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Sneer 11-02-2011 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg (Post 1109410)
Alright all, I need some help.

My little brother has recently discovered a love of progressive rock and has been listening to almost nonstop Yes and Rush. I like the bands, but my gosh I am sick of hearing them and hear my brother rave about the bass tone and my gosh listen to the guitar distortion on this part and I love Geddy Lee's voice here and etc etc etc.

Anyway!

I need some more prog rock bands! Lots more! Maybe with styles similar to Yes and Rush, maybe not... I'll suggest anything to him.

Also, jazz influences are welcome and would be well received, since he is basically a jazz musician who plays rock... hence, enjoying prog. So yeah.

Thanks ahead of time.

The likes of Soft Machine, Magma, Can, Matching Mole, Gong and National Health should appeal to him.

Also, more free-form improv stuff like AMM?

CJColt45 11-02-2011 03:08 PM

agreed definitely!

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 11-02-2011 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu (Post 1115490)
The likes of Soft Machine, Magma, Can, Matching Mole, Gong and National Health should appeal to him.

Also, more free-form improv stuff like AMM?

Firstly, That list gives me a massive erection.

Secondly, I'd start with Can, and Ege Bamyasi. Firstly, like Yes, and Rush it's really accessible. But it's much more variant, and easy-going than both. Plus, it might introduce him to Soft Machine's Second, and Third. Second is quite wonderful, surprisingly poppy, beautiful piano centered rock music, and Third is a fantastic example of excellent Jazz fusion.

If he can get into that, then I'd bring in Magma which may be some of the most dense, and overpowering music ever written by human(and kobaian) hands. Maybe introduce him to 1001 centigrades, which has a 28 minute opening track that throws everything, and the kitchen sink out. Ideal for any fan of prog.

Thirdly, AMM will probably get on your nerves more, but is amazing.

Starry-Eyed 02-14-2012 10:07 AM

Psychedelic Rock Recommendations
 
Hi!
I really like Kate Bush, does anyone have recommendations of artists that sound like her? Thanks!

Howard the Duck 02-14-2012 07:28 PM

^^Tori Amos?

cLoCkWeRk 02-14-2012 08:00 PM

Anything by Pink Floyd and drug era Beatles.

Starry-Eyed 02-15-2012 09:49 AM

Cool! Thanks, Ill try those! :)

Peter Holland 02-27-2012 11:42 PM

Cinder Cone
 
im loving Cinder Cone right now...they are a LA based band, who recently played a show with a band i dig called LIGHTSYSTEM...def worth checking out!

Peter Holland 02-27-2012 11:43 PM

oh yes, annnnndddd.....Junius record, "Tales From The Threshold Of Death"...record of the month for sure!!!

silverwick 04-04-2012 04:24 AM

Chimp Spanner
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Lone Misfit (Post 924117)
Hey guys, I'm not exatly sure about this genre, but will like to learn more, anyone recommend some bands to get me started?

Give Chimp Spanner a try, I think your reaction will be extreme, one way or the other.

cLoCkWeRk 04-04-2012 06:54 AM

Gentle Giant

King Crimson

Mars Volta

Gong

Ozric Tentacles

Pink Floyd

Rush

Tool

Primus

Porcupine Tree

Can

MAGMA

Opeth

Henry Cow

The Soft Machine

Frank Zappa

The Moody Blues

Jethro Tull

Kraftwerk

Brian Eno

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Howard the Duck 04-04-2012 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by cLoCkWeRk (Post 1173903)
Gentle Giant

King Crimson

Mars Volta

Gong

Ozric Tentacles

Pink Floyd

Rush

Tool

Primus

Porcupine Tree

Can

MAGMA

Opeth

Henry Cow

The Soft Machine

Frank Zappa

The Moody Blues

Jethro Tull

Kraftwerk

Brian Eno

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

nearly everybody have heard of and heard them

can you recommend something more specific and relatively unknown?

Unknown Soldier 04-04-2012 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Howard the Duck (Post 1173910)
nearly everybody have heard of and heard them

can you recommend something more specific and relatively unknown?

He does live in the North Carolina mountains.;)

danoflow 04-04-2012 11:41 AM

Eidetic Seeing

Key 04-04-2012 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Howard the Duck (Post 1173910)
nearly everybody have heard of and heard them

can you recommend something more specific and relatively unknown?

Instead of knocking his recommendation, keep in mind that there are still a lot of people that have never dove into prog before and when they find an amazing band, they like to recommend it to other people. Whether or not people have heard of them doesn't really matter.

Unknown Soldier 04-04-2012 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by milano (Post 1174004)
Instead of knocking his recommendation, keep in mind that there are still a lot of people that have never dove into prog before and when they find an amazing band, they like to recommend it to other people. Whether or not people have heard of them doesn't really matter.

Like Asia for example.

Key 04-04-2012 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1174025)
Like Asia for example.

Well yeah. Though I know now that they aren't a prog band. However it's very easy to be mislead.

cledussnow 05-10-2012 12:34 PM

Every Inch A Man by a band named Zior. Released in 1972, it was their 2nd album, and is quite a unique blend of psych, heavy guitar riffs, and organ mostly. Biggest weakness is the vocalist, I can tolerate more than most so enter at your own risk. Not terrible, but certainly the weakest aspect.

Justthefacts 05-15-2012 05:22 PM

The Flaming Lips. Wonderful psychedelic band

sjk7xn 05-17-2012 12:34 PM

MoeTar, X-ray Press and Clouds on Strings. These groups have more of a jazzy prog sound i guess you could call it. Anything similar would be greatly appreciated.

Joe the Shmo 06-15-2012 02:57 PM

Audiobakery.

They're new, and I can't stop listening to them.

Rjinn 06-27-2012 07:42 PM

Yea I'd really like to expand on prog, mostly prog metal. I've heard most of the oldies King Crimson, yes, rush which are ok, but not to my liking besides from Pink Floyd and Crimson. I'd like more recent stuff since it's very limited to Dream Theater,
Tool, Porcupine Tree, Rishloo, heard a bit of Chimera and Opeth, and PoS (though don't like them) and ASHES dIVINE... don't know if they are really prog.

Anything would be appreciated.

Trollheart 07-03-2012 01:01 PM

Some of my favourites:
SHADOW GALLERY


KAMELOT


THRESHOLD


ADAGIO


SILENT EDGE

Jarvig 07-03-2012 01:54 PM

OK, lets have some good stuff from prog after 2000. Im in to melodic classic rock with a prog twist. So these songs (/bands) I list is prog but with a good flavour of rock.

Airbag
Norwegian band who play melodic rock with a lot gilmourish guitar. The lead guitarist have the page gilmourish.com - maybe the most respected page about Gilmours gear, sound and style.


Riverside
I like to say Riverside is Pink Floyd meet Porcupine Tree meet Dream Theater meet Tool. Riverside is from Polen and makes advanced spay prog with some metal in it. Really good stuff. This is a rare instrumental, but damn good.


Devin Townsend
Hard (metal) experimental prog. Very, very good. The album Terria is a masterpiece. No matter if you like rock, metal or prog this is a super album. The song I've chosen is the most "mainstream" on the album but very good.


Porcupine Tree
I my opinion the best band the last 15 years. They take everything (pop, rock, metal, prog, alt rock, indie, electronica, krautrock, ambient and psychedelic) in to the their music blender and make crazy good music. We take a modern classic from them Anesthetize (live)


Erik Norlander
I don't like much of his music (way too much synths without a meaning). But this single song (instrumental) is pure heaven. Very good ambient song. And about 4 minuts into the song the is a long guitar solo that even Gilmour would say was very, very good.


Antimatter
Almost an Anathema spin of. They album Leaving Eden is very good and much like mid Anathema albums. This song is almost like REM meets Anathema. Another great solo in this one.


Astra
Put early Pink Floyd with Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbat, Hendrix and early Genesis and make modern music and you have Astra. They have made two very strong albums.


Kingston Wall
A Finland based band. Make old style psychedelic classic rock with some prog and with an almost arabic music feel to it. Strange but so good. I love, love this tune and most songs from them are like that.


Pineapple Thief
I like to say that they a light version of Porcupine Tree with a lot of Radiohead in it. This epic is great. Really like the guitar from about 10 minuts in it and forward.


Oceansize
Spacy, psychedelic prog with some elements og King Crimson in it. Music at the highest order and music you have to concentrete to if you want to enjoy all of it.


Comets of Fire
Stoner, psychedelic space noise prog. Love it all. But the song I most of all enjoy is a strange ballad that almost is something John Lennon could have made (melody and vocal - not the music). Love it. So strange and hunting.


Pendragon
Old classic neo-prog band. But their newer albums have a harder and more modern sound to them. And I like that. This one is hard rocking. Not a long epic prog song. But still its very very good - and I like the lyrics.

Rjinn 07-03-2012 03:44 PM

Oh yea love Devin Townsend. I'll check out the others, especially Riverside.

Thanks, appreciate it.

[edit] Okay so I gave Riverside a listen, dug it. Any album recs?

neBze 12-04-2012 06:20 PM

Cool Bands?
 
Hey,

I'm a little bit younger and have just recently stumbled upon this one band King Crimson. I saw their album The Court of The Crimson King and I thought the cover looked cool so I bought it. When I went back home and started to listen to it over and over again. I had never heard anything like it. I decided to buy their other album Discipline. Now that I know that there is music like this out there I crave more. Due to the fact that I'm younger though, none of my friends have ever even heard of King Crimson. So, I've decided to make this thread in hopes that someone could lead me to some King Crimson like music.

If anyone knows about a band I might dig please respond

(I also like Pink Floyd and Blondie)

Kelli 12-04-2012 06:36 PM

Maybe try Rush, Yes, Jethro Tull, or the Moody Blues? I'm not an expert on King Crimson by any means but those four are all well-known progressive rock bands that would fit in a similar category (I know Rush cites them as an influence) and that have good music. The first prog rock band that came to mind would've been Pink Floyd but you already mentioned them.

Hope I was (somewhat) helpful! ^^

jackhammer 12-04-2012 06:59 PM






Prog isn't really a tag I would give to these bands. Thoughtful Rock maybe!

PoorOldPo 12-07-2012 05:42 PM


Pond - Allergies - YouTube

PoorOldPo 12-07-2012 05:43 PM


Pond - Sorry I Was Under The Sky - YouTube

POND - Moth Wings - YouTube

O Emperor - Electric Tongues - YouTube

Goofle 12-07-2012 07:25 PM



Really like this song/album.

PoorOldPo 12-07-2012 07:29 PM


Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! [FULL ALBUM] - YouTube

Feral 12-17-2012 11:22 AM

Black Lab anyone?
 
Recently, Black Lab released its fourth proper album (although others have been made)Two Strangers, featuring twelve new songs that swing from vulnerability to devotion, from cold-wave desperation to indie-pop celebration to post-grunge thrust. Black Lab's music continues to find its place on TV (FX's "Dirt," ABC's "Private Practice," "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?"), film (Happy Tears), trailers (He's Just Not That Into You, Waiting for Forever), and commercials (Honda, McDonalds). This album is great, replay, replay.....

wiggums 12-24-2012 09:00 PM

Looking into Os Mutantes, anyone know where I should start?

pandino 02-26-2013 05:36 PM



Retrospective is young polish prog/art rock band with many influences such as King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Marillion, Van der Graaf Generator, Can, IQ, Pendragon, Arena, Camel, Porcupine Tree and many many more. They released two LPs and one EP. Their last record is "Lost In Perception" (chosen by readers as best polish album on rockarea.pl and progrock.org.pl). This track is first single from that album. ENJOY, share and comment :)

dusthead 03-18-2013 12:51 PM

Mother Dust
 
"outrageous bloody guitar freak-outs by modern day krautrockers"

Free download of "Volume 2" album available @ Bandcamp!!

motherdust.bandcamp.com

jono 03-22-2013 09:06 AM

The Glass Moths
 
Great Neo Psychedlic stoner rock from a little town called Middlesbrough, England. CHECK THEM OUT!!! You can find them on facebook or youtube

infredshouse 03-22-2013 10:22 AM

Saw Caravan live last year! Epic!

Paul Smeenus 03-28-2013 12:29 AM


Frownland 03-28-2013 12:39 AM

Are there any avant-prog albums that anyone here is a fan of? I quite like Etron Fou Leloublan, Aksak Maboul, miRthkon, Henry Cow, Doctor Nerve, and Samla Mammas Manna. Any recommendations?


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