25 "I and J" List Acts - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Jared wrote:

Tull, JMJ, Airplane for me from the list..

personally, I'd have liked to have seen: Illusion (Jane Relf), Iluvatar, IQ, Indukti, Ice Age, Ignea, Bryan Josh, Jadis, Janison Edge (albeit only 1 album), Journey (at a stretch)....

also surprised you didn't include It Bites, although they aren't my cuppa?

I have had It Bites in at at least one poll before, but it's really not my bite of tea cake. Gets too AORish for me.

Duos for fave acts

Saperlipopette! wrote:

^I'm surprised that Jared is surpised not to find It Bites included in one of your polls.

Well in fairness, Greg seems to like quite a number of bands I would loosely describe as Indie/Pop Rock and his tastes are generally quite broad, so I thought it was possible they might have encompassed It Bites?

Although apparently not...

Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson

Top 25 "I List" Artists on ProgArchives

Ibliss

Icarus

Iconoclasta

ICU

Id

If

Ihre Kinder

Ikarus

Illusion

Iluvatar

Images

Indian Summer

Indisciplined Lucy

The Inner Road

The Institute of Modern Love

Iona

IQ

Irish Coffee

Iron Butterfly

Iron Maiden

Isildurs Bane

It Bites

Ithaca

It's a Beautiful Day

Ivory

I have liked If. By the way, not that I did include it under B, but with Il Baricentro I would put it under B as I would put it under C if it was Anglicised to The Centre of Gravity. One of my past faves is Il Berlione. It's from Japan, but still adopting an Italian title that references a German city: The Berlin. Ich bin ein donut.

Duos for fave acts

Jared wrote:

richardh wrote:

Jarre had a great early run of albums through to Rendez-Vous but after that it gets a bit patchy like a lot of instrumental artists.

Let's compare notes... I have everything thru to Rendez-Vous (inc Concerts in China); Chronologie, Oxygene 2 & 3, Equinoxe Infinity. I like the first half of Revolutions enough, but not sold on Side 2 (a bit like Oldfield's Crises tbh) and have never bought it... is there anything else you feel I'm really missing? Have you heard his last two?

When we've compared notes here, I'd be interested to do the same with Vangelis... Wink

Oxymore is good (3 stars maybe) but Amazonia is just a collection of nature's noises from what I gather. Not really tried to listen to it that much though. Waiting For Cousteau is the only other one to mention. The main piece is a little bizzare but try it on headphones. I love the 21 minute Calypso section on that album , no reason to avoid that one!

Vangelis is a big one. I like most of his output the only ones I don't bother with are those very early avant albums (pre 'Earth') and the much later soundtracks for Alexander and El Greco. The other 32 albums I like to varying degrees but they get played at some point or other. Vangelis top five is nearly impossible but I'll have a stab:

Heaven and Hell

China

Direct

El Greco (the non film soundtrack)

Voices

subject to change at any given moment!

Edited by richardh - August 31 2024 at 02:03

^ Thanks. I love J.A. Caesar and thought about where I would put him in this series. It can get tricky with stage names, Takaaki Terahara also goes by J.A. Seazer. the J.A. is for Julius Arnest. I usually put stage names that really sound like actual names generally under the last name as with the "real" artist names. Anyway, I planned to put him under T like Takaaki Terahara (aka J.A. Caesar, J.A. Seazer).

Duos for fave acts

Skipping the obvious top two, Tull and Hendrix, my votes went to iNFiNiEN, Jaga Jazzist. And Joy Division.

Mentions go to iamthemorning, Jack O the Clock, and Jambinai.

Jethro Tull, Island, Los Jaivas, Jean Michel Jarre and Joy Division.

"PROG IS MY FERRARI".
Jem Godfrey (Frost*)

Poll Question: Vote for 3 acts, more or less, & mention your faves on & off the poll.
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Iceberg	2	[1.80%]
Ikarus	2	[1.80%]
Illáchime quartet	0	[0.00%]
The Incredible String Band	1	[0.90%]
Indexi	2	[1.80%]
INFiNiEN	5	[4.50%]
L'Infonie	0	[0.00%]
Interpol	2	[1.80%]
Invisible	2	[1.80%]
Isengrind	0	[0.00%]
Island	3	[2.70%]
Isotope	5	[4.50%]
It's a Beautiful Day	4	[3.60%]
Itoiz	3	[2.70%]
Jaga Jazzist	4	[3.60%]
Los Jaivas	3	[2.70%]
Jan Dukes de Grey	3	[2.70%]
Jarboe	0	[0.00%]
Jean Michel Jarre	11	[9.91%]
Keith Jarrett	3	[2.70%]
Jefferson Airplane	6	[5.41%]
Jethro Tull	26	[23.42%]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	15	[13.51%]
Irving Joseph	0	[0.00%]
Joy Division	9	[8.11%]
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