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Love the Revolver box set too, it’s in my collection. I’m gonna have to hunt down that Camel box set, love that band, used to have Mirage, Snow Goose and Moonmadness. Very underrated band that never got much attention in the states. 😊 Also got a question about another band from England called Caravan, do you happen to have any of their stuff and do they have a box set?

Another good addition would be Millionaire Waltz off A Day at the Races. Maybe the first and only Prog Rock song that incorporates waltz timing into it.

It's funny you just posted this today actually I was listening to queen 2 yesterday probably their progiest album, uploaded a short of the record!

"March of the Black Queen"

Lilly of the Valley/ Tenement Funster my favorites off Sheer Heart Attack. I always considered these songs proggy. It's Late from News of the World sounds like progressive rock too in my opinion.

This is one of my favourite topics. Great King Rat is like a Sergio Leone film with a rock-based Ennio Morricone soundtrack. Also, Flash Gordon is decried as a mere soundtrack album, but around Christmas I heard it all the way through for the first time in years, and it sounded damned proggy (or maybe Cod Prog).

Always have held it in high regard, not surprising. But I never have seen it included on any best live album lists which is moderately irksome.

BLA BLA BLA that all we hear,, what did you hear?😊

Progressive "tendencies?" At their peak they hit what Ben Rankins would describe as "full on cape-wearing prog". That's actually the only listenable Queen. Also, AOBTD is the diametric opposite of James Brown. It's 2-4-2-4, there's no ONE!

Freddie was more inspired with Progressive rock then the others. also Millionaire Waltz, Liar, Death On Two Legs. Bicycle Race- was very prog, try listening to the instrumental version.

Not up to your usual standard this one pal. You know it , so I don’t have to point out where, when or why. Keep it up!

Some brilliant stuff here! I was born in 1959 and so lucky to have heard this amazing music! 4 Way Street by CSNY is a favourite of mine.

Queen greatest band in history, they were so diverse and never boring , they had it all. Most bands keep it safe and never go out of there comfort zone.

Queen 1 & 2, Sheer Heart Attack, and A Night At The Opera was easily one of the most impressive opening salvos in the discography of any 70s band.

Queen were so varied in their output, they could truly do anything. I would add “Dragon Attack” to the proggy Queen songs. I know one can object that it is straight rock and roll, but the dominant bass line and the theme make me suggest it.

Excellent. Lest we forget.

UFO's "Strangers In The Night" and THIN LIZZY's "Live and Dangerous" boxes need a mention here. I'm hoping that similar sets comprising all of the full concerts that were recorded to make a great 2Lp back in the day will be done for IRON MAIDEN's "Live After Death" and LYNYRD SKYNRYD's "One More From The Road". On the disappointment side, the recent JUDAS PRIEST "50 Years" box was a massive cash grab. Left off the bonus tracks from previous remasters, didn't include some live B-sides that have never been on CD yet and WAYYYYY TOOO EXPENSIVE.

Another excellent video, i also believe queen 1 and queen 11 , IMO to be their most progressive, there are parts to these wonderful albums that put me in mind of YES and a dash of led zeppelin, i have the 2017 remastered vinyl renditions , but would love the original pressings with the lovely fully laminated covers , hard to find now in really good nick. Thanks for the video.

"Queen II" and "Sheer Heart Attack" are my absolute favourites.

Best - Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series. All of it. Stuart

Prophet song .i still hear my mum shouting up the stairs " oh alright he knows ,he knows now we know". 49 yrs on .wow ,ffs - and then one day you find 50 years ,have ...........

Prophet's song, a veritable masterpiece in my opinion. Brighton Rock !! blew my head off as kid!1 Hard Rock /proto metal or what! saw this band in '75 for the first time.They did Brighton Rock naturally and you could not hear a pin drop! amazing gig!

Sorry, but I don't see this likeness with prog at all besides a few minor passages. Bohemian Rhapsody is a novelty song, hardly prog.

At 7 yrs old ...A Night at the Opera was a gateway drug into prog

Agreed that Sheer Heart Attack is their best from this period. Liar and Great King Rat on the first album are epic. Queen II is phenomenal though the highlights from the Black side was never performed. I find that when that third album was released, they missed an opportunity to play Tennement Funster, Flick of the Wrist and Lily of the Valley live - that would have been epic. Dream Theater did a great job of that medley several years back.

Yes it does

70's Queen Yes....80's Queen No. No Mercury....No Queen

Lovely stuff! Q’s proggy tracks are not always as appreciated as their no1s. Q2, their masterpiece, and the first album I bought with my hard earned spending money (thanks mum and dad).

Sorry I have to tell you as a die hard WHO fan their BEST live album is "Live At Tanglewood 1970". The live track "Water" is amazing.

Roger Waters' creepy personality ruined Pink Floyd for me. He is such a fake wanna be intellectual.

I like Queen quite a bit but I cannot stand camp, ragtime, vaudeville, etc. that’s not rock n roll. Best albums are the first three. I like about half of the next two. News of the World is great too. Most of everything else you can keep.

Better? Worse? to me, always just different.

I always thought queen was weak.

Also Liar

I don't know about prog but you could argue they invented Thrash Metal with Ogre Battle. A friend gave me Queen II on cassette when I was 12 or 13 because he found it too weird, I found it took me out of an unhappy childhood and into another world. Thanks Brian, Roger, John and Freddie, it still gives me shivers 40 years later.❤.

These 'prog' choices would make an excellent album.

An honourable mention should go to The Miracle. Maybe not an obvious choice but the construction is pure 80s pop-prog and puts to shame most of what Yes West put out at the time.

Very nice selection, pleasantly surprised to see Lucifer's Friend! My taste personally leans more to the Berlin part of the scene, so there'd be a lot more Schulze, TD and Ash Ra (Tempel), though some more obscure pics I think are equally as deserving of such high positions, especially Dom's Edge of Time!

You are right, right bloody well right !

Sees Bruce Springsteen T Shirt Legs it.

I just listened to The Prophet's Song on headphones. Freddie....enough said!!

Great video! Please consider doing the same thing for both Supertramp and for Styx.

Top video as ever! A real gem in my collection is Fish's 13th Star deluxe edition (CD/blu-ray). The content on both the book & the discs is just dynamite!

"The Looser In The End" written, sung and drummed by the drummerboy of the band... how proggy do you want to go?

….. ‘beelzebub does the devil have a sideboard’ …… vintage Jasper Carrot)!😎

The song "Innuendo" (and slightly evenly important "The Show Must Go On") is on par with the album "Queen II". That album was not only their first but also The One of Queen's progressive album(s).

I think surely Queen are pomp rock, even cabaret-rock, certainly pop rock, rather than prog.

Nice list & great to see Innuendo get an extended mention- surely the most complex of their later work. Hilarious to know I wasn't the only one to hear 'pork sausages' for 'monstrosity'! I also heard 'Beelzebub has a devil put a sideboard' when I was younger! 😂

Steven Wilson has said he doesn't think Queen was really an albums band and I see what he means I think. The albums tend to be very uneven, often stylistically weird with plenty of filler. That sets them apart from the 'classic' prog acts quite a bit. Still, there's a nice heavy prog album to be made out of your choices...