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

Not a band, and only prog-related, but I'm going to go ahead and lose my cool points by saying that after the Ziggy Stardust album, I can't get through a David Bowie album. I like a few songs here and there post-Ziggy: "We are the Dead" is haunting, "Heroes" is pretty epic and "Modern Love" is fun and catchy. but foor the most part, I'm like one of those old classic rock fans when it comes to Bowie. 

Edited by Prog Sothoth - October 18 2019 at 07:14

Man, is this thread cathartic or what?? 

Edited by cstack3 - October 18 2019 at 00:19

^ 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.