Bands That Can Do No Wrong - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Slartibartfast wrote:

But as you see in this thread, fans can be really forgiving.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Every band will have good and bad songs. However, if you like or love their music enough, their worst song will still sound better than another band that you don't like. For me, the band is the Moody Blues. I do have all their albums and have listened to them. Knowing what they sound like, I would still by any album if I didn't have it so I could listen to it once in a while. Other bands worth mentioning for me are Ten Years After, Alice Cooper (the Group), Tool and Cowboy Mouth.

Even a man who stumbles around in the dark will influence those he does not see.

CCVP wrote:

Come on, it is not about how in some period in time the band/artist was good, it is about bands/artists that YOU THINK NEVER RELEASED ANYTHING BAD OR AVERAGE!

Come on, everybody!

I did'nt get the idea that this thread was about bands/artists that NEVER RELEASED ANYTHING BAD OR AVERAGE. I thought it was about bands/artists who (in my opinion) can do no wrong, for me. When I listen to an album, I listen to all of it......that does'nt mean I have to love every single second of it, to appreciate it as an album. OK, some albums you CAN love every second, but how many bands maintain that consistency across ALL their albums? I find Zappas earlier albums to be more of a challenge than the later stuff, but I don't consider them to be 'wrong'.......just not as right as the later stuff, imo.

It would be a VERY special band that everyone liked every second of, all the time.

"...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..."

Bands that can do no wrong for me;

Pink Floyd

Porcupine Tree

Marillion

Rush

Genesis - to Duke

Moodies - to 7th Sojourn

Non Prog:

Beatles

Drive By Truckers

Black Keys

REM

Roxy Music - to Avalon

Solo:

Neil Young - fabulous

Bob Dylan - continues to excel

idiotPrayer wrote:

anything that's anyway related to steven wilson has been incredibly good so far. everything that i've heard (well except for some of the very old stuff)

Yes. As I said in the PT thread, I'd buy SW's childhood tinkerings on his grandma's piano! LOL

The guy hasn't let me down yet.

Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...

Zappa and the Mothers xD

Edited by Xanatos - August 23 2010 at 17:56

The Doors comes to mind - but then again I remember that Jim died...
Speaking from another point of view, some musicians are at their best when they do "wrong". Jimi Hendrix used his "mistakes" to create genuinely new music within his songs. You don´t hear the actual "mistake", because it is transformed into something beautiful and you just go WOW - how is this possible? However, this way of making music is rather forgotten today, which IMO is a damn shame.

Theres none at all - they all have their down moments... some more than others. <cough>PinkFloyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Yes<cough>

"Bands That Can Do No Wrong"... pretty much the definition of King Crimson

"You want me to play what, Robert?"

SaltyJon wrote:

thehallway wrote:

Jon Anderson. In Yes and solo.

His voice seems to be ALWAYS pitch-perfect. And his outlook and personality is just untouchable, even if it is faked. There's no greater individual in prog. I sware he is the reincarnation of Stravinsky (if you ignore their clashed existence

). A musical genius, just without the chops, hence his vocal proficiency.

I wouldn't ever consider him the reincarnation of Stravinsky. There's basically nothing in common between the two artists' styles that I can notice.

Then you should listen to The Gates of Delirium again!

Guldbamsen wrote:

^^ That makes absolutely no sense what so ever....

Stravinsky was a very heavy influence on Yes music, and particularly Jon Anderson. His style of blending and overlaying different melodies that aren't neccesarily assonant is something that Yes music, although simpler and obviously in a different medium, would replicate. Also, the frequent key changes, use of "significant" themes (which reccur in different forms throughout a piece), and very polyrhythmic timings are also carried through in the music of Yes, particularly their longer and more weighty songs. The Gates of Delirium is one of the better examples of the Stravinsky influence.

Anderson wrote most of Gates alone at the piano, with help from the others only regarding things like instrumentation and dynamics (besides playing it). I'm not saying the two people are particularly similar, or that Jon had no originality (although he did steal the odd phrase!), just that there is a strong link between their compositional approach.

Stravinsky was of course, a neo-classical genius. I'm not saying Jon Anderson is this. But he is (in my opinion), the symphonic prog equivilant. I think the fact that he mostly just sings, is why people don't see this. Most of the great Yes epics began inside his head.