Best and Worst prog

I like/love'em all

My Faves:
Psychedelic Prog
Symfo
Progmetal

My Least Faves:
Avant Prog
Krautrock

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There is music I like from every category.  I'll also add a band from each that I love: Kind of  weird the way I ordered this.  The genres and bands I particularly like are avant, jazz, and/ or folk oriented; whereas the ones I like least are thrashy and, or slick, AOR,, and or Emo inspired.  Several in my bottom list have many favourite bands and albums, but I wanted to do nine in each list.

Favourites with some favourite bands:

RiO/ Avant (Vortex)
Zeuhl (Magma)
Canterbury (Picchio dal Pozzo)
Prog Folk (Comus)
Krautrock (Faust)
Jazz/ Rock Fusion (Area)
Eclectic (Gnidrolog)
Electronic (Philippe Besombes)
ISP (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso)

Lesser faves with favourite bands (from least fave category to very well liked):

Neo-Prog (Discipline)
Prog Metal (Indukti -- love lots of music with a  metal component -- e.g. Hoyry Kone, Taal, and Estradasphere)
Crossover (McDonald and Giles)
Post-Rock/ Math Rock (Godspeed You Black Emperor)
Heavy Prog (Gravy Train)
Psych/Space (Far East Family Band)
Indo/ Raga (Codona)
Symph (Arachnoid -- one of my all time faves, actually French symph ranks very highly for me especially when it's avantish.  Shylock da bomb too).

Definitely I'm more avant oriented, and generally appreciate a strong jazz component and/ or folk component.

EDIT: I sometimes describe my favourite progressive music as chamber music.  Be great if people would also say which elements appeal most, and appeal the least.


Edited by Logan - December 23 2007 at 14:24

Logan wrote: ProgBagel wrote: Least Zeuhl Not to put you on the spot, but just out of curiosity, how many Zeuhl bands have you tried, and what is it about the albums/ streaming mp3s/ bands from the category that you don't like?

Hmm, I don't really have a favourite/least favourite subgenre, because there's enough music to like and dislike from all of them, but, statistically speaking, Zeuhl would be my least favourite subgenre as well, mainly because it is, to a large extent, about Magma.

i don't have any indo or zeuhl so i can't judge those. i'd say my favourites are eclectic and symph.

Favourite
Neo-Prog
Prog-Metal
Symphonic Prog
Art Rock (Eclectic Prog/Crossover Prog)
Space Rock
Post Rock
Prog Folk

Least Favourite
Avant/RIO
Zeuhl
Jazz Rock
Krautrock

Aeternus wrote: This is only about "taste". Name your favorite prog genres first, and then those that you can't stand of.

Are you planning to list yours?

Favirote

I often prefer to do my lists in topics I create after others too (else everyone just ends up debating my choices before listing their own).

Glad to hear you enjoyed Magma.  Since you like metal, I might suggest you start with groups like Taal, Kayo Dot, Mr. Bungle, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Estradaspere.  Wait, on second thought, get Hoyry Kone's Houno Parturi, Miriodor's Mekano and try John Zorn's naked City.  Maybe Taal first.  Then I suggest Present and Univers Zero, Boredoms so many.  Koenjihayakkei is a good modern Zeuhl band to try (Angherr Shisppa), and Eskaton and Dun are good old ones to try.  U Totem is one I love in Avant.  In Krautrock, Amon Duul II, Faust, Can.  I still don't know Krautrock well enough.

If you appreciate fusion then, there are a ton of avant bands to choose from.

 Miriodor might be a good one to start with, and I think Mr. Bungle might be a great one to try (might check out the samples).  It's such a varied category.

That's just stuff off the top of my head.