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Points: 7411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2011 at 13:12
The '90s were an odd decade, I never thought of them as being terribly progressive....King Crimson's "Thrak" was my favorite single prog issue of that era.  

I lived in England for a good bit of that time period, everyone was ga-ga over Oasis as I recall.  I DID see Bis when they launched, they were not a bit progressive but they had a damn fine stage presence & take-no-prisoners sound!   1994 most likely (Exeter gig, "Cavern Club").
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2011 at 13:15
Originally posted by Jake KobrinGodspeed You! Black Emperor were quite progressive and pushing the boundaries of rock music. [/QUOTE Jake KobrinGodspeed You! Black Emperor were quite progressive and pushing the boundaries of rock music. [/QUOTE wrote:



What GY!BE did was to mix Glenn Branca's sound with the songwriting developed by Bark Psychosis and Pra


What GY!BE did was to mix Glenn Branca's sound with the songwriting developed by Bark Psychosis and Pram around 1991-1992, so they don't rate high in my "originality" book. But I know that when you first hear them you think how you never ever heard anything like it... I had the same epiphany with them. Heart
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I scanned my log and am going to have to go with Mr. Bungle.
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Mr Bungle were already active back in 1986 ! (they recorded 4 album on tapes from 1986 to 1989).
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What a strange-looking list of albums... "PA's top 100 progressive albums of the 90s"

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=1999&syears=1998&syears=1997&syears=1996&syears=1995&syears=1994&syears=1993&syears=1992&syears=1991&syears=1990&scountries=&sminratings=0&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=100&x=31&y=6#list
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Porcupine Tree, Djam Karet, and Radiohead totally passed by me.  Glad to get to know them in the naughties. As did Mr. Bungle.


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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Progressive? Well, not too much.

My favorite albums from the 1990s:

OK Computer - Radiohead
The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips (5th place)
The Mollusk - Ween (2nd place)
Dirt - Alice in Chains (3rd place)
Dummy - Portishead
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Streets - Savatage
I See a Darkness - Will Oldham
Bone Machine - Tom Waits (1st place)
Mule Variations - Tom Waits
Weld - Neil Young
The Good Son - Nick Cave
Promised Land - Queensryche (4th place)
Time out of Mind - Bob Dylan
Clouds Taste Metallic - Flaming Lips
Painkiller - Judas Priest
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No love for Anglagard being the best prog group of the 90s? They get my vote.
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Oh, Hybris was good and all, but even if I've heard it at least ten times, I can barely recall more than a few minutes of that opening track. 
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Hybris is amazing but it's not such a progressive album. It's more a rehashing of old prog styles. 
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I agree with Radiohead, Djam Karet and Sigur Ros as being the more progressive acts of the 90's
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Saviour Machine s "Legend" Trilogy is quite progressive and does not sound like any other band I know
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Halloween-Merlin
Solaris-Martian Chronicles
Solaris-1990
Anglagard..of course
 
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Ï think Prodiigy from their debute until the Fat of the Land is probably the most progressive development in one band in the course of one decade
 
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is probably one of the most progressive leaps in one genre in both innovation and evolution, from an interesting rave act to become the today best selling act in electronica, is quite impressive, and it tooke them 7 years...


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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

^ Dunno, I think Radiohead only became progressive around 2000, with Kid A. The alternative rock they did before that was great but nothing that hadn't been established by others before. 

Here you imply that progressive is a style, but I think we should save that adjective to describe something that makes progress from some previous standpoint. Radiohead weren't prog rock (which is a style) in the 90's, but they were very progressive.

OTOH, alternative rock is a style, but there is no such thing as alternative rock, because it should be an alternative for something else, and that means all rock music is alternative because it is an alternative to something else... Wacko

And to go further, there is no such thing as experimental music...
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Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Ï think Prodiigy from their debute until the Fat of the Land is probably the most progressive development in one band in the course of one decade
 
so this
 
 
to this
 
to this
 
 
 
is probably one of the most progressive leaps in one genre in both innovation and evolution, from an interesting rave act to become the today best selling act in electronica, is quite impressive, and it tooke them 7 years...


I don´t know Agi - I think in terms of originality the 2 first albums blow fat of the land out of the ball park. By 96-97 there was huge number of artists who were meshing all kinds of musics into the electronic genre. I see what you mean though, because in regards to the prog world, this is the record that introduces psychedelic aspirations - as well as far more instruments. Narayan and Mindfields both dabble in "prog" as in what we hear on this site - whereas early Prodigy was another thing altogether.
The debut and Jilted are my faves from them - and those two records also cemented them as something pretty unique, which was electronic art punk with a dance flavor. They still have that image, just look at their latest couple of releases.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2011 at 06:57
Originally posted by OT Räihälä OT Räihälä wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

^ Dunno, I think Radiohead only became progressive around 2000, with Kid A. The alternative rock they did before that was great but nothing that hadn't been established by others before. 

Here you imply that progressive is a style, but I think we should save that adjective to describe something that makes progress from some previous standpoint. Radiohead weren't prog rock (which is a style) in the 90's, but they were very progressive.

OTOH, alternative rock is a style, but there is no such thing as alternative rock, because it should be an alternative for something else, and that means all rock music is alternative because it is an alternative to something else... Wacko

And to go further, there is no such thing as experimental music...
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Originally posted by OT Räihälä OT Räihälä wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

^ Dunno, I think Radiohead only became progressive around 2000, with Kid A. The alternative rock they did before that was great but nothing that hadn't been established by others before. 

Here you imply that progressive is a style, but I think we should save that adjective to describe something that makes progress from some previous standpoint. Radiohead weren't prog rock (which is a style) in the 90's, but they were very progressive.

OTOH, alternative rock is a style, but there is no such thing as alternative rock, because it should be an alternative for something else, and that means all rock music is alternative because it is an alternative to something else... Wacko

And to go further, there is no such thing as experimental music...


......but is there a hyphen in 'anal retentive'?Shocked
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