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rushfan4 
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Posted: September 28 2007 at 13:22 |
 Time Signature wrote:
Since it's only a handful, which ones would you be interested in? |
I've completely missed the boat on Zappa. I have always thought he was more of a blues guy than a prog guy. I recently purchased his "Strictly Commercial" greatest hits album. Quite frankly my familiarity with him was "Valley Girl" and "Yellow Snow". One day I hope to explore his material.
I have heard nice things about Collosseum, but have yet to hear anything from them.
I have heard one or two songs from Faust and Soft Machine and suspect that I might eventually explore them further. The Soft Machine seemed more jazz than prog though and although I somewhat like jazz, my collection is pretty devoid of any that doesn't have the name Corea or Bruford on it.
Lastly, I am trying to like Tool since they are so popular on this site. I like alternative and I like the rockier side of prog metal (versus the thrashier side). I now have a handful of their albums. I still consider them more alternative than prog and I at least like some of their sound and music. Probably won't become a favorite of mine, but they have grown on me a bit.
Edited by rushfan4 - September 28 2007 at 15:22
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Time Signature
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Posted: September 28 2007 at 12:02 |
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Since it's only a handful, which ones would you be interested in?
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rushfan4
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Posted: September 28 2007 at 10:58 |
Heard:
1 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band" - The Beatles
2 "Are you Experienced" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3 "In the Court of the Crimson King" - King Crimson 4 "Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
5 "Fragile" - Yes
6 "Thick as a Brick" - Jethro Tull
7 "The Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd
8 "Brain Salad Surgery" - Emerson Lake & Palmer
9 "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" - Genesis
10 "Free Hand" - Gentle Giant
11 "2112" - Rush
12 "Leftoverture" - Kansas
13 "Danger Money" - U.K.
14 "Security" - Peter Gabriel
15 "Discipline" - King Crimson
16 "90125" - Yes
17 "Misplaced Childhood" - Marillion
18 "Operation Mindcrime" - Queensr˙che
19 "Perfect Symmetry" - Fates Warning
20 "The Light" - Spock's Beard
21 "Scenes from a Memory" - Dream Theater
22 "Retropolis" - The Flower Kings
23 "Deadwing" - Porcupine Tree
24 "...And Justice for All" - Metallica
25 "The Divine Wings of Tragedy" - Symphony X
26 "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" - Primus
27 "Badmotorfinger" - Soundgarden
28 "OK Computer" - Radiohead
29 "De-Loused in the Comatorium" - The Mars Volta
Haven't Heard
1 "Freak Out!" - The Mothers of Invention
2 "The Soft Machine" - The Soft Machine
3 "Those who are about to Die Salute you" - Colosseum
4 "Tago Mago" - Can
5 "Live: In concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra" - Procol Harum
6 "Faust IV" - Faust
7 "Angel's Egg" - Gong
8 "Live" - 801
9 "Joe's Garage" - Frank Zappa
10 "Pole" - Tuner
11 "Focus" - Cynic
12 "Destroy Erase Improve" - Meshuggah
13 "Sounds of Perseverance" - Death
14 "Calculating Infinity" - The Dillinger Escape Plan
15 "Aenima" - Tool
16 "What Burns Never Returns" - Don Caballero
17 "Standards" - Tortoise
18 "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth" - Coheed and Cambria
19 "Hold your horse Is" - Hella
20 "Friend Opportunity" - Deerhoof
There seems to be one missing. Not sure if I missed it, or if it was missing from the original list. Well at least I own and have heard 29 out of the 50. Unfortunately I am familiar enough with the groups in the unheard list that there might only be 5 or 6 albums from here that I would be interested in hearing.
Edited by rushfan4 - September 28 2007 at 11:04
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zappaholic
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 21:59 |
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 21:43 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
Seems more like grunge and emo with an extra FX pedal or two. |
Hella is so prog it hurts.
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Philéas
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 16:47 |
Cheesecakemouse wrote:
doesn't matter what categorys or non prog bands, we all have different opinions of what is and isn't prog, I think its quite a reasonable and representative list, a lot better than some of the crud I've read in so called 'music magazines'
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Of course. I was just surprised to see Soundgarden included, that's all. 
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Cheesecakemouse
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 16:38 |
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doesn't matter what categorys or non prog bands, we all have different opinions of what is and isn't prog, I think its quite a reasonable and representative list, a lot better than some of the crud I've read in so called 'music magazines'
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Philéas
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 16:28 |
Time Signature wrote:
Progressive Alternative:
"Badmotorfinger" - Soundgarden
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Haha, wtf? Good album, but Prog?  Otherwise a pretty good list, in my opinion.
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ProgBagel
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 14:37 |
I don't like our top 50 either.
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Matt Dickens
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 14:18 |
oh my God, I can't believe they didn't list things exactly like they are on this website.
This is a huge deal to me and I'm super pissed!
get over it, it's a magazine.
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Time Signature
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 14:10 |
StyLaZyn wrote:
el böthy wrote:
As always this lists are quite bad, I mean 90210 and no Close to the edge??? |
It's a drummers perspective I would say. |
Yeah, we'd better keep that in mind.
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Easy Money
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:53 |
Hendrix!  See I told you so. It was also nice to see Faust on there too.
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Chicapah
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:51 |
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I can't agree with many of their choices but they could have done much, much worse and made complete and utter fools of themselves.
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StyLaZyn
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:46 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
Not a bad list, but Soundgarden prog? |
Superunknown has some great odd time sigs. Maybe this pushed into their interpretation of Prog.
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StyLaZyn
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:45 |
el böthy wrote:
As always this lists are quite bad, I mean 90210 and no Close to the edge??? |
It's a drummers perspective I would say.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:23 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
Seems more like grunge and emo with an extra FX pedal or two.
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well, if you check on PA at least 3/4 of those bands are on here
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:22 |
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Seems more like grunge and emo with an extra FX pedal or two.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:20 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
I think we can safely discard the fellas in the last subsection of the list.
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what are you talking about? Other than Soundgarden all of those seem legit to me and lol@ the second list for the Mudvayne
Edited by heyitsthatguy - September 27 2007 at 13:22
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:18 |
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I think we can safely discard the fellas in the last subsection of the list.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:15 |
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Not a bad list, but Soundgarden prog?
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