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Points: 66588 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 20:09
^ Have you tried Anglagard's website?  They have 3 songs that are available for download.  Unfortunately, those are the only 3 that I have heard so far.

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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 20:50
Originally posted by Walker Walker wrote:

Can't possibly pick 3........ how about a whole genre? ........ RPI......... Clap


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for me...  Prog Andaluz.  Give full credit to Erik for that.  Had no clue about that scene before his Spanish prog appreciation  thread.
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Points: 10679 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 20:57
Ozric Tentacles
Maserati
Exmagma
Help the victims of the russian invasion:
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 20:57
If we're picking genres, Canterbury, no question about it.  It went from something I had never even heard of to my favorite genre in a few months - I'm more excited about music now than I ever have been in my life.

Best non-Canterbury find on the site is IZZ.
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Points: 1697 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 20:59
I owe a lot to this website. I came on here having only heard dream theater a long while back, right around the time they released Train of Thought, and have discovered HUNDREDS of bands. the three i probably would never have found out about are

Maudlin of the Well
Devin Townsend
Godspeed you! Black Emperor.

These are among my favorite ever and I owe a lot of it to PA
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 21:10
Here's my big three:
 
Van der Graaf Generator
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Battles
 
 
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Points: 11682 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 21:55
Gentle Giant
Van der Graaf Generator
Peter Gabriel (solo)
All three are very high in my top artists and I did not listen to them before my stint on PA (except for the song Sledgehammer, you can thank VH1's top 100 videos of all time for that one.)
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Points: 8191 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 21:59
The whole Math Rock/Post Rock style was completely foreign to me before I started coming on this site, and look where I am now, a collab on the Math Rock team. The genre is probably the style that I most enjoy now and I owe it all to PA and the members on here with their knowledge and recommendations. Not to mention the countless other bands I've gotten into on this website, but we'd be here all day.
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 22:08
Man, this is really hard, since this site has been so helpful in the development of my musical taste in the past three years.

I can't name three artists, but I can name four: (In no particular order)
1. King Crimson
2. Magma
3. Ozric Tentacles
4. Frank Zappa

Along with Rush, those are my top five. Big%20smileClap
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Points: 840 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 22:31
Prog Archives has been a major source of music for me in the past three years (I've been a member for one of those years).  I can't say that all of my music has been from here, but a good amount of it was either found here or mentioned to me by other members. 

Without PA, I wouldn't have known about:
Porcupine Tree // everything by Steve Wilson
Opeth
Camel
Explosions in the Sky
and basically my entire record collection and at least 70% of my CDs.

(I feel like I need to mention more: MO, FZ, OT, PoS, PF, ELP, PFM, RPI in general, GYBE!, etc etc)

(I also discovered my favorite non-prog genre here by recommendations of members: Minimalism)
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Points: 3596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2008 at 23:03
Originally posted by keiser willhelm keiser willhelm wrote:

I owe a lot to this website. I came on here having only heard dream theater a long while back, right around the time they released Train of Thought, and have discovered HUNDREDS of bands. the three i probably would never have found out about are

Maudlin of the Well
Devin Townsend
Godspeed you! Black Emperor.

These are among my favorite ever and I owe a lot of it to PA

I forgot about Devin. Mind you , I was out searching for the perfect cup of coffee. Black. And I was given just five minutes. Without the threat of total annihilation, though Wink
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Points: 1319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 01:24
Before PA I had only heard The Mars Volta, Tool, and a few songs by King Crimson... I owe this place BIG

My 3 top non-KC artists are Univers Zero, Gentle Giant and Magma, so I guess those would be my best discoveries
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Points: 748 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 02:39
Partially VDGG, but totally Caravan and Canterbury genre as a whole. I heard some positive recommendations before my PA era, tried Caravan and it was really good shot - especially for Camel fan.
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Points: 7113 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 02:47
Uh, can't think of a single band that I got into from the PA directly...
 
...HOWEVER, the archives have become influential in bands that I've heard of and need further investigation, for example:
 
The Mars Volta
The Decemberists
Iron Maiden
The Doors
 
Bands that I had considered getting into before hand but never quite got around to, until I checked 'em out further on the site (well, 'cept for the Doors. Took a gamble on finding 'em here after listening to Morrison Hotel).
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PFM
Van Der Graaf
Il Balleto Di Bronzo
Le Orme
Caravan
Soft Machine
Dr. Z
Tomorrow
and other stuff like that.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 03:58
I started a thread about this a while back.   Back then, it was Le Orme that I chose.  I've changed my mind.
 
1.  New Trolls
2.  Le Orme
3.  Magma
4.  Caravan


Edited by ghost_of_morphy - April 11 2008 at 04:01
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 17:50
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Walker Walker wrote:

Can't possibly pick 3........ how about a whole genre? ........ RPI......... Clap


Thumbs%20Up

for me...  Prog Andaluz.  Give full credit to Erik for that.  Had no clue about that scene before his Spanish prog appreciation  thread.
 
ClapClapClap
 
Add also the yugoslavian prog scene:
 
albums as Modra Rijeka (by Indexi), Leb i Sol 2, Tako's and Korni Grupa's debut and Bijelo Dugme's Bitanga i Princeza are really wonderful and hidden gems!!
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 17:51
Good calls BroSpence and Ghost of Morphy!!Thumbs%20Up
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 18:01
My favourite finds thanks to PA have recently been cemented thus:

Art Bears: love
Picchio dal Pozzo: love
John Greaves: love

I vaguely knew King Crimson et al before I visited the site, and I also knew about the hopelessly obscure japanese bands because, you know, I become a compulsive japanophile once every so often.
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