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Sacro_Porgo
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Man I wish he'd been around longer. Vertible genius, and he would've just thrived in the 70s.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Opeth, Pendragon, Gentle Giant, Radiohead, and Wobbler may all qualify, but, then, nobody's perfect.
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I love those first two albums. Barry Andrews brought it!!! Fripp paid attention...
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These come to mind (minimum of five albums):
King Crimson Magenta Thinking Plague IZZ (if you exclude the Ampersand outtake albums) Nexus The Tangent Anekdoten I think I could come up with more, but there are so many bands where I haven't listened to their entire output it wouldn't be fair to add them.
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For me Wish you were Here and Animals are similar enough (and also, my two favourites, not only from Pink Floyd). Meddle has got that sound too, at least on Echoes and One of these Days. And Dark Side, sort of close, but it doesn't have such long songs. Also, I guess More and Obscured by Clouds (and the songs available for Zabriskie Point) sound very similar to me. And, I guess to a certain point, The Wall and The Final Cut. |
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I have a hard time identifying a prog band that is consistently great, but some prog related bands that have a strong catalog would be Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.
How about the Moody Blues? We don't discuss them much on PA at all, they seem to have consistently good output. Thoughts? My personal favorite, Yes, have laid their share of rotten eggs over the years!!
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Renaissance were certainly consistently good throughout the seventies but they went off the boil in the eighties, which is probably not unrelated to all the line-up changes.
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Certainly every album from 'Days of Future Passed' through to 'Seventh Sojourn' (and even the post-hiatus 'Octave') are all top quality. It's hard to think of one duff song, or filler track, on any of those releases.
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Fair comment.
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For me my votes right now as of 2021 would be Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost, Symphony X , IQ and Arena.
I think none of these bands have a bad album at all. |
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I disagree about Maiden. Great suite of albums in the 80s, but starting with the 90s not so much. The only album coming close to classic Maiden is Brave New World.
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I think Fear of the Dark and The X Factor of Iron Maiden are excellent albums. Okay, not as powerful as Powerslave; but they are more consistent. In most of the Iron Maiden albums, there are "weak" songs, or even filler songs. Powerslave's the first two and the last two songs are grandiose, but the middle is mediocre IMO. Some say Fear of the Dark also has weak songs, but I disagree. They at least flow seamlessly within the album. Also Fear of the Dark is a rare '90s album, that could evoke a genuine '80s spirit. A bit gloomy, but it still has the 80s' soul. Brave New World is a pompous album, and lost all its charm for me. I was fascinated by it first, but I don't like it that much anymore. Edited by Shadowyzard - August 11 2021 at 04:27 |
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Cristi
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I like Fear of the Dark, a bit uneven but listenable. I also like The X Factor. Virtual XI on the other hand is unlistenable to me, IM's weakest effort, to put it nicely. |
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^ Well, if you see Virtual XI like a "B-movie", you might enjoy it. I at least enjoy it. I'd rate it 5/10 as for its quality, but I still enjoy it. I confess that Como Estais Amigos made me cry, a couple of times.
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Cristi
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not a good analogy, B-movie does not refer to quality, but small budget back when people used to go to the movies to see a double feature, the main movie and a second (b) smaller budget movie. Also there are b-movies that were very well put together, with good story-telling.
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I didn't intend to do an analogy, and I didn't try to say anything to be taken so lliterally. I mean, it has its charm in its own way. Except the horrendous song called The Angel and the Gambler. One of the biggest jokes in music history! I know how you assess music in general, and I really think that you're a very good listener and an "assesser". (I farted this saying.) I also think that you're more focusing on the intellectual and creative side of music. I remember you saying that you gave Nightwish's latest album a 1 star. I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm sure that I'd give it a 2 or 3 stars, at worst. |
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Cristi
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Yes, you'd probably rate the last Nightwish higher than I did. For me it was a frustrating listen and I gave the album several chances because a lot of people praised it and I felt I was missing something . I enjoy the albums with Tarja, those albums were quite unique, despite the band wearing their influences on their sleeves.
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It's been great watching Death and Gorguts climb our charts as of late. I haven't heard every Gorguts album yet myself, but I hear only good things!
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