PAUL MATTHEW CARR
Difficult Beauty
Brain Salad Surgery: Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Difficult Beauty
Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album from prog-rock supergroup Emerson, Lake, & Palmer and is arguably their most well-known. The reason for its notoriety can be boiled down to two things: an
Larks’ Tongues In Aspic: King Crimson: Difficult Beauty II
King Crimson is probably the band that is most evocative of Progressive Rock. That is to say they have been and continue to be unapologetic prog. There was no decent into pop singles in
Close to the Edge: Yes: Difficult Beauty I
I begin this journey into Progressive Rock with the album that I feel is the quintessential example of the genre. Yes’ fifth release typifies the aspects of what makes great Prog Rock. It executes
Difficult Beauty: An Exploration of Progressive Rock: Introduction
Progressive Rock is a genre of music that typically to consists of long, complicated pieces of music that attempts to incorporate ideas and styles of jazz improvisation and classical composition. It tends to focus on
An Exploration of Progressive Rock. Each entry in this series will focus on a particular album from a particular band randomly chosen by me depending on basically what I am listening to at the time. And also things like historical importance and popularity, artistic value and such.
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