Greatest Proto-Prog Rock albums according to me
Greatest Proto-Prog Rock albums
The denomination Proto Prog comes from the combination of two words, Proto from the Greek The earliest,. and Prog which as we know is a short term for Progressive Rock, so as it’s name clearly indicates, refers to the earliest form of Progressive Rock or Progressive Rock in embryonary state.
These bands normally were formed and released albums before Progressive Rock had completely developed (there are some rare Proto Prog bands from the early 70’s, because the genre didn’t expanded to all the Continents simultaneously
The common elements in all these bands is that they developed one or more elements of Prog, and even when not completely defined as part of the genre, they are without any doubt, an important stage in the evolution of Progressive Rock.
Generally, Proto Prog bands are the direct link between Psyche and Prog and for that reason the Psychedelic components are present in the vast majority of them, but being that Progressive Rock was born from the blending of different genres, we have broadened the definition to cover any band that combined some elements of Progressive Rock with other genres prior to 1970.
1- 1967 THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN Pink Floyd
2- 1966 REVOLVER Beatles, The
3- 1967 THE DOORS Doors, The
4- 1966 FREAK OUT Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
5- 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles
6- 1968 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly
7- 1967 Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane
8- 1967 Days of Future Passed The Moody Blues
9- 1969 Deep Purple Deep Purple
10- 1969 Tommy The Who
11- 1968 Saucerful Of Secrets Pink Floyd
12- 1969 Arzachel Arzachel
13- 1967 Strange Days The Doors
14- 1968- The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown The Arthur Brown Band
15- 1969 It's A Beautiful Day It's A Beautiful Day
16- 1967 Procol Harum Procol Harum
17- 1967 Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Fudge
18- 1967 Mr. Fantasy Traffic
19- 1967 The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack Nice
20- 1968 Tomorrow Tomorrow
21- 1968 Music in a Doll's House Family
22- 1968 Caravan Caravan
23-- 1968 The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp Giles, Giles and Fripp
24- 1968 Fairport Convention Fairport Convention
25- 1968 Shine on Brightly Procol Harum
