Annnddd.. instantly demonetized for a couple seconds of "Tarkus" - If you'd like to support me and the channel, here is a link for a digital copy of one of my band's albums: firmament-band.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-of-place-2

Let's not forget, Dark souls named a character after Tarkus

In the interview with Noboru, at 2:45 he clearly says the name of a band, and that bad is King Crimson

I did not know Prog Rock Music and Video Games go together like PB & J. Thanks for this video and hope you do on Pink Floyd and King Crimson as well as Rush soon.

Motoi Sakuraba has a real prog history, starting with his band Deja-Vu. And still makes fantastic game soundtracks, influenced by prog rock (a lot by ELP) and classical music. I think he deserved more space in your interesting video.

@tryingtobebetter7235

Жыл бұрын

Actually surprised not to see more of him here.

Really hope this Channel takes off!

there was a game called Plok! thats soundtrack is super prog inspired. i believe the composer said he was directly influenced by prog, and more specifically Yes

@92manix

3 жыл бұрын

I actually have the game and it is one of my favorite games ever. Also, the composer is Tim Follin, if anyone is wondering.

@TheStrudelkittyshow

3 жыл бұрын

Listen to the title theme for Solstice on the NES as well, it’s by the same composer and has a very Yes feel to it

Stewart Copeland was the drummer for The Police, who were prog adjacent. Stewart Copeland was previously the drummer for one incarnation of Curved Air, who were most definitely prog :)

He mentions Yes, ELP and King Crimson during the interview at minute 2. I wonder why the translation is not mentioning them.

You should do a video about Italian Prog Rock

@progrock

3 жыл бұрын

That's definitely on the list! That seems to be a video a lot of people would like, and it's super interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!

Fantastic idea for a video, the soundtracks of JRPGs like FF and Pokemon owe a great deal to progressive rock.

E,L&P were such an influence in Japan and, of course, video game composers. FF OSTs, Super Contra and Contra III's OSTs, Super Mario Bros 3's OST, Klonoa Door To Phantomile's OST, TLOZ ALTTP and OoT's OSTs, the overall Castlevania series OST, Metal Slug's overall series OST, etc. They're full of Prog Rock influence, it's hard not to hear it. Also, damn it, you beat me to it, I also wanted to make a video essay on the influence of Prog Rock in video games.

@budakbaongsiah

2 жыл бұрын

Make sure to include the works of the Follin brothers on that video essay.

@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Not prog enough.

@budakbaongsiah

Жыл бұрын

@@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind You put Contra and Zelda on your list but don't think that the Follin brothers' works are not prog enough?

@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind

Жыл бұрын

Nope. The Follin brothers' music is barely prog music. Not saying it's bad, just saying it isn't prog. And Zelda and Super* Contra have a hell lot of noticeably prog rock tracks, such as Ganondorf's Battle theme (from both OOT and ALTTP) or Stages 6, 7 and 8, and the Mini Boss theme from Super Contra. They reek of ELP influence.

@budakbaongsiah

Жыл бұрын

@@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind Hang on, which Follin music did you listen?

Great video! Some other classics of prog video game soundtracks are - The vast majority of Tim Follin's work. Seriously, that guy was a god of chiptune sound manipulation, and a BIG Yes fan. I particularly recommend the Solstice, Plok and Silver Surfer soundtracks for his more obviously proggy work, but everything that man touched turned to gold. - Michiru Yamane: I particularly remember how Richter's bossfight theme in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night directly borrows its main synth riff from Tarkus (which even briefly made it to the Smash Ultimate mix of Richter's Theme, so technically Tarkus is in Smash :D ). But yeah, overall her Castlevania soundtracks tend to have some pretty proggy moments (particularly prog metal; I think she's a Dream Theater fan, but I don't remember when she said it).

@jeromysmith1983

2 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack for Solstice is a truly hidden gem.

To Zanarkand still moves me. Stewart Copeland's work on the original Spyro trilogy is the core of my own musical inspiration.

Finally a video to explain it fully ! Thank you !

Spore is one of my favorite games and I have NEVER realized the sound design was by Brian Eno! I've always absolutely loved the music and sounds in the game, now I understand why they're so good

Stuart chatwood has worked with inside out music with his band tea party and he has composed music for prince of Persia and the darkest dungeon series. The theme song for doom 3 sounds like lateratus from tool. The music of doom eternal also changes with how the game is being played so it gets to different tracks whenever fortunes are changed in encounters. It occurs more in the two expansion packs the ancient gods parts 1 and 2. Edit: Steven Wilson was doing the mixes for old prog bands? Thought there must be two of them - it's pretty cool to have modern musicians taking interest in legacy artists.

Unlike some others in the comments, I'd rather see some videos on more obscure bands, or ones like these. I don't think we need more videos on the Big 6 or Rush, or even Dream Theater. You've clearly done your research, so I think you could really knock some out of the park on the Canterbury Scene or Rock Progresivo Italiano. By the way, do you ever go on Prog Archives to find bands? It's a cool resource. Anyway, cool vid. I love both video games and prog.

@progrock

3 жыл бұрын

I'm on Prog Archives pretty frequently! Always finding new stuff there, it's really comprehensive. I appreciate the feedback too, I'm personally more interested in some lesser-known bands, and hope to focus more on topical things like this video and obscure bands, but I'm still planning on doing the big names in service of growing the channel and for everyone who wants to see them. Italian prog is high up my list for new videos, too and I think that the Canterbury scene is an excellent topic so I'll get that on there as well.

@laronwalker8543

3 жыл бұрын

Reno Behnken what do you think the big six are?

@aweso100

3 жыл бұрын

@@laronwalker8543 Based on influence and success in the classic era of prog: Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, EL&P.

You mentioned Eno and Police, but not Yes's theme song for Homeworld, which might be their best composition since Drama?

Really enlightening stuff, didn’t know most of the stuff on here. Respect man!

Trent Reznor of NIN created a soundtrack for Quake FPS game. And then there a reverse crossover topic: music bands doing covers of video game music. One great example is the band The Advantage recording entire albums of old video game music. Their cover of Contra is my favourite.

I'm glad to see someone exploring the connection videogames have with progressive rock. I had a bunch of friends that loved videogame music in grade school. It always struck me as weird that they'd praise "dancing mad" but they never took to ELP which it sounded like a total pastiche of (an awesome pastiche though it is).

Great work!

Why doesn’t this channel have more subs? This is great.

Great video man! Would you ever consider doing a video on the Canterbury Scene?

Great vid man! Would love to see one on YES

I have to confess that these type of games never really interested me enough to want to play them so I had no idea what music was put into them. I am also not much of a gamer but remember being more of one back in the days of the Atari 2600 and even The Atari STE Computer and those were my toys so t speak before the getting into the world of PC computers like we have now. I hated the old 8 bit sounds and preferred games that came out much later on and it was then I did discover that there was some good music to be found in games. The racing game for Gran Turismo was quite rammed with some good ROCK! music and is a good example. In all the games I have played I do not really recall there being any PROG!. I also was not aware that Peter Gabriel's Secret World was in a game. To be honest I have not played computer games for a quite a few good years now. But oddly enough over the last month something did rekindle the old flame in me when I saw that they were releasing a new remade version of the game Mafia. The last games I ever played was the Mafia and Thief series and those have always been my type of games that I liked the most. I was also quite shocked when I went to buy some of these games again to install and play on my computer whilst waiting for the new release of Mafia.That games no longer come in boxes on discs and are all downloads. So you can tell how long I have been out of gaming 😁😁😁 Another GREAT! job done here and you provided some very interesting Insightful information I was not aware of.

I have thougt about this alot.

Great channel

Not a musical relation, but Roger Dean, the guy that made most of Yes' covers, also illustrated a lot of boxart for pc games (mostly for Psygnosis)

@progrock

Жыл бұрын

I actually didn't know that! Something I'll have to take a look at, thank you.

@arlekino0792

Жыл бұрын

And iconic Tetris logo

Yes FOREVER ♥️

Tangerine Dream did some music for GTA 5.

Also what do you think of Supertramp and The Alan Parsons Project

@progrock

3 жыл бұрын

Love them both! Actually, Breakfast in America was one of my first vinyls, and my most recent vinyl purchase was coincidentally "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Parsons

@laronwalker8543

3 жыл бұрын

Is it Prog? Wow! That’s awesome 😂 child of vision is my favorite song of all time

@laronwalker8543

3 жыл бұрын

Is it Prog? By the way, why do you think so many people always mention these two underrated bands together? And which band do you think is better?

@aweso100

3 жыл бұрын

@@laronwalker8543 Probably because they sort of crossover with art rock/pop. I think Prog Archives does a good job of explaining it. I go that website to learn about bands all the time.

@laronwalker8543

3 жыл бұрын

Reno Behnken thank you💚

Mike Oldfield actually make a video game. I can't recall the name, but it was like or . I couldn't figure it out. More a comment about me, not the game.

@mtgradwell

2 жыл бұрын

MusicVR, Tres Lunas (Tr3s Lunas), and Maestro. I'm surprised they didn't get a mention here.

@davep8221

2 жыл бұрын

@@mtgradwell Thanks!

If I had a nickel to every late night I’ve spent driving around in Watch Dogs 2 listening to some Zappa album

@FoxUnitNell

2 жыл бұрын

It's cool that you can play mp3s n your media player and run a game at the same time because some games lack music like rage 2. Just doesn't have traversal music and IT'S OPEN WORLD!

I hated music that was on the radio so I grew up thinking I wasn’t really a music guy but my first ever connection with any music was video game music I think that’s why I love prog so much I made the connections on my own just with stylistic similarities I looked it up rn just to see if anyone else pointed it out and I guess someone did great channel I’ve been watching your vids for around a year now didn’t even see this video

There is also Azrael's Tear soundtrack by Kerry Minnear from Gentle Giant kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXuc2sWboZXUc7A.html

Have you ever played Dragon quest?

@progrock

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm a big fan! Love Toriyama's works and Final Fantasy so it's a perfect fit.

The residents video game.

When I first heard EL&P’s Tarkus album, it blew me away how much it sounds like Final Fantasy boss music. I always disliked Prog Rock until I made that connection.

A video about Prog Rock and Video Games without a mention of the Follin Brothers!? That's blasphemous! They're MUCH more prog than Uematsu. That "interview" with Uematsu has its subtitles wrong on its second half. He was saying that he was very interested by music artists from England and then listed Yes and King Crimson as example. The subtitles didn't even come close to what he said. Oh, also that myth about Square in verge of bankruptcy and having FF as its last game was a myth. The name of the game was Final Fantasy because they wanted to call it Fighting Fantasy but someone already owned that name. The financial condition of Square was fine. Not great, but nowhere near bankrupt.