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Here are some slightly more obscure prog albums, that nevertheless should be in every prog lover's record collection. Uriah Heep - Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble (1970). Here is the first track, Gypsy Queen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28kudqwENs Just listen to those Hammond organs going nuts. drat. Family - Music In A Doll's House (1968). This is technically proto-prog, appearing one year before King Crimson's first album. It's quite bluesy in parts, but I'd listen to it over Crimson any day of the week. And the Beatles were reportedly fans. The song 'Winter' is one of my favourite pieces of music, and far too short at 2 and a half minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoaA7l0ClEU Hawkwind - In Search of Space (1971). These guys were the ultimate druggy band. They took loads of acid and played songs about space. And they had a 6 foot chick called Stacia who used to dance nude. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3W7ch0oLeA Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977). Forget Syd Barrett. Robert Calvert was the real crazy diamond. Syd had problems, sure, but he didn't collect guns and grenades and believe he was a terrorist. I think this was Calvert's second album with Hawkwind, and definitely the best. His lyrics are great. Check out 'Spirit of the Age' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSR5TnNGKmo and 'Hassan I Sahba' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdB68gn1w4 Funny how relevant the latter song is today, with what's going on in the Middle East. And finally my favourite, and the one you're least likely to have heard. Some of you may know of Split Enz as a New Wave band from New Zealand who achieved some brief fame in the early 1980s. But when they started in the 1970s they were a full-blown prog band (before founding member Phil Judd was replaced by Neil Finn), heavily influenced by the likes of Jethro Tull, Yes, Family, Zeppelin and Roxy Music. Their 1975 album 'Mental Notes' is the greatest prog album ever made, period, and I urge every prog lover to hunt down a copy. Don't believe me? Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psadmPirqpo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CWQ6EDZGYc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmGxjnml4yQ If you don't like it then you are a homo. Just make sure you get the original 1975 version, and not the 1976 re-recording which was also called 'Mental Notes' in the Northern Hemisphere (who didn't get the 1975 one). The second album is great too, but it's more at the Roxy Music end of the prog spectrum (it was produced by Phil Manzanera) than the first, which was very King Crimson/Genesis/Yes etc.
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There's some new clips of TAAB2 on the Jethro Tull website. http://www.jethrotull.com/ I'm amazed at how good Ian's voice sounds. He's sounded loving terrible the last few years, but here he sounds like he did on Stormwatch. I don't own any post-70s Tull albums, but I'll definitely be buying this.
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