Simplest prog band
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Topic: Simplest prog band
Posted By: cmidkiff
Subject: Simplest prog band
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:28
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I think I would have to go with Porcupine Tree. ------------- cmidkiff |
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:34
Why is Soft Machine a choice ?????
------------- "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: pepolo
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:37
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My answer is......: Neu! |
Posted By: Kingkay
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:44
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mike oldfield and soft machine aren't that simple, or am i missing something?
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:50
| Porcupine Tree are simple, but not that simple. I really don't know what bands are the "simplest" prog band, probably a Prog Power Metal band. |
Posted By: pepolo
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:55
| I don't think that any of the bands/artists mentioned above play really simple music.But if I had to choose one of those options, I would go for Hawkwind (which is one of my favorite bands). |
Posted By: Ytse Jam
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 18:06
| What you mean "simple"? |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 19:42
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I don't think that Oldfield or Tangerine are repetitive. They have minimalist inffluences just like Michael Nyman and Philip Glass. It's simply a different music style...
I don't agree that PT are repetitive. In fact, their songs are really different and unique. Hawkwind it's very psychedelic and maybe their style sometimes sounds a little bit bored just like some early 70's Pink Floyd LP's. Stanley C. plays fusion and fusion is repetitive in essence. And Soft Machine... please, man! Are U really listen the Soft Machine LP's?? If you really want a repetitive band, listen Asia or Queen... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 19:45
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Pink floyd..... wtf? ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: Legoman
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 02:15
... you don't know what you're talking about, do you? Anyway. Technically... Mike Oldfield had the simplist technique but... he is just too good for me to say that he truely is the simpliest. My vote goes for Hawkwind. |
BePinkTheater wrote:Posted By: Syndromet
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 02:56
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Ohh, I just wish there was a STYX-option here!!
Out of this list I chose Porcupine Three, but I don't think I know them good enough to judge them. -------------  It is said to be the first Test-pressing of the corean release??
http://www.freewebs.com/ligyrophobia/ |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 03:02
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i vote for NEU too! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 03:13
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Out of the bands I know and like, I'd have to say Hawkwind is by far the most repetitive ... no way are Soft Machine or Queen repetitive bands ... sure they may have two or three songs in similar styles, but any body with a handful of albums will no that these two bands are very diverse ... I'd actually say Kraftwerk is also very simple ... almost like a bad synth-pop band (for the majority of its career) ... not a prog one ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 05:55
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Opeth is atleast the most repetative ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 06:10
| how about CAN? they're pretty damn repetitive and not too complex. You can look at this many ways. In other ways, I don't think CAN is a very "simple" band at all. This poll is retarded. |
Posted By: cmidkiff
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 08:50
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Simple as in repeating the same couple of chords over and over again. Or simple as in repeating the same drum and base line over and over again while maybe a solo or sound effect is thrown on top. Or maybe simple as in the use of elementry instrument parts. ------------- cmidkiff |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 08:58
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Hawkwind are occasionally repetitive, but so are Can, for example. And that repetitiveness is nothing negative for me; it is just their style. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 08:59
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[QUOTE=maidenrulez] Opeth is atleast the most repetative[/
QUOTE] Because they have DOOM METAL elements. What is a Doom Metal band without repeating itself? 
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Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 10:34
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Stanley Clarke? Mike Oldfield? sorry no vote from me on this one...
------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: Space Dimentia
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 10:50
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Hawkwind by far are the most simplist, Iv listened to porcupine tree and they can be very complex, but Hawkwind were just simple 12 bar blues with strange fx and a synth over the top. Why is Mike Oldfield there? His stuff is serioiously complex, very classically minded/oriantated. ------------- Prog is music for the mind Hear your Orphaned child! Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17 |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 11:05
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If I understand where you're coming from, I'd have thought Pink Floyd merited inclusion. Stanley Clarke though.? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 11:15
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Voted Hawkwind. Have not heard any Stanley Clarke, and the Soft Machine I've heard sounds quite complex I like Hawkwind, but it has to be said a lot of their music is based around what are very simple rock guitar riffs, simple 4/4 rhythms and a repetitive, sometimes 'trancey' feel. This is obviously what they were aiming for, and the formula works well...most of the time. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: cmidkiff
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 11:42
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Although Stanley Clarke is an excellent bass player, the compositions on his solo albums mainly consists of repeating a groove through the whole song and taking turns with other instruments soloing over top of that same groove. This is not uncommon in allot of fusion. Allot of fusion and other prog as well is based on technique and instrument skill and not on song composition. However, it requires less skill to solo over a 2 or 3 chord pattern then it does a 4 or 5 chord pattern. ------------- cmidkiff |
Posted By: Mnemosyne
Date Posted: November 03 2005 at 12:57
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This is definitely Hawkwind's poll... ------------- I'm a Man-Owl-Fish. Creator-Observer-Muse. |