Rock - Progressive Rock

is this what they call post rock or is that something different!?

if it's different then you also need post rock because there's a shit load of it about! it seems like it's "the new thing"!

Never heard of Post Rock.

Prog Rock is the epic sounding stuff, goes hand-in-hand with the 'concept album' (an album telling a story). I think Pink Floyd would be the best know prog-rockers.

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Post Rock is Similar, i've only ever heard it live i know atleast 6 different people in post rock bands it's slightly progressive and has no lyrics! kinda bores me but i go to the gigs to support my mates! some i've it gets quite powerful maybe epic like what you more hear in a movie. all the bands have really random names like "they don't sleep" and "we like trains" etc (such wanky names lol)

Any 'progressive' music is music that has unusual time signatures. Most rock has 4-4 time (4 beats per bar, 4 beats per semibreve). Pioneers in progressive rock were Pink Floyd and Genesis but there are others that have experimented with it. It's not that important to add, as most people who like it like retro stuff and rock, so they'd tick some of the retro subgenres and the rock subgenre of rock.

you're not likely to get post rock in a club - it's more of a gigging thing - filmic guitar based music - good stuff.

Prog rock has been around since the '60s so definately needs an add

I'd label the following bands as Post-Rock:

Sigur Ros,
Godspeed You! Black Emporer,
Talk Talk,
Explosions in the Sky,
Oceansize,
65 Days of Static,
Mogwai,
&
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The genre tends to incorporate alot of other genre's within it, such as ambience, electronica, jazz, experimental and of course rock. Usually involves using instruments in different ways, such as playing the guitar with a bow (first done by Page, but not utilised all that well) especially by Sigur Ros with the build up parts and then a sort of wall of sound climax. I'm quite a fan of the genre.

Progressive Rock - This takes me back.

Back in my youth was looking for an alternative to the Beatles & the Stones (Rolling Stones) and came accross thismin the 5th & 6th form common room back in my ye olde schooldays

Many of the Bands (Groups - as they were called back then) are still active today as they every were. Even many of them are getting on now and have all split up

Jimi Hendrix Experence
Albums:
Are You Experienced
Electric Ladyland

Singles:
Hey Joe
Purple Haze
The Wind Cries Mary
Burning The Midnight Lamp
All Along The Watchtower
Voodo Chile
Crosstown Traffic

All recorded on Pete Townsend's own Record Label Track


Led Zepplin
Whole Lotta Love
Communication Breakdown


Cream - Line up Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker
Record Labels:
Reaction
Polydor

Singles:
Strange Brew
I Feel Free
Badge
Sunshine of Your Love


Ginger Bakers Airforce

Man!!

Collesseum

Soft Machine

Ten Years After
Album - Cricklewood Green
Single - Love like A Man [Deram]


Traffic:
Line up - Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and err
Label: Island
Singles:
Paper Sun
Hole In My Shoe
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Steve Winwood - former Spencer Davis Group - went on to form Blind Faith in 1969. Jim Capaldi went solo in early 1970s and had two hits

Steve Winwood:
Album: Arc of a Diver
Tracks: When You see A Chance, Night Train


Jim Capaldi:
Singles:
Its All Up To You - 1974
Love Hurts - 1975


Blind Faith
Album - Blind Faith
Track: Can't Find My Way Home



...shall return later to continue...when time allows

Man, a prog rock bit. And i thought i was the only stranded hippy here that couldn't find his way out... ;-)

Thanks for the definition of Post Rock - looks like i love that too without knowing what it's called. One or two bands that cross into the Post realm from other places might be Mew and Stereolab. Saw both of them in Prague, and that worked for me.

If you think you might like prog, there's an album out called "The Best Prog Rock Album in the World... Ever" and it really is a rather good span of stuff - 3 whole CDs. You're either going to know you love prog and find yourself googling the bands or hurl it off the balcony by the second disc.

The Summer of Love in 1967 has got a lot to answer for..

Looks like a revival 40 years on and the anniversary as well

Another good year for Progressive Rock was in 1970

Incidentally, there are a bunch of new bands like the Flower Kings, Dream Theatre, Spock's Beard and the like who would probably consider themselves prog. And of course Marillion, who have more than a hand in all of them. There does seem to be a difference in feel between English prog bands and US ones. I always felt that UK bands had their roots in folk, which tells stories which don't always fit a fixed meter, while the US ones sought to actively break the 4/4 into pieces, but often thereby created more pieces and new meters.

A mate of mine who runs a pub down in Tintagel is way more fanatical than I. He showed me an independent mag for prog fans, and I boggled at the sheer number of them - 90% of which I'd never heard of. Seems alive and well, as far as i can see....!

StarrTerry has said it all for me!

But yes, add prog rock! :)