Popular Prog Bands that you just can't get into

Visitor13 wrote: Is this thread about bands we can't get into or bands we don't like?

Both, if those bands we can't get into are also bands we don't like because we haven't managed to get into them.  It's more about bands we can't quite get into, which might imply that we don't quite like them, but don't dislike them really.

The Mars Volta is a band I respected, but couldn't really get into (has its moments).


Edited by Logan - June 14 2009 at 13:28

SgtPepper67 wrote: Also, Gentle Giant, I tried with several of their albums but I can't get into them, especially their sung melodies, they doesn't flow at all jumping from one note to another without any melodic sense.

Just ignore him. That's what I try to do. Once you block out the melodies (which ultimately have nothing to do with what's going on in the rest of the composition) and his voice (blah...), you'll find some great music buried in there.

Visitor13 wrote: Logan wrote: Visitor13 wrote: Is this thread about bands we can't get into or bands we don't like? Both, if those bands we can't get into are also bands we don't like because we haven't managed to get into them. Yeah, if... Personally, music that I can't get into is music I'm more likely to eventually enjoy than to dislike. Chances are there's something interesting there that I just can't hear yet.

Exactly, if.... (incidentally I edited a bit in before seeing your comment as I'm a compulsive editor).

That's an interesting comment, and it would be the same for me pretty much.  I can't imagine actively disliking music that I feel I can't get into, and if I feel I can't get into it then I might well appreciate it later.  I have to be intrigued at least to begin with, but it doesn't take me long to get into music that holds some initial appeal. Sometimes the timing is not right, though, as one's not quite ready for certain music.  There are stepping stones to get to some music -- musical experience, and some times it just takes a little time to get into and re-wire your brain for certain music.  And sometimes one discovers something different to what one happens to be really into at the time, so it does not appeal so much.  For music that I will really get into, it starts with some appreciation, and then over time the appreciation deepens.  Then alter on that appreciation may go away.  It may return.

There are many, many more bands that I was into at one time and am no longer into, than bands that I feel like I'm not quite into.




Edited by Logan - June 14 2009 at 13:50

Three Friends is best recommended to symph lovers.  It's one of my fave GG albums even though I'm not that big on symph anymore.  For classic rockers, I'd recommend the first.  I have always liked Acquiring the Taste the most on the whole.

BaldFriede wrote: Rush. I never understood all the fuss about them. Good musicians, though not as exceptional as their fans try to make them, but the music is nothing special at all.

Porcupine Tree

proggy wrote: Gentle Giant VDGG

micky wrote: Logan wrote: Three Friends is best recommended to symph lovers.  It's one of my fave GG albums even though I'm not that big on symph anymore.  For classic rockers, I'd recommend the first.  I have always liked Acquiring the Taste the most on the whole. yepper... not enough gets made of the distinct differences between the two prog phases of that group.  If one didn't like one... there is the other to explore.  IMO they are very different...  I love the Philip Shulman era of the group... and distinctly don't care for the complex.. yet completely emotionless albums after he left.

gr8dane wrote: proggy wrote: Gentle Giant VDGG   Same ones with me. Though I do like Quiet Zone/Pleasure Dome and Aquiring the Taste.The less weird albums of theirs. Of the others I heard ,are just anoying.

I would agree if someone called "Pawn Hearts" a weird album, but the rest in the discography of VdGG is pretty normal, at least to my ears. And Gentle Giant is not weird at all, in my opinion; actually "Acquiring the Taste" is one of their weirdest albums, together with "Octopus".
Stuff which I would call "weird" is a lot of RIO, Zeuhl and the early Krautrock. But I actually like it weird.

Interesting discussion. I just wanna add tht a lot of albums/bands I reject at first are now some of my faves. That's the reason why I keep listening some groups even when I disliked/couldn't understand them at first. It happend with Genesis, Soft Machine's Third and a lot of krautrock groups that I adore by now (Ah ra Tempel, Amon Duul II).

But when you are used to appreciate some of the weird stuff even the hardest music to get into sounds more accesible to you. Never had any problem with Henry Cow's western Culture, only with the "vocal" tracks from the live album e.g.