid 80's. No offense I hope, don't mean to tear you down I appreciate the fact that Gen z's love and keep alive the music I grew up on. Keep up the good work ,tks 😎👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Yeah, none of this music is what would be considered metal. I think we brought that up just as a reference point to the 21st Century Schizoid Man, for how heavy a tune it really is, and many heavy metal bands have covered it in the years since. Not labelled really as metal itself, just a super heavy track! 😃🤘🎵

[@mauricemorning]

That is incorrect. We used the words "heavy metal" all the time in the 70's when referring to bands like Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Sir Lord Baltimore;, Uriah Heep, et al. There are many documented uses of the phrase by rock critics as far back as 1968.

[@patrickmcevoy5080]

What are you talking about? I was there in the '70s and I can assure you we called lots of bands Metal or Heavy Metal in the '70s. People came to re-define it later, but we definitely called the Scorpions, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, and others Metal. Some people even called Led Zeppelin and AC/DC "Heavy Metal".

[@raynaRobichaud]

No offense but the word metal didn't exist in 1969,it was just heavy rock. 😎👍

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

True. The term metal didn’t really happen until sometime in the late 70s early 80s. Black Sabbath at the beginning just called themselves heavy blues! Hahaha

[@vinylwood]

Cool vid guys, have to agree with most of those choices. I tried keeping track of how many I own, figure I'm over 90% for sure. Subbed.

[@BrockwaysVinylBytes]

Thank you so much!!! Please feel free to check out Tara’s channel too… Spinnin’ Prog! ❤️❤️ we appreciate ya! Thanks. 😃🎵