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American Khatru 
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: March 28 2009 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 732 |
 Posted: June 16 2009 at 14:22 |
Now there's a nice fellow!
 I wish I were so thoroughly tolerant. |
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Negoba
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: July 24 2008 Location: Big Muddy Status: Offline Points: 5208 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 13:33 |
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Harsh vocals for me are very hard to get into, and I've tried alot. Listening to Textures right now (they not only growl but act like they are vomitting while they do it), but the excellent Between the Buried and Me is similar. It's just unpleasant and really doesn't do anything for me musically.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Isa
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 26 2009 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 152 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 13:12 |
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There are VERY FEW prog bands I've found who's discography I find overall to be uninteresting or dislikable. These are those very few:
Pain of Salvation. I can't stand them. At all.   Sieges Even. Just not for me. Psychotic Waltz, though I can put up with hearing it for quite a while. I've just never gotten into them for some reason. Someday maybe... Oh and I've never been able to get into IQ either. Too repetitive for me, but I don't mind them. That's all, actually. I don't overall dislike any other of the thousands of bands I've heard from here.  |
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manofmystery
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 26 2008 Location: PA, USA Status: Offline Points: 4335 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 10:30 |
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- Genesis
- The Beatles
- The Decemberists
- Brian Eno (any ambient really)
- Magma (the few albums I have heard aren't that special)
- Kansas (too poppy)
- almost every popular band from the last 20 or so years
- Prog Metal (truely awful genre)
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 Time always wins. |
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GaryB
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 17 2009 Status: Offline Points: 451 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 10:19 |
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I agree with the comments about second chances and multiple listens. For the last three months I have been reviewing and rating albums to be included in a personal Top 100 that I'm putting together. I am discovering that many of the albums selected so far did not impress me the first time around or even the second time. The mind sometimes will try to trick you, but it comes down to something "clicking or not clicking".
It took multiple listens before these albums "clicked":
Missing Link "Nevergreen"
Beggars Opera "Sagittary
Nova "Vimana"
Alquin "The Mountain Queen"
Multiple listens did not help these albums:
Goblin "Il Fantastico Viaggio..."
Streetmark "Nordland"
System "What We Are"
I like the compositions and musicianship in Fusion Orchestra but just can't seem to tolerate the vocals.
Also, I'm a big fan of jazz / fusion and can listen to Return To Forever all day but can't get through one side of any album by Weather Report (great artwork on the covers though).
BTW...Have I mentioned Eno, even when he gets together with Fripp?
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HolyMoly
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Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26138 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 08:47 |
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I've tried a few times to get into Dream Theater, but they just don't click with me. The musicianship is fine, but it doesn't add up to much IMO.
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My other avatar is a Porsche
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
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fil karada
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 16 2008 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 279 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:52 |
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VddG
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Some people find joy in knowledge. Some people find joy in ignorance. Some people just enjoy music. |
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StyLaZyn
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 22 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4079 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:39 |
I thought the same thing.
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American Khatru
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 28 2009 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 732 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 05:34 |
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I just can't seem to get into ELP's Love Beach. I tell myself, "stare at the chest hair and you will understand," but it hasn't worked.
Seriously, I'll have to ponder this question. I can say off the bat that I still don't get into the 'metal' side of prog. Just me. |
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Anderson III
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 25 2007 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 708 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 05:12 |
Actually many of my very favorite bands demanded some exploring. Some that come to mind right away are Genesis, Hatfield & The North, Tool and Miles Davis' best albums... This is why I encourage people to give time to the music. It might just work. |
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo
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stonebeard
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 22:46 |
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Genesis. Not prog. What the hell.
In other news, I heard Robert Fripp is producing the new Hannah Montana album and Steve Wilson is working on remastering the Carpenters discography. |
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Greg W
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 24 2004 Location: Chicago Status: Offline Points: 3904 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 22:35 |
Tell me. I challenge you to look on any prog site and see if you can find Genesis's exclusion on ANY site. Perhaps you are very young and unfamiliar with the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis, which, in that case, you are spot on with your musings, but to suggest that Genesis from 1970-1974 was anything but prog just really reveals that you don't get what progressive rock is in the 1st place.
Now, go on and don't like them for all I care. That is just a matter of taste. One can handle that, but to sugfgest that EVERY prog site is wrong...well...that rubs me a bit wrong.
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StyLaZyn
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 22 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4079 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 15:14 |
I could get into Fergie....  (oh face) |
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TheCaptain
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 04 2009 Location: Ohio, USA Status: Offline Points: 1335 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 15:04 |
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Of the bands I have listened to in the top 100 and/or in the PA popular artists, the following are ones I have never been able to get into:
Pink Floyd (with the exception of Animals) Camel Porcupine Tree Tangerine Dream All of Tech/Extreme Metal Eloy Soft Machine |
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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Vince
Forum Groupie 
Joined: March 24 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 95 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 13:36 |
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Madonna, Rhianna, Black Eyed... oh wait, it's popular prog bands, right?...
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"The mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work until it's opened"... Frank Zappa.
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Evolver
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Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams Joined: October 22 2005 Location: The Idiocracy Status: Offline Points: 5482 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 12:11 |
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There's this British band, who's original singer was just too buzzy sounding, and the lyrics, I guess I wasn't British enough to appreciate them. The music was okay, but never quite complex enough for my tastes. The drummer was good, but when the singer left, he put down the sticks and tried singing, but he's buzzy sounding too.
I can't remember their name, it was something like "Je Ne Sais".
As for others, I can't get into anything that has those throw up in your throat vocals.
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Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 36500 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 12:01 |
Like 'em or not, they definitely had a considerable prog period (especially during prog's classic years). You don't consider the majority of the band's output during the 70's Prog? |
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Lendmeyourears
Forum Newbie 
Joined: June 15 2009 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 11:56 |
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Goodness, finally someone else who gets it!.....Genesis, for me. They're great musicians, don't get me wrong....I just don't like their music that much and frankly, I didn't understand why they were included on this site. I think of them as pop, not prog.
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"The sun is going down!""no, no, you're confused, the horizon is moving up!"
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Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 36500 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 11:54 |
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^ I'm not a Neo-Prog guy, but I do find MARC CECCOTTI's later albums enjoyable:
http://www.myspace.com/marcceccotti Edited by Logan - June 15 2009 at 11:57 |
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Zargus
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 08 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 3491 |
Posted: June 15 2009 at 11:42 |
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I usaly like most bands more or les but here are some i never realy culd like:
Deep Purple
Flower Kings
Marillion (and all other neo prog bands i heard)
Sigur ros
There is probobly more but that the ones i can think of right now.
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