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Seventh Arrow posted:Their most recent album, Fly From Here, was not bad - it's kind of...different. It doesn't really sound like a Yes album to my ears. The style is more like, I don't know, Marillion or Big Big Train. The songs are ok, it's just not what one would expect from a Yes album. Definitely check out their 1980 album Drama if you haven't already. Fly from Here feels like the spiritual sequel to Drama as most of the Fly from Here suite and Life on a Film Set are material that that lineup had in the works before it dissolved. (Also Drama is excellent. Not as good as peak '70s Yes, but better than anything they did afterward, and Tempus Fugit kicks rear end like few other Yes tracks do.)
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Chocobo posted:I'm not a fan of the whole sung dialog form that the songs take
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Misogynist posted:"Opera" Yeah, I suppose that. I've never listened to "real" opera, so I couldn't say. Most of what I've heard of other "operatic" prog (like a lot of Ayreon's other stuff) seems to put more emphasis on the music instead of the dialog and narration. Chocobo fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Nov 10, 2013 |
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I'm not convinced that Wetton knew the words to Doctor Diamond.
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a_big_dog posted:I'm not convinced that Wetton knew the words to Doctor Diamond. The first time I heard it I was convinced someone hit Wetton in the temple and was going into shock.
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I've been a prog fan for at least ten years, listened to pretty much ever sub-genre I could find, and I'd have to say some of my favorite is Italian prog, particularly Museo Rosenbach and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. This is Museo Rosenbach's only album, Zarathustra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZZwrc-BNM The whole album is amazing, but if you don't want to hear the whole thing I'd highly recommend skipping to 24:51 to the track Della natura, which is my personal favorite of the bunch. Also, check out Banco del Mutuo Soccorso's album Darwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOp6hYB0P6I
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I think my favorite sort of Italian Prog band is prob Quella Vecchia Locanda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYvLxWLoRwU Or probably Cherry Five/Goblin
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Smoremaster posted:This is Museo Rosenbach's only album, Zarathustra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZZwrc-BNM This is so cool. I've never really listened to any Italian prog, but this page has convinced me that I desperately need to.
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:This is so cool. I've never really listened to any Italian prog, but this page has convinced me that I desperately need to. Premiata Forneria Marconi is fairly good too. Time for me to get some Museo Rosenbach, though. Also, I'm really starting to dig Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste.
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As far as Italian bands go I've only heard Le Orme (Felona E Sorona), but they were pretty good.
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Re: Italian bands, I really like DFA, especially "4th". Definitely have a listen if you're at all interested, the Bandcamp site for it allows you to stream the album for free before buying it: http://moonjunerecords.bandcamp.com/album/4th.
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The new Sky Architect album dropped a couple of weeks ago and it's my tentative contender for album of the year. Here's a shorter song (much shorter than the 18-minute opening track) that they made a video for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3WCJabGRoE This song has a pile of Storm Corrosion and Heritage-era Opeth influences on top of their normal sound, and a video obviously influenced by Lasse Hoile's work with Porcupine Tree, but the album as a whole runs the gamut from space rock and heavy prog through some more eclectic stuff that's reminiscient of VdGG and King Crimson. It's on Spotify for anyone interested to hear the whole thing.
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I got my copy of the Steven Wilson remaster of Close to the Edge today. Sounds loving incredible, and I can't wait to check out the 5.1 version. Hot drat! Hearing stuff I've never noticed before in this album, and I've listened to it countless times over the years on multiple formats. Amazing work. He clearly put a lot of love into this. The version of America on here is outstanding. It's all outstanding, honestly. Best this album has ever sounded. e: vvv Holy poo poo. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Steven Wilson on the perils of neglecting footwear:quote:WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT'S HAPPENED TO YOU ONSTAGE? 
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:I got my copy of the Steven Wilson remaster of Close to the Edge today. Sounds loving incredible, and I can't wait to check out the 5.1 version. Hot drat! Did you order from Burning Shed? What comes with the cd/blu ray? Is it the original mix remastered plus the SW remix, or the SW remix on disc and blu?
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I believe it's just the SW remix.
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Misogynist posted:The new Sky Architect album dropped a couple of weeks ago and it's my tentative contender for album of the year. Here's a shorter song (much shorter than the 18-minute opening track) that they made a video for: I'm playing this album on my radio show now. Kicks rear end! http://www.wusb.fm Epoch is the name of the show.
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Smoremaster posted:This is Museo Rosenbach's only album, Zarathustra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZZwrc-BNM This is awesome. I immediately recognized the vocalist from Il Tempio delle Clessidre's self titled, which is pretty much the only Italian prog rock album I am really familiar with.
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So my friend just dropped close to $1,500 on a brand new surround system.(wannabe audiophile) In an effort to show him just how good music can sound when properly produced, I got him to listen to the 5.1 24 bit 96 khz version of The Raven That Refused to Sing. This is his response when I asked him if he'd listened to it yet: "Yeah its ok.... personally think dave mathews band sounds better"  What? I didn't expect him to really get into the music so much but where the gently caress do comments like that come from? Makes me sad...why don't more people like prog 
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There is nothing to be done for people like that.
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There's a perception that prog is pretentious and for nerds, and...well, it is. But it's still the superior form of rock music (along with fusion)  I lived in a rural area when I was in high school and when people wanted to avoid the boring bus ride, I would give them a lift. The catch was that instead of the goofy music they wanted to listen to, they had to be subjected to Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rush, King Crimson, etc. I think they couldn't wait to get out of that car.
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Seventh Arrow posted:I lived in a rural area when I was in high school and when people wanted to avoid the boring bus ride, I would give them a lift. The catch was that instead of the goofy music they wanted to listen to, they had to be subjected to Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rush, King Crimson, etc. I think they couldn't wait to get out of that car. This sounds pretty terrible, and it's exactly how I was in high school. Making girls listen to prog is pretty awkward.
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Iucounu posted:This sounds pretty terrible, and it's exactly how I was in high school. Making girls listen to prog is pretty awkward. If my girlfriend knew just how much I've listened to my Fripp & Eno Live in 1975 recording since I bought it she would probably break up with me
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Noise Machine posted:If my girlfriend knew just how much I've listened to my Fripp & Eno Live in 1975 recording since I bought it she would probably break up with me I got my girlfriend really into prog, to the point where she's constantly asking me to play Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, and assorted Italian prog. My 7 and 8 year old kids enjoy it too, they listen to Brian Eno's Music for Airports almost every night to go to sleep, if you can consider that album to be prog.
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Iucounu posted:This sounds pretty terrible, and it's exactly how I was in high school. Making girls listen to prog is pretty awkward. The alternative was me listening to C + C Music Factory or Maestro Fresh Wes, which pretty much was never going to happen.
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Girl prog fans are pretty much unicorns, although the modern bands have a little better luck attracting the ladies. I've been to Yes shows where there were pretty much no women except the obligatory old hippy lady that stands and sways when everyone else is seated.
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It might be somewhat different here in Canada, since Rush is kinda-sorta our official musical mascot. Oddly enough, I remember back then overhearing some girls talking and one of them said how much she liked Joe Satriani's "Surfing With The Alien" (yes, I'm that old). Satriani isn't prog, but he's not usually on the radar of teenage girls listening habits, either. Although I readily admit that Zappa is pretty much only for weirdos like me.
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Zappa is old man music but there have been way more girls at the last couple of rush shows I've been to than the ones in the 90s. And not just dads dragging their unimpressed daughters, either. Maybe guitar hero/rock band has something to do with it?
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The fact that very few prog bands actually have women in them is likely a big part of the problem. Outside of Renaissance I have real trouble naming any prog band with a woman in it. Hopefully it's slowly turning.
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JAMOOOL posted:The fact that very few prog bands actually have women in them is likely a big part of the problem. Outside of Renaissance I have real trouble naming any prog band with a woman in it. Hopefully it's slowly turning. What a coincidence, I was actually trying to remember the name of an old prog band I used to listen to, and indeed it is Renaissance. Accidental thanks!
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JAMOOOL posted:The fact that very few prog bands actually have women in them is likely a big part of the problem. Outside of Renaissance I have real trouble naming any prog band with a woman in it. Hopefully it's slowly turning. Women in rock bands in general are sort of a rare commodity, women who shred even moreso. Adrian Belew's bass player is pretty sick though. Something Slick? I forget her first name. But there are all-male rock bands (not even getting into pop) that draw a huge female fan base. Prog rock is just some totally uncool stuff. Although I think it's way more mainstream than it used to be. Edit: and although I probably wouldn't call her prog, per se, my first introduction to Kaki King was opening for Tony Levin Group, and I think she got her start playing Chapman stick for Blue Man Group. What's more prog than a chapman stick? BigFactory fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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BigFactory posted:What's more prog than a chapman stick? Capes
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Kate Bush was my gateway drug for my ex. Prog, but real poppy.
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There's an Eloy review somewhere on RateYourMusic that calls them "vagina repellent" and it seems incredibly accurate.
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BigFactory posted:Women in rock bands in general are sort of a rare commodity, women who shred even moreso. Adrian Belew's bass player is pretty sick though. Something Slick? I forget her first name. 
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JAMOOOL posted:The fact that very few prog bands actually have women in them is likely a big part of the problem. Outside of Renaissance I have real trouble naming any prog band with a woman in it. Hopefully it's slowly turning. For old school prog: Curved Air, Pentangle, Trees, Art Bears, and Amon Duul II (if you count Krautrock). Actually these days there are tons of folk/prog/metal bands out there with female singers that look like Nordic fashion models. Pick up any issue of Prog magazine and they always cover these British or Scandinavian bands coming out. Mostly Autumn, Nightwish, Magenta, Kaipa, Blackmore’s Night, Touchstone...the problem is I like the old school bands, but like male dominated neo-prog bands, I just can't get into them. Something cold about it, and none of the songs are catchy.
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There were a fair amount of RIO/Canturbury bands that had women but that's mostly cause Lindsay Cooper or Dagmar Krause was in every one. Also a lot of Zeuhl bands.
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When thinking of women in prog rock, the first thing that comes to mind besides Renaissance is Art Bears. Very strange band.
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A few female artists that have some prog leanings or prog relations: Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Sandy Denny, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Sally Oldfield, Bjork, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono (say what you will about her but she's definitely art rock) Also, what about bands like evanescence or within temptation? Kind of a modern symphonic prog with female singing leads. I thought this song was by renaissance when I first heard it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn49NpOgfnI Gianthogweed fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Gianthogweed posted:Also, what about bands like evanescence  No, really. Also either you're deaf or trolling, you could not have possibly thought that that sounded anything like Renaissance, come on.
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