That band you fear you will never get into - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Gentle Giant
Van Der Graff Generator
Opeth (Ghost Reveries is WAY too gloomy and death metalish. I'll listen to Damnation on a fellow co-workers iTunes on Monday)
Mars Volta
Sigur Ros (Takk is good; however, with all I've heard it sounds like the same song and the vocals can be a bit borish at times.)

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Opeth and Rush

I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
-Stone Beard

The Mars Volta. I don´t fear getting into them, it´s just a waste of time for me.

There is so much more music to explore...

Edited by WaywardSon - September 16 2006 at 20:47

I had the same problem with "I" at first. I liked the first few minutes, but after that it just lost its magic. Then i listened to it again after a few months and not i think it's great. Still over-rated, but a very good song none-the-less.

As for me... i can't really think of any bands that fit in here. Not at the moment anyway. It happened when i first heard John Zorn. It didn't help that it was "The Art of Memory", which is pure free improv, and quite grating for somebody who's never heard such music before. But there was something indescribable that just kept pulling me back and making me listen again and again.
Same thing recently with Dalek. My ego wouldn't let me get past the rapping. Part of me was already past it and enjoying the gritty ambience, but then there was the rapping. And then very recently i was listening to them and my ego just kind of dissolved.

But generally i can tell straight off whether a band/artist has this potential or not, and if they don't i leave them alone and have no desire to like them. I suppose Dillinger Escape Plan might be one i can put here. I can hear the potential, but so far they just haven't clicked.

The Mars Volta and Liquid Tension Experiment

there are quite a few bands out there which dont click at all:

Opeth
Tool
Jethro Tull (I know - ouch)
Radiohead
PFM (for now - it will change)
New Marillion
Liquid Tension Exeriment ( I love DT but I cant bear two LTE albums in a row)
Jazz in particular (not fusion though)

Australian wrote:

I liked a couple of songs from Black Water Park, but Ghost Reveries just...dosn't click with me.

I will try Damnation.

It's very mellow and NO Growling.

Into this wild Abyss the fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,
Pondering his Voyage.

Australian wrote:

I just can't get into Opeth. I don't dislike metal, but I have a unknown problem with Opeth and all bands like Opeth.

Oh man, Opeth and Tool for me. I WANT to listen to them. I guess you could say that I respect them, I think they are talented... but yet they really don't "click" with me.

If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud!

The Mars Volta.

I don't know why exactly, since I like prog and can tolerate punk (and actually like some of it) and other harder prog. I think it's the vocalist, I can't stand him, but even the instrumental parts don't do too much for me. I've only heard De-Loused, and I'd give it 3 stars at best.

Dream Theater, too clinical and too many scale-acrobatics

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