Non-UK progressive music albums you were fond of in the 1970s

[David_D]

I guess, we're quite a few around here in the age of 60+, and as I can get quite nostalgic sometimes, I've got the idea for this thread.
My were not least

French
Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony
Jean-Luc Ponty - Upon the Wings of Music
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Italian
PFM - Photos of Ghosts

Dutch
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Ekseption - Trinity

German
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Can - Soon over Babaluma
Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Danish
Secret Oyster - Sea Son

Swedish
Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
Made in Sweden - Where Do We Begin

Finnish
Jukka Tolonen - A Passenger to Paramaribo

Polish
SBB - 2: Nowy Horyzont

African
Osibisa - s/t

American
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Return fo Forever - Where Have I ...
Wheather Report - Black Market
The Mothers - Over-nite Sensation
Herbie Hancock - Man-Child

Japanese
Stomu Yamash'ta - Rain Dog

[Gizmotron]

I sure would hope that Happy the Man is on your American list. IMHO they blew the doors off any other American Progressive/Art Rock band.

[David_D]

I sure would hope that Happy the Man is on your American list. IMHO they blew the doors off any other American Progressive/Art Rock band.

I don't think, I was familiar with their albums, and to be honest, I may doubt if I would like them - but I know that they're quite appreciated today.

[Zeuhlmate]

I don't think, I was familiar with their albums, and to be honest, I may doubt if I would like them - but I know that they're quite appreciated today.

[markwoll]

A few random albums -
Happy the Man - Happy The Man
Kansas - Song for America
Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus
Kayak - Royal Bed Bouncer
PFM - Chocolate Kings
Wigwam - The Lucky Golden Stripes and Starpose
Finch - Glory of the Inner Force
Triumvirat - Spartacus

[mozo-pg]

There is all English versions of PFM above. These are clearly substantially weaker than authentic Italian vocals. Per Un Amico and Storia Di Un Minito.

[markwoll]

There is all English versions of PFM above. These are clearly substantially weaker than authentic Italian vocals. Per Un Amico and Storia Di Un Minito.

True, but Chocolate Kings is what I listened to in the 70's. I may have heard the others but at the time I was attracted more to the english lyrics.
The same with Acqua Fragile - Mass Media Stars

[David_D]

Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus

Nice and interesting to see you listing this one.

[Trane]

Given the fact that I only really started in late 74, and my totally-incomplete knowledge of music by 1981 - still is nowadays, BTW....
(Didn't even think there would be Spanish or Italian rock groups - let alone prog - and hadn't forayed into anything jazz yet)



France
Magma - Kohntarkosz
Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony
Gong - RGI trilogy
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Ange - Cimetière des Arlequins
Atoll - L'Araignee Mal

Netherlands
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Golden Earring - Moontan (US version)

Canada
Rush - 2112
FM - Black Noise
Max Webster - High Class/Mutiny
Quebec
Harmonium - 5è Saison
Maneige - Les Porches
CANO - Au Nord de Notre Vie (Ontario, I know)
Dionne/Brégent - Et le Troisième Jour

Germany
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet/Force Majeure
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
K Schulze - Timewind
Jane - s/t
Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager

Africa
Osibisa - s/t
Ofege - s/t

USA
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

Japanese
Stomu Yamash'ta - Go

[mozo-pg]

True, but Chocolate Kings is what I listened to in the 70's. I may have heard the others but at the time I was attracted more to the english lyrics.
The same with Acqua Fragile - Mass Media Stars

Oh, that makes sense! Mass Media Stars is in my collection.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Back in the '70s? Kansas, early Chicago, and the Manticore PFM albums were about all the non-British prog I knew.

[Jacob]

Omega- 200 Years After The Last War
Guru Guru- Dance Of The Flames
Goblin- Suspiria
Focus- Moving Waves
Amon Duul II- Dance Of The Lemmings
Can- Future Days

[David_D]

Given the fact that I only really started in late 74, and my totally-incomplete knowledge of music by 1981 - still is nowadays, BTW....
(Didn't even think there would be Spanish or Italian rock groups - let alone prog - and hadn't forayed into anything jazz yet)

I'm quite proud of my own list, but your is surely impressive.

[Trane]

I'm quite proud of my own list, but your is surely impressive.

well the general ambiance was certainly favorable at the time, so it wasn't an exploit at the time to listen & be exposed.
However, still loving all those things some 50 years later is another ballgame.

Prog/gish groups that played in high school on Friday evening concerts in the Toronto area in the mid or second part of the 70's
Rush
FM
Max Webster
Maneige
CANO
Triumph

Less proggy:
Zon
Goddo
Teaze
Moxy
Streeheart
True Myth

others (incl punk)
Coney Hatch
Rough Trade
Teenage Head
The Diodes
etc...

and countless dozens others that I couldn't possibly remember the names that haven't recorded any albums

BTW, I had no idea that "Scandic" countries had rock groups either, or else I might've known of Culpepper, Ache, Alrune, Wigwam Tasalavan & stuff.

[Zeuhlmate]

Except Canterbury stuff, Crimson, YES, Brand X, Jack Bruce and related, MOST of the prog (and fusion) I listened to in the 70'ties wasn't British.

Just to name a few - Zappa, Rundgren, Magma, Gong, Area, PFM, Stormy six, Kraan, Samla Mamma/Zamla, Rypdal, Tolonen, Pohjola, Kebnekajse...

[David_D]

However, still loving all those things some 50 years later is another ballgame.

I still love or like most of the albums, I was fond of in the '70s (contrary to the '80s), but for instance, not Autobahn.

[Rajaz]

Most of mine have already been listed but I would add:

Kansas-Point of Know Return, Styx-Grand Illusion, Crosby Stills Nash & Young-Deja Vu, Synergy-Games, Triumvirat-Spartacus, Golden Earring-Switch, Starcastle-Fountains of Light.

Mostly the classic stuff.

[Trane]

I still love or like most of the albums, I was fond of in the '70s (contrary to the '80s), but for instance, not Autobahn.

only cited the ones I still love nowadays (that's the way I understood your OP), not the ones I'm embarrassed to have liked backed then and don't anymore (Rajaz cites a few of them in the post above)

[David_D]

..... MOST of the prog (and fusion) I listened to in the 70'ties wasn't British.

That's interesting...and how come?

[interbellum]

Here are some of my LP's I bought in the 70's and played a lot:

French
Alan Stivell: Renaissance De La Harpe Celtique
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
Gong: Gazeuse!

Norwegian
Saluki

Italian
Angelo Branduardi: Concerto

Dutch
Solution: Cordon Bleu, Solution, Divergence, Fully Interlocking
Water: Damburst
Thomas Flinter: Thomas Flinter
Finch: Galleons Of Passion

German
Ramses: La Layla
Neuschwanstein: Battlement

American
HAPPY THE MAN!!
Crack The Sky: their first three albums
David Sancious: his first couple of LP's, including the ones with Tone)
The New Tony Williams Lifetime: Believe It!
Kansas: Point Of Know Return, Leftoverture, Masque
Al Di Meola: first albums
Return To Forever: Romantic Warrior
Caldera: Dreamer

Japanese
Stomu Yamash'ta - Go

[starless and bible black]

Weather Report-Mysterious Traveller, Tale Spinning, Black Market, Heavy Weather
Return To Forever-Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy, Romantic Warrior
Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds Of Fire
Santana-Caravanserai, Welcome, Lotus (Live)
Kansas-Song For America, Leftoverture, Point Of Know Return
Billy Cobham-Spectrum, Crosswinds, Total Eclipse
The New Tony Williams Lifetime-Believe It
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin-Love Devotion Surrender

[Zeuhlmate]

That's interesting...and how come?

I would say that the British were outnumbered
Well, of course there were many great bands, some were in the top 10, like Crimson, Gentle Giant and Hatfield, but I never liked Pink Floyd, or Genesis (besides Selling England). Then I liked Fusion/prog bands a lot (RTF; TW, Mahavishnu, Eberhard Weber, etc) and there werent too many of them in the UK. Well, Bruford, Holdsworth, Brand X...
And I never really cared for 'epic', prog-lyric-heavy stuff.

[Rarebird]

Back in the 70s?

Germany:
Hoelderlin - Live Traumstadt
Novalis - s/t
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live

[Scrotum Scissor]

Especially Smak from Yugoslavia, Cock from Mongolia and Dick from Madagascar were my ultimate choices during the phase September-November 1977.

[Trane]

Especially Smak from Yugoslavia, Cock from Mongolia and Dick from Madagascar were my ultimate choices during the phase September-November 1977.

Svettie, get out of Richard's profile

Don't know if the last two are for real, though :/