prog music suggestions

Liquid Tension Experiment and LaBrie's last solo album are amazing!

Fantômas wrote: Lyrically, Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra solo albums are the most instructive bands of all times!

I meant musically interesting, never mind, here's the thread:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6678&a mp;a mp;PN=1

And some more suggetions: if you like Zappa, maybe Captain Beefheart and Adrian Belew's solo stuff will appeal to you?

Edited by Manunkind

Fantômas wrote: Go for Dead Kennedys... Today I realized that Genesis and Neo-Prog retards a guy's mind.

Then YOU must have been listening to them very much

I started listen TOOL, i think it's better than DT, Genesis orYes, Star with KC is much hard that they think, stonebeard, i think, KC is  much sofisticate than DT or other, atn least i think that.
LTE is good, very good, but LTE 2 isn't so good.
there`re Chilean band good like Exsimio (www.exsimo.cl), if you go to "Audio" (the page is in Spanish) you can heard the first cd full, and demos of the second, recently it left the oven, is good, or Ergo Sum, but no try with Akineton Retard, dont try!!! (http://www.mylodonrecords.com/, many chilean group, mexican, and someones of the c**try that is beside Chile)
Symphny X??, i think they sucks, like Rapsody, another group i fund only one song and it's very god is 4/3 de trio, a french group, and a new gruop is Distand Dream http://www.distantdream.com/home/
or you can go to www.magnacarta.net, here are many proyect of dt and other group,
ahh, and, of course, Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an excellent choice
and if you like DT, don´t heard Train, it really suck, i almost thing DT was finished when i hear it.

Manunkind wrote: Snow Dog wrote: How about Shadow Gallery aand Symphony X oh aand Ayreon if you like Dream Theater? Good choices - let's add some DT side projects here - Liquid Tension Experiment, James LaBrie's, John Petrucci's and Jordan Rudess' solo stuff, OSI, Frameshift, oh, and Explorers' Club!  Maybe also Chroma Key, to complement the suggestions above and to couterweigh them a little...

How about Transatlantic?

very nice...

thank you all. and continue sending replies, for they will be much appreciated.

i know i am about to commit a sin in the world of prog but i gotta say it. i think that "in the court of the crimson king" is a very tedious, silly and a bit overrated album. it is almost pure experimentation. sure there are beautiful parts, but they are always skewed by unnecessary pieces of jangling noise. especially prevelent in "21st century schizoid man" i love the final song though. king crimson and genesis are just not my type of band.

i dig rush too, now that i think of it, but they obviously never stick out in my mind because, to me, they seem like a classic rock band "trying" to be progressive, and just not being successful.

"symphonic prog", something like yes, is probably what i'm most interested in other than "prog metal"

Symphonic Prog like Yes, then definitely the Neo Progressive Rock like The Flower Kings and Spock's Beard will definitely do. Buy Snow, V for Spock's Beard. Since you are a DT fanatic try TransAtlantic.

Now that makes me even more interested in recommending you light, mostly happy The Flower Kings

stonebeard wrote: dont get me wrong, i like genesis. i own trespass, nursery cryme, foxtrot, selling england..., and lamb...(all the good stuff, i'm told), but i cant listen to them very often (they depress me)

If you like symphonic but with a heavier approach you should try out some ARENA albums. I think you'd like 'Contagious' 'Immortal'  & 'The Visitor'

Edited by Tommy

Also,I have made this suggestion before in another thread.If you happen to dig Transatlantic(Morse,Portnoy,Stolt,Trewavas,it doesn't get much better),and buy the cd SMPTe,try to get your hands on SMPTe:The Roine Stolt Mixes.I had SMPTe and then later was fortunate enough to get my hands on a copy of Roine's mixes and the difference is HUGE(for the better,IMHO).