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These days I am very fascinated with Progressive Rock and specially with the late 60s and 70s stuff. If ’60s psychedelia elevated rock and roll to new heights, then ’70s prog-rock pushed it into the stratosphere.

Progressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This was the great effort by some musicians who came up with the new level of artistic credibility.

Drawing from classical music, Jazz and world music the prog-rockers retained rock and roll’s essential components while adding orchestral, symphonic, and electronic flourishes.Progressive rock bands pushed “rock’s technical and compositional boundaries” by going beyond the standard rock or popular verse-chorus-based song structures. Most of the time albums are conceptual and based on some sort of fantasy story.

Bands like Vandar Graaf Generation, Emerson Lake and Palmer , Camel, Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant are genre defining bands and few of the very best musicians with extreme artistic credibility.

Most of them went all most extinct with the emerging scene of Punk and Heavy Metal movement in late 70s and 80s but before extinction they left behind some amazing and extremely artistic fossils.

I recommend you some of my most favorite albums.

1.Emerson Lake and Palmer ― Ttarkus
2.Vandar Graaf Generator – H to H Who Am the Only One
3.Camel – Mirage
4. Yes – Close to the edge
5. Gentle Giant – Octopus
6. King Crimson – Court of the King Crimson
7. Emerson Lake and Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
8. Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells
9. Genesis ― Selling England By the Pound
10 Camel – Moonmadness

I hope if you like these albums rest you can explore your self