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If I hear something by a band that interests me I will try to find more of it. Sometimes that quest is futile. This happened to me with Man. I can enjoy some Zappa, but for the most part I find his humor childish while at the same time admiring the music. I can get into Prog Metal at times, but for the most part I find it mere technicality with no artistry. And this includes Dream Theater. VdGG is intriguing but they too are a band I admire more than enjoy. And Porcupine Tree is completely over-rated.

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Pretty much any fusion music.

Progosopher wrote:

If I hear something by a band that interests me I will try to find more of it. Sometimes that quest is futile. This happened to me with Man. I can enjoy some Zappa, but for the most part I find his humor childish while at the same time admiring the music. I can get into Prog Metal at times, but for the most part I find it mere technicality with no artistry. And this includes Dream Theater. VdGG is intriguing but they too are a band I admire more than enjoy. And Porcupine Tree is completely over-rated.

If you're looking for Progressive Metal that's more artistically pleasing and listenable than Dream Theater, then Ayreon might appeal to you...

Hogarth era Marillion - the voice is fine for a bit at a time but after a while it's like - Holy Hell, I wish he would stop sobbing his angst out. Hogarth cries, Rothery's guitar cries and after a while I feel like crying.

twosteves wrote:

there are a lot of them but VDGG is a widely popular one that is impossible for me to understand--the voice is horrible and love a good voice---plus it sounds like a satire of what a 70's prog band should sound like--by someone who hates prog bands. Tongue

another confession:--as much as I love Bill Bruford and how sublime his playing is---lots of KC I can't get into---I don't like neurotic sounding music as I'm neurotic enough LOL

VdGG and GG took me two decades to click, but they both did the early-to mid-90's for me.

Neurotic Crimson >> yeah, the 80's stuff and Ade Belew was the neurotic dude in there.

Anything Progmetal I can't get into (with Tool being the exception), but it's not like I gave most of them a fair chance.... all of it was so annoying that three minutes of "music" by any of them is a better than a vaccination campaign.

I did try a fair bit of those neo-prog bands in the 80/90's, but often it was whiny vocals that turned me of.

sukmytoe wrote:

Hogarth era Marillion - the voice is fine for a bit at a time but after a while it's like - Holy Hell, I wish he would stop sobbing his angst out. Hogarth cries, Rothery's guitar cries and after a while I feel like crying.

prime example of course.... and they influenced so many bands (such as Twin Age, etc...) with their whiny music that it was nauseating

Of course, Fish's Marillion was also very much influence-some, as there is a series of band that literaly cloned then (Aragon, Asgard , etc...)

Edited by Sean Trane - October 17 2019 at 02:24

The usual suspects I'm afraid: Tool, Dream Theater, Captain Beefheart, Matching Mole, Tangerine Dream, 'Pixieland' Gong, Wobbler, Phideaux, the Moody Blues, Rush, Hawkwind, Henry Cow, Floyd post Syd (the list goes on)

Most neo prog except for Soltice and Hogarth era Marillion. Also GG and VDGG from the classic prog days.

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There are several, well renowned classic era bands that I have tried to appreciate, but can't, unfortunately

Can

Amon Duul 2

Faust

Neu!

90 percent of the time, when I listen to music, I give it my undivided attention, and don't multi-task in any way. I listen about half of my time to classical music, and the rest, progressive.

The above bands were ground-breaking, and justifiably important, but not my thing.

Homotopy wrote:

Don't know if it's allowed to write such things here - but Yes. I find them rather annoying than pleasant.

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Maybe Dream Theater too, but I haven’t put enough effort with them yet. I remain hopeful that they may click with me one day.

Edited by HackettFan - October 17 2019 at 08:38

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