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^Indeed. And that was something like the 35th album he contributed to. If you haven't heard those stunning The Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet (with Trevor on drums obviously) late sixties pre-fusion jazz albums such as Dusk Fire, Change Is, Live... and more - they are highly reccomended (just like many of those 70's albums).
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

I think to be underrated it needs to me a band/artist with quite an extensive discography (say at least four albums) that has gone under the radar or is strangely unloved by potential listeners that are disposed to enjoy the kind of music they got to offer. The earlier mentioned Embryo is a perfect example (I think their fan base is growing though) while King Crimson or Yes isn't. I'd tempted to suggest the brilliant zeuhl-fusion of Zao.

-and perhaps a little on the side of this whole discussion but I'd say the whole british jazz and & jazz-fusion scene and the many great projects initated by Ian Carr, Don Rendell, Michael Garrick, Joe Harriot, Trevor Tomkins (many of those PA-relevant Nucleus being the most famous) and a few more - are unfairly ignored and even more overlooked and underrated than other european jazz-artists.

Trevor Tomkins was the excellent drummer on the second album of Gilgamesh, "Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into". His drumming was very jazzy on that album.


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I think to be underrated it needs to me a band/artist with quite an extensive discography (say at least four albums) that has gone under the radar or is strangely unloved by potential listeners that are disposed to enjoy the kind of music they got to offer. The earlier mentioned Embryo is a perfect example (I think their fan base is growing though) while King Crimson or Yes isn't. I'd tempted to suggest the brilliant zeuhl-fusion of Zao.

-and perhaps a little on the side of this whole discussion but I'd say the whole british jazz and & jazz-fusion scene and the many great projects initated by Ian Carr, Don Rendell, Michael Garrick, Joe Harriot, Trevor Tomkins (many of those PA-relevant Nucleus being the most famous) and a few more - are unfairly ignored and even more overlooked and underrated than other european jazz-artists.


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Bands that are not mentioned are unrated rather than underrated.
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Originally posted by foregonillusions foregonillusions wrote:

Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

IMO, Coheed and Cambria is incredibly underrated. I think that their music has lots of great emotion, and their composition is really quite excellent. Their 2003 album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 especially I feel is an underrated masterpiece, but lots of their other albums, notably the Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV albums and the Afterman albums, are very good as well. I think people don't like them because of all of it is pretty emo, but I don't mind it at all personally. 

For what it's worth, I see them mentioned a lot by younger prog fans. So I don't think they're terribly underrated.

I only heard 1 album of them (I have forgotten which one), and I was seriously underwhelmed. I even asked myself why they were in the archives at all


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Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

IMO, Coheed and Cambria is incredibly underrated. I think that their music has lots of great emotion, and their composition is really quite excellent. Their 2003 album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 especially I feel is an underrated masterpiece, but lots of their other albums, notably the Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV albums and the Afterman albums, are very good as well. I think people don't like them because of all of it is pretty emo, but I don't mind it at all personally. 

For what it's worth, I see them mentioned a lot by younger prog fans. So I don't think they're terribly underrated.
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In the world of progressive metal, I feel Sieges Even is overlooked. A Sense of Change and The Art Of Navigating By The Stars are great albums--especially the latter. Those albums are certainly better than most of Dream Theater's output after Awake.
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The Red Masque. the only band formed after 2000 that I really like. no-one but Friede and me ever mentions them. singer Lynette Shelley is a member of PA under the name "redvelvetone"


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One of my favourite prog bands that doesn't get a lot of love around here is Lifesigns. Their debut is comfortably in my top 10 prog albums.
 
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And let me throw Spocks Beard in the mix as well!

I think snow is one of the best concept albums, of course snow live is far superior to the studio album

V is also one of my all time favorites
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I really hate the word underrated.

But some bands I wish were talked about more

Camel

Focus

Kansas

Nektar
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Embryo are most definitely a very underrated band. Their name should be mentioned much more often.
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So the most underrated progbands are: Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Yes.... Those are great suggestions but have we forgotten all about Genesis and Pink Floyd? I mean these are bands that should be loved by everyone in the world but not eveyone in the world loves them Cry
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SBB

Their 'Memento z banalnym tryptykiem' and 'Karlstad live' albums should be well know by all prog fans. Worth checking if you still don't know them.




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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

nowadays ELP 

serious answer though might be Par Lindh Project . The first three albums are all unique symphonic prog albums chock full of superb musicianship and just about everything you could want from the genre. However for some reason they never get the same attention as say Anglagard which is ironic considering that Parl Lindh was the prime mover in creating The Swedish Art Rock Society from which Anglagard came.

 Yeah, PLP deserves better. And while the albums are all "symph," they're certainly not cookie cutter. Veni Vidi Vici is significantly different (better?) than Mundus Incompertus. RIP Magda.
 

Veni Vidi Vici is the true 'classic' in my eyes but those other 2 are certainly not far behind in quality. I briefly met Par Lindh when I bought the Gothic Impressions CD at the 25th ELP Anniversary convention in Birmingham UK (1995). I paid for the album and walked away from table he was sitting at then I heard 'Don't forget the your CD!' I had paid but left the CD on the table. Scatter brained me LOL!
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Originally posted by ProfPanglos ProfPanglos wrote:

I will go with Nektar.

Unless I'm talking to progressive rock knowledgeable types, no one has heard of them.

I think Remember the Future is an absolutely brilliant, top-tier prog album.  And, I think Albrighton has a unique guitar style.  

You could say the same about any band who is bubbling just under. Not just Nektar but also Camel and probably even Gentle Giant. 
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Originally posted by Friday13th Friday13th wrote:

Yes only has the highest rated album on this website! So underrated! LOL

Still more under rated than King Crimson. There I said it. Wink
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Originally posted by Friday13th Friday13th wrote:

The Mercury Tree! They play eclectic/avant-prog with microtonal tuning. SO UNIQUE. I just saw them play live last month and they're currently capping off their US tour. It boggled my mind that they could replicate their last album with 17 EDO guitars. This song "Vestments" is like Discipline King Crimson meets Harry Partch. Best new prog band around IMO


 
I totally agree.  "Spidermilk" is one of my favorite releases this year.  I am very impressed with their music!
 
 

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I will go with Nektar.

Unless I'm talking to progressive rock knowledgeable types, no one has heard of them.

I think Remember the Future is an absolutely brilliant, top-tier prog album.  And, I think Albrighton has a unique guitar style.  
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Aye. Par lindh so unknown, when I ordered his entire back catologue from the web. Each one was signed by the man himself...
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