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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2008 at 13:14
Joëlle Léandre, seen on stage with saxophoniste Maguelonne Vidal.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2008 at 13:53
Originally posted by topofsm topofsm wrote:

Originally posted by Dim Dim wrote:

 
I've been off and on with this one all year long, but only until rescently have I really gotten into it. The concept behind it is some of the most dense, and darkest sh*t I have ever heard of. It's almost horrifying to know the concept, and read about it while listening to the music. Everything about it is so thematic, and it provokes so many emotions, and almost none of them positive. To be able to listen to the album, and actually understand the music is one thing. To listen to it, and know the story behind it is a whole new realm of "diffucult".
 
Good choice. NIN is one of my favorite bands, and definetely my #1 non prog band. I saw that you enjoyed the Fragile too. Great stuff. I only wish they had more material like those two, though "Broken" came close when I ran across that one.

I discovered them through that album when I read that Adrian Belew had worked with them.  I've got all their studio albums now and some live stuff.  I would also recommend Year Zero and I think the newest, The Slip, is still available as a free download as well as the first tracks on Ghosts.  I have to put NIN in the category of "prog enough for me".
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2008 at 14:04
Hmm...
I've gotten into Judas Priest, Dio, Asia, Rainbow, Queensryche, Miles Davis...
I guess it's Miles Davis. Thanks to my grandpa! Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2008 at 15:52
The year isn't over just yet, so I'll have to add some recent discoveries:

Sinkadus
Atlas
Pentacle (French prog one, there seem to be a couple of others)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2008 at 17:02
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Hmm...
I've gotten into Judas Priest, Dio, Asia, Rainbow, Queensryche, Miles Davis...
I guess it's Miles Davis. Thanks to my grandpa! Clap
 
Rainbow, almost always. Dio, occasionally. Miles Davis... your Grandpa must be one cool guySmile
It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2008 at 17:54
Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:


Portishead
 
I've heard too much about 3, I'm gonna get it soon. What do you think about it?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2008 at 00:19
Between the Buried and Me was a big one for me this year.
I bought Colors in February, absolutely blew my mind and still does every time I listen to it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2008 at 21:42
My new big discoveries were

-Sigur ros
-Opeth
-godspeed you! black emperor
-morglbl
-mars volta
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2008 at 21:45
on the non-prog list of discoveries

-ben folds 5
-streetlight manifesto
-casey cavanaugh trio
-dave brubeck quartet
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 03:34
I like this new band Dawn and their one CD Loneliness. Pretty cool. There's also this Irish (?) instrumental post/prog-rock quartet called Parhelia. Good stuff. I also first got to hear Lucifer's Friend and the wonderful vocals of John Lawton in '08. Better late than never, as they say.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 04:48
The Dubliners (honestly! they're awesome), Tindersticks, and well, symphonic and/or Italian prog in general (yeah, I'm a little late)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 04:56
Originally posted by June June wrote:

The Dubliners (honestly! they're awesome), Tindersticks, and well, symphonic and/or Italian prog in general (yeah, I'm a little late)
Where's Montreal there June? check out  these guys from TO Where's The Nine. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 12:57
UnexpecT, from Montreal.

Everything else that I really enjoyed this year was from someone or a band that I had already at least was aware of.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:39
Originally posted by Dim Dim wrote:

Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

Portishead

 

I've heard too much about 3, I'm gonna get it soon. What do you think about it?

it's in my Top-10 this year, if it tells you anything, Ian
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2009 at 18:06
Hi! New around here, but progger for a long time. My discoveries of 2007 and 2008:

Atria
Triana
Poverty's No Crime
Threshold


Most of the times along this past couple of years my PDA has only played those bands, and somehow I still can't stop listening. They are AWESOME.

AstroAvia's faves:
Abraxas
Atria
Poverty's No Crime
Threshold
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2009 at 15:04
I have to say that my biggest discovery would be this site. Since i've been here, i've had the oppurtunity to be introduced to so much great new music. Hopefully sometime I'll find a band that I love more than Tool, though at the moment I find that a bit hard to beleive.
 
Of the few interesting bands that I've discovered this year due to the site, I've stumbled across a couple good albums and listened to some great music by extreme bands like The Faceless, Cynic, and Death, and a couple classic bands like Gentle Giant and Zappa. Also, I've found the entire Post rock/metal group pretty interesting (though not necessarily prog in my opinion).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2009 at 15:18
The Mars Volta
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2009 at 16:28
Savage Steel
Majority One
Culpeper's Orchard
Renaissance <--- Glad i found this band Tongue
Arthur Brown


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2009 at 18:06
Musically this has been the best year of my life. I don't know how many bands/artist I've come to appreaciate, but it's quite a few. Among these are: Captain Beefheart, Beck, Charles Mingus and Jazz in general, Varèse, Stravinsky, Radiohead, The Soft Machine, The Velvet Underground, and tons and tons of great stuff.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2009 at 18:20

I am soooo Amazed of how many other awesome Italian bands were in the 70's THATConfused I had never heard of until recently.Confused

wow!! where Have I been?

( Thanks to a collage I am doing of the Italians and thanks to a friend's recommendation who also send me the images of the bands. I was curious enough to do some research to all these bands that stayed in obscurity until December 2008) Ermm

Why have I been so closed mind and only listen ( for years) or wanted just to buy?Le Orme , Banco PFMAnd Area Albums? why? Man!!!

Cry
 Why?
 
when we have these other 70's fantastic bands?
 
Cry I was blown away.....
 
Locanda delle Fate
Zarathustra
Metamorfosi
Ossanna
Alphataurus
Il Balletto Di Bronzo
Semiramis
Quella vecchia Locanda
Corte Dei Miracoli
Rigoletto Per L' Inferno
Caqmpono Dei Marte
Maxophone
Celeste
Acqua fragile
L'Uovo Di colombo
Arti & mestieri
De De lind
Cervello
GOblin
 
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