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progrules 
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 Topic: top 50 favourite bands
Posted: September 23 2008 at 10:38 |
I already participated in the challenge of naming the 50 best songs as well as the 50 best albums according to personal taste. I thought it was time for the ultimate challenge: name your 50 most favourite bands in right order.
It seems (too) hard but I had it done within 15 minutes and to make it a little easier: you're allowed to name non-prog bands. So take up the glove I'd say. Good luck.
By the way: these are my 50 (number 50 is still a great band as you can see):
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The Flower Kings |
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Liquid Tension Experiment |
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Dream Theater |
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Symphony X |
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Clepsydra |
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Satellite |
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Collage |
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Jadis |
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Enchant |
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Pendragon |
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Cairo |
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Magic Pie |
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Arena |
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Riverside |
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Shadow Gallery |
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Redemption |
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Threshold |
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Atlanta Rhythm Section |
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Steely Dan |
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Santana |
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Pain of Salvation |
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Pink Floyd |
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Porcupine Tree |
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Rush |
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Saga |
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Genesis |
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Yes |
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Ayreon |
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Odyssice |
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Sun Caged |
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Knight Area |
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Gary Moore |
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Metallica |
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Transatlantic |
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Iluvatar |
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Everon |
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Marillion |
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Van Halen |
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IQ |
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Evergrey |
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Cyan |
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Shadowland |
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Grey Lady Down |
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Led Zeppelin |
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Deep Purple |
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Neil Young |
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Timelock |
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Styx |
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Eloy |
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Camel |
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BroSpence
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Posted: September 27 2008 at 02:32 |
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This is an awesome thread, and I will reply to it at some point with my 50 so you're not alone and so I know. HHowever its tough.
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el böthy
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Posted: September 27 2008 at 21:53 |
There I go
| king crimson |
| yes |
| sleepytime gorilla museum |
| opeth |
| tool |
| the mars volta |
| genesis |
| radiohead |
| porcupine tree |
| kate bush |
| david bowie |
| van der graaf generator |
| gentle giant |
| art zoyd |
| jethro tull |
| meshuggah |
| stravinsky |
| frank zappa |
| mastodon |
| pain of salvation |
| tchaikovsky |
| magma |
| the beatles |
| pink floyd |
| camel |
| unexpect |
| muse |
| ulver |
| battles |
| hoyry kone |
| nine inch nails |
| gong |
| sujfan stevens |
| the velvet underground |
| Between The Buried And Me |
| sigur ros |
| maudlin of the well |
| the melvins |
| moonsorrow |
| the dresden dolls |
fredrick thordendal´s special defects
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| circus |
| dün |
| locanda delle fate |
| premiata forneria marconi |
| pez |
| oceansize |
| kayo dot |
| harmonium |
| hatfield and the north |
Edited by el böthy - September 27 2008 at 21:54
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BroSpence
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Posted: September 28 2008 at 02:47 |
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1. John Coltrane
Miles Davis
The Mars Volta
Tool
Metallica
Ralph Towner/Oregon
Ravi Shankar
RZA
Battles
Keith Jarrett
Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Sigur Ros
Bjork
John Frusciante
John Fogerty
Chirgilchin
Elvis Costello
Hank Williams
Richard Thompson
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
Sunny Day Real Estate
Elliott Smith
The Velvet Underground
25. Yes
Charles Mingus
Built To Spill
Cocteau Twins
Masked Superstar
Alamaailman Vasarat
Pink Floyd
Philip Glass
Echo & The Bunnymen
Muse
The Dismemberment Plan
The States
Mew
Dungen
Acid Mothers Temple
Tyr
John Cale
Curtis Mayfield
Death
John Lee Hooker
Dio
Black Sabbath
Bill Frisell
Tim Buckley
Tortoise
50. The Wailers
That order too as its what was on top of my head which seems like it would be the best bet. Looks pretty good to me.
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progrules
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Posted: September 28 2008 at 12:30 |
Appears I've been too hasty with my 15 minutes. I left out some significant bands with my 50. To prevent doing it all over again I will name the forgotten bands with the appr. range
The Tangent: no. 14
Glass Hammer: no. 21
Nexus: no.17
Ice Age: no.19
Vandenplas no.24
Royal Hunt no.32
And also honorable mentions for Guns & Roses, Explorers Club, Mangrove, Masterplan and Grand Stand who just fell out of the first 50. By the way I left out a few bands that had made only one album so far like Skeem, Frost, Apple Pie and Amaran's Plight. So you see, mentioning 50 great bands isn't really that hard (mentioning them all and putting them in the right order is, though  ) |
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Vompatti
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Posted: September 28 2008 at 13:02 |
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1. The Smiths
2. David Sylvian
3. Leonard Cohen
4. King Crimson
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
6. Tangerine Dream
7. Kate Bush
8. Chet Baker
9. Chris Isaak
10. The Doors
11. Genesis
12. Pink Floyd
13. Nick Drake
14. John Coltrane
15. R.E.M.
16. Yes
17. Japan
18. Suzanne Vega
19. Jethro Tull
20. Led Zeppelin
21. Rush
22. The Velvet Underground
23. Einstürzende Neubauten
24. Tom Waits
25. CMX
26. Talk Talk
27. Tuomari Nurmio
28. Kauko Röyhkä
29. Radiohead
30. Joy Division
31. The Stooges
32. The Birthday Party
33. Marillion (with Fish)
34. Interpol
35. Portishead
36. Captain Beefheart
37. U2
38. The National
39. Editors
40. The Beatles
41. Cocteau Twins
42. Echo and the Bunnymen
43. YUP
44. David Bowie
45. PJ Harvey
46. Bauhaus
47. Bon Jovi
48. The Sisters of Mercy
49. Pixies
50. Queen
Edited by Vompatti - September 28 2008 at 13:02
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: September 28 2008 at 13:45 |
50 is too hard to think of
1. Dream Theater
2. Opeth
3. Porcupine Tree
4. Rush
5. Between the Buried and Me
6. Eric Johnson
7. Liquid Tension Experiment
8. Protest the Hero
9. Machine Head
10. Arch Enemy
11. The Red Chord
12. Jason Becker
13. ELP
14. Into Eternity
15. Tool
16. Caravan
17. Alice Cooper
18. VdGG
19. Joe Satriani
20. Steve Vai
21. Five Finger Death Punch
22. The Ocean
23. Three
24. Pink Floyd
25. Indukti
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topofsm
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Posted: September 28 2008 at 16:11 |
Tool
Nine Inch Nails
Dream Theater
Pink Floyd
Rush
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Meshuggah
Buckethead
Nightwish
The Beatles
System of a Down
Opeth
The Punch Brothers
Godspeed You Black Emperor
King Crimson
Metallica
Gentle Giant
Millish
Aphex Twin
Dethklok
Yes
Venetian Snares
Radiohead
Steely Dan
I couldn't think of 50 bands.
Yes, you can slap me for only liking the more popular artists.
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laplace
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Posted: September 28 2008 at 16:29 |
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*slap*
ProjeKct One
ProjeKct Two
ProjeKct Three
ProjeKct Four
ProjeKct Five
ProjeKct etKc.
Edited by laplace - September 28 2008 at 16:30
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Abstrakt
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Posted: September 29 2008 at 08:16 |
In no order, but still the top 50 favorite bands:
- Black Sabbath
- Deep Purple
- Led Zeppelin
- Uriah Heep
- King Crimson
- Van Der Graaf Generator
- Camel
- Yes
- Genesis
- Jethro Tull
- Triumvirat
- The Flower Kings
- Frank Zappa
- Gong
- Eloy
- Pink Floyd
- Ozric Tentacles
- Bo Hansson
- Samla Mammas Manna
- Fläsket Brinner
- Rainbow
- Soft Machine
- Caravan
- Robert Wyatt
- Hatfield & The North
- Miles Davis
- Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Weather Report
- Brand X
- Grand Funk Railroad
- Megadeth
- Opeth
- Blind Guardian
- Death
- Metallica
That's only about 36, i know. But that's all i have time for now!
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RoidRageOnStage
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Posted: October 28 2008 at 10:16 |
Alphabetic order... think it's 50 (who counts?).
Amon Düül II
Ash Ra Tempel
Atomic Rooster
Beggar's Opera
Birth Control
Black Sabbath
Brainticket
Camel
Can
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Curved Air
Deep Purple
Eloy
Embryo
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Focus
Frank Zappa
Frumpy
Genesis
Gentle Giant
Golden Earring
Gong
Grand Funk Railroad
Grobschnitt
Gryphon
Guru Guru
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
King Crimson
Led Zeppelin
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Marillion
Mike Oldfield
Moody Blues
Nektar
Out Of Focus
Pink Floyd
Rainbow
Rare Bird
Return To Forever
Roxy Music
Soft Machine
Steve Hillage
Tangerine Dream
Ten Years After
Uriah Heep
Van Der Graaf Generator
Weather Report
Yes
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Negoba
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Posted: October 28 2008 at 13:02 |
- Led Zeppelin
- Beatles
- Gentle Giant
- Genesis
- Opeth
- Jethro Tull
- Riverside
- Pink Floyd
- Pain of Salvation
- Bob Dylan
- Devin Townsend
- CSN
- Rush
- Nick Drake
- Anglagard
- A Perfect Circle
- Joni Mitchell
- Porcupine Tree
- Morphine
- Ani Difranco
- Tool
- Jose Gonzales
- Queensryche
- Paul Simon / S&G
- Peter Gabriel (solo)
- Rusted Root
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- Lyle Lovett
- Etta James
- Greg Brown
- Michael Hedges
- Mr. Bungle
- System of a Down
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Neil Young
- Yes
- Dream Theater
- Joe Satriani
- Cassandra Wilson
- Chris Cornell / Soundgarden
- Allman Brothers
- Eric Clapton / Cream
- Metallica
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Heart
- Indukti
- John Coltrane
- Indigo Girls
- Joan Osbourne
- Yngwie Malmsteen
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Negoba
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Posted: October 28 2008 at 13:04 |
It's hard to choose: right now, last 5 years, all time?
I deferred to my library on last.fm a little bit. And I'm sure I'm missing some.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Valarius
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Posted: October 28 2008 at 18:00 |
Ok for me the top ten is pretty simple, but after that it's only a ROUGH order, too much thought required to go any more detailed than that:
Dream Theater
Symphony X
Savatage
Andromeda (prog metal)
Blind Guardian
The Black Mages
Fates Warning
Megadeth
Metallica
Mike Oldfield
Dominici
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Saga
Fozzy
Rush
Shadow Gallery
Michael Jackson
Marillion
Genesis
Iced Earth
Axel Rudi Pell
Yes
Stratovarius
Scorpions
Enchant
Kamelot
Eternity X
Dreamscape
Iron Maiden
Deep Purple
King Diamond
Faith No More
Extreme
Liquid Tension Experiment
Crimson Glory
Conception
Mullmuzzler
Spock's Beard
Rammstein
Steve Vai
Chris Caffery
Anthrax
Iron Savior
Joe Satriani
Rainbow
Elegy
Def Leppard
Duran Duran
Kiss
Queensryche
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progrules
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Posted: October 29 2008 at 15:28 |
 Valarius wrote:
Ok for me the top ten is pretty simple, but after that it's only a ROUGH order, too much thought required to go any more detailed than that:
Dream Theater
Symphony X
The Black Mages
Saga
Shadow Gallery
Enchant
Liquid Tension Experiment
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Great list !  (and then to think I left several great ones out like Rush, Andromeda, Metallica, Deep Purple, Yes, Genesis, Kamelot, Conception, Iron Maiden etc.)
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Valarius
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Posted: November 01 2008 at 14:56 |
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Looking back I left out quite a few good ones. I wish I could have squeezed Magnum in there somehow.
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Takeshi Kovacs
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Posted: November 07 2008 at 12:31 |
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This is based purely on my music charts on LastFM:
1 Dream Theater
2 Camel
3 Pink Floyd
4 Ayreon
5 Phideaux
6 Eloy
7 Le Orme
8 Jethro Tull
9 Porcupine Tree
10 Goblin
11 Premiata Forneria Marconi
12 Pain Of Salvation
13 Dredg
14 Tangerine Dream
15 Mostly Autumn
16 IQ
17 Van Der Graaf Generator
18 Anekdoten
19 Discipline
20 Marillion
21 Blue Oyster Cult
22 Nemo
23 King Crimson
24 Caravan
25 Djam Karet
26 Yes
27 Riverside
28 Arena
29 Devin Townsend
30 Pure Reason Revolution
31 Queensryche
32 Amon Duul II
33 Genesis
34 Museo Rosenbach
35 Days Between Stations
36 Rush
37 Gentle Giant
38 Il Rovescio Della Medaglia
39 Green Carnation
40 Uriah Heep
41 ACT
42 Liquid tension Experiment
43 Deep Purple
44 Agalloch
45 Magenta
46 Spock's Beard
47 Nuova Era
48 Art Zoyd
49 Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
50 Ange
Strangely enough, I wouldn't classify Dream Theater as my favourite band by a long way - guess I must have played Scenes From A Memory a lot!
Edited by Takeshi Kovacs - November 07 2008 at 12:31
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 Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/
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manofmystery
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This is according to Last.FM. I can't say it's completely accurate but it's as close as I'm going to get with one glaring ommission I can think of: High Tide. I love them but have so little material I can find to listen to they haven't made a splash yet, they'd most likely be in the top 20.
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anoah
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Posted: November 12 2008 at 22:54 |
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I love the classics: Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, ELP, Rush, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, Frank Zappa, etc.
And the semi-prog to non-prog classics: Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Who, Spirit, The Kinks, Jefferson Airplane, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, David Bowie, etc.
And the other fairly famous classic prog bands: Uriah Heep, Gong, Soft Machine, Return to Forever, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Hawkwind, Kansas, Focus, Caravan, ELO, Dixie Dregs, Camel, Atomic Rooster, The Moody Blues etc.
And the classic modern prog bands like: Liquid Tension Experiment, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, etc.
And the semi-prog modern bands like: The Gathering, The Decemberists, The Mars Volta, Phish, Tool, Pelican, etc.
So, after all that, I will list my top favorites that not everbody has heard of:
Kevin Gilbert (just amazing)
Crack the Sky (more rock than prog)
OSI (electronicy metal)
Raw Material (jazzy heavy prog)
Umphrey's Mcgee (jam band)
Oysterhead (Primus + Phish + X / 3)
Man Man (just weird)
Niacin (light fusion)
UFO (listen to "Flying" and tell me they're not prog)
The Paul Winter Consort (world fusion)
Ween (love 'em or hate 'em)
Idiot Flesh (hmmm...)
Esperanto (odd singer, great music)
Gravy Train (some early 70's prog)
John Zorn (free-jazz/jewish/something else)
Invisible (Argentinian prog)
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progrules
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Posted: November 13 2008 at 14:44 |
anoah wrote:
So, after all that, I will list my top favorites that not everbody has heard of:
UFO (listen to "Flying" and tell me they're not prog)
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It's funny, for a long time now I am planning to suggest them for prog related. This album is from their spacey years but I also love their hardrock years in which they were pretty progressive for a rock band ( Michael Schenker was brilliant of course). Their live album Strangers in the Night was legendary !
Who knows I will suggest them shortly.
By the way do you also know Ufo 1 and Live and Japan ? I have the vinyls (re-issues 1982). UFO 1 is from 1969 so in fact they are proto-prog. Actually it was more space rock than psychedelic/space prog but ok.
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