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someone_else
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 05:30 |
Any band can do wrong for me, but Pink Floyd comes closest. I don't think that they did anything really wrong in their entire discography, which doesn't mean that I would give all their albums a 5-star rating - I think only four or five of them.
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friso
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 04:48 |
There's only one band for me who reached that reputation. IRON MAIDEN. I've liked all their studio albums and official live recordings since I was eleven years old. I don't listen to the last two studioalbums, but that's because of the fact I don't own a vinyl version and I think I have enough material listening to the other 12 albums.
Furthermore classic Deavid Allen's Gong is always very nice and I love everything made by Dutch cabaratier Wim Sonneveld.
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fuxi
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 03:27 |
Sorry - I update the post above: Caravan, not Camel.
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fuxi
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 03:25 |
Vibrationbaby wrote:
I can listen to the whole JT catologue sraight through ! Yes man, every single track .So I pose this solemn question : What' s the band that can do no wrong for you?
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Even though it may not seem "cool" to admit this to the outside world, I totally agree with you!
Yes, Genesis and a few others may have made more brilliant albums, but I play TULL more often than any other prog band - always with great pleasure, and this goes for most of their catalogue! (Although I've never bothered to buy some of their weaker albums, such as A, and I certainly don't intend to get the JT XMAS ALBUM.)
Other bands that can do no wrong: Caravan, the Hatfields, National Health.
In jazz: Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, Gary Burton, Dave Holland!
Edited by fuxi - December 05 2009 at 03:26
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valravennz
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 03:21 |
The T wrote:
There's no such a band for me. |
Ditto. As much as I tried to think of the perfect band discography, it just hasn't happened. I am hard to pressed to think of at least one band who has not produced a "dud" album amongst their repetoire. I noticed previous posters have said they like so and so up until... or not including... proves my point really!
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"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp
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Kim?
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 02:56 |
I've yet to hear a non-superb moment of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. And also Daniel O'Sullivan things - Mothlite, Guapo, Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses, Ęthenor, Grumbling Fur - he certainly has the Midas touch.
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Jake Kobrin
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 02:07 |
Ulver...
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ko
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 01:13 |
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apps79
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 01:13 |
i think if FISH never left MARILLION or GENESIS continued on their 70's direction,these would be the bands for me...
now,my option would be a couple of art/prog metal bands like SYMPHONY X and SHADOW GALLERY...
i love their sound and not a single release by them dissapointed me...Excellent and imaginative stuff from their very first album!
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questionsneverknown
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 01:11 |
Keeping this in the spirit of how the OP put it, I'm going to say The Residents, for me. The OP talks about being such a devout Tull fan that he loves the material that he knows he probably shouldn't. This will go for me with the Rez. As possessor of all 80 plus recordings, I can earnestly say I'm there for it all. Even albums like Bad Day on the Midway, which is my least favorite, I will listen to and see what's good about it, feel a good sense of what they were trying to do. I know how much this sets off alarms of blind, dogmatic fanboyism. I prefer to think of it as being humbled before musicians who have transformed my engagement with the world of sound enough for me to trust that they'll continue to push me. Or, perhaps this just indicates that I've joined a cult.
Frank Zappa would be another close contender, but I don't know some of the late 1980s/early 1990s works, where it feels like it all gets a more iffy, which would be an instant disqualifier.
Outside of prog, I might say Robyn Hitchcock (hey, I'm putting myself on the line here listing three musicians with a huge catalog of music, no tiny discographies here), and, less questionably, XTC.
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The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love
The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough.
--Robyn Hitchcock
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Cygnus X-3
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 00:49 |
For me it would have to be Genesis from Tresspass to their self titled and not much after that. Also, King Crimson from '69-'74 and '95-now.
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progkidjoel
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 00:38 |
Maudlin Of The Well, Porcupine Tree, Peter Gabriel, Sigur Ros and The Waterboys still haven't had a truly dull moment for me.
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ProgShine
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 00:33 |
For me is definitely QUEEN, even the 'worst' albums I like, listen, sing along etc
Even 'Hot Space' their 'worst album ever'.
My favorite band, and the closer thing to my 'fan side'
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https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com
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Asphalt
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Posted: December 05 2009 at 00:13 |
I can think of at least four:
King Crimson (some stuff is better than other, but there isn't one album that I don't find at the very least interesting and enjoyable)
Mastodon (so far so good; they've yet to disappoint)
Opeth (took me a while to get into Ghost Reveries, but now it's all good)
Pain of Salvation (yes, I have listened to Scarsick... numerous times actually; I don't get the hate for that album)
And probably a handful more that in my view have successfully experimented with music on each and every album up until now (and thus give me no reason they could go wrong in the future).
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Evolutionary Sleeper
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Posted: December 04 2009 at 23:59 |
Magma is the closest for me... If it weren't for Merci.
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Fio
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Posted: December 04 2009 at 23:47 |
Opeth!
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Tubthumper
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Posted: December 04 2009 at 23:43 |
Well, since I'm not the kind of proghead who's only listening to prog, my "no-fail" bands belong more to the pop/rock universe (that's where I began my musical journey).
dada (and all things related...)
Chumbawamba
The Smithereens
Megadeth (Yeah, I'm a fan of this thing called Risk.)
Blackfield
Echolyn
Sloche
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Tried to make your face from a broken Ferris wheel.
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jammun
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Posted: December 04 2009 at 23:07 |
No wrong? None of those left...never were.
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: December 04 2009 at 23:00 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
I think some of you are missing the point, if you think some of their albums or even some parts of their albums are just OK then they're not eligible. So I'm surprised to see so many people saying TMV and PT. Do you guys really think that the 4 minute intro to L'Via and Voyage 34 are good?
I've never heard John Coltrane or Fred Frith do anything bad, but I have trouble believing that they never had a bad improvising night, so I guess they don't actually count. I'm not much into unconditional love anymore, and I don't think bands that only have 4 releases should count. I really like all 3 of Aranis' albums, but that doesn't mean I declare my unconditional love for them. |
Seconded (unconditionally) Turning the thread title on its head for the sake of stimulating discussion, as Henry states, surely it implies that we are hopelessly prejudiced towards our true prog love(s) ? - apart from those 'one night stands' with artists with tiny discographies. (Pronounce that carefully please)
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Atavachron
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Posted: December 04 2009 at 22:23 |
Planet X
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