Favourite artist/band you'd rather like in PA

From being a member of the prog electronic team here on PA, I can safely say that we've had our discussions back and forth, but just remember this: PE is the sole category on PA that includes rockless music. That has to do with heritage and where it all started. It's justification for even being on the site, is in part that you can't distinguish it from the Krautrock scene - it was the same. Largely boiled down to the Berlin School and the avantguarde. By that definition, and obviously also in order to help focus the site on the rock part of the equation, what then gets in on PA are the acts who have continued in that tradition. 

jude111 wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: From being a member of the prog electronic team here on PA, I can safely say that we've had our discussions back and forth, but just remember this: PE is the sole category on PA that includes rockless music. That has to do with heritage and where it all started. It's justification for even being on the site, is in part that you can't distinguish it from the Krautrock scene - it was the same. Largely boiled down to the Berlin School and the avantguarde. By that definition, and obviously also in order to help focus the site on the rock part of the equation, what then gets in on PA are the acts who have continued in that tradition.  For better or worse that has indeed kept the site clear of what many probably would have felt was an opening to all sorts of music - now it didn't even have to about rock. All that makes sense, when you put it that way

Sorry I missed your edit, but yes you may be on to something there! Let it be no secret, that all of those acts you just mentioned indeed are ones I personally would like to see on here - plus Caribou and Zoviet France

jude111 wrote: Drew wrote: dr wu23 wrote: They probably have been mentioned before but it boggles my mind that The Flaming Lips aren't in the archives....they are definitely prog and psych and have covered both Floyd and Crimson live on tours. Primus covers Rush all the time- that doesn't make them prog What makes them worthy of this site is "Embryonic," and some of the albums that went before. They're as Crossover Prog as Radiohead are. If Mercury Rev is in PA, then how can one justify leaving the Flaming Lips out? (Mercury Rev grew out of the Lips; they share the same producer; the Flaming Lips are far more proggy, psychedelic, spacy, and experimental.) If Can had made "Embryonic," we'd be calling it their greatest album yet. If Pink Floyd had made "Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung," we'd be calling it one of their greatest tracks. By the way, the Flaming Lips's tribute albums to Dark Side of the Moon and King Crimson's ITCOTCK *are* in PA - I put them there. I'm still waiting for the Flaming Lips themselves to be admitted. That they belong, I don't have the slightest doubt. - Flaming Lips's DSOTM: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=40939 - The King Crimson tribute: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=40940

richardh wrote: jude111 wrote: Oh no, not the Police. We already have to contend with Phil Collins. Now *Sting*? eeeeeeeek.   to be fair Sting's solo music is much better than Collins

Edited by jude111 - March 28 2013 at 08:57

I'm listening the new Soilwork album, The Living Infinite lately... I've always loved the band and its progress till now. My favourite albums was Natural Born Chaos (with Devin Townsend contribution), Stabbing The Drama, Figure Number Five, The Panic Broadcast, and it seems the latest album will be a favourite of mine too. The band continues to suprise me with each album, the previous one indicated some further experimenting with song structures, atmospherics, vocal harmonies, proggy riffs, time sigs, different verse/chorus/bridge combinations, interesting intros/outros, acoustic parts, instrumentals, more technical approach, bluesy sections, nice keys.. With this new double concept album (nearly one and a half hour playing time) it's clear they progressed more.

First disk is including generally straight-forward 3-4 min. songs, but there are some experimental songs also, such as the first part of mini epic Living Infinite, atmospheric Vesta (probably some influence from Between The Buried and Me) , The Windswept Mercy (almost feels like Devin Townsend from Ocean Machine era.) and Whispers and Lights as instance.Their influence from Devin Townsend and bands like Opeth is becaming obvious in songs like these I think. Second disk include more mellow pieces and some longer and more experimental compositions such as Long Live The Misanthrope, beautiful atmospheric Antidotes In Passing (with post-rockish intro and full clean singing of Bjorn), second part of the Living Infinite, Parasite Blues and Owls Predict, Oracles Stand Guard, which reminds me a little bit of Katatonia. Also bands like Dark Tranquility, Scar Symmetry comes to mind throughout the album.

The album quickly grew on me, I think this may be the best thing they have produced so far. What you guys think, let me know...





Edited by CrimsonKing777 - April 02 2013 at 10:14