Turning 50 this year!!! Here’s a lineup for the ages!!! Was 1974 the best year for Prog? Maybe not. But it might be the deepest… #prog #progrock #progressiverock
My 25 favorite prog albums of 1974 (alphabetical order) : almost the same list as yours ! Ange - Au-delà du délire Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else Camel - Mirage Ekseption - Bingo Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado Eno, Brian - Take Tiger Mountain Focus - Hamburger Concerto (5 stars) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three / Midnight Mushrumps Harmonium - (self-titled album) (5 stars) Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill Jethro Tull - War Child Kayak - (self-titled album) King Crimson - Red McLaughlin, John - Apocalypse Nektar - Remember The Future (5 stars) Orme, Le - Contrappunti Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards (5 stars) Premiata Forneria Marconi - L’Isola di niente / The World Became The World Refugee - (self-titled album) Strawbs - Hero And Heroine Supertramp - Crime Of The Century Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple mention : Yes - Relayer
Another excellent topic !! This is a very intriguing list of albums, many of which I’m not familiar with. But it’s awesome you included “ Phaedra “ from TD. It’s a first of its kind type of album that takes ya on wild, mesmerizing ride like no other from that year. And of course you hit the nail on the head with both TR’s “ Utopia “ and “ Hamburger Concerto “ by Focus. LOVE those two !! Relay and Crime of the Century should definitely be there and not many will argue that the “ The Lamb “ should be #1. I certainly won’t. Thanks for providing the inspiration for the 50th anniversary release of these numerous, great albums !
Nicely Done Scott! I'm so glad you included Strawbs! Such a great band - I saw them at a little club in London in 2010 when they did Hero & Heroine all the way through (there's a live album of that tour). Spoke to Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert after the show, just the nicest guys too! Cheers from Central California!
Glad Strawbs got a mention although I prefer Ghosts. Only knowing their singles I was surprised at the nature of their albums when I explored them. Their singles didn't represent them overall. Dave cousins sounded very 'Folky' as well?
Great video as usual. Mrs Tomaney and young Erin both watched in astonishment....."the enthusiasm is awesome" was one comment. And they are right! Happy New Year from Durham, England.
Highly enjoyable presentation [As always] but for me it's always Relayer, the greatest Steve Howe album ever then I'd have Phaedra, Red, Turn Of The Cards, The Power and the Glory then Mirage. Great year for Live albums too E.L.P massive live triple and Rory Live in Ireland
1974 was a great year among most of the years in the 70's. I did my '74 video a few months ago, but this is my list again. 1. Yes - Relayer 2. Jerry Goodman and Jan Hammer - Like Children 3. King Crimson - Red 4. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 5. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack 6, Renaissance - Turn of the Cards 7. King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black 8. Supertramp - Crime of the Century 9. Queen - Queen II 10. Kansas - Kansas 11. Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three 12. 10cc - Sheet Music 13. Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia 14. Rush - Rush 15. Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before 16. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 17. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado 18. Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller 19. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale 20. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory 21. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic 22. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark 23. Camel - Mirage 24. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') 25. Deep Purple - Burn 26. Sparks - Propaganda 27. Herbie Hancock - Thrust 28. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple 29. Sparks - Kimono My House 30. Stanley Clarke - Stanley Clarke 31. Jethro Tull - War Child 32. Marvin Hamlisch - The Sting Soundtrack I need to revisit Michael Nesmith - The Prison among a few others.
L'isola is stressed on the first syllable (LEE-so-la). Yes, The Island of Nothing is an accurate translation of that album title. Vecchia has a hard k sound (VECK-ia). Do you work in the music business? Your knowledge of bands with their personnel changes, including bands of Europe, is most impressive. You're way ahead of me, man.
Great rundown - I remember that year very well; my first working in a record store! I had/still have almost all those albums except for some of the Italian ones. Did you ever get into the Welsh prog/psychedelic scene centered around the Man band? 1974 was the year they released 'Rhinos, Winos, and Lunatics', very well worth hearing; they put out a number of great albums through the 70's, mostly.
In 1974-1975, I worked at Record Bar in Daly City, CA, outside of San Francisco - it was their first time trying the West Coast. Last time, too! In those years, the big San Jose radio station, KOME, played prog 24-7 - those were some great days!!!
They loved to play San Francisco - they were championed by some radio stations here - and I saw them here a number of times in the 70's, sometimes with John Cippolina joining in.
Sheesh Scot, how do you know all this? 11 of those bands I never even heard of. I bought Relayer, Utopia, Mirage, Crime of the Century, Pretzel Logic, What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits and Diamond Dogs to name a few back in '74 and I was set for the year! Cool episode!🤩
Hi Scot, one more great video!! I think you mentioned all the great prog albums of 1974!! Procol Harum's "Exotic Birds And Fruit" and Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "The Good Earth" are very good but I believe you don't consider them quite prog rock although "Grand Hotel" and "Nightingales & Bombers" surely are (IMHO). So glad you included "Everyone is Everybody Else from BJH, "Red Queen To Gryphon Three" from Gryphon, and "Hero and Heroine" from Strawbs. You mentioned all the great musicians in FZ's "Apostrophe" and omitted Jack Bruce, perhaps because is controversial if Bruce played in the title song??!! It's kind of weird, one of the strangest stories in rock music. My top 5 would be 1 King Crimson "Red" 2 Supertramp "Crime Of The Century" 3 Genesis "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" 4 Camel "Mirage" 5 Yes "Relayer". See you Scot keep up with your excellent taste, wisdom, and humor!!! Peace in The Middle East!!!
Next year we get to see where Vangelis’ Heaven and Hell places! And the year after, Vangelis’ Albedo 0.79 (my favorite by him) Jarre’s Oxygéne (my favorite by him) and Anderson’s Olias of Sunhillow (my…well, you know) fall on your list. So much to look forward to!
Cracking releases this year Scot ! Great records all , and Top 2 absolutely correct. I would have Mirage at no 3 , and Power and the Glory at 4. Renaissance at no.5. And a tie at Number 6 with Hergest Ridge and Crime of the Century.Starless and Bible black at 7......I'm thinking we're maybe a year away from Godbluff and Red. 😍👌
Great List! Some great albums that missed the list: 1.Klossa Knapitatet by Samla Mammas Manna, 2.Milky Way Moses by Tasavallan, 3.Being by Wigwam, 4.Extra Vagansa by Mikael Ramel.
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway gets my vote and nothing else comes close to it. A departure from the pastoral English folk sound. It's off the wall, brilliant, insane, genuis. I've never heard another album quite like it. The songs are diverse while it goes well with the theme and story. The ending leaves you guessing and questioning everything you thought you already knew. Pure madness. This album really hits creative, technical, and other highs for the band. It boggles my mind the band members don't see this album as a monumental achievement. I love the 3 previous albums from the classic lineup. They might even be more consistent and refined overall. But this album is the black sheep and it's not comparable to anything else.
Great video!!! 74' was a strange year for music . I bought GONG YOU at a Mom and Pop shop . It was the domestic copy which came with lyrics on the inner sleeve. Ive noticed on Prog videos that several Prog fans dislike the album. Theyve made claims to not getting it. To me it was a step up from Angel's Egg displaying more adventurous gymnastic type of playing with electronics. I never realized the album was disliked. Of course music is subjective but to point out a lot of negatives about the composition seems to be more attributed to the overall sound of the album being a direct turn off to people. Surprisingly during the YOU tour Daevid Allen had claimed that he left GONG because he couldn't get on the stage. The band often began their shows by one of them entering the stage to play the "OM" riff and then each member entering the stage thereafter and joining in on the "OM" riff . One night Daevid Allen was the last person to enter the stage. He said that when it came time for him to enter the stage that there was an invisible rubber curtain preventing him. Everyone else had already started playing but he just couldn't get through ...because there was a invisible force field preventing him. He said: "Thats actually how I left Gong because I couldn't get on to the stage ya see?" 😮
I love Hergest Ridge. There is an orchestrated version that David Bedford had the wisdom to record when commissioned to record the Orchestral Tubular Bells. It's amazing, like his arrangement for Tubular Bells orchestral arrangement.
I've got some homework to do based on this list. Great picks! I love all the ones I've heard at least. Here's my favourite 10 albums of 1974: Red King Crimson The Power and the Glory Gentle Giant Rush Rush Relayer Yes Starless and Bible Black King Crimson Sheer Heart Attack Queen Burn Deep Purple The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Genesis Hergest Ridge Mike Oldfield Rocka Rolla Judas Priest
@@TheProgCorner yeah I think Rocka Rolla's underrated. It may be Priest's proggiest album along with Nostradamus and I've seen that Priest fans usually tend to dislike those 2 but maybe us prog fans can respect those 2 albums more.
I really like Nostradamus too. We are probably the only ones!!!! But I am biased. I love Judas Priest. Every album. (But Killing Machine will always be my favorite…)
Gong is a band I spent more time listening to in 2023, and 'You' was really one of the highlights. My local record store as a copy of Refugee that is always enticing every time I'm in... maybe one day soon. I've only heard the first 7 Camel albums, but Mirage and Moonmadness are my favourites. Red is an album I REALLY need to check out, and I'm sad to say that I find the production on Relayer to mark down my general enjoyment of it because I LOVE drumming and feel it's one of the best Yes epics.
Happy as a pig in a polk, Scot! "Phaedra" was mentioned as well as "Hergest Ridge". (Funny, I also like "Ommadawn" better.) "Relayer" and "The Lamb" are true greats. I think to see 1974 in perspective, however, you gotta look OUTSIDE prog. Just for instance Led Zeppelin IV and Fleetwood Mac;s "Rumours". These were the two best selling albums of the 70's although "Dark Side" eventually surpassed them.
Great stuff here: Strawbs, Gong, Tilt, P. Hammill, Vecchia Locanda, Hatfield N., Camel, Phaedra, Zappa, Red - basically all 25 great. I have most of these on vinyl.
Wonderful top 25, 74 a vintage year for all music and especially prog. I would have Hall of the Mountain Grill in my top 10 or 15, that's the only one.
Angel's Egg was the 2nd album in the Gong "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy not the first. The first was Flying Teapot released in May 1973, the same day as Tubular Bells. Angels Egg was released in December 73.
Tilt, Gong and Frank Zappa are not in my collection. All other albums I own. Really great prog. My latest show #73 is a follow up to your show about Best Selling Prog Rock Albums Off All Time Worldwide. You can watch it on my own channel Harold's Prog Rock Show. I hope you like it. Extra albums you mentioned Eloy, Trace, Le Orme and Hawkwind are all amazing.
Great list! But just one thing - "Tilt" is not an instrumental album. It has the same singer as their 2nd. But thanks for including it, as well as the other greats!
Wow, have most of that stuff, most bought in high school, Lamb, Red, Silent Corner...is how I'd start it...The Might Sphincter used to do a great cover of Red, the early Phx punk scene was all acid head progers, Meat Puppets were big Gentle Giant and Zappa fans. So funny to hear punks say Iggy started punk rock when most were progers...actually Rotten, the Germs, et al...all Hammill fans...Nadir's Big Chance was an early pointer to what was to come.
Kansas: Debut Supertramp: Crime Of The Century Without these two( which I bought for the album covers), I'm not here, and never would have went down the prog rock highway...and are still my two favorite artists
As a prog 'newbie' many on your list passed me by and as a Genesis fan I agree with the critics of 'The Lamb'. 'Crime' is right up there as is Renaissance, but what about Hero and Heroine by Strawbs?
Missed out again skipping through ones I didn't know. Like I said before, I prefer Ghosts anyway. How the heck do you (did you) find the time to listen to that many?
Don't forget Daryl Hall & John Oates anarchic masterpiece War Babies, produced by Todd Rundgren - and does it show! As for albums by British bands not always associated with progressive rock, The Impossible Dream by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Extravaganza by Stackridge would both be worthy additions to this list.
My top five are pretty predictable but they are classics for a reason. 1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 2. Relayer 3. Red 4. Crime of The Century 5. The Power and The Glory
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man. That’s terrible. I totally forgot about it. It DEFINITELY makes my Top 25 of 1974. And thanks for introducing me to that masterpiece last year… (Probably around #17…btw) How did I go 59 years without this album???
@@TheProgCorner Gusliar was the album I recomended to you last year, it came out in 1979. Pesniary ll is not nearly as good as Gusliar but it's still a great album!
Yeah, 1972 and 3 probably get more props from prog fans but absolutely nothing wrong with 1974. You could put all 25 records in a hat, add Rock Bottom and Sheer Heart Attack, mix them up and you would have a perfectly serviceable top 27 (Relayer 1 and Lamb 2 though) btw: Isn't that a Texas Chainsaw Massacre t-shirt? Maybe not the best advert for 1974 (the massacre, not the film which was good fun!)
1974 prog was groundbreaking worldwide Magma - Köhntarkösz Aquelarre - Brumas Biglietto per l'inferno -st Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il tempo della gioia Esprìtu - Crisalida Nimbus - Obus Blops - st Som nosso de cada dia - snegs Ange - Au-delá du délire Egberto Gismonti - Academia de danças Area - Caution Radiation Area Murple - Io sono Murple Alusa Fallax - Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione Catharsis - 32 Mars Emmanuel Booz - Le jour où les vaches... Procession - Fiaba E.A.Poe - Generazioni Atoll-Musiciens - Magiciens Albert marcœur - st Zao - Osiris Canarios - Ciclos Uno - st Mahjun - st Sui Generis - Pequeñas anecdotas.. Invisible - st Triumvirat - illusions on a double... Grobschnitt - Ballermann Moto perpétuo - st
1. Camel - Mirage 2. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe 3. King Crimson - Red 4. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 5. Magma - Köhntarkösz 6. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory 7. Mahavishnu Orchestra- Apocalypse 8. Gong - You 9. Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet 10. Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North Honorable mentions Birth Control- Live King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black Dzyan - Electric Silence Can- Soon Over Babaluma Mikael Ramel- Extra Vagansa Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il Tempo della Gioia Lucifer's Friend - Banquet Focus - Hamburger Concerto Supertramp - Crime of the Century Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'isola di niente Henry Cow - Unrest Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three Fruup- Prince of Heavens Eyes Gravy Train- Staircase To The Day Fruup- Seven Secrets Höst- På Sterke Vingar (hardrock) Stepson- S/T (hardrock) Stonewall- Stoner (hardrock) Three Man Army- Mahesta (hardrock) Trettioåriga Kriget- S/T Three Man Army- Two (hardrock) Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Brainticket- Celestial Ocean Energy- S/T Tasavalan Presidentti- Milky Way Moses Epitaph- Outside The Law Captain Beefheart- Unconditionally Guaranteed
"The Lamb...." sounds really cold, and completely unlike any other Genesis album. And I hate the sound of the RMI Electrapiano. Moraz got much better sounds out of the Minimoog than did Wakeman.
genesis lamb fz apostrophe gg power/glory yes relayer supertramp crime todd rungrens utopia renaissance turn of cards roxy music country life kansas kansas ELO eldorado
You missed these great 1974 albums - shame on you! - Barclay James Harvest: Everyone Is Everybody Else; Gravy Train - Staircase To The Day: Seventh Wave -Things To Come; FRUUP - THE PRINCE OF HEAVEN’S EYES; Greenslade -Spyglass Guest; Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim; Man - Rhinos, Winos And Lunatics; Jade Warrior - Floating World; Stackridge - The Man In The Bowler Hat: Ange - Au-Delà Du Délire; Area - Caution Radiation Area; Franco Battiato - Clic; Between - Dharana; Can - Soon Over Babaluma; Catharsis -Le Boléro Du Veau Des Dames; Cluster - Zuckerzeit; DZYAN - Electric Silence (fantastic Prog album a personal favourite); Egg - The Civil Surface; Ely -Floating; Fusioon - Fusioon; Grobschnitt - Ballermann; Guru Guru - Dance Of The Flames; Heldon -Electronique Guerilla; Henry Cow - Unrest; Jane - 3;
Thanks - Its arguable which are better - Certainly the BJH album - is probably the best of their career, and should have smashed it for them. Its probably better than Supertramp's Crime of the Century and PFM, etc. but BJH's album was released to indifference in this country (UK). Can - Soon Over Babaluma is one of their greatest if unheard of by the masses who finished with the band after Future Days.@@TheProgCorner
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My 25 favorite prog albums of 1974 (alphabetical order) : almost the same list as yours !
Ange - Au-delà du délire
Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else
Camel - Mirage
Ekseption - Bingo
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Eno, Brian - Take Tiger Mountain
Focus - Hamburger Concerto (5 stars)
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three / Midnight Mushrumps
Harmonium - (self-titled album) (5 stars)
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Jethro Tull - War Child
Kayak - (self-titled album)
King Crimson - Red
McLaughlin, John - Apocalypse
Nektar - Remember The Future (5 stars)
Orme, Le - Contrappunti
Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards (5 stars)
Premiata Forneria Marconi - L’Isola di niente / The World Became The World
Refugee - (self-titled album)
Strawbs - Hero And Heroine
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
mention :
Yes - Relayer
Awesome list!!!!
What a brilliant year Scot and so well presented. It’s just an unbelievable set of albums that is just amazing!
Just ridiculous!!!
Great list Scot!!! Some of these I’d not heard of, and some of it, I had. More great content from The Prog Corner! 🤘
Such a ridiculous year. I was kind of surprised by the depth…
What a year! Love all your choices, and The Lamb is also my favourite. Thanks for the video Scot!
Thank you, Wizardo!!!
I was born year of the wall,79 lol..just turned 45 yesterday!!but regardless, albums and music that came out b4 i was born,THATS MY ERA!!
😁🤟✌️🍻🤘🍻
1979!!! My favorite year for music. I made a video about it:
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Another excellent topic !! This is a very intriguing list of albums, many of which I’m not familiar with. But it’s awesome you included “ Phaedra “ from TD. It’s a first of its kind type of album that takes ya on wild, mesmerizing ride like no other from that year. And of course you hit the nail on the head with both TR’s
“ Utopia “ and “ Hamburger Concerto “ by Focus. LOVE those two !! Relay and Crime of the Century should definitely be there and not many will argue that the “ The Lamb “ should be #1. I certainly won’t. Thanks for providing the inspiration for the 50th anniversary release of these numerous, great albums !
What a year!!!!!
Congratulations on the growth of your channel, well deserved. Happy 2024 Scot.
Thank you so much!!!
Nicely Done Scott! I'm so glad you included Strawbs! Such a great band - I saw them at a little club in London in 2010 when they did Hero & Heroine all the way through (there's a live album of that tour). Spoke to Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert after the show, just the nicest guys too! Cheers from Central California!
America never really “got” Strawbs. Too British? Whatever!!! They were and still are awesome!!!
Glad Strawbs got a mention although I prefer Ghosts. Only knowing their singles I was surprised at the nature of their albums when I explored them. Their singles didn't represent them overall. Dave cousins sounded very 'Folky' as well?
What a great band!!!! Their latest album is good too…
Great list… you have a few obscure albums I had not heard of to start with. I will have to check them out. I like your top 10.
I like to throw in a surprise or two!!!
Great video as usual. Mrs Tomaney and young Erin both watched in astonishment....."the enthusiasm is awesome" was one comment. And they are right!
Happy New Year from Durham, England.
What an amazing family!!!! Thanks, Paul.
Highly enjoyable presentation [As always] but for me it's always Relayer, the greatest Steve Howe album ever then I'd have Phaedra, Red, Turn Of The Cards, The Power and the Glory then Mirage.
Great year for Live albums too E.L.P massive live triple and Rory Live in Ireland
What a great year!!!!!
I'm glad you mentioned Chicago VII. I claim that album as Prog. 1974: what a year for our beloved genre.
Amazing year!!!! C7 can’t crack the Top 25???
Probably my favorite Chicago album...although I haven't heard all of them yet.
I Heard It For The First Time Several Months Ago...It Was Part Of A5 CD Box Set I Purchased...It's Bloody Amazing...
Indeed!!!
@@TheProgCorner It Went Back To The Early Days When The First 3 Records Were Double Concept LPs...
1974 was a great year among most of the years in the 70's. I did my '74 video a few months ago, but this is my list again.
1. Yes - Relayer
2. Jerry Goodman and Jan Hammer - Like Children
3. King Crimson - Red
4. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
5. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
6, Renaissance - Turn of the Cards
7. King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
8. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
9. Queen - Queen II
10. Kansas - Kansas
11. Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
12. 10cc - Sheet Music
13. Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia
14. Rush - Rush
15. Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
16. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
17. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
18. Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller
19. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
20. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
21. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
22. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
23. Camel - Mirage
24. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
25. Deep Purple - Burn
26. Sparks - Propaganda
27. Herbie Hancock - Thrust
28. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
29. Sparks - Kimono My House
30. Stanley Clarke - Stanley Clarke
31. Jethro Tull - War Child
32. Marvin Hamlisch - The Sting Soundtrack
I need to revisit Michael Nesmith - The Prison among a few others.
Excellent list!!!!!! (I watched that episode…)
Scot 👏👏 So Fabulous YOU are and a Rock ⭐ too!! Great information from Our Generation! ❤️ 🎶 PROG ROCK ❤ 👏👏👏
Thank you, Lisa!!!
L'isola is stressed on the first syllable (LEE-so-la). Yes, The Island of Nothing is an accurate translation of that album title.
Vecchia has a hard k sound (VECK-ia).
Do you work in the music business? Your knowledge of bands with their personnel changes, including bands of Europe, is most impressive. You're way ahead of me, man.
Thank you for correcting my Italian!!!! Yeah, I was in the business most of my life in one capacity or another.
Great rundown - I remember that year very well; my first working in a record store! I had/still have almost all those albums except for some of the Italian ones. Did you ever get into the Welsh prog/psychedelic scene centered around the Man band? 1974 was the year they released 'Rhinos, Winos, and Lunatics', very well worth hearing; they put out a number of great albums through the 70's, mostly.
Man were great!!! I started working in a record store in Fort Myers in 1980!!! Eight years with Record Bar.
In 1974-1975, I worked at Record Bar in Daly City, CA, outside of San Francisco - it was their first time trying the West Coast. Last time, too! In those years, the big San Jose radio station, KOME, played prog 24-7 - those were some great days!!!
In fact, ever think of doing a show on the 70's Welsh prog/psychedelic scene?? Or maybe you've already done one?
I ❤️ MAN!
They loved to play San Francisco - they were championed by some radio stations here - and I saw them here a number of times in the 70's, sometimes with John Cippolina joining in.
What a fantastic year for prog music.
IMHO Relayer, Red, The Lamb... & Crime... were the best.
Salutation !!!!!
So good!!!!😊
I’ve gone and given you a Like just for you buying a T shirt especially for this video. That’s dedication to the cause.
Either I’m super committed or I should be - committed to an asylum!!!!!
Sheesh Scot, how do you know all this? 11 of those bands I never even heard of. I bought Relayer, Utopia, Mirage, Crime of the Century, Pretzel Logic, What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits and Diamond Dogs to name a few back in '74 and I was set for the year! Cool episode!🤩
Another Park, Another Sunday!!! Black Water??? C’mon, man!!!! Doobie Brothers best album!!!
Yep, their best! I have Another Park, Another Sunday, Black Water and Eyes of Silver on 45 rpm records.🤩@@TheProgCorner
Just played the 3 first PFM albums last night, all are pure prog heaven !
Just dynamite!!!!! What a band!!!!
@@TheProgCorner yes yes yes !!!
With Le Orme and Banco, what a Big 3.
@@TheProgCorner dont forget arti+mestieri and piccino dal pozzo !!!!!
I’m a QVL guy…
Hi Scot, one more great video!! I think you mentioned all the great prog albums of 1974!! Procol Harum's "Exotic Birds And Fruit" and Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "The Good Earth" are very good but I believe you don't consider them quite prog rock although "Grand Hotel" and "Nightingales & Bombers" surely are (IMHO). So glad you included "Everyone is Everybody Else from BJH, "Red Queen To Gryphon Three" from Gryphon, and "Hero and Heroine" from Strawbs. You mentioned all the great musicians in FZ's "Apostrophe" and omitted Jack Bruce, perhaps because is controversial if Bruce played in the title song??!! It's kind of weird, one of the strangest stories in rock music. My top 5 would be 1 King Crimson "Red" 2 Supertramp "Crime Of The Century" 3 Genesis "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" 4 Camel "Mirage" 5 Yes "Relayer". See you Scot keep up with your excellent taste, wisdom, and humor!!! Peace in The Middle East!!!
I have heard the Jack Bruce story!!!
What a great year. Also had one of my all-time-fav live albums that year, ELP Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends.
Absolutely!!! The height of Prog supremacy!!!
There should also be a Rock bottom by Robert Wyatt. Maybe one of the most extraordinary piece of music of all time, and I really love it!
totally agree !
I had it at #26…
One of the best and my favorite album of all time 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'. No bad songs.
It’s my second favorite album ever!!!
Next year we get to see where Vangelis’ Heaven and Hell places!
And the year after, Vangelis’ Albedo 0.79 (my favorite by him)
Jarre’s Oxygéne
(my favorite by him)
and
Anderson’s Olias of Sunhillow
(my…well, you know)
fall on your list.
So much to look forward to!
I love Heaven And Hell. 1975 is where things start to change…
Cracking releases this year Scot ! Great records all , and Top 2 absolutely correct. I would have Mirage at no 3 , and Power and the Glory at 4. Renaissance at no.5. And a tie at Number 6 with Hergest Ridge and Crime of the Century.Starless and Bible black at 7......I'm thinking we're maybe a year away from Godbluff and Red. 😍👌
Mirage is a masterpiece!!!! What a great year!!!
Great List! Some great albums that missed the list:
1.Klossa Knapitatet by Samla Mammas Manna,
2.Milky Way Moses by Tasavallan,
3.Being by Wigwam,
4.Extra Vagansa by Mikael Ramel.
Milky Way Moses should have been there. I love that album!!!
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway gets my vote and nothing else comes close to it. A departure from the pastoral English folk sound. It's off the wall, brilliant, insane, genuis. I've never heard another album quite like it.
The songs are diverse while it goes well with the theme and story. The ending leaves you guessing and questioning everything you thought you already knew. Pure madness.
This album really hits creative, technical, and other highs for the band. It boggles my mind the band members don't see this album as a monumental achievement. I love the 3 previous albums from the classic lineup. They might even be more consistent and refined overall. But this album is the black sheep and it's not comparable to anything else.
Exactly right!!! A total outlier and I love it all the more because of it…
Great show. I'd probably take relayer over lamb but both are great and probably the wildest and most interesting albums both bands did (imo).
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Great video!!! 74' was a strange year for music . I bought GONG YOU at a Mom and Pop shop . It was the domestic copy which came with lyrics on the inner sleeve.
Ive noticed on Prog videos that several Prog fans dislike the album. Theyve made claims to not getting it.
To me it was a step up from Angel's Egg displaying more adventurous gymnastic type of playing with electronics.
I never realized the album was disliked. Of course music is subjective but to point out a lot of negatives about the composition seems to be more attributed to the overall sound of the album being a direct turn off to people.
Surprisingly during the YOU tour Daevid Allen had claimed that he left GONG because he couldn't get on the stage.
The band often began their shows by one of them entering the stage to play the "OM" riff and then each member entering the stage thereafter and joining in on the "OM" riff .
One night Daevid Allen was the last person to enter the stage. He said that when it came time for him to enter the stage that there was an invisible rubber curtain preventing him. Everyone else had already started playing but he just couldn't get through ...because there was a invisible force field preventing him. He said: "Thats actually how I left Gong because I couldn't get on to the stage ya see?" 😮
I hadn’t heard that story. You don’t think drugs were involved, do you?
@@TheProgCorner It's a possibility
All beautiful albums, great year for prog. Rock Bottom is a masterpiece, I adore that album. Cheers and prog on.
Thank you!!!!
Great list Scot.At least Kansas is on the list one my favorite band,and "Mirage" by Camel a fantastic album.A great year.
Absolutely!!!!
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I love Hergest Ridge. There is an orchestrated version that David Bedford had the wisdom to record when commissioned to record the Orchestral Tubular Bells. It's amazing, like his arrangement for Tubular Bells orchestral arrangement.
Beautiful
Sea Son by Secret Oyster is a really cool jazzy instrumental prog album from 1974.
I love Secret Oyster!!! Totally forgot about them!!!
I've got some homework to do based on this list. Great picks! I love all the ones I've heard at least. Here's my favourite 10 albums of 1974:
Red King Crimson
The Power and the Glory Gentle Giant
Rush Rush
Relayer Yes
Starless and Bible Black King Crimson
Sheer Heart Attack Queen
Burn Deep Purple
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Genesis
Hergest Ridge Mike Oldfield
Rocka Rolla Judas Priest
Oh yeah!!! The Priest debut!!!!
@@TheProgCorner yeah I think Rocka Rolla's underrated. It may be Priest's proggiest album along with Nostradamus and I've seen that Priest fans usually tend to dislike those 2 but maybe us prog fans can respect those 2 albums more.
I really like Nostradamus too. We are probably the only ones!!!! But I am biased. I love Judas Priest. Every album. (But Killing Machine will always be my favorite…)
Gong is a band I spent more time listening to in 2023, and 'You' was really one of the highlights.
My local record store as a copy of Refugee that is always enticing every time I'm in... maybe one day soon.
I've only heard the first 7 Camel albums, but Mirage and Moonmadness are my favourites.
Red is an album I REALLY need to check out, and I'm sad to say that I find the production on Relayer to mark down my general enjoyment of it because I LOVE drumming and feel it's one of the best Yes epics.
Relayer was recorded at Squire’s house. And it sounds like it…
Hey Scot! '74! Bought my first stereo in '74. Original albums still in my collection. Talk later dude.👍☮️👑😎
You are awesome!!!
Happy as a pig in a polk, Scot! "Phaedra" was mentioned as well as "Hergest Ridge". (Funny, I also like "Ommadawn" better.) "Relayer" and "The Lamb" are true greats.
I think to see 1974 in perspective, however, you gotta look OUTSIDE prog. Just for instance Led Zeppelin IV and Fleetwood Mac;s "Rumours". These were the two best selling albums of the 70's although "Dark Side" eventually surpassed them.
1971
1972
1973
1974
You just can’t go wrong!!!
You know the list is gonna be a banger when it *starts* with something as good as “Hero and Heroine” 😮
Right?!?!
Hmmm….
You know it's a good year if Camel's Mirage is only number 14.
Right??????
Great stuff here: Strawbs, Gong, Tilt, P. Hammill, Vecchia Locanda, Hatfield N., Camel, Phaedra, Zappa, Red - basically all 25 great. I have most of these on vinyl.
Nice!!!!!!
Wonderful top 25, 74 a vintage year for all music and especially prog. I would have Hall of the Mountain Grill in my top 10 or 15, that's the only one.
I think I had it at #27…
Angel's Egg was the 2nd album in the Gong "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy not the first. The first was Flying Teapot released in May 1973, the same day as Tubular Bells. Angels Egg was released in December 73.
I thought I said that. I must have mangled that part…
Tilt, Gong and Frank Zappa are not in my collection. All other albums I own. Really great prog. My latest show #73 is a follow up to your show about Best Selling Prog Rock Albums Off All Time Worldwide. You can watch it on my own channel Harold's Prog Rock Show. I hope you like it. Extra albums you mentioned Eloy, Trace, Le Orme and Hawkwind are all amazing.
EVERYONE: SUBSCRIBE TO HAROLD’S CHANNEL!!! 👍👍👍
Thank you very much Scot. This year you will get 15.000 subscibers I think. @@TheProgCorner
I’m projecting to end the year between 13-14k so it’s definitely possible!!!!
I had that Mike Oldfield album but can't remember it very well.
It’s a very relaxing LP.
Do i dare mention the" himalayas of prog" band Magma, 1974 is imo their greatest year as they had both wurdah itah and kohntarkosz, two great albums
I couldn't get into "Relayer" when I first heard it cos I was only 10 but love it now
It’s totally different. My older brother still doesn’t like it…
Great list! But just one thing - "Tilt" is not an instrumental album. It has the same singer as their 2nd. But thanks for including it, as well as the other greats!
Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking there…
@@TheProgCorner No problem. Great year, great list!
Wow, have most of that stuff, most bought in high school, Lamb, Red, Silent Corner...is how I'd start it...The Might Sphincter used to do a great cover of Red, the early Phx punk scene was all acid head progers, Meat Puppets were big Gentle Giant and Zappa fans. So funny to hear punks say Iggy started punk rock when most were progers...actually Rotten, the Germs, et al...all Hammill fans...Nadir's Big Chance was an early pointer to what was to come.
The Germs were obviously Yes fans too!!!
Hall of the Mountain Grill, Mellotron bliss...👍
My favorite Hawkwind album!!!
Fantastic list. I don`t believe you have Bowie - Diamond Dogs or Stevie Wonder- Fullfillingness or Gino Vannelli- Powerful People. 3 amazing albums
All three are great but I am a massive fan of that Stevie Wonder album!!!
Kansas: Debut
Supertramp: Crime Of The Century
Without these two( which I bought for the album covers), I'm not here, and never would have went down the prog rock highway...and are still my two favorite artists
I love it!!!! Masterpieces. Full stop.
Indeed I Almost Forgot About The Debut KANSAS Record...
"Crime of the Century" amazing as well So is "Kansas"
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As a prog 'newbie' many on your list passed me by and as a Genesis fan I agree with the critics of 'The Lamb'. 'Crime' is right up there as is Renaissance, but what about Hero and Heroine by Strawbs?
Great album!!! I had it at #25.
Missed out again skipping through ones I didn't know. Like I said before, I prefer Ghosts anyway. How the heck do you (did you) find the time to listen to that many?
I have no life. No kids. No friends. No family here in Ohio. I work only 25 hours a week. So I have a lot of free time!!!!
Sure you've got friends!
The wife and I keep to ourselves!!!
I'd put "Au Delà Du Délire" by Ange, underrated masterpiece. Nice list anyway.
I love Ange. I think I had it at #28…
1974. Wow.
Don't forget Daryl Hall & John Oates anarchic masterpiece War Babies, produced by Todd Rundgren - and does it show!
As for albums by British bands not always associated with progressive rock, The Impossible Dream by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Extravaganza by Stackridge would both be worthy additions to this list.
I haven’t listened to War Babies in 40 years!!!
How about “Journey to the centre of the earth” by Rick Wakeman ? At least some honorable mentioned ? 😅
Being a “live” album I didn’t consider it.
I should have!!!!!!!
Mahavishnu Orchestra : "Apocalypse"
Their most symphonic album.
Missed it. Oops!
I have heard "The Power & the Glory" but can't get in to it at all.
Really? What about other GG albums?
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The major question Scot..where did you get the shirt?
There’s an excellent site called The Creepy Collection…
My top five are pretty predictable but they are classics for a reason.
1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Relayer
3. Red
4. Crime of The Century
5. The Power and The Glory
Predictable because it’s correct!!!
For me, Red and Starless and Bible Black are #1 & #2. Relayer #3.
No argument here…
Don't forget the new Gong album, now we actually have three fine Torabi albums in a row. It seems overlooked though, Pete P. also didn't do a review.
I’m loving the new Gong!!! And where have you been??? Haven’t seen you around lately.
@@TheProgCorner I'm always here watching each of your videos... almost. ;-)
Thank you!!!!!
Yes " Relayer "
Relayer/YES...
Pesniary ll is another great album from 1974!
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man. That’s terrible. I totally forgot about it. It DEFINITELY makes my Top 25 of 1974. And thanks for introducing me to that masterpiece last year…
(Probably around #17…btw)
How did I go 59 years without this album???
@@TheProgCorner Gusliar was the album I recomended to you last year, it came out in 1979. Pesniary ll is not nearly as good as Gusliar but it's still a great album!
Yeah, 1972 and 3 probably get more props from prog fans but absolutely nothing wrong with 1974. You could put all 25 records in a hat, add Rock Bottom and Sheer Heart Attack, mix them up and you would have a perfectly serviceable top 27 (Relayer 1 and Lamb 2 though) btw: Isn't that a Texas Chainsaw Massacre t-shirt? Maybe not the best advert for 1974 (the massacre, not the film which was good fun!)
Yes!!!!! Leather face!!!!
War Child & Rush would be in my list
Good albums!!!
Wasn't Chas Cronk a member of The Animals?
I know he was on Six Wives of Henry VIII. And toured with Steve Hackett…
"Apostrophe" rules!
Agreed.
A fab year but Crime of the Century head and shoulders above anything else
Love it!!!
Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra" isn't even in my top 10 list of favorite TD albums. It's good, but man did they put out so much better material after that
What’s your favorite TD? (They have so many career peaks…)
Stratosfear is my favourite.
@@TheProgCorner mine is Force Majeure. I have a huge love for 1979 synth :D that's why i also love BJH's synth-dominated 1979 Eyes of The Universe :D
@@ilabelle1 That's my number 2. I will always love Force Majeure the most
@@TheProgCorner Force Majeure. I absolutely love that album.
Both of those KC albums rule also!
They do!!!
You'll hear it from others but Supertramp Crime of the Century is easily the best prog album of 74. it's not even close.
10/10 record. No doubt.
1974 prog was groundbreaking worldwide
Magma - Köhntarkösz
Aquelarre - Brumas
Biglietto per l'inferno -st
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il tempo della gioia
Esprìtu - Crisalida
Nimbus - Obus
Blops - st
Som nosso de cada dia - snegs
Ange - Au-delá du délire
Egberto Gismonti - Academia de danças
Area - Caution Radiation Area
Murple - Io sono Murple
Alusa Fallax - Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione
Catharsis - 32 Mars
Emmanuel Booz - Le jour où les vaches...
Procession - Fiaba
E.A.Poe - Generazioni
Atoll-Musiciens - Magiciens
Albert marcœur - st
Zao - Osiris
Canarios - Ciclos
Uno - st
Mahjun - st
Sui Generis - Pequeñas anecdotas..
Invisible - st
Triumvirat - illusions on a double...
Grobschnitt - Ballermann
Moto perpétuo - st
Fantastic list!!!!!!
1. Camel - Mirage
2. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
3. King Crimson - Red
4. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
5. Magma - Köhntarkösz
6. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
7. Mahavishnu Orchestra- Apocalypse
8. Gong - You
9. Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet
10. Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North
Honorable mentions
Birth Control- Live
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Dzyan - Electric Silence
Can- Soon Over Babaluma
Mikael Ramel- Extra Vagansa
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il Tempo della Gioia
Lucifer's Friend - Banquet
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'isola di niente
Henry Cow - Unrest
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Fruup- Prince of Heavens Eyes
Gravy Train- Staircase To The Day
Fruup- Seven Secrets
Höst- På Sterke Vingar (hardrock)
Stepson- S/T (hardrock)
Stonewall- Stoner (hardrock)
Three Man Army- Mahesta (hardrock)
Trettioåriga Kriget- S/T
Three Man Army- Two (hardrock)
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Brainticket- Celestial Ocean
Energy- S/T
Tasavalan Presidentti- Milky Way Moses
Epitaph- Outside The Law
Captain Beefheart- Unconditionally Guaranteed
Wow!!! So much greatness it hurts my head…
"The Lamb...." sounds really cold, and completely unlike any other Genesis album.
And I hate the sound of the RMI Electrapiano.
Moraz got much better sounds out of the Minimoog than did Wakeman.
Moraz never gets enough credit…
By the way, knew you would choose Lamb over Relayer. Of course you're wrong again! One day you'll get it right!!! Lol!❤️🌅😎
It’s very close!!!
Agree, but Relayer is the better masterpiece!👍😎@@TheProgCorner
"Lamb" is good but does have some filler so it wouldn't be my #1
I love the filler!!!
But you ADMIT it's filler!!! No filler on "Red" so that would be my #1@@TheProgCorner
Providence is filler…
Oh I forgot about "Providence", that IS filler if I remember right!@@TheProgCorner
genesis lamb
fz apostrophe
gg power/glory
yes relayer
supertramp crime
todd rungrens utopia
renaissance turn of cards
roxy music country life
kansas kansas
ELO eldorado
Nice!!!!!!!
Great review done with your usual euthanasian,. Relayer only number 2?
I’m a huge fan of The Lamb…
Take a ptog ediblenand chill to yes relayer chris squire fish out of water billy cobham crosswinds. Tempest living in fear.
Nice!!!
Not familiar with these obscure bands from all these crazy countries. I only know North American & UK stuff
The world is littered with Prog!!!
You missed these great 1974 albums - shame on you! - Barclay James Harvest: Everyone Is Everybody Else; Gravy Train - Staircase To The Day: Seventh Wave -Things To Come; FRUUP - THE PRINCE OF HEAVEN’S EYES; Greenslade -Spyglass Guest; Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim; Man - Rhinos, Winos And Lunatics; Jade Warrior - Floating World; Stackridge - The Man In The Bowler Hat: Ange - Au-Delà Du Délire; Area - Caution Radiation Area; Franco Battiato - Clic; Between - Dharana; Can - Soon Over Babaluma; Catharsis -Le Boléro Du Veau Des Dames; Cluster - Zuckerzeit; DZYAN - Electric Silence (fantastic Prog album a personal favourite); Egg - The Civil Surface; Ely -Floating; Fusioon - Fusioon; Grobschnitt - Ballermann;
Guru Guru - Dance Of The Flames; Heldon -Electronique Guerilla; Henry Cow - Unrest; Jane - 3;
I considered about half of those - especially Be Bop Deluxe, Fruup, Area and BJH!!!!
Thanks - Its arguable which are better - Certainly the BJH album - is probably the best of their career, and should have smashed it for them.
Its probably better than Supertramp's Crime of the Century and PFM, etc. but BJH's album was released to indifference in this country (UK).
Can - Soon Over Babaluma is one of their greatest if unheard of by the masses who finished with the band after Future Days.@@TheProgCorner
What, no Queen2? Shame on you....:)
Didn’t Queen put out two albums in 1974? And I missed them both. If I could fire myself I would….
Indeed. Queen 2 is a classic prog album. I wonder if Pete will include it? cheers@@TheProgCorner
I was born year of the wall,79 lol..just turned 45 yesterday!!but regardless, albums and music that came out b4 i was born,THATS MY ERA!!
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