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Points: 21715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2006 at 17:12
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

I don't like that aspect of Neo Prog ... at least the newer albums (>1989) seem to focus on perfection too much.
 
What if they actually achieve it?Tongue


So what? "Perfect" in this context means polished, smooth, flawless ... kind of like 100% pure sugar compared to a nice fruit salad.Wink
 
Sloppiness is more of a problem IMO.Seeking perfection is not a bad thing itself.Not having ideas and covering it up with nice production is though.


Now sloppiness is a totally different issue. I HATE sloppiness much more than I hate perfection ... I guess I love non-sloppy near-perfect music with a raw edge.
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2006 at 17:24
Some bands I would recommend if you like neo-prog (not all qualify as neo-prog but they have all one thing in common : melody) :
 
VIOLET DISTRICT
 
SAGRADO CORAçAO DA TERRA (check out 'farol da liberdade' or 'Flecha' if you are a strong neo-prog head, you won't be disappointed, check out the other ones if you are more on the symphonic side of prog)
 
CLEPSYDRA
 
JORDAN RUDESS' album 'Listen'
 
UK's 'Danger money'
 
COLIN BASS : 'An outcast of the island' (bassist for Camel, great album featuring the drummer for Fish, and members of Quidam, a polish neo-prog band)
 
MARIO MILLO : 'Oceans of the mind' (leader of australian symphonic prog bands Windchase and Sebastian Hardie)
 
CAMEL : 'dust and dreams' (their most poignant concept-album, based on the novel by John Steinbeck "the grapes of wrath")
 
IONA's 'journey into the morn' (simply AMAZING performance, and the sublime voice of Joanne Hogg)
 
EDDIE JOBSON's 'Zinc' (in the vein of UK's 'danger money')
 
NRG : 'No reasons given' the band wher Kevin Gilbert started his musical career (you can check out their songs fpr free on Kevin's site http://www.kevingilbert.com/NRG/NRGalbum.html )
 
PABLO EL ENTERRADOR : 's/t' (an absolute masterpiece of neo-prog from Argentina)
 
SAGA
 
RUSH : 'Power windows'
 
CASINO : (features the amazing voice of Geoff Mann of twelfth night)
 
SHADOWLAND : 'Ring of roses' (features Robert Smith-like voice of Pendragon's keyboardist Clive Nolan)
 
TWELFTH NIGHT : 'Fact and fiction'
 
ORPHAN PROJECT : 'Orphan found' (between neo- and metal-prog with impressive vocals and a huge sense of melody)
 
JANISON EDGE : 'the services of Mary Goode'
 
CAFE JACQUES : 'round the back' (features Phil Collins on drums and the fantastic Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's earthband) on vocals plus people who used to play in Canterbury bands : very cool album)
 
IT BITES : holdsworthian guitar by the gifted vocalist, whose vocals are reminiscent of Peter Gabriel's on an overall AOR mood, check out 'once around the world'
 
ANIMA : 'anima', a quite good argentinian band lead by female vocals
 
AMBROSIA : with three musicians who appeared on Alan Parson's project's first album
 
BANDA DO CASACO : 'tambem eu' a portuguese folk-rock band that sounds a bit more pop-prog on this album
 
STEVE MORSE BAND: 'stand up'
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Points: 36 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 16:09
For those who are interested...

On the Frost* website they have made a few songs available for download that did not make the cd... Including a three minute alternate ending to Milliontown.
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Points: 19 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2006 at 14:15
If you like Frost. you could go listening to Kino it's an other band formed by John Mitchell(Arena, Kino, Frost)...
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2006 at 14:22
I just purchased this album and have been listening to it the past couple days.  I think the first two and the last two tracks are really great, the middle two...not so much - especially "The Other Me", which I think is terrible.  When these guys really "get cooking" instrumentally, it's wonderful.

Right now this album is about 3.5 stars for me.
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