10 Albums For Someone New

You know, it really does depend where this "someone new" is, musically. For instance, I tried this very thing on a friend of mine recently who's into the heavier rock that gets airplay. So i suggested some Mastodon and I handed him Dream Theater, SFaM. It worked.

J-Man wrote: I'd give them a little bit of every type of prog. Some symphonic, some prog metal, a little bit of RIO, some psych and some progressive death metal. In no particular order: 1. Close to the Edge- Yes 2. Still Life- Opeth 3. Scenes From A Memory- Dream Theater 4. Foxtrot- Genesis 5. Snow- Spock's Beard 6. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd 7. Hot Rats- Frank Zappa 8. Abbey Road- The Beatles 9. The Sum of No Evil- The Flower Kings 10. Symbolic- Death

There's no RIO there, Zappa is Avant, and that album by him is Jazz Rock

The Quiet One wrote: J-Man wrote: I'd give them a little bit of every type of prog. Some symphonic, some prog metal, a little bit of RIO, some psych and some progressive death metal. In no particular order: 1. Close to the Edge- Yes 2. Still Life- Opeth 3. Scenes From A Memory- Dream Theater 4. Foxtrot- Genesis 5. Snow- Spock's Beard 6. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd 7. Hot Rats- Frank Zappa 8. Abbey Road- The Beatles 9. The Sum of No Evil- The Flower Kings 10. Symbolic- Death There's no RIO there, Zappa is Avant, and that album by him is Jazz Rock

I originally had Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in there, but then I got rid of it, but forgot to edit the top.

The Switch Blade wrote: If a friend tells you that he's interested in progressive music and wants ten albums to get introduced to the genre, what would you give them? 01. Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon" 02. Yes - "Close to the Edge" 03. King Crimson - "In the Court of the Crimson King" 04. Rush - "Moving Pictures" 05. Supertramp - "Breakfast in America" 06. Jethro Tull - "Thick as a Brick" 07. Porcupine Tree - "In Absentia" 08. Dream Theater - "Scenes From A Memory Metropolis Part II" 09. The Mars Volta - "De-Loused in the Comatorium" 10. Opeth - "Blackwater Park"

   awake-dream theater
  opeth-watershed
  slayer-god hates us all
  korni grupa-put za istok
 indexi-modra rijeka
 king crimson-in the court of king crimson
 megadeth-simphony of destruction
 metropolis 2-dream theater
 on an island-david gilmour
 

Selling England by the pound - Genesis
Red - King Crimson
Going for the one - Yes
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
Moving Pictures - Rush
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Songs from the wood - Jethro Tull
Erpland - Ozric Tentacles
Damnation - Opeth
Ok Computer - Radiohead

A reasonably accessable mixture of albums to break them in gently, and if that wins them over I'll hit them with some VDGG and GG..

1. Selling England by the Pound

b_olariu wrote: First, if as you said above Mars Volta is the future of prog, I must stop listen to prog and begin to colect stamps. Why everybody praise this band so much like Porcupine, two bands very overrated in my opinion, there are hundreds of new bands that sound mileas away good than this two. Second here is my top ten for you not in this order necesarly

As usual, 'overrated' here means 'I don't like it'.... Personally, I find those Prog-Metal bands you listen to not only anything but progressive, but extremely boring and repetitive as well, but don't go posting this every time I get the opportunity. You don't like TMV? Fine - I happen to love them, but I realize they are not everyone's cup of tea. However, I can see the difference between something I don't like and something that is not progressive.

b_olariu


why is it recently, whenever and wherever I see this name I see a post or posts that are annoying and irritating?

In fact, I wonder if I shouldn't choose the albums I found and/or heard/listened at my father's? In this case, the list would be the following path of initiation:

1) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
2) Yes - Close to the Edge
3) Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of the Earth (remember, I talked about initiation)
4) Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti / Joe's Garage (I spend a whole summer only listening to these tapes)
5) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Best of...
6) Eno, Moebelius & Roedelius - After The Heat
7) Mike Oldfield - Crises
8) Alan Parsons (no title, it was a home-made anthology)
9) Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
10) A global atmosphere including songs by Pink Floyd, Pat Metheny, Jean-Luc Ponty...

Please, note that it's more or less the steps of my discovery of progressive music. I won't say it's the path to follow, I just say it was how I discovered the genre.