best neo-prog

I'm just curious what the best neo-prog bands/albums are.

In no particular order, other than in the order of my preferance

1. Marillion - Script for A Jester's tear / Fugazi
2. Pendragon - The Window Of Life / The Masquerade Overture
3. Arena - Pride / The Visitor
4. IQ - Dark Matter / Subterranea
5. Fish - Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors / Raingods With Zippo's

Other noteworthy bands
Collage, Twelfth Night, Landmarq, pallas, Jadis, and some more.

1) All Pendragon albums

2)Fish - Raingods with zippos

3)IQ - Dark Matter

4) All Pallas Albums

1) Marillion - Script...

2) Marillion - Fugazi

3) Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction (really, this album is SO underrated!)

4) Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

5) Twelfth Night - Live at the Target

6) Twelfth Night - Live and let Live

7) Marillion - Real to Reel

8) IQ - Tales

9) IQ - The Wake

10) Marillion - Brave

...I'm still rediscovering the other neo-prog bands, but so far, none have made it into my top 3, and none of the albums I've listened to seem to be up there with these - but things change over time

Special consideration to Spock's Beard and the Enid - although I'm not sure that the Enid really fit into the neo-Prog category. They're really in their own league!

In the 80's : MARILLION

Currently : CLEPSYDRA

Neo prog never ended. the neo stands for a new way of making prog songs in the early eighties, and that template is still in full swing in bands like IQ and Pendragon

So called neo-neo-prog doesn't excist, maybe a different kind of neo-prog that's been made in current days could be regarded as neo-neo-prog, but a better name is in place I think

Anything by

except for "Nomzamo" and "Are You Sitting Comfortably?", which are seriously uneven, although not without their gems, either.

ivan_2068 wrote: I don't think any of this albums are Neo Prog, especially Anglagard and Par Lindh Project which are obviously 100 times more compex than any Neo Prog' release. Iván

If it's 100 times more complex than any Neo-prog release, then it obviously isn't neo-prog

One of the great points about neo-prog is that it realises that "up itself" complexity is unnecessary - something that noodle-hounds don't seem to get. Too many people think that prog should be outrageously complex all the time - although, of course, it's nowhere near as complex or technically advanced as avante-garde jazz or even "classical" (for want of a better word).

Neo-prog rules!

Pendragon- The Masquerade Overture

Marillion- Misplaced Childhood

Arena- Contagion

Iq- The Wake

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