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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2008 at 18:07
King Crimson is on top, to me. Emerson Lake & Palmer comes in fairly close, but their arrangements tend not to assign a complicated part to each instrument at once, unlike King Crimson. i would say Yes, except for the fact the Wakeman and Howe are so sloppy, and Squire's line aren't really complex; they just sound like no other bassist you've ever heard.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2008 at 02:20
so many the bands/artsts and their great and complexity albums are already mentioned; i would mentioned some too:
TODD RUNDGREN ("Todd","Utopia" "Initiation","Ra"), FAMILY ("Family Entertainment", "Fearless", "Bandstand"), THE PENTAGLE ("Solomonīs Seal", "Sweet Child", "Basket Of Light"), TONTON MACOUTE (s/t), FAIRPORT CONVENTION ("What We Did At Our Holydays", "Unahalfabricking", "Babbacombe Lee", "Rising Of The Moon"), HAWKWIND ("In Search Of Space","Space Ritual Live", "Astounding Sound") BACK DOOR ("8th Street Blues", "Activate") JETHRO TULL ( "Aqualung", "Thick As A Brick", "A Passion Play", "Songs From The Wood", "Heavy Horses"), ITīS A BEAUTIFUL DAY (s/t, "Marrying Maiden", "Today", "Live At Carnegie Hall") DAVID LAFLAMME ("White Bird"), INCREDIBLE STRING BAND ("The Hangmanīs Beautiful Doughter")
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2008 at 15:10
Well what a tough subject, but for me the most obvious group that playing complex prog are Gentle Giant, but are more and more groups that playing complex prog, in fact prog is a complex form of music so you have to redifine your question.Smile




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2008 at 15:16
"Sound Chaser" by Yes is pretty insane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rIj6dt7uc&feature=related
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2008 at 15:26
Originally posted by Erpland316 Erpland316 wrote:

We can end this debate by all listening to Birds of Fire or Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra!






but I still think some of Yes's stuff is in the conversation.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2008 at 20:32
Classic Prog: 
 
Listen to Yes - Tales from Topographic, Relayer, Close to the Edge
 
VDGG - Pawn Hearts, H to He..., Real Life, The leastwecandois..... - all of them really
 
Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
 
Gentle Giant - Three Friends, Octopus
 
King Crimson - ITCOTCK, Lizard, Red
 
Genesis - Foxtrot (Suppers Ready), Nursery Cryme
 
ELP - BSSurgery, Pictures at an Exhibition, Tarkus
 
Neo-Prog:
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory, Awake, Images and Words, Octavarium
 
Spocks Beard - Octane
 
Marillion - Jesters Tear, Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood
 
Tool - Lateralus, Aenima, 10,000 Days
 
Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A
 
so many others 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2008 at 20:37
I don't have the slightest idea of which is the most complex Prog band, but I know probably I won't like them.
 
Complexity alone is annoying, I heard some bands hat are only screams and weird sounds mixed in a terrible cacophony, not for me.
 
But everybody has his/her own taste.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2008 at 21:02
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Classic Prog:

Listen to Yes - Tales from Topographic, Relayer, Close to the Edge


VDGG - Pawn Hearts, H to He..., Real Life, The leastwecandois..... - all of them really


Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination


Gentle Giant - Three Friends, Octopus


King Crimson - ITCOTCK, Lizard, Red


Genesis - Foxtrot (Suppers Ready), Nursery Cryme


ELP - BSSurgery, Pictures at an Exhibition, Tarkus


Neo-Prog:

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory, Awake, Images and Words, Octavarium


Spocks Beard - Octane


Marillion - Jesters Tear, Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood


Tool - Lateralus, Aenima, 10,000 Days


Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A


so many others



huh?

Most of those albums you listed, Marillion, Spock's Beard and some others, really can't be called complex at all, and much less in the Neo-Prog genre, they're not bad bands, I love Marillion, but complex?!? Come on!

We need Avant-Garde or Zeuhl for nice and complex music. Then you got, off what you listed, Relayer, Tales from Topographic Oceans, those are good choices.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2008 at 23:13
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2008 at 02:28
I agree, cacho, that a lot of Marillion is not entirely complex however they have the 19 minute epic Grendel that has an incredible multimovement suite in the style of early Genesis. Spock's Beard perhaps is not the most complex but once again their CDs Octane and The Light are full of interchanging time signatures and multi chord changes. I agree too that Topographic Oceans has to rank as one of the most complex CDs. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 12 2008 at 16:25
I do not know if I can name just one single most-complex band. Surely, these are good nominations

1. King Crimson
2. Area
3. Meshuggah
4. Return to Forever
5. Mahavishnu Orchestra
6. Planet X
7. Frank Zappa
8. Gentle Giant
9. Egg
10. Anglagard
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 12 2008 at 17:17
The most complex thing is that which is the most difficult for you to get into....
 
So maybe the most complex band is Sigur Ros.. for me it's quite easier to dominate quantum physics than understand what the hell that guy pretends to do...Tongue
 
As for "complexity", I rather have good simpler music than boring "ultra complex" music.... But I like some complex things... It all depends on taste.... And I have no idea which the most complex band is... those with music PHDs or degrees: go take a ruler and measure conplexity in whatever way you think is most logical, and please tell us the answer. It will add to the trivia section....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2008 at 20:17
Originally posted by mellors mellors wrote:

Structurally: Mauldin of the Well/Kayo Dot




I guess my perception of Kayo Dot being one of the most structureless and free form bands is totally off the mark. Shocked


Edited by Dorsalia - July 14 2008 at 20:50
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2008 at 11:41
King Crimson
ELP
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 18 2008 at 13:12
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 18 2008 at 13:15
Originally posted by preqT0THEseq7 preqT0THEseq7 wrote:

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Thumbs%20Up, as much as people hate it BTBAM is and DT is very tech too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 18 2008 at 13:30

ELP's Toccata seems to be very complex.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2008 at 13:11
Originally posted by MTZArts MTZArts wrote:

On a few of their albums, King Crimson screwed around with different timing until the point where it would make a theory god like Pat Martino's head spin.
 
Pat Martino = a "theory god".   Very funny, yet very true !
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2008 at 13:17
I have to say the two classics, Gentle Giant and Yezda Urfa, GREAT Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2008 at 21:02
ELP for sure, Yes can be somewhat complex,
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