best prog era

VCG wrote: hey dudes, do anyone here think that prog music is in the best moment??? i'm sure that there are awesome stuff from 70's and 80's, but i think the modern production shows clearly everything that is playing, so, to me the best era is after 2000, and i like so much some stuff from 90's. for example, look at Uriah heep. the album demons and wizards is pretty cool, but the new album wake the sleeper is awesome, cuz the instruments got a good production, and i think that demons and wizards could be so good than it if they make a remaster version. so, what do you guys think about???

What you name as advantage of modern production is in my opinion clearly the flaw. Yes, everything can be heard clearly, which means it can be heard separately, That is because everything was actually recorded separately, and as many times as necessary, and rarely a single take is chosen but the takes are somehow cut up and glued together (digitally of course) from the parts which sounded best. The actual sound may be better, but there is no life in it anymore; it is absolutely sterile. Sorry, I don't want music that sounds as if it was recorded in the intensive care unit of a hospital.

1967–present.

for me, 1970-1978-there is not much beyond 1978 in progressive rock that i bother with, but that is just me, some may have other sympathies,  which may be just as good for them

Dean wrote: WalterDigsTunes wrote: VCG wrote: i'm sure that there are awesome stuff from 70's and 80's, but i think the modern production shows clearly everything that is playing, so, to me the best era is after 2000, and i like so much some stuff from 90's. Modern production values are bloody awful. Loud, glossy, modern... absolutely unlistenable. It doesn't help that this painful sheen is added to musically derivative slop. Give me the 70s and the 80s any day. What about modern music produced using antediluvian technology?

Then its a conscious throwback which just retreads what's already been perfected in a previous age. New music sickens me to no end.

VCG wrote: i'm sure that there are awesome stuff from 70's and 80's, but i think the modern production shows clearly everything that is playing, so, to me the best era is after 2000, and i like so much some stuff from 90's.

Modern production values are bloody awful. Loud, glossy, modern... absolutely unlistenable. It doesn't help that this painful sheen is added to musically derivative slop.

Give me the 70s and the 80s any day.

1969 - 1979 is the GOLDEN ERA of PROG

Even though I'm young and I like a fair number of modern prog bands I'm still gonna go with the 70's. They just did it first, and probably best.

2010-2020, but we're going to have to wait. 

BaldFriede wrote: Modern production takes more away than it gives actually. Everything sounds sterile with modern production (but for a few exceptions). The music has become a lot less daring, mostly due to the music industry not supporting really daring things. With many artists I have the feeling they are just going through the motions, without any real spirit behind it. The best years were from 1967 to 1976. There were some true gems afterwards too; the problem is that you have to wade through a morass of rubbish to find it. It is not even that today's music really is bad; the problem is one just has a feeling to have it heard all before already.

1970-1975 German Krautrock
1988-present POST-ROCK