New Prog Rock Compilation
Prog rock fans will be delighted to know that there’s a major double-CD compilation on the way.
Titled Wondrous Stories – Artists That Shaped The Prog Rock Era, it was compiled by Classic Rock Presents Prog editor Jerry Ewing.
The full track listing is:
CD1
1. Yes – Wondrous Stories
2. Jethro Tull – Living In The Past
3. Supertramp – Crime Of The Century
4. Rush – The Spirit Of Radio
5. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
6. Camel – Rhayader
7. Kansas – Dust In The Wind
8. Colosseum – The Kettle
9. Uriah Heep – Gypsy
10. Argent – Hold Your Head Up
11. Traffic – Paper Sun
12. Hawkwind – Silver Machine
13. Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein
14. Gong – Perfect Mystery
15. Barclay James Harvest – Mockingbird
16. Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
17. Iron Butterfly – In A Gadda Da Vida
CD2
1. Focus – Hocus Pocus
2. Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
3. Emerson Lake & Palmer – Fanfare For The Common Man
4. Marillion – Kayleigh
5. Rare Bird – Sympathy
6. Golden Earring – Radar Love
7. Jon & Vangelis – I Hear You Now
8. Moody Blues – Question
9. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Joybringer
10. Rick Wakeman – Catherine Of Aragon
11. Caravan – The Land Of Grey & Pink
12. ELO – 10538 Overture
13. Gentle Giant – Playing The Game
14. Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
15. Wishbone Ash – Jail Bait
16. Andrew Lloyd Webber – Pagianini Caprice In A Minor No. 24
eh this compilation i checked out on amazon .co.uk is a 4 cd compilation with a different tracklisting to the one above whilst there is a double cd compilation of the same name above but with a blander different artwork.
Golden Earring on a Prog CD? Lloyd Webber too? What’s that all about then?
Wot a random jumble of stuff. Kayleigh?Silver Machine?Jail Bait? Cripes. Next time they should employ someone who has a clue.
Great tracks!
This is music for well developed minds,not for primitive neanderthalian trolls.
I dare say this is “human” music…..
this listing is why I stopped listening to daytime Planet Rock… same songs by Artists that have a wide a varied catalogue to choose from….
I’d say it’s a very good introduction to classic prog for people that are not too familiar with the genre, or just casual listeners.
I’ll buy it, I think.
Kayleigh? Well, that seems about the level of this compilation – CDs of stuff either from bands I wouldn’t consider Prog or tracks that are certainly not good examples of a diverse musical genre…
I’d have to agree with Mike in that it appears to be a random jumble cobbled together by someone whose delusion leads them to believe that Andrew Lloyd-Webber is actually a musician…
Andrew Lloyd Webber?! Have you gone mad, Mr Ewing? You should have put ‘Spiral Architect’ by Sabbath on there instead.
Some good stuff there. And some not so good. Funny that the best material there is what is not prog rock. (Mountain, Iron Butterfly, Uriah Heep etc.)
Andrew Lloyd Webber?There must be some mistake.How on earth can he be classed as prog???The world’s gone mad