Progressive Rock / Art Rock - Autism, now in music form!

[Korpon]

Playing the real weird prog at work, especially when everyone else barely ventures outside of rap, is the funniest thing ever. The game is to figure out how to progressively ramp up the unconventional, without any sustained harsh tones or overtly offensive lyrics, before getting asked to cut it out.

All the other coworkers there were stereotypical normies who only listened to "coworker music" (shitty mainstream pop/rap) so seeing them get filtered by prog was hilarious. The "whale sounds" in Echoes consistently got the best reactions, always a bewildered look followed with "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT". 70s King Crimson likewise got similar results, 80s KC I could get away with playing no problem. I never got to experiment much with weirder stuff because they would usually stop me from playing anything because they knew what was coming.

 

[McMitch]

@Korpon I got pulled to fill in with a different team where one guy just played the same two dozen Eminem songs on loop all day. I had worked with the others and had good rapport with them, so they handed me the keys to the speaker. I gave fair warning: I play weird music to be annoying, I think it’s funny; they told me they just needed to listen to something different. We made it as far as the titular track from Song for America when Eminem guy just wordlessly shut the speaker off. It was the fastest “win” I ever got.

 

[Korpon]

@Korpon I got pulled to fill in with a different team where one guy just played the same two dozen Eminem songs on loop all day. I had worked with the others and had good rapport with them, so they handed me the keys to the speaker. I gave fair warning: I play weird music to be annoying, I think it’s funny; they told me they just needed to listen to something different. We made it as far as the titular track from Song for America when Eminem guy just wordlessly shut the speaker off. It was the fastest “win” I ever got.

Absolutely beautiful, if they insist on listening to low IQ mongoloid music and subjecting everyone else to it on a daily basis, they can at least suffah through genuine art for once in their life. Getting filtered by Kansas as well is extra funny, literally one of the best American bands.

Thread tax: absolutely underrated track/album, great guitar playing.

 

[Wiggerlicious]

Absolutely beautiful, if they insist on listening to low IQ mongoloid music and subjecting everyone else to it on a daily basis, they can at least suffah through genuine art for once in their life. Getting filtered by Kansas as well is extra funny, literally one of the best American bands.

Thread tax: absolutely underrated track/album, great guitar playing.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xagZWGEtI2A

You might enjoy the Strawbs if you like acoustic guitar in your prog.

Spoiler: Recs

Mentioned earlier but bears repeating

By their lead Dave Cousins

 

[Troon Petty and the 41ers]

Playing the real weird prog at work, especially when everyone else barely ventures outside of rap, is the funniest thing ever. The game is to figure out how to progressively ramp up the unconventional, without any sustained harsh tones or overtly offensive lyrics, before getting asked to cut it out.

Put some Can on. It's arguable if/how Krautrock and prog intersect, but it counts to me.

 

[McMitch]

It's arguable if/how Krautrock and prog intersect

I would say there’s degrees. Birth Control is definitely prog and Nektar, while a bunch of Englishmen, has a definite kraut rock foundation. It also followed the same progression that gave us prog in the first place, where American/English psychedelia groups started to add more experimental and jazz influences as the record companies gave them more money upfront.

 

[Calandrino]

Dammit Pink Floyd and Kansas and 70s KC are supposed to be normie music, the timestream has been damaged somehow

 

[McMitch]

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd was always babby’s first prog group.

Kansas

Normies only know Carry on Wayward Son. Kansas started prog as fuck at a time after Prog had fallen out of favor as a genre, and gradually reduced the levels of prog until they hit mainstream success.

 

[Korpon]

Pink Floyd was always babby’s first prog group.

Trve, but I have them to thank for getting me into prog, still my favorite band of all time.

You might enjoy the Strawbs if you like acoustic guitar in your prog.

Spoiler: Recs

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HwcRaANjwhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=OvtsZ6LFt3Ehttps://youtube.com/watch?v=XN0_g8n53WE:1155Mentioned earlier but bears repeating
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tNLjhStUaEcBy their lead Dave Cousins
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-s3rzSmqDw

Excellent stuff, thanks for the recommend, I'll give them a listen

 

[White Slaad]

Speaking of entry-level prog, the band Crown Lands recently released an album called Apocalypse—I think it's a story follow-up to their previous album Fearless which is very heavily influenced by Rush, particularly 2112. I like the sound after an initial listen, Rush fans should give Fearless and Apocalypse a try.

 

[Wiggerlicious]

Speaking of entry-level prog, the band Crown Lands recently released an album called Apocalypse—I think it's a story follow-up to their previous album Fearless which is very heavily influenced by Rush, particularly 2112. I like the sound after an initial listen, Rush fans should give Fearless and Apocalypse a try.

Good rec but it's unreal how cucked Canada is.

 

[White Slaad]

Good rec but it's unreal how cucked Canada is.

I was really happy not knowing that. This is why I try not to look too deeply into Canadian or Aussie bands. The only connection I could make between Fearless/Apocalypse and native shit is that there is some sort of fight against oppression but that's par for the course in a space epic. That context does, however make their album Ritual make sense since it isn't rock at all, it's just a bunch of native drums and chanting. I naively listened to the whole thing thinking the Heya-Hoyacore was a preamble to some rocking and rolling which never came.