1972 - The worst year in music? It has to be ...

Loads of techno, especially Detroit techno, is very serious - concept albums, science fiction tropes, pretentious track titles - it's well Rick Wakeman sometimes. Jeff Mills and Mike Banks did an album about the rings of Saturn, with locked grooves on the vinyl to represent the rings. Then there was the X-103 Atlantis album. And check Reload's A Collection Of Short Stories is well pretentious. It is even accompanied by, well, take a guess.

Semen samples?

A mini story to accompany each track

That's what i said.

Not a melotron?

And


was 1972 as well

@ OP - sorry i reacted so badly to your original post - 1972 was one of my favourite years and largely cos of the music, although a lot of it was before 72 and that was just when I heard it first.

Well some would describe it as seminal

Or a load of old wank.

And this was 1971 but i can't resist because it's a stunning track



(Egg: A visit to Newport Hospital)

What's that?
Take this guff from a Jeff Mills album, The Sleeper Wakes. It could easily belong on a prog album:

The Sleeper is a project about Great Change. With giant leaps forward, our ideas about music and what we expect becomes replaced by the ideas made by our extreme actions and deeper consciousness towards the unfathomable levels of the human capacity. For this to occur, the genuine search for new inspirations must begin. The Sleeper explores time and the absence of it, the method of creating music for a specific time in our future, the preparation and calculation of what could and will be and most importantly, what we do with this sensitive and rare opportunity.
After four years of secrecy and hundreds of hours of preparation, Jeff Mills will reveal his most ambitious project yet, The Sleeper Wakes.

Never got into Obscured by Clouds, but Live at Pompeii was good (released in 1972).

Arise like knobheads after slumber.

That thing the Beetles pioneered on Strawberry Fields for Ever and became a prog rock cliche. A keyboard that plays backward recordings of (usually strings but sometimes flutes) for a faux symphonic effect. You could view it as an early form of sampling I suppose...

@Two Sheds - I love Egg.

I know Prog gets a deservedly bad name for some of its Wakemanesque, ELP antics - but it's not all quite that bad surely?

Melotron!!

Have we had this yet:



72 was

Based on what?

err - the prog/krautrock line is fairly opaque. Even the early Genesis weren't so bad

You can't even write a line without being wanky can you? Opaque/thesarus/yeah/easy Yeah, prog is yours. Have it.

Kraut rock is intensely not prog.

Amon Duul etc I mean - proto-Kraut. You've got a very narrow definition of prog if you're exclusing all that stuff. Sorry not stuff, I meant miscellany.

But infinitely more progressive.
I've seen stuff like King Crimson referred to as trad prog. Er....

No way are Amon Duul 1 anything remotely to do with prog rock. Amon Duul 2 circa 1972, maybe.

That description (trad prog) sounds fantastic.

You don't know what you're on about.

i hear 1297 was pretty dire too

Tis rather a ludicrous concept though, fittingly enough

Like a trad prog pub called the old duke.

You're just using "prog" as an all-purpose term of abuse.

what about hey nonny, nonny

eroor