06-23-2003, 10:15 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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Progressive, Anyone?
Any fans of Progressive Rock/Metal?
Let me start, if I had to introduce a friend to the genre, I would make cd containing the following songs: Alan Parsons Project: Sirius/Eye in the Sky Porcupine Tree: Even Less Styx: Golden Lark Asia: The Hunter (a better version of GTR's!) Genesis: Mad Man Moon Peter Gabriel & Robert Fripp: Here Comes the Flood Spock's Beard: At the End of the Day King Crimson: Larks Tounge in Aspic, II Gentle Giant: Knots Caravan: Winter Wine Queensryche: Someone Else (full band version) Yes: The Ladder Rush: YYZ Kansas: Sparks of the Tempest What are your favorite artists/songs. What kind of disc would you make for someone who is currious?
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06-24-2003, 01:54 PM | #3 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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I could never forget about Dream Theater!
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06-24-2003, 06:40 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: Tucson, AZ
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I'm not sure what "progressive" is, but judging by your song list it seems to be music made by musician/artists instead of rock stars. I'm all for that. And I really like:
Yes Rush Peter Gabriel The Alan Parsons Project Frank Zappa Pink Floyd David Bowie To name just a few. Edit: I forgot the Moody Blues. Shame on me.
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06-24-2003, 08:04 PM | #5 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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Essentialy that's part of it. I see it as artists who want you to focus on the music. Then there's the concept album, where they bring visuals to the fold. It's all about art.
Here's a link to Ghostland: http://ghostland.com/ghostland/ if you want more sites/info on progressive rock/metal/etc artists, just drop me a line.
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06-25-2003, 07:40 AM | #7 (permalink) |
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Definately Dream Theater. They own me.
Can't forget Pain of Salvation, they facking sule
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06-25-2003, 07:54 AM | #8 (permalink) |
Psycho
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Definately Dream Theater. They own me.
Can't forget Pain of Salvation, they facking sule
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11-04-2004, 11:11 AM | #9 (permalink) |
Psycho
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only a year+ late on this thread, but if i had been frequenting the boards at the time this thread was created, i'd have thrown my vote for progressive rock as well. in fact, i'm currently listening to Spock's Beard's The Kindness of Strangers album. awesome stuff. i think i'll go with Fragile next.
as for Dream Theater, i love 'em musically but LaBrie's vocals can get on my nerves. love the Liquid Tension Experiment stuff... |
11-04-2004, 10:16 PM | #13 (permalink) |
Psycho
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let's not forget peter gabriel era genesis...
Mad Man Moon (mentioned by Melllvar) is fantastic, as is the whole A Trick of the Tail album, but as far as albums go, i'd rather be listening to Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound or The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. |
11-05-2004, 02:18 AM | #14 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: Florida
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Heh, I opened this thread as I was listening to "Mad Man Moon". I'll never forget when a friend introduced me to Peter Gabriel-era Genesis. Having only heard their later crap like "I Can't Dance", I thought he had to be kidding. I sure was surprised. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is my all-time favorite album.
Looking thru my current Winamp playlist, I'd make a prog mix CD out of: Supertramp - Hide In Your Shell Elton John - Funeral For a Friend (it's a damn shame he didn't do more stuff like this) Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On Genesis - Broadway Melody of 1974 (what a kickass song) Gentle Giant - Peel the Paint Peter Gabriel - Moribund the Burgermeister Pink Floyd - Pigs Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Yes - Starship Trooper You guys should check out www.uk70s.com - it's a streaming radio station that plays all kinds of older prog rock. There's always a lot of early Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Yes, Jethro Tull, and other great stuff. It's pretty much all I listen to at work. |
11-05-2004, 05:08 AM | #15 (permalink) |
It's All About The Ass!!
Location: In a pool of mayonnaise!!
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Yes - Close To The Edge/You And I/The Fish
Rush - 2112 Pink Floyd - Terminal Frost, Pigs, Shine On You Crazy Diamond Jethro Tull - Aqua Lung Electric Light Orchestra - Fire On High/One Summer Dream Supertramp - Don't Leave Me Now/Waiting So Long Alan Parsons Project - Time/Don't Let It Show Traffic - Glad The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon/Question/Isn't Life Strange? Edgar Winter Group - Frankensteing (had to mention it) Tangerine Dream feat. John Anderson - Loved By The Sun/Is your love strong enough (off the Legend soundtrack) Starcastle - Can't think twice Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Jersusalem/Tarkus Modern bands like Do Make Say Think, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, and DREDG are also real good. Ughh think of more later. Asta!!
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11-05-2004, 05:45 AM | #16 (permalink) |
Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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Good! K-Wise threw Tull into the mix. This is most definitely my kind of music, so I will be reading this frequently. I'll edit this with a Progressive mix of my own later.
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11-05-2004, 06:32 AM | #17 (permalink) |
Psycho
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woohoo, the proggers are coming out of the woodwork!
thanks for the radio link, irseg - i'll check it out... as for tull, they're another of my favorites. seen 'em 5 times (once on the same bill as ELP). i've seen marillion 5 times too, yes a couple, rush once, genesis twice, alan parsons project once, pink floyd twice... several others i can't think of right now. unfortunately, i've seen most of these in their later days. what i would give to have seen any pg-era genesis show or tull around Thick as a Brick/Aqualung days or yes around the time of Fragile... |
11-05-2004, 06:46 AM | #18 (permalink) |
Helplessly hoping
Location: Above the stars
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David Bowie does not fall into the catagory of "Prog rock."
Yes is one of my my favorite prog bands. Close to the Edge... Frank Zappa is (was RIP) the man! I love Rush too. ELO rules. King Crimson... I love Pink Floyd, but never really considered them prog, but more psychedelic. Especially not Syd Barrett Floyd. |
11-05-2004, 07:01 AM | #19 (permalink) |
Psycho
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Bowie may not be considered prog, but he still put out some great stuff... and was into the same theatrical art-rock kinda thing that gabriel was into in the early 70s.
btw, the uk70s radio thing is pretty cool... in the last little bit i've heard King Crimson from Islands, a little Brand X, and now TransAtlantic is playing. if you're a fan of Dream Theater/Spock's Beard/Marillion/The Flower Kings and you haven't checked out TransAtlantic, then you better. TA rocks... |
11-05-2004, 07:58 AM | #20 (permalink) | |
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Pink Floyd, to me, is a classic example of prog rock (though not the Syd days, I'll agree, and IMO not the current crap either) Current prog rockers not mentioned already: Nine Inch Nails (industrial prog rock) Sigur Ros Mum Radiohead (the more recent work, especially)
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11-05-2004, 04:53 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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Anything pre-1980 Rush :P
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Yes - Starship Trooper ELP - Hoedown! :P Not enough hard-drive space to get my prog rock collection back to form... =(
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11-06-2004, 04:48 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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Peter Gabriel is my favorite right now (both solo and with Genesis).
Also love Bowie (all eras, I would consider Outside to be a prog album). Fripp, what can you say. Saw King Crimson a couple of year ago and Fripp just blew me away. Hard to see though, he kind of sits in the dark during the stage show with the glow from his rack of Quadroverbs lighting up his face. Alot of the modern prog rock groups I don't care for, though. And if I listened to exclusively prog, I'd probably go insane. I love funk and soul and well.
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11-07-2004, 06:56 PM | #25 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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Oh my, it's nice to see this thread to be alive again.
I gotta mention The Who. While not exactly prog, but when you listen to albums like 'Who's Next', 'Quadrophenia', & 'Tommy' it's all prog to me. Queen is another band I have to make a nod to, just a british counterpart of Styx. I recently bought a Kansas collection: Sail On. I love it and the DVD was worth the price of admission. I forgot how much I love their first album and of course, Leftoverture.
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11-10-2004, 10:18 AM | #27 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: Tacoma, WA, USA, Earth
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My basic list looks a lot like the one Vermin posted, and lots of things posted ny other people - I shall forever be stuck in the 70s for good prog rock (high school days for me).
Not mentioned yet, unless I somehow overlooked it - UK, the self-titled album. Some of the same musicians that sometimes played with Yes and King Crimson and bands of that ilk during the Golden Age of prog rock, so worth tracking down if you like that kind of thing. |
11-10-2004, 10:26 AM | #28 (permalink) |
Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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I dl'ed and checked out some stuff by Porcupine Tree and Spock's Beard last night. Spock's Beard is frickin' awesome. Kind of Yes meets Rush. I can enjoy that. Porcupine Tree I didn't like quite so much, but perhaps that's because I dl'ed 4 slowish songs and one good, rockin' tune. (Fear of Darkness, I think.) Kind of like hearing just the second side of Discipline or the second disc of Joe's Garage. I'm definitely going to check these guys out some more, and I will certainly hit musicplasma.com and see what kind of constellations they show up in.
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