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My favorite Yes album is Relayer, so I'd definitely get that one next. I know most people hate Tormato and Drama, but I happen to like them both quite a bit. I basically like everything Yes from 1969-1983.

Another one that gets overlooked in Yes' catalog is the debut. That album is a lot jazzier (due to Peter Banks' guitar work), and the songwriting is a bit less prog-oriented, but awesome nonetheless.

With King Crimson, I'd basically recommend everything else (I'm a fanboy; bite me, haha). Most importantly, I'd go for Discipline and In the Wake first.

Also, pick up as many live albums as you can from KC. They were always a very interesting live act. The Larks' Tongues and Red lineup were probably the best out of the bunch in regards to live performance, but the 80's lineup weren't slackers by any means.

Here's a good place to start with live albums:

[Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal 1984]
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000007SHH/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=A2ZU8EIQF8C865)

The Collectable King Crimson, Volume 1 (Live at Mainz; Live in Asbury Park)

Live at Summit Studios March 12, 1972

These are two of my favorite bands, and I'm probably a little biased in my recommendations, but this should be enough for someone relatively new to them to be content.

do they have to be prog?

Conan the Barbarian soundtrack by Basil Poledouris - possibly the best soundtrack I've ever heard.

The Bones of All Men by Phillip Pickett and Richard Thompson - like a medieval rock band

and just for fun, The Art of the Bawdy Song by the Baltimore Consort

Mountains Come Out of the Sky is a beautiful book that is also pretty comprehensive.

https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Answer-Other-Prog-Rock-Tales/dp/0985490209

This one is pretty great, particularly the one about Genesis written by Tom Junod

A very good way to be introduced to 70's Camel album is to listen to A Live Record, great live album.

Close to the Edge by Chris Welch is a good one, but I enjoyed Yes: Perpetual Change even more because of its larger size and larger number of photos.

I got the CD which included bonus tracks as well as a live version of Three Piece Suite off Amazon for £13 and it's even cheaper now.

Yes it was -- good eye! It's in the Roger Dean coffee table book I've got. I need to scan that book in, one of these days, and post it online.

[this is a great book] (http://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Come-Out-Sky-Illustrated/dp/0879309911).

It did; it's also pretty cheap on Amazon right now.
https://www.amazon.com/Yesterdays-YES/dp/B000002J22

My solo project, Sivadavis. My second album, part 1 of a trilogy I'm working on, is now on Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon! Inspired by a lot of Krautrock (Klaus Schulze, Neu!, Popol Vuh)

If you want to touch on prog metal too, this is a pretty comprehensive book on the history of it: http://www.amazon.com/Mean-Deviation-Decades-Progressive-Heavy/dp/0979616336

Beyond and Before. It's a history and analysis of prog. Highly recommended.

I used to dislike Phil Collins but many sessions of listening to Trick of the Tail changed my perception, as well as a recent read of Mike Rutherford's recent memoir.

Well, there is this 2112 comic book...

And not visual art, but Close to the Edge is basically Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha.

I was looking for it earlier; unfortunately I think you may have to pay for it.

The critics were not kind to this disc (oh well, they never liked Yes anyway) but I still think it's kind of interesting. It's kind of impressive on a technical level because Virgil seems to have done the whole thing without access to the multitracks of the songs.

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|name|Comus|
|about artist|Taking their name from a character in a John Milton masque, Comus is a folk rock band from Beckenham, UK that mixes elements of progressive rock with the influences of The Pentangle, Fairport Convention and other more traditional folk outfits. The band broke up shortly after releasing their first album, 'First Utterance' (1971), due to its failure commercially. Some of the original members later re-convened for their second album, 'To Keep From Crying' (1974). Once again commercial success eluded the group, and they disbanded. (more on last.fm)|
|album|First Utterance, released Dec 2002|
|track|Drip Drip|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|album on amazon|
|tags|progrock, progressivefolk, psychedelic, folk, psychedelicfolk, experimental|
|similar|Spirogyra, Exuma, Mellow Candle, Magma, Amon Düül II|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 43,257, lastfm plays: 674,805, youtube plays: 13,501, radd.it score: 10|


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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel

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