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Posted: October 16 2011 at 15:23
That "Queer Youth" thing is a bit revisionist. I'm pretty sure Stereolab never had a gay member, nor did they address the topic in any one of their 12 or so studio albums.
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Posted: November 28 2011 at 11:32
I wasn't listening to much music in the 90s but Happy Family seems to me to be a very progressive band in terms of style. In terms of musical progress though, I would put The Mars Volta on my list, as well as Meshuggah.
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Posted: November 28 2011 at 12:04
Stevo wrote:
I wasn't listening to much music in the 90s but Happy Family seems to me to be a very progressive band in terms of style. In terms of musical progress though, I would put The Mars Volta on my list, as well as Meshuggah.
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Posted: November 28 2011 at 13:12
Of course The Mighty Dream Theater. I would agree Cynic's focus is mind blowing. I would also have to say Opeth due to their two albums right before the turn of the century. My Arms Your Hearse and their best STILL LIFE!!!!!
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Posted: November 28 2011 at 14:55
Big Ears wrote:
Emerson, Lake and Palmer were at their best, live, in the nineties.
I did enjoy them on the 1992 Black Moon tour but by this time they were just a solid band trotting out the standards.They had pretty much become their own tribute band.
ELP's peak as a live band was about 1973-74. Lake still had a voice to die for ,Palmer could still whip up a storm and Emerson was a towering presence.
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Posted: November 29 2011 at 03:39
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
Djam Karet
And if all you heard is metal, I would like to suggest that you missed a band whose first 5 or 6 albums make King Crimson, sound ... a bit commercial!
Wow, I would never have guessed. Are they the only group you listen to that are from the 90's onwards? And your incessant dismissive attitude towards metal is getting tiring. I suggest you go and listen to Gorguts' Obscura, and realise that in comparison, Djam Karet are not really... innovators at all!
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Posted: November 29 2011 at 04:25
I'm unsure if my answer is totally correct to "what was most progressive from 90's", but the most favoured recordings to me from "prog scene" of the 90's I know come mostly from Sweden: Landberk, Anekdoten, their fusion Morte Macabre and The Spacious Mind, whose debut album I might sample via YouTube if this is not known to you:
From Finland I would mention three studio albums + later released live recordings of Kingston Wall as pleasant proggy psych rock:
I also found both solo soundscapes of Fripp and jazz recordings of Bruford from 90's more pleasant than the revived KC, but I guess they deviate from the concept of "prog rock" meaned here.
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Posted: December 09 2011 at 18:46
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Stevo wrote:
Stevo wrote:
I wasn't listening to much music in the 90s but Happy Family seems to me to be a very progressive band in terms of style. In terms of musical progress though, I would put The Mars Volta on my list, as well as Meshuggah.
Sorry- Volta is early 00s.
Meshuggah was who I was going to say. Insanely technical, ahead of their time, and helped change the face of the Metal genre.
What about Confessor? Nobody sounded like these guys. Crazy drumming, unique voice, interesting arrangements.
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Posted: December 09 2011 at 19:20
In the '90's I was listening to new stuff from Tori Amos, NIN, Adrian Belew, Fripp, Robert & The League of Crafty Guitarists, XTC, Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit, Dixie Dregs, Fleck, Bela & the Flecktone, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Michael Hedges, Steve Tibbetts, Marillion. All good stuff. May have left a few out.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
I read a great formula for Meshuggah somewhere, it went something like this:
Meshuggah = clueless fans x lack of musical knowledge.
Seriously, they aren't that technical, their guitarist has gone on record saying he doesn't know essentially any theory. Their drummer is good, and incorporates more advanced theoretical concepts than the rest of the band, but he's not the end of the world. (Also, as a drummer, in my opinion most of his work is incredibly clinical)
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Posted: December 13 2011 at 20:43
the band Tipographica from japan
weird set piece "jazz" that you'd think would be repellant and tough to get in but is so hilarious and different to anything else that you like it anyway
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Posted: December 20 2011 at 17:53
I think avant garde artists like Zorn and Mr. Bungle made some of the most creative music of that period. Disco Volante is one of my very favorite albums ever.
I think The Smashing Pumpkins were fairly progressive. I haven't heard of another popular rock band of that time to release a double concept album. Their music was more complex than the mainstream grunge music (Though I think Nirvana gives "grunge" a bad name. Whatever grunge even means.) and their albums were huge productions more reminiscent of Queen (Lot's of overdubbed guitars) Soundgarden was kind of progressive in a way. A good portion of their songs are in strange time signatures and/or use alternate tunings.
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