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Old 04-21-2009, 07:18 AM   #11 (permalink)
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The first five Magnum albums are killer and twelth Night pipped Marillion to the post with their genesis like sound. Pure Reason Revolution have a very small discography but I feel that they should scrape into the 100. I have heard one album each by Spocks Beard and Coheed & Cambria and I thought they were atrocious but that's just my opinion. Spookily I'm listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra and was before I was on this thread

A few more bands (prog metal) with a few albums to their name and decent ones too:

Sieges Even
Lake Of Tears
Tomorrow's Eve

I recommend them all.
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Old 04-21-2009, 07:21 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I really don't like Marillion at all.

But for whatever reason, their popularity among prog fans is freaking huge, and they've influenced a lot of bands, bands that I wouldn't listen to if forced at gun point, but eh, influence is influence.
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Old 04-21-2009, 07:26 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I really don't like Marillion at all.

But for whatever reason, their popularity among prog fans is freaking huge, and they've influenced a lot of bands, bands that I wouldn't listen to if forced at gun point, but eh, influence is influence.
I love Fish era Marillion but then I grew up with them so that has a bearing. I am still trying to get hold of Twelfth Night's 'Fact and Fiction' album. I cannot find that SOAB anywhere.
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I am still trying to get hold of Twelfth Night's 'Fact and Fiction' album. I cannot find that SOAB anywhere.
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Old 04-21-2009, 07:38 AM   #15 (permalink)
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hm, very exhaustive list which I mostly agree with, kudos for having the Moodies up there and the honourable mention for Super Furry Animals, they have become something like a modern ELO

One choice that confuses me though is Brian Eno, I don't think he'd have considered himself part of' progressive rock', although I see where you're coming from and he belongs in a list of the greatest pretentious 70's blokes!
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Brian Eno and his early landmark albums like Warm Jets and Another Green World are certainly prog IMO. But he turned the genre inside out to create something new.

Roxy Music are prog in that they were anti-prog, they were musicians with progressive rock backgrounds, Ferry auditioned to be the singer for King Crimson and Fripp had a helping hand in getting Roxy Music signed to E.G. Records. Manzanera was in a band called Quiet Sun, a band from the canterbury prog scene. Keyboardist Eddie Jobson was in a prog band called Curved Air. And one of the original members of the band was the former guitarist for The Nice. So yeah, Roxy Music were very much rooted in the prog scene, they just didn't follow the rules that other prog bands did and thus they created their own interpretation of what progressive rock could be.

They may be more influencial to punk than prog, but while they were despised by prog fans back in the day, they now get their deserved credit.
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What a twat (me). I already have Fact and Fiction by Twelfth Night. It's the self titled from '86 I wanted and just found it
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Manzanera was in a band called Quiet Sun, a band from the canterbury prog scene.
Very informative post, Boo Boo

I can add a trivia nugget to what you wrote. Brian Eno also played keyboards on Quiet Sun's only album Mainstream from 1975!
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Very informative post, Boo Boo

I can add a trivia nugget to what you wrote. Brian Eno also played keyboards on Quiet Sun's only album Mainstream from 1975!
I have the Quiet Sun album if anyone needs it.
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what, Between the Buried and Me doesn't get a mention?
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