Prog Recommendations/Featured albums

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Where to begin?

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Forum Name: Prog Recommendations/Featured albums
Forum Description: Make or seek recommendations and discuss specific prog albums
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Topic: Where to begin?

Posted By: sammyj
Subject: Where to begin?
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 22:26

I have listened to Pink Floyd for quite some time(I have Meddle DSOTM WYWH and The Wall). I love their music. I also really enjoy listening to the bands Coheed & Cambria and Sigur Ros which I believe would be considered prog. The idea that prog was even a genre of music is new to me. I'd never heard the term until visiting this site. Not sure how I got here, just lucky I guess. But what I'm hoping you guys can help me do is pick out some bands/albums to buy. Being new to this genre and their being so many bands out there, I just want to be able to seperate the great from the garbage. Thanks for any advice you can offer in helping me start my prog music collection.

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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 22:30

Take a look at the list on the frontpage of the website (the top 100). That'll give you a good place to start (Yes-CTTE, Genesis-Foxtrot, King Crimson-ITCOTCK...and then just go from there)

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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

-Merleau-Ponty

Posted By: sammyj
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 22:37

Thanks man.

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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 22:38

You are most certainly welcome.....and by the way welcome to the site!!!!

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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

-Merleau-Ponty

Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 22:40

Also, though you might want to listen to the free mp3s of those bands first (located on their pages respectively), before you actually buy one of their albums.

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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

-Merleau-Ponty

Posted By: italprogfan
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 23:59

early eloy may be of some interest.