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Icarium 
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Procol Harum by faaar
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Grumpyprogfan
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Catcher10
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Also add the brilliant The Flower Kings......
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Psychedelic Paul
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Dread Zeppelin deserves a Whole Lotta Love, but maybe their Time is Gonna Come...
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Cristi
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King's X
Sieges Even Veni Domine Poverty's No Crime Fates Warning Savatage Ivanhoe Freak Kitchen The Gathering The Fixx UFO Nick Drake and many others...
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Blacksword
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Grumpyprogfan
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Aquarium Rescue Unit.
Not a prog band but they do have some jazz fusion elements in their music. Kind of a mix between SRV, Eric Johnson & The Dixie Dregs. I think they only did two albums but very cool stuff.
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Magma Saw them twice in NYC and once in Pennsylvania. All 3 times they played in a small venue. They should be selling out stadiums not
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yeah, but we're not living in a world that appreciates experimental music like Magma does. At least most progheads(and I imagine people that are into jazz) and even some rockers/metalheads appreciate their music.
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Some good names being put forward. I'll add..... Greenslade Fruupp Big Big Train Nice to see Discipline get a mention! |
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kenethlevine
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I don't get how the group FM didn't become huge just based on their song "Phasors on Stun" but shows what I know I guess
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Steve Wyzard
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"Phasors on Stun", while catchy, broke a significant rule of popular acceptance: the song title does not appear in the lyrics! Agreed that FM should have been much more popular than they were, especially when they opened for Rush a number of times. I still listen to their 1977-80 albums and Ben Mink's Foreign Exchange (an FM album in all but name) after all these years!
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In prog circles:
Moving Gelatine Plates - french mavericks with bags full of freak/prog tricks Yezda Urfa - probably the best (and the most) prog band from USA Syrius "Devil's masquerade" - amazing hungarian response to King Crimson and Colosseum The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble - with Jon Hiseman and Ian Carr onboard they should be more visible Michael Hoenig - for his "Departure from the Northern Wasteland" he should be on top along with Tangerine Dream In general: Caravan, Camel, Renaissance - all are full of gentle, beautiful melodies and should easily attract bigger crowds
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My fave song by them is probably "Krakow" - who cares if it has the same beat all the way through...I can feel the chill when I listen to it even when wrapped in blankets. Have you heard their 2014 album, "Transformation"? It's really good but, perhaps because it uses acoustic violins., seems somewhat folkier than their others stuff
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we had a good discussion about this on the Renaissance appreciation thread. The discussion revolved around that they are somewhat catchy at times but mostly they make you work for your reward. I loaned a mix CD to friends who didn't know them but like prog, to see if they would join me for a concert. They said they liked it but not enough to buy the ticket!
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My favorite FM songs are "One O'Clock Tomorrow", "Orion/Horizons", and "Surface to Air". I did buy the Transformation album, and while there are a few good songs, I was mostly disappointed by it. The playing/instrumentation is good, Cameron's vocals are good, but the lyrics were all over the place. Considering that the original incarnation(s) of the band were far from successful, many of the new lyrics had a smug/self-congratulatory tone that rubbed me the wrong way. One of my least-favorite "classic" FM songs was "Destruction", and much (but not all) of Transformation reminded me of this.
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