Watched. None of this is Prog

I love that you waited until the last 5 seconds to tell us what you dislike, and I also liked your answer.

You inspired me to listen to some Procol Harum today. I will eventually get some Hawkwind in my collection. I love your copy of Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Your shirt is a hoot.

Richie, you crack me up!! And you are correct. Nice ending!!

Vinyl Richie, you ROCK Brother ! To me, you represent what's great about Vinyl. Guys like you. Total music fiend ! I love it. May times in the "high end" where I reside, vinyl becomes elitist bullshit. You are the REAL DEAL my man. Keep on truckin !!! #ocdhifiguy

Ha ha! This was one I never expected to see on your channel. How can folks argue about your definition of punk? You're my go to source for it.

Great to hear Magma mentioned. Fantastically unique and powerful band. Loved most of your other choices also - great that you like Going For The One - great album!

Aloha Vinyl Richie, Thank you for sharing your favorite Prog record Albums. I really enjoy that Coliseum "Live" Lp. with Dave Clem Clemson on guitar. So cool you got a promo copy of that. Thanks again for another great video, looking forward to your next one. Mahalo Ed.

Great video! I'm not super familiar with prog; I do enjoy listening to it, and I especially enjoy being turned on to new music so I have added some of these to my Spotify playlist for today. People do take things too seriously and a lot of people do not understand sarcasm at all and they know they don't understand sarcasm and yet still knee-jerk respond with serious answers without even asking themselves if they could have misinterpreted? It's kind of pathetic and also hilarious at the same time a little bit? Anyway, love you and love your channel. ✌️💜🎶🎶🎶

If last year was the VC's Year of Jazz and 2019 was the Year of Psych, then is this year gonna be the VC's Year of Prog?

Another great video, Richie. I have a few of the albums you reviewed. Eno and Fripp are so phenomenal apart and together. Big fan of that Procol Harem album and of King Crimson. Also Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I love how very innovative talents evolve and morph through the years. It might be interesting to see you do a video about an artist and how they transited or influenced subsequent artists or groups. I think we all have a unique way that we discover music so it also would be interesting to know how you were sparked to go down various avenues with your collecting.

I'm definitely going to check out those prog albums haven't heard too much prog music, love those early pink floyd records that obscured by clouds cover really looks really nice

Had to watch this in fast motion cause I hate prog. But lo and behold, I actually had eight of these records. And three of the eight I actually like. So maybe I do like prog after all. Cheers!

Thanks for turning me on to Magma. Thinking about starting a Magma cover band now.

Great video- FYI Supersister is a Dutch group influenced by the Canterbury scene. Also great to see Colosseum get some love.

I never thought I liked Prog until someone told me Jethro Tull was prog, wow, I guess I like prog. Meddle is one of my favorite PF albums,, now I got 2 prog albums. Enjoy your week. Steve

Went Back And Watched This Again!!! Excellent!!!

Great video! Lots of awesome albums. Yes, don’t take things too seriously. Have fun, vinyl is a gateway into another world. We are so lucky to go back in time and hear what was going on. It’s just fantastic, a true gift! Try the 40th anniversary with a nice mix from Mr. Wilson. I was searching for an OG of Court, but like you said it’s too pricey.

Thanks for the suggestions Rich. Given me a lot to keep my eyes out for. Meddle has steadily grown on me for a decade and is now likely my favorite. I am a fan of Epitaph on In the Court... You take care.

Brilliant Richie - loved the end. I saw ELP and Yes in the early 70s and had all of their albums, but when The Sex Pistols blew me away a friend and I got pissed one night and smashed them over our knees (along with those by Genesis and Floyd). These days I find most of ELP and more than half of Yes unlistenable.

Your comments on Soft Machine made me think of Gong, which started out very prog, but eventually evolved to be much more jazz influenced. The irony about Thick As A Brick is that it was intentionally written to mock prog, and yet it's considered a prog classic. I agree that Going For The One is a great return for Yes. I want a mono pressing of Piper At The Gates of Dawn. I really like In The Wake of Poseidon, an underrated album. But I totally love the songs you hate from the debut, lol.

Wow Rich you saw some great bands! Dig all the music you showed, 801 agree great album Dang Rich! This was a great video...take care- Lis I saw Crimson and ELP in early 70s too

Great informative video! Considering how many of those albums I own, perhaps I do like prog after all. Although I previously never put Tull,Floyd,Hawkwind, Weather Report or Rush in the prog genre, but what do I know. I believe nobody likes to be lumped in a specific category personally or musically. ✌🍻

You introduce me. You inform me. You crack me up. You crack me up even more then you bail. Perfect Richie.

Perfectly executed. Hey, you like what you like......that is fine with me. Enjoyed this.

Some KILLER LPs... I would very much like to dig through your shelves, I do believe. Long live Hawkwind! Thanks for the video.

What great selections here love most of these bands...forgot Nektar lol..great video thanx for sharing and take care

Another great video, I appreciate the speed and commentary.

Can you do a compilation of all your off screen comments as you walk off at the end..it will be amazing!. It would be the VC equivalent of that album ‘Having Fun With Elvis Onstage’

Hey Richie, really enjoyed the video I also have a lot of those records. They are all interesting and different, thanks for sharing Cheers Sean

Saw Soft Machine open for Jimi Hendrix in March of '68...I was floored. Went to my record store and ordered their album which wasn't yet released. Imagine my surprise when she called 6 months later to say they had my album. The entire first album is done exactly as they played live.

Another great video, you ever think of putting out Vinyl Richie video t shirts? Thanks

I'm not really a prog fan. But maybe I just haven't found the one yet. Will give some of these a chance. I think my attention span is more 2 min punk song most days. Great video! You've got a killer collection

PROG is a four letter word. Out of all the music I dug in the past, prog is the least revisited. Interesting selection you showed. Might just check some of them out.

"Proto Ambient" 😂 love how you said that. 3:04

Nice to see some love for BJH there.

Hey richie, kinda a random video for this comment but have you heard Glue? Hardcore punk band from a while ago with some of the members of Insitute.

This doesn't run right up middle of "what prog is" and that's why this is a great video. With a couple exceptions, I probably enjoy bands that dabble in progressive elements more than I like prog itself.

What is the difference between prog and psych? I really get confused on some of the genres. Good vid.

Hi Ritchie, my first time on your channel and I really enjoyed your video here. I really agree with you on the Yes albums, my favourite is The Yes album followed by Fragile. I thought it was just me with those small annoying pieces on Fragile that spoil the flow of the album for me. I also really like Going for the one. I like a lot of the Floyd albums in particular Meddle through to Animals. Also ELP great Debut, that's maybe my favourite love the opener...the BARBARIAN such good tracks on this one, Take a pebble, Knife edge, Tank, Lucky Man its great. There is a ton of Prog I've not heard though, I will have a listen to some of the other albums you mentioned. Thanks man.

Great video. Love those early Floyd albums. Obscured By Clouds and More are underrated. Love the early Crimson albums too. The Jazz textures are fun listens.

Wow, those are some great prog albums. Favourites include Magma, Soft Machine, PF, KC. Cool that you showed Supersister. Just got that same record. I dont understand ELP though

A punk is someone who leaves a message asking, "Do you even know what punk is?"! I almost pee'd myself when I found a copy of "The League of Crafty Guitarmen" at the record store. Never thought I would find that in the wild.

Good stuff. I want to show my favorite prog bands who aren’t prog bands 🌸🐇

I'd like to fill in my Hawkwind gaps. I'm in the process of rebuilding my Pink Floyd collection. EL&P is a solid band for cheap heat. In my area they can ways be found and really clean copies are usually 8 to 12 bucks at most. Also, Brain Salad Surgery is a euphemism for oral. I know your favorite YES album is Tormato.

As John Peel said the one thing that defines progressive music is the fact that it wasn't progressive.

801 live is one of my all-time favourites. It's one of those albums I never get sick of. I'm gonna check out that Summers, Fripp one. I noticed on the comments some people arguing about the 'prog' category, but I don't see the issue really. Call it what you will, there's some interesting offerings there. Thanks Richie.

You've inspired me to pull out my copy of Starless and Bible Black, which I don't think I've played since Ron sent it to me. Shhhh...

"Close To The Edge, well, it has some great moments on it." Me: 🤨

Hey Richie..Liked your ending ! reality check...also, I agree with the first King Crimson album ( two good songs) love all of the following albums through ' Discipline" I am new to making video's...enjoy doing it. Later JT

Fripp's guitar fed through Eno's electronics is what gave us that glorious squeeeeeeeeeeal in Bowie's "Heroes." I had no idea they collaborated on whole other albums with each other - methinks I hafta budget some $$$ for those discs soon!

Great albums, Richie. I don't know Pookah. Will have to check them out.

I agree with you about "too noodley". Good video, Captain.

Your list reminds me that I probably need more King Crimson in my collection. On the surface I always say I'm not fan of prog, but there are quite a few of my very favorite records that are prog records. So, I'm a great hypocrite at the very least. I do enjoy Peter Gabriel Genesis, so what do I know? Very informative video. Thanks! TB

Love that last comment about some people taking it all too seriously, so true. Especially the elitists and critics....enjoy the music

Check out Procol Harum-Home especially the track Deadman’s Dream It’s a trip and you can get it for cheap Man I need to get more Hawkwind in my collection!

Hey V.R. - I have been a Procol Harum fan since 1968 - saw them three times in concert - last time was in 2017 in Atlanta and they rocked the house down - Gary Brooker is a great singer and song writer :)

Jealous of that Piper. I think Piper, Meddle, and Wish You Were Here are my the Floyd records I keep going back to.

Hawkwind is space rock. A sub-genre of prog.. 😜 wasn’t Andy summers in a prog band in the early ‘70’s? I’m not that into Prog but, It is an interesting genre. I’m going to check out some those titles. Thanks Rich!

In the court of is one of the greatest rock albums ever made imo

Absolutely amazing video and wonderful collection, dear Richie. Personally, I prefer you showing off your fantastic collection, and giving your opinion on it with great knowledge, than serving as a lawyer for Mr. Norman Maslov.

You had me at “Proto-Ambient.” Totally agree with you on the self-indulgence of prog. My favorite prog album is The White Album. Speaking of self-indulgent... I was hoping a Jesus playlist would be hidden in here somewhere. Not gonna lie.

Right on the money Richie, I'm so glad you didn't get into how Genesis is the best prog band of all time, which is what usually happens when you get into it with a certain type of so called prog afictionados. You are not one of them, which is why you are spot on.

Great video Richie, last comment nailed it 🤘

Islands is my favorite King Crimson album. where did you see this show at?

Magma is some far out weird stuff! I bought one of their records a couple years ago. After listening to the album, my reaction was "WTF was that?!". Not in a good way. Needless to say, I haven't heard it since. You inspired me though. I'm going to give it a listen again this week.

I have the first two but i see now that i need more King Crimson

That Barclays James Harvest cover is amazing..I have never seen that before...Colosseum was a great band..love Robert Fripp and Brian Eno..801 Live looks amazing..I have to check that out..those YES albums are good, King Crimson is my fav prog band..glen

Magma : totally original. Like nothing else at the time, impressive musicianship. Hawkwind : love them, their best album? 1975's Warrior on the edge of time Procol? Love them too And their mid-70s albums are masterpieces! Prog? Well this is a restrictive tag innit?

Vinyl Richie some people get bent out of shape over music lists like they have been slighted personally because it didn't mesh with their tastes. Takes me back to guys arguing about who is better Page or Blackmore and how hysterical ( but funny ) it could get. So yes some people take it really seriously ( especially the progers, & others as well ). But we are talking about one of the highest forms of art, music, and passions run from absurd to eloquent and you friend are most definitely in the latter.

Nice collection 👌

I don't know much about prog, but Meddle is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Love the song where the dog barks near the end.

Interesting video 😊

Thanks. Love the 801 Live album. All my Barclay James Harvest is from later, I need to check out their second. I have only heard the first two Supersister albums. That cover seems annoying having to bend it for information. Good broad definition of prog, I like it. - Chris

I like those Fripp/Eno albums a lot. The 801 Live was one of my weirdest purchases - it was in the bottom of a stack of old 78rpms in an old barn for fifty cents.

Interesting prog perspectives Richie to which I can see your points. Good choices on Yes, others and why's. I fell asleep to 'An Index of Metals' which manufactured a desert heatwave dream for some bizarre reason. My punk tastes walk a finer line than your prog. There's prog I even bend the rules on like Hawkwind though it's more space rock like The Pink Floyd. Colosseum is a bluesy form that I like and Chris Farlowe completes the impact. Procol Harem has yet to grab me. You may like Supersisters' first 2 better. Why a bedtime lullaby when '21st Century Schizoid 'Man', 'Cat Food' and MAGMA offer more edgy excitement, right?

Very entertaining from the best VC contributor👍. Yes, prog does tread a very thin line. A lot of ELP is virtually unlistenable to my ears. Yes, the definition had been stretched here , but good nonetheless.

Richie, great selections. I fully endorse your definition of ''prog''. Zappa and Weather Report can be considered ''prog'' Gary Brooker does indeed have a great voice. My favorite King Crimson is the 1973-1974 era.

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Couldn't agree more about prog walking a fine line. I really don't go for most of the classic Prog, more prefer the Psych bands that are starting to get proggy. I call it "Prog-like symptoms" (Soft Machine / T2 / Gong / Sensations Fix). Otherwise enjoyed!

I think my favorite prog band would have to be Atomic Rooster and my favorite album would be Death walks behind you one of the best Organ work on any album.

I love some of those bands. Going to get a reissue of Lizard. I might just play Bible Black & Starless before I go to sleep.

Gary Brooker still has a fabulous voice at least he did a few years ago. I like their use of classical music in Brain Salad Surgery and is probably the first so called "prog album" I bought. Cheers. --Randy

Hi thought Hawkwind was more like space rock That's why I didn't put it in my prog rock you know Like you say some of the lines are blurry on this stuff. A Lot of those early records you showed I purged those Early Swirls Your Right there's a few folks take this shit way too serious And I wrote a couple different paragraphs about it but it's better if I don't say anything you know what I mean its kind of what you did

When I saw Hawkwind in either 1970 or 71 they were more Spacy than prog. Blodwyn Pig, Yes and Humble Pie were some of the other acts that gig. The Pinkster always put on the best light shows. Your last comment about the VC, precisely...

Great video! Love that Magma album, such a one off band. Agree about Islands & Lizard, I prefer them to their 1st album.. 🦎

I don't understand "Prog". But your stab at it was better than most. 🤦‍♂️

I've always liked prog but I still don't feel I've scratched the surface. Just getting into Jethro Tull at the moment. If Fripp isn't prog, I don't know what is. I don't think of bands who do lots of jamming as prog.

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Great records. I know I have a lot of prog but I not good at labels like "Prog/Progressive"

😂😂😂😂😂 somebody questioned YOU, if YOU know what punk is?????? Hahaha... what a punk. 🥴 Great vid as USUAL.

Wow! Yeah, that 801 album has some fun stuff!

most French bands are from France. where did u get that shirt?

Great albums!

Do you any records by Bevis Frond ?

Love your little Rant on "Fragile" 😂. I bought it years ago and had to Face the truth: i dont like prog except for Tool. 🤷‍♂️

When I was younger, I really didn't care for prog. I thought a lot of it was pretentious and overblown. In the last 10 years, I've really gotten into a lot more prog. I think it's because as I've gotten older, I've become more pretentious and overblown.

I see only gems. Great albums. I've also given up on seeing Prog too narrow. Too many bands I like are too much Fusion and Prog at the same time, so I have given up on dividing them.

Hey Rich. That's a nice copy of that Procol Harum debut album. Cheers!

Great selection of records, but Supersister has nothing whatsoever to do with the Canterbury scene - they're from the Netherlands.