Popular Prog Bands that you just can't get into

Of late I don't find myself listening to much Magma, but what albums of Magma have you listened to?  And what are your favourite categories and bands in the archives? EDIT: never mind, saw your welcome thread.  I would've thought a Zappa-head could find much to like in Magma's first two albums, and a Crimson fan could like Kohntarkosz too.  But everyone's different (erm, other than those music fans here who are very much the same in their tastes.  I'm a dime-a-dozen apparently).


Edited by Logan - July 25 2009 at 16:42

Time Signature wrote: I must admit that I, and please don't kill me, don't really dig Pink Floyd that much.

Neither do I...

I don't see whats so amazing about Wish You Were Here...

Dark Side Of The Moon was easily better in my opinion...

Same for The Wall, in that I don't see what was really very great about it.

Mosh wrote: Ive only heard one album, but definetly Opeth...

Los_Endos wrote: Yes Tried several times. I'm never going to like them.

What a great attitude....

Yes
Tried several times. I'm never going to like them.

hirszu wrote: People, help me get into Van der Graaf... I listened to Pawn Hearts and it's just average. The songs sound like they were made by force, just to make a long progressive track.

whatever "Pawn Hearts" is, it is certainly NOT average. for the time it was made in it is an extreme album. now you can either think it is extremely bad or extremely good, but average? no way.
if you listen closely to the tracks you will notice that there are recurring themes and a merging of themes too; for example: at the end of "Man-Erg" VdGG mix the slow part and the fast part, playing two riffs at the same time. this is a specialty of them; it occurs in several songs. you can tell by this that the songs are carefully constructed and certainly not forced together.
and a song like "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" is no more forced together than "Supper's Ready". on the contrary, "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" was the inspiration for "Supper's Ready", as Genesis themselves uttered in an interview once (Genesis and VdGG were label mates back then). the structure is almost the same, especially at the beginning

Keppa4v wrote: A Person wrote: Keppa4v wrote: Manuelmoreno wrote: As for Camel: For mere curiosity I bring home "I can see your house from here" years ago ...... I can't even understand why this is labeled as prog. The site policy is to add every album from all bands included, prog or not. I Can See Your House From Here displays the poppy side of Camel, you could have better success with albums like Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness, Rajaz or A Nod and a Wink, for example. Although I Can See Your House From Here is the lowest rated Camel album, it has Ice, which is easily one of my favorite Camel tracks (pun intended ). Yeah, Ice alone is worth the price and Hymn to Her is one of my Camel favourites as well. It's mostly a decent album overall but it has two of the absolute worst Camel tracks ever in Neon Magic and especially Remote Romance. As a whole that's possibly the last album I'd recommend for the first Camel experience, so I understand Manuelmoreno's reaction.

Keppa4v wrote: Manuelmoreno wrote: As for Camel: For mere curiosity I bring home "I can see your house from here" years ago ...... I can't even understand why this is labeled as prog. The site policy is to add every album from all bands included, prog or not. I Can See Your House From Here displays the poppy side of Camel, you could have better success with albums like Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness, Rajaz or A Nod and a Wink, for example.

Although I Can See Your House From Here is the lowest rated Camel album, it has Ice, which is easily one of my favorite Camel tracks (pun intended ).

Thanks for the answers. I think I'll just try a few times more and then check out other albums.

I had a similar thing with Close to the Edge by Yes. I heard it for the first time a week ago and first I didn't like it. But with each day I realized this music really has emotions in it, and now I think it's pretty good and really worth listening. A few more weeks and I'll probably start to love it ;)

VDGG and The Mars Volta. I just can't get into them.