Prog Band you tried to get in to , but can't.

I will leave Tull, VDGG and GG for a while...I have other music to explore...Spocks beard? So.e of their stuff is very accessible on first listen...V has two epics which are superb...

miamiscot wrote: 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!!!

Believe it or not there aren't many examples I can think of off the top of my head. However, a recent example for me would be Coheed and Cambria. I just don't get it. They sound like every other emo/nu metal band out there.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 17 2019 at 10:59

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.

 

sidc58 wrote: The Mars Volta Devin Townsend Supertramp and all the heavy metal groups where I do not hear prog like: Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Metallica, etc.

Kempokid wrote: Honestly Yes, they're enjoyable enough, but rarely end up wowing me in any particular way, I find them to be quite bland a lot of the time, yet I find myself often enjoying a lot of bands or songs that are clearly heavily Yes influenced.

M27Barney wrote: I will leave Tull, VDGG and GG for a while...I have other music to explore...Spocks beard? So.e of their stuff is very accessible on first listen...V has two epics which are superb...

Accessible probably. There was something I didn’t like right off the bat with the harmonies, especially with the vocals. It’s hard to draw the line between “not getting into” a band and just plain disliking them. It doesn’t quite seem the same to me. Maybe it works in combination with one’s level of familiarity or something.

sidc58 wrote: Well Queensryche, Iron Maiden, and Metallica are on this site. There are a number of artists on this site that I do not consider to be Prog.

Well, Iron Maiden and Metallica are in "Prog Related", which is not thought of as a Prog category (although I would argue that Prog exists in the category, but Prog is to an extent in the ear of the behearer -- often depends on the specific associations we make with particular music). Anyway, such music is not my scene so I won't comment on the Prog quotient or Prog relatedness of any of those (even if I have read the arguments over the years). Except, I do know Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity" from its music video when it was new, and that certainly sounded very Pink Floyd related to me (as to how Prog Floyd is is also debatable).

Personally. I don't "try" to get into metal bands, or really any bands for many years, and my enjoyment is not predicated on how "Prog" something sounds to me. Most of the so-called Prog I like fits more under a Prog umbrella and a purist might consider outside of it.

Edited by Logan - October 17 2019 at 21:31

^ And here I thought Prog Metal equaled metal plus keyboards. ;)

There's some awesome to my ears early "heavy metal" with keyboards, but that's for another topic.