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Check out the band Empire, with Peter Banks
https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition

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If you like Moon Safari and Roine/TFK, you're gonna love Tardigrade by Simon Says!
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Here are some obscure ones to try. There is much out there, you just have to find it. Good luck.

Wippy Bonstack
Thieves' Kitchen
Rubber Tea
Frogg Cafe
Eyeless Owl
Mike Keneally


I have only heard of Mike Keneally on this list, but I haven't really listened to him.  I just listened to the whole album 22 by Wippy Bonstack and loved it!  Thanks!  I am looking forward to listening to the others.  How do you find this stuff?  I occasionally just click on random bands that are listed here on this site and listen to them, but that has a really high miss rate for me. So do most of album rankings.  A few other notable omissions from my initial list are Anekdoten and Bubblemath.  I also like Cheeto's Magazine but not as much as some of the other bands.  Wippy Bonstack is right up my alley.  My post has already paid off!


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Here are some obscure ones to try. There is much out there, you just have to find it. Good luck.

Wippy Bonstack
Thieves' Kitchen
Rubber Tea
Frogg Cafe
Eyeless Owl
Mike Keneally



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Hi,
I am looking for some recommendations.  I am going to list the bands that I absolutely love and never tire of.  The big problem I have is that I dislike 95% of the prog that I hear, so I always feel like I am trying to find some hidden gems.  If anyone can discern a pattern here and make some recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it.  Also, if the band isn't relatively obscure, odds are I will have heard them before.  Steven Wilson, Big Big Train, Izz, Karfagen - all the stuff at that level I would likely heard of before.  Also, I am not into prog metal.

Yes
King Crimson
Gentle Giant
The Flower Kings
Moon Safari
A.C.T (about as metalish as I would want to go - love these guys though - so melodic)
echolyn
Modest Midget
Madrigal - the 80s/90s band - On My Hands and Waiting...
Yezda Urfa
Ritual (Hemulic Volunatary Band much more than the others)
Hasse Froberg and Musical Companion
Magma - I love the live album from 1975 but haven't gotten into their other stuff as much.

I am sure I am missing a few, but those are the main ones. I also like Fetish from Seven Steps to the Green Door but not the other stuff I have heard so much.  Also, for non-prog, I am a huge Steely Dan fan. I like some of The Tangent but not at the level of the bands above. Ditto Transatlantic (Love Roine but I am not a Neal Morse fan).
















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