PROG: Ten Albums that Provided the Buliding Blocks for Progressive Rock

Spirit's first.

I'll say it here: There would be no Norwegian death metal if it wasn't for Sgt. Peppers. (sorry, language doesn't have a sarcasm mark to use here)

Love your prog videos mate but you really do need to find the time to listen to Fever Tree's first album, especially for a vid like this one. They're an American band from the mid 60s kinda psychedelia, but more importantly proto-progressive. Their most well-known song "Return of the Native (San Francisco Girls)" is amazing, the guitarist more Fripp than Fripp, all pre-overdrive, effects driven playing. Give it a listen, you won't be disappointed. Cheers!

I don't find Pet Sounds remarkable or exquisite at all.

Surprisingly I agree with you on all points. KC's debut has a good claim to be the first fully fledged Prog album so isn't one of the albums that built up to Prog. Hawkwind's first album was released a year later so can't be included. There are plenty of others that could be included, I think psychedelic music as a whole led towards prog.

Thanks so much for the great introduction to these really important albums! I would like to suggest another name: early Barclay James harvest. They are extremely melodic and beautiful and heavy use of Mellotron. Another group, group 1850, is also a huge band to me.

Missing Anthem of the Sun and Aoxamoxa from Greatful Dead

Anyone for Odyssey & Oracle by The Zombies ?

There are a couple of folk rock albums I would put above Liege and Lief. Founding Fairport vocalist Judy Dyble sang on a beautiful album, Morning Way (1969), under the band name Trader Horne. The folk, jazz, and psychedelic influences are all there. The tracks are joined together with short musical linkers. Basket of Light (1969) is probably the best of Pentangle. The instrumental virtuosity is striking in the folk, jazz, psychedelic and early music influenced sound. The epic track Jack Orion (1970) is also an interesting listen, especially for fans of Gentle Giant.

Remember it's a list if you don't like it make your own😂 well one of my favorites is Todd Rundgren's Utopia

i cant quite say how much i dislike the way the term ''prog'' has become a kind of dumbed down ''yerr bit a progg,innit mate '' however.i really like your quality of analysis.i,maybe like you , lived and breathed the discovery of ist nice, pink floyd, and king crimson, as well as seeing them 67-69,and hated the cut off point of the 70s,when the dreaded retrospective look back and historicising of a kind of revolt into style occurred. maybe you heard the original john peels perfumed garden ? to me the end of 'the 60 s' was when i packed up to return from the 1970 isle of wight festival, and we were treated to the wonders of disco.punk,heavy metal, glam and other such rubbish. i would put a great store, personally on king crimson s lizard, ie, when sinfield left,they became a 2 dimensional jazz rock combo,and that 67-70 could never recaptured to me.also, jade warrior even into the 70s expressed the true spirit and feel of progressive music.