Prog Band you tried to get in to , but can't. - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Tapfret wrote:

This topic comes up every year or so. I will say the same thing I always say: if you are listening to a band/artist to "try to get into them", you are doing it wrong.

Not sure I agree with this statement. Some bands I like right away, for others it takes a little while to warm up to them.

Not exactly a whole band, but there's so much rave about Tales from Topographic Oceans that I indeed gave it a lot of spins... still nothing doing...

Magma

Dream Theater

Tool

Marillion

Pendragon

Porcupine Tree

Anathema

Gazpacho

Cosmograf

Jadis

Soft Machine

Fates Warning

Saga

The list could go on and on. We all hear music differently. But that's awesome!!!

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Maybe Dream Theater too, but I haven’t put enough effort with them yet. I remain hopeful that they may click with me one day.

Edited by HackettFan - October 17 2019 at 08:38

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Homotopy wrote:

Don't know if it's allowed to write such things here - but Yes. I find them rather annoying than pleasant.

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There are several, well renowned classic era bands that I have tried to appreciate, but can't, unfortunately

Can

Amon Duul 2

Faust

Neu!

90 percent of the time, when I listen to music, I give it my undivided attention, and don't multi-task in any way. I listen about half of my time to classical music, and the rest, progressive.

The above bands were ground-breaking, and justifiably important, but not my thing.

Most neo prog except for Soltice and Hogarth era Marillion. Also GG and VDGG from the classic prog days.

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The usual suspects I'm afraid: Tool, Dream Theater, Captain Beefheart, Matching Mole, Tangerine Dream, 'Pixieland' Gong, Wobbler, Phideaux, the Moody Blues, Rush, Hawkwind, Henry Cow, Floyd post Syd (the list goes on)

twosteves wrote:

there are a lot of them but VDGG is a widely popular one that is impossible for me to understand--the voice is horrible and love a good voice---plus it sounds like a satire of what a 70's prog band should sound like--by someone who hates prog bands. Tongue

another confession:--as much as I love Bill Bruford and how sublime his playing is---lots of KC I can't get into---I don't like neurotic sounding music as I'm neurotic enough LOL

VdGG and GG took me two decades to click, but they both did the early-to mid-90's for me.

Neurotic Crimson >> yeah, the 80's stuff and Ade Belew was the neurotic dude in there.

Anything Progmetal I can't get into (with Tool being the exception), but it's not like I gave most of them a fair chance.... all of it was so annoying that three minutes of "music" by any of them is a better than a vaccination campaign.

I did try a fair bit of those neo-prog bands in the 80/90's, but often it was whiny vocals that turned me of.

sukmytoe wrote:

Hogarth era Marillion - the voice is fine for a bit at a time but after a while it's like - Holy Hell, I wish he would stop sobbing his angst out. Hogarth cries, Rothery's guitar cries and after a while I feel like crying.

prime example of course.... and they influenced so many bands (such as Twin Age, etc...) with their whiny music that it was nauseating

Of course, Fish's Marillion was also very much influence-some, as there is a series of band that literaly cloned then (Aragon, Asgard , etc...)

Edited by Sean Trane - October 17 2019 at 02:24

Hogarth era Marillion - the voice is fine for a bit at a time but after a while it's like - Holy Hell, I wish he would stop sobbing his angst out. Hogarth cries, Rothery's guitar cries and after a while I feel like crying.