The more I listen to this album, the better it gets. ‘Comme un Sage’ is simply magnificent. I honestly feel that had it also been released in English, it would be revered alongside other classically-influenced masterpieces such as A Night At The Opera or Days of Future Passed. But I, for one, am glad that it was only released in Canadian French. The lyrics are absolutely gorgeous and would likely lose a lot of their magic in translation. For instance, the Italian versions of the PFM albums are much superior to their English pressings.

What do you guys think? Underrated? Overrated? I’m interested to hear other opinions!

And moreover, what colors comprise each band’s history?

Just listened to their self-titled from '68, and yowzers. What a masterpiece. I'm curious as to how many of you people are even aware that this album exists, 'cause it seems to be somewhat "obscure".

For some reason I was thinking of the first time I ever heard Mahavishnu Orchestra. The song was "Meeting of the Spirits" from "The Inner Mounting Flame," and I was surprised when I called the radio station only to find out that it wasn't a King Crimson track I'd somehow missed. I'm curious if anyone's had similar experiences, hearing something that sounded like someone else but wasn't.

I first got into The Flower Kings after the release of Transatlantic’s SMPTe and ended up exploring their other projects. There was one album I became obsessed with, but as my tastes shifted over time, it slipped through the cracks. Now I can’t even remember any of the lyrics or specific details to track it down.

Lately, I’ve been revisiting some of my favorite prog bands while also diving into jazz, after spending years immersed in heavy noise and industrial. It’s been a refreshing change, and it’s got me thinking about The Flower Kings again.

What are some of your favorite albums by The Flower Kings?

For context, here are some of my favorite prog bands: • Rush

•	King Crimson

•	YES

•	Dream Theater

•	Pink Floyd

•	Jethro Tull

•	Transatlantic

•	NEU!

•	Kraftwerk

I'm going to be asking about this in other communities, but y'all already (ought to) know two of the biggest examples of what I'm looking for, Greg Lake/ELP's "I Believe in Father Christmas" and Jethro Tull's "A Christmas Song". Both of them kinda lean into the same bitterness about the distance between the Christmas season as we experience it in capitalism and war and the rhetorical Christmas spirit. Another example that I find particularly compelling is Simon & Garfunkel's "Silent Night/6 O'Clock News", which uses a very basic and superbly gorgeous version of Silent Night with a depressing news broadcast fading in under it. If you've never heard it, please do, it is absolutely chilling.

So you get the vibe here, right? Like it's basically the last half of the Ghost of Christmas Present, but as a song. Gloomy, but in the sense of "we can still do something about it." Bitter, but because of unfulfilled potential for all mankind, not because winter sucks.

Help a guy with the depress get some seasonally appropriate feels up!

ive been a huge prog fan the last few years but ive gotten stuck in a loop where i listen to the same few songs by the same few bands. my favorite band has been camel and van der graaf generator, though, i cant really find bands similar to them so id be happy to get some reccomendations here :)

I'm currently reading Child of God and I also recently listened to First Utterance by Comus for the first time, which I love. Reading the lyrics of this album I couldn't help but notice some similarities to Child of God.

Rape is a main theme on the album, in songs such as "Diana", "Drip Drip" and "Song to Comus". "Drip Drip" in particular also talks about necrophilia, which I found akin to the behavior shown by Lester Ballard from Child of God.

"Song to Comus", which talks about the rape of a virgin woman also has a certain lyric which reminds me of -SPOILERS AHEAD (just in case)- >!the cave where Lester has to live in after his house is burned to the ground where he also rapes and saves corpses!< : Through the forest dark and deep she follows Comus' dancing feet
He moves away the mossy stone reveals the cave Comus' home

Both works have also got a folksy feeling to them, showing the raw and cruel face of rural and nature environments; one could even argue that their style of descriptivism is sort of similar.

What do you guys think? It's probably just a coincidence, but I found it curious that both works were released only 2 years apart.

Hello proggers! I am going nuts trying to remember the name of an album, the cover features two very tall men in long flares in a field. May have been French? Organ-driven? Thank you.

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My band Kirkos (based in St Louis, MO) just released a live set from our fall tour. We're an experimental post-prog group in a trio format (keys, bass, drums) that plays progressive music that is outside of the typical bounds of prog-rock. We have a hard time knowing what to categorize ourselves as, so let us know what you think.

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Hey all. I'll be in Brussels in March to primarily see Magma at the Cirque Royal and hope to suppliment my trip by taking in some local progressive acts. Looking for bands that perform any variation of prog, krautrock, space rock, or psychedelic rock;Yellowstock or Down the Hill festival vibes. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

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