Comment on the band above you....
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Topic: Comment on the band above you....
Posted By: glass house
Subject: Comment on the band above you....
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 13:51
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Thought I introduce this game. I'll start with a band's ( or artist) name and you write a short comment about the band. For example if you like it and why.
Then you write another band name for the next poster to comment on.
If you don't know the band there is no point commenting on it, is there?
Ok, I'l start with Le Orme.... Have fun.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 14:51
Good idea! Start with a band nobody knows about! 
Just Kidding... Guess I'll have to pass until somebody makes the first comment...
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 15:06
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OK, found the thread by chance, so I think this time I can give it a go... Le Orme - one of the greatest RPI bands of all time, not a mere ELP clone, but with enough individuality to be appreciated for their own merits. Though Aldo Tagliapietra's vocals may not be to everyone's taste, the trio's instrumental prowess cannot be denied. I grew up with them in the early Seventies, and I saw them live last spring in Italy - they absolutely cooked! Next band - Caravan! |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 15:54
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Caravan - Got the first 3 cd's. One of the best Canterbury groups. Not always easy lo listen to, al least not for me. Must play them more.
Tool.
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Posted By: Verwuestung
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:08
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have one of the best and most weird/psychedelic artwork in any album (particularly CD) ever released, reffering to 1000 days!
other then that Lateralus is really my favourite but I wouldn't be considered a big fan Fantasy =) |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:09
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Tool: interesting prog metal, but a little boring to me. I keep on wondering how many fingers their bass player has got and being scared by their earlier videoclips...
Popol Vuh
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:12
Paolo, a minute too late.
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:13
 ... and I don't know Fantasy...-------------
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:15
| Neither do I, so'll we wait till someone comes along who does know Fantasy. |
Posted By: Mellow Candle
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:15
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Fantasy - They are one of my most recent discoveries. Very good UK prog. Paint a Picture cover depicts beautifully the diversity of emotions the album brings out . Arcadium ------------- 
Waiting for someone or something to show me the way... |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:19
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Never heard of them, but if you want to, i'd like you to tell me about your signature, i rather like it. Where did you find it? ------------- 
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: Mellow Candle
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:20
Josephine Wall  http://www.josephinewall.co.uk/josephine.html -------------
Waiting for someone or something to show me the way... |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:23
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ah, thank you. I have a soft spot for these kinds of things, you know :) But don't worry, i won't start using them as my signature, that would be unfair, haha! -------------
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:25
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I hope someone knows Arcadium, I don't.
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:27
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Apparently, they released ONE album, in 1969... and it has been reviewed 12 times. :)
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: Mellow Candle
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:29
I like one album bands 
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Waiting for someone or something to show me the way... |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:30
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Could you please, for one time, pick another band??
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Posted By: Mellow Candle
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:34
Oh alrighty.. How about Nektar?  -------------
Waiting for someone or something to show me the way... |
glass house wrote:Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:37
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Thank you.
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Posted By: jikai55
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:39
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Nektar: Good melodies, can get a little boring.
OPETH! ------------- 
I like cheese and I like metal! --Mikael Åkerfeldt |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:43
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Once at a party a guy with long hair and a very metal look started playing a song i recognized, so i took a shot and said "is thet the drapery falls?", which was the only song i had ever heard by opeth, and i listened to it at the site, and i was so proud that i actually got it right, and then i had to explain that i didn't really listen to opeth that much, but we still started talking about them and some other bands, and then we listened to the whole Damnation album and it was good. So now i have to get some opeth. Okay, Pavlov's Dog. -------------
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:45
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They're okay. The singer's voice sounds too much like a dolphin at points, but it's still good. I kinda like it, nothing outstanding.
Try...Do Make Say Think -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 16:48
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Question: is this only for prog bands? Because in that case i have to rule out half of my favourite bands :)
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 17:50
Let me rephrase: is it only for OBSCURE prog bands? Because in that case I have to rule out... my participation in the thread...
 ...(as I've been doing now... when opeth appeared, i didn't have time...) |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 06:48
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Just the PA listed bands, there should be enough bands for a while. After that we can put not PA listed bands. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 07:04
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Do Make Say Think - a post-rock band with lots of experimental and sound-avant technical apprises, most times working with abstract or borderline complex rock.
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Posted By: Mellow Candle
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 07:07
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Wheres the next band? :P
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Waiting for someone or something to show me the way... |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 07:14
Seesselberg!!  
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Posted By: Mellow Candle
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 07:19
 I'll pass..
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Waiting for someone or something to show me the way... |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 11:22
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Geez people, a bit less unknown bands please.
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 14:04
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Very interesting electronic brother duo, very SYNTHETIK, somewhat in the Conrad Schnitzler vein. By chance, their stuff is VEEEEERY hard to find!
POPOL VUH! -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 14:34
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I've only heard their music for Nosferatu, The Vampyre, by werner Herzog... Outstanding... I've also heard their music in Aguirre, The Wrath of God, by Herzog.... Good dreamy, atmospheric, gothic music.... I'll like to hear more...
KAYO DOT!!!
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 14:48
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Hello 'Dutch Tony', I just discovered that you have created this thread, about Kayo Dot I can say that I have done several efforts to get into their music but I failed, it makes me nervous WALLENSTEIN!!!
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 11:13
| Nobody anything on Wallenstein? |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 11:23
I've never heard of Wallenstein. 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:27
 Wallenstein wear funny hats -- this may have impeded their making it into the BIG TIME.The Beatles
(Anyone heard of them?)  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:32
Too many years of prereparation with poppy albums for a short career, but those few years were really great and influential.
ABBHAMA
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 00:09
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 (Alabama)
 Former Swede-froth-disco-pop-gay icons meet hirsute ass-suck 80s country one-hit wonders? Just kidding, ol' pal -- PASS!------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Tristan Mulders
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 16:51
If we keep coming up with all these obscure artists.. this thread won't have a long life expectancy I think 
------------- Interested in my reviews? You can find them http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=784 - HERE "...He will search until He's found a Way to take the Days..." |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 09 2007 at 10:43
| And that would be a shame, wouldn't it? |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 09 2007 at 10:55
It's a pitty, this kind of threads are the perfect excuse to research for bands that are forgotten, I believed this is the reason why we are here, to search for the most bands that are inour database.
Iván -------------
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 09 2007 at 11:01
| Maybe this thread is not really for that purpose, it can be a nice side effect though. If the band is too unknown the show stops. And that's really not the point. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 09 2007 at 11:07
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OK I change ABBHAMA for Queen, I believe this won't stop the game Iván -------------
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 09 2007 at 11:11
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Thank you, QUEEN it is.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 10 2007 at 02:20
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ABBHAMA
Isn't he a Democratic candidate for U.S. president.
Queen made 4.5 beautiful albums, then developed 80's-itis like several other bands who I will not mention here. I will close with an open note to Brian May.
Dear Brian,
Putting Paul Rodgers in the position formerly filled by the immortal Freddie Mercury is like letting your dog pinch a loaf into some alluminum foil, wrapping it up and calling it a Hershey bar. Sure somebody might be stupid enough to buy it and eat it, but they will feel cheated and dirty pretty quickly.
Love,
Tapfret
Ok, new band. Well, one mans obscure is another mans obvious.
How about....Cairo? ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: September 10 2007 at 10:14
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Never heard of them ... but checked out their PA listing!
Found out Cairo are influenced by ELP, Yes, Kansas & Styx. I have listened to the mp3 track 'Corridors' from the 1998 album "Conflict And Dreams" ... an enjoyable listen without being anything outstanding. It may be worth seeking out some more of this band's work.
Mythos ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 10 2007 at 13:34
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Haven't heard Mythos... But aboput Cairo, I had their first CD... I love a song called "Silent Winter"... their music is not the most original ever but it's good, some ELP, some Kansas... the singer Breett Douglas appears in two Trent Gardner side-projects: Explorer's Club 1 and Leonardo...
As I didn't say anything about this unknown band, I'll p[ost it again for somebody who knows,
MYTHOS
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 17:26
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Mythos - Kraut band of the spacy kind. Just give the stream a listen.
Atomic Rooster.
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: September 12 2007 at 06:11
Atomic Rooster - Vincent Crane on keys ... brilliant! I am surprised there is only one streaming file available here in PA from Atomic Rooster's first five albums ... I may just have to do something about that 
Druid
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Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 02:03
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Druid - poor ole chaps, always taking beans for sounding like Yes....well I don't think they were so bad, at least pleasant to listen to.
Area
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 08:42
Area 51, this prolific band's world-renowned 51st album, was not (as many wrongfully assume) named for the supposed US airforce top-secret UFO research facility -- but it does reportedly feature an uncredited alien on pecussion and backing vocals.
Steve Unruh ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 13:58
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Steve Unruh????
Man, what are you people doing, looking in the Prog-core: dictionary of prog-underground-obscure-neverheardof-bands to find the bands you're talking about?
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 13 2007 at 16:29
| Is he a relative of N. U. Unruh? |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 14 2007 at 09:50
 Sorry -- I've actually got a few of his albums (PA's uber fine-music fan Danbo got me into him).I'll take it: Steve Unruh is a very talented multi-instrumentalist with a hard-edged, almost metallic guitar sound, strong political convictions, and an impressive lyrical vocabulary. His CD Out of the Ashes is especially worthwhile!
 I thought I'd make up for my earlier too-easy Beatles post, but here, i'll go with something more in-between those two extremes:
NEKTAR
Good game, BTW! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: September 14 2007 at 15:09
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Nektar: interesting late psychadelic band with hard rock and progressive tendencies...excellent songwriters known for conceptual albums, like the onw in Peter's avie (maybe their best album....definately the best cover).
This one is dedicated to The T because he likes the obsucre ones
Pierrot Lunnaire
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: October 16 2007 at 12:12
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Pierrot Lunaire; interesting and somewhat wierd mix of Prog and Avant. Try the stream!!
Talisma.
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 01:57
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Talisma: Good Canadian band influenced in everybody, from J.S. Bach to King Crimson passing by Fusion, recommended.
Shadow Circus
Iván -------------
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 02:12
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Shadow Circus - spirited heavy symph band with a big, confident sound and distinct commercial elements.. not my cup, but not bad Zombi |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 14:04
Well, I think you succesfully killed this thread....again.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 20 2007 at 04:07
 hey they're not THAT obscure! |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: December 21 2007 at 19:00
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Zombi: Electronic Prog duo from the land of Uncle Sam. The two streaming tracks on PA are an encouraging listen that Zombi may be worth checking out more fully.
Colosseum II
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 11:11
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Colosseum II: John Hiseman's second project, which are basically a little spin off of colosseum I, hence the utmosedly inventive name. incredible drummer mind you.
pendragon |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:26
Pendragon: the only good music they produce is nothing but a bunch of quotes from Genesis. Their truly original music parts are just ugly on the ear, and their vocalist has a binary vocal system (he can deliver only two notes). 
The Jewel is barely listenable. Robotobibok ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |