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I previously reviewed Vajra’s last album.

This is a legendary band.

This new disc from Van Der Graaf Generator is sure to please long time fans of the band. Personally, I don't think I'm the target audience for this.

This new box set documents a concert from March 1st, 2022. We get two CDs of audio, but this also includes both a DVD and Blu-Ray of the concert.

This 1978 live recording captures Van der Graaf Generator delivering a trademark set. There is really no other band who sound like VDGG.

This is all instrumental music. It’s also guitar based and lands somewhat near folks like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani..

I like Vangelis' blend of electronic and symphonic music. This album features vocals from Jon Anderson on one song, a real bonus to me.

Vangelis is an artist who always does a great job of working within electronic elements to create something unique and rather symphonic. This album is no exception.

I've landed this act under prog rock. That's largely because of the "art rock" nature of it.

What can you count on with Vanilla Fudge? Well, you can count on great music that qualifies at least as proto-prog, if not full prog.

Vantomme is named for its founder Dominique Vantomme. He is a keyboardist, producer and more.

These live recordings are all quite good.

Cleopatra Records loves doing these tribute albums, typically with Billy Sherwood in charge.

This collection is pretty strange.

This is quite a strong set. I’d say that pretty much everything here lands in progressive rock, but some is closer to psychedelic than others are.

I’ve always been a big fan of the Doors.

When I hear the term “smooth jazz,” I tend to think of the elevator music variety of jazz.

These collections are always interesting. This one is no exception.

I’ve listed this under “Various Artists” at Music Street Journal, although technically it’s not listed that way on the CD.

I recently reviewed another release from this outfit (Fedogan and Bremer). This could be seen as a companion to that release, which was a reissue of an older set with additional material.

There are times when I wish I had never started MSJ with the whole concept of track by track reviews. This album is a daunting one to do in that way.

While not everything here lands under progressive rock, there is a lot of prog in this set. There is also a lot of artsy soundtrack music that fits under the prog banner.

This new soundtrack album features some killer music. It leans on the space rock, trippy side of the equation.

This new soundtrack album has some cool stuff on it. Personally, I think that it would be stronger if it was just the first disc.

This new three-CD set showcases a number of songs that were originally released on the Transatlantic Records label. There is an intriguing range of music here.

This is a killer collection of music. It's a great way to sample a lot of fairly obscure acts without having to commit to a full album by any of them.

While this set was released several years ago, I've just recently found out about it.

This various artists collection was assembled by Brian Tarquin. He's a guitar player who really seems to have a reverence for great guitar playing in all its various forms.

I've been looking to do a retro review of this box set for a while. I finally had the opportunity this time around.

This sampler disc gives a varied look into a number of releases from the Sireena label. While it's not all progressive rock, there are enough prog leaning things here, and real prog, for me to include it under that heading.

This new various artists collection, as you would imagine, pays tribute to the music of Yes. It's an intriguing set.

This soundtrack is clearly not actually progressive rock. I would argue that it is progressive music, though.

This is a Krautrock compilation album from 1971. It was reissued on CD in 1997.

This collection of music is very cool. Not everything here is prog, but the vast majority is at least proto-prog.

I really like this set from Bear Family Records. As you might guess, it collects a lot of tracks that fit under the kraut rock heading.

The latest in a series of discs from Bear Family Records focused on the kraut rock movement, this is a bit different from the rest.

I generally like things like this where an album is created by taking the track list of a famous album and having different artists reproduce the songs.

Animals is, without question, my favorite Pink Floyd album. it's actually pretty high up on my list of best albums of all-time, too.

This various artists collection is definitely not a tight fit under the prog heading. Probably the two biggest impediments to that categorization are the final two tracks.

This three CD set is pretty amazing stuff. It was compiled by Dave Brock, and as such you have to figure that it's packed full of space rock.

This is an unusual double disc set. Let me say, right at the beginning, this is not progressive rock in a traditional sense

This album chronicles a lot of the early progressive rock scene in Germany. It's a double disc set and has some great music.

Much like the previous edition of this series, this double disc collection gathers up some great German prog music.

This four-CD set has some great music contained within. We get some of the bigger prog acts in terms of songs from Renaissance, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, Procol Harum and Yes.

Tribute albums like this are always interesting, but also often disappointing.

The whole get a bunch of musicians together and record covers of an entire album thing is something I really like.

I need to get some conventions out of the way at the start of this.

It's hard, in retrospect, to understand the importance of King Crimson's debut album. It really did set a new standard for what would be known as progressive rock.

This isn’t progressive rock in the classic sense, but it does have ties to that sound.

Carl Verheyen is probably best known for his tenure in Supertramp.

I don’t know if this fits into progressive rock. I’d say some of it does.

Let me just say at the start that this is landed under progressive rock because Carl Verheyen, through his work with Supertramp and other projects is considered a prog artist, not because of the music here.

This act is not precisely a progressive rock outfit. They are definitely art rock, though.

What an amazing set this is. In fact, it is likely to make my “best of 2014” list.

Mark Vickness is being billed as progressive rock in some materials. If you compare him to California Guitar Trio, that label fits.

The mellow sounds here are in keeping with the kind of music I've learned to expect from him. World music, new age and fusion are all at play.

I know I’m going to hear it over this one.

I consider this progressive rock, but it’s definitely modern prog.

I previously landed these guys under progressive rock. I'm going to stick with that decision here.

This is definitely progressive rock as far as I’m concerned.

Viima always deliver strong music. Their sound lives somewhere between folk music and symphonic prog, at times encompassing both.

I saw the name of this artist and immediately thought of Camper Van Beethoven because I am such a big fan of that band.

This isn't the best fit under progressive rock. Some of it definitely does not fit under that category at all.

I've reviewed several albums from Vinyl Floor over the years. I generally land them under progressive rock, despite the fact that it's not what I'd consider a tight fit.

This is an intriguing project. Violents is Jeremy Larson.

The mix of sounds here hasa lot of pop music in it. It's definitely electronic music more than anything else.

If you are a fan of instrumental electronic prog albums by artists like Synergy, this should feel familiar to you. It's very much in line with that school of music.

Virgo was a German fusion band from the 1970s.

The music here lands somewhere between progressive rock and heavy metal. At different times it seems to lean more in one direction than the other.

This is an instrumental album from a Brazilian band. There are three songs here.

You might expect, from the name of this act, that it's a solo artist. That's not true.

You might disagree with this landing in the progressive rock section. There is definitely plenty of psychedelia and seven stoner rock here.

Perhaps this one's not the tightest fit under a prog rock heading.

I don’t know if this is progressive rock or not.

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