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After seeing Charles Hayward on stage this last summer, I'm about to have the complete discography of This Heat. I also started to listen to Univers Zéro, After Dinner (since last weekend! Gorgeous!) and Henry Cow (even if I'm still having hard times to get into their music).
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For me I think is VDGG... I had an idea before, but Godbluff blew me away...
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Points: 90 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2008 at 20:48
Too many to list honestly, and the year isn't over yet :|
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For me the first bit of the year was really starting to get into(already knew of)
-MARILLION
-CAMEL
-DEVIN TOWNSEND
-PORCUPINE TREE
-OPETH
-ISIS
-MARS VOLTA
-KINGS OF LEON (I realize it's not prog)
-CATS STEVENS (I realize it's not prog)

This years discoveries
KATE BUSH  just like the buddy with the first post, I don;t love her stuff, as much as I'm in love with her and all of stuff!
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME just getting into it in the last week!
GOJIRA not sure if you call it prog or not but wow, just like Kate would say!
AYREON the albums are like epic movies!
GRYPHON!
MOGWAI
GSYBE
CURVED AIR
MELVINS (I realize it's not prog)
DEFTONES (I realize it's not prog)
ALL SHALL PERISH (I realize it's not prog and it's deathcore and lots of people hate the genre it seems?!)
AESOP ROCK (I realize it's not prog and it's hip hop. Sorta prog hip hop)

I'm a little new to prog... 4 years since discovering the original classics!
Anyways this year I think, may have been my biggest since then!
Awesome thread by the way!Clap
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I'll have to go with, in terms of pure "holy crap, what is this?!?"
 
Jeff Wayne's moronic rock opera,
Gryphon
Brian Eno
 
I also "caught up" with some bands that I'd been meaning to catch up with (V der G, Genesis, Yes, Decemberists, Radiohead).
 
OH! And, I went through a brief, not terribly profitable, Krautrock period. Now I have some spare Amon Duull II, Can and Kraftwerk lying around.


Edited by The Whistler - December 06 2008 at 21:53
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you don't want to give that krautrock stuff away do ya? Big smile Haven't delved into that yet...save that for another year I guess!LOL
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It's easy for me.

Posted my first PFM review in March this year, that being my first RPI album, and now I'm just enchanted by the sub and its history. It's where most of my money and time goes.

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Can - I have always enjoyed Krautrock but seemed to have missed these guys all these years, light years ahead of their time
 
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
 
Mercury Rev's - new albums, Snowflake Midnight and Strange Attractor
 
Tangerine Dream's -Madcaps Flaming Duty
 
 
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pure reason revolution
reasoning
overhead
hidria spacefolk
ephrat
believe
osada vida
karmakanic-who's the boss..
 
 
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FLEET FOXES
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Animal Collective

^ These three bands re-ignited my passion for music and have probably gone so far as changed my life.

Mercury Rev
TV on the Radio
Pyramids
Vampire Weekend
The Zombies
Feist
Beirut
My Morning Jacket
Asobi Seksu
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I have a large music collection, so it's hard for me to discover new stuff.  These are three that I had not heard until this year that really impressed me:
 
New Trolls! (performance in Baja blew me away!)
Nathan Mahl
LeRoux
and I finally "got" King's X
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Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

The Laze , the band eclectic to the bone - check their myspace as ' Thz Lzzz'. The guys that never heard of prog playing prog.
The Pax Cecilia Wow, me liking post-metal. Me.
Clap They were going on my list too.
 
Ermm actually, that might be my list... I cannot think of anything else "new" that's grabbed me... 2008 has been a year of consolidation rather than discovery.
What?
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Three big discoveries this year...
 
1. After thoroughly listening to my very old record collection, I discovered I didn't enjoy Emerson, Lake & Palmer *nearly* as much as I used to.
 
2. Porcupine Tree could very well be the greatest thing in music right now.
 
3. After all these years of listening to music (first album purchase in '72 - Machine Head by...), Deep Purple still rocks my socks off!
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Bought plenty of cd's this year but most are by bands that aren't new discoveries. However the new discoveries that particularly impressed me were....
 
Saena
Il Bacio Della Medusa
Le Orme (at last!)
Anti-Depressive Delivery
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1. Bat for Lashes ~ "Fur and Gold"
2. Air ~ "Moon Safari"
3. Super Furry Animals ~ "Rings Around the World"
4. Ludovico Enaudi ~ "Divenire"
5. M83 ~ "Saturdays=Youth"
6. South ~ "With the Tides"
7. Silence Kit ~ "Pieonear"
8. The Last Shadow Puppets ~ The Age of the Understatement"
9. Diablo Swing Orchestra ~ "The Butcher's Ballroom"
10. Art Zoyd ~ "La Mariage du Ciel et de L'Enfer"
11. TV on the Radio ~ "Dear Science"
12. Rabih Abou-Khalil ~ "Blue Camel"
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Points: 894 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2008 at 18:32
Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

I'll have to go with, in terms of pure "holy crap, what is this?!?"
OH! And, I went through a brief, not terribly profitable, Krautrock period. Now I have some spare Amon Duull II, Can and Kraftwerk lying around.

Hey, you reminded me of my own Kraut explorations earlier this year!
I also mostly focused on Can and Amon Duul, although instead of Kraftwerk I gave Ash Ra Tempel a go.

Popol Vuh is pretty cool, too, but I'm not convinced they are krautrock.
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Points: 4335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2008 at 19:15
Originally posted by ClassicRocker ClassicRocker wrote:

Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

I'll have to go with, in terms of pure "holy crap, what is this?!?"
OH! And, I went through a brief, not terribly profitable, Krautrock period. Now I have some spare Amon Duull II, Can and Kraftwerk lying around.

Hey, you reminded me of my own Kraut explorations earlier this year!
I also mostly focused on Can and Amon Duul, although instead of Kraftwerk I gave Ash Ra Tempel a go.

Popol Vuh is pretty cool, too, but I'm not convinced they are krautrock.
 
reminds me, while I didn't discover Amon Duul or Amon Duul II this year I did get a hold of the albums from them I was missing.  I'm with you both on Can, Kraftwerk, and for the most part Ash Ra too.  Either bored or annoyed listening to them (Ash Ra has it's moments though).  Neu! was a disappointing 08 discovery for me, although I need to give them the benefit of the doubt as I have yet to acquire their first album. 


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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2008 at 19:42
My big discovery this year is La Tulipe Noire.  Very solid neo-prog.
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Well, for me, Its:
Mystery
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Al Di Meola
 
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