I registered here around a week ago, but never posted anything until now.

The description of this forum demands me to issue my progressive taste, so that is what I'll do:

- Dream Theater.

- Tool.

- Porcupine Tree.

- IQ.

- Symphony X.

- Transatlantic.

- Spock's Beard, though I rarely know this band's music; I'm just a fan of Neal Morse.

- Dredg.

- No-Man.

- The Tangent.

- Rush.

- Blackfield.

. . . and that's about it. There are more, certainly, but those are the significant ones I listen to the most. Like the typical newbie, I'd like to ask anyone willing to respond what your tastes are, and possibly recommend something I haven't listed.

And also, for the record, my name's Jason.

This is your second post................so you must have posted something..ay?

AQnyway....Welcome!

No, it must automatically change 'cause I have only done two other posts, this one being my fourth. 

EDIT: Yes, it changes every time you post in a new thread.

Dude, time to check out the Big 3 from the 70s: Yes, Genesis, and ELP

For the Big Three, I recommend these albums, in this order

Yes: Close to the Edge, The Yes Album, Fragile, Going For the One, Relayer, Keystudio, 90125, Drama, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, The Ladder, Talk

Genesis: Trick of the Tail, Seconds Out, Selling England By the Pound, Wind and Wuthering, Nursery Chryme, Foxtrot, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, And Then There Were Three, Three Sides Live

ELP: Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Trilogy, ELP, Emerson Lake and Powell

kirklott wrote: ELP: Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Trilogy, ELP, Emerson Lake and Powell

Emerson, Lake and Powell???!!! No, no no! That may scare him off prog rock for good.

Newbie, please do not listen to Emerson, Lake and Powell. Only after you have listened to and thoroughly appreciated every nuance of the first seven ELP albums, then and only then venture on to "Emerson Lake and Powell," but be prepared to hold on to your belief that prog rock is fundamentally a good force; this album will test you.

That album is awful. A serious disappointment in a string of disappointments from the post-Works ELP.

kirklott wrote: Dude, time to check out the Big 3 from the 70s: Yes, Genesis, and ELP For the Big Three, I recommend these albums, in this order Yes: Close to the Edge, The Yes Album, Fragile, Going For the One, Relayer, Keystudio, 90125, Drama, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, The Ladder, Talk Genesis: Trick of the Tail, Seconds Out, Selling England By the Pound, Wind and Wuthering, Nursery Chryme, Foxtrot, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, And Then There Were Three, Three Sides Live ELP: Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Trilogy, ELP, Emerson Lake and Powell

^ I've heard Yes and Genesis, but only a few of ELP, and wasn't very interested. Yes' Fragile and Close to the Edge or probably favorite pieces of their work, having both insight and beauty thrown in with a progressive sound.

Genesis' Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Nursery Chryme are the best, without venturing far into Three Sides Live and Trick of the Tail, which are two other great additions. I must say, you have decent taste, even if your inclination is persuaded by ELP.

"Emerson, Lake and Powell???!!! No, no no! That may scare him off prog rock for good."

^ Rest assured, I am not new to the progressive world of music and have heard Emerson, Lake and Powell.

bluetailfly wrote: kirklott wrote: ELP: Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Trilogy, ELP, Emerson Lake and Powell   Emerson, Lake and Powell???!!! No, no no! That may scare him off prog rock for good. Newbie, please do not listen to Emerson, Lake and Powell. Only after you have listened to and thoroughly appreciated every nuance of the first seven ELP albums, then and only then venture on to "Emerson Lake and Powell," but be prepared to hold on to your belief that prog rock is fundamentally a good force; this album will test you. That album is awful. A serious disappointment in a string of disappointments from the post-Works ELP.

Awful? I thought...no...what I mean....... I like it!

bluetailfly wrote: kirklott wrote: ELP: Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Trilogy, ELP, Emerson Lake and Powell   Emerson, Lake and Powell???!!! No, no no! That may scare him off prog rock for good. Newbie, please do not listen to Emerson, Lake and Powell. Only after you have listened to and thoroughly appreciated every nuance of the first seven ELP albums, then and only then venture on to "Emerson Lake and Powell," but be prepared to hold on to your belief that prog rock is fundamentally a good force; this album will test you. That album is awful. A serious disappointment in a string of disappointments from the post-Works ELP.

Bluetailfly, are you saying Works 2 and Love Beach are better than ELPowell? You drunkard! ELPowell is the best Emerson and Lake studio album since Brain Salad Surgery.

(Works was three half-completed solo albums with the really silly Pirates and the overrated Fanfare for the Common Man)

Glad to see there's a fellow Pt, No-Man & Blackfield fan out there!! You might like Opeth's Damnation ? Opeth is supposedly a (death)metal band but here they are more like Porcupine Tree in this album - no death metal grunting I promise  (well, it was produced by Steve Wilson)