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Tsaedje posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtppXIfi9Nk Oh hell yes!
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I really got nothing to add to this. https://www.dgmlive.com/news/t&r-lockdown-swan-lake-sunday-lunch
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Rust Martialis posted:I really got nothing to add to this. Good to see a couple of people at least don't have the lockdown madness.
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Tsaedje posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtppXIfi9Nk Fuuuuuck yes
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Came across this on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSKx4G_ICZc "Prog from home" performances including Haken, Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Jordan Rudess, and a brief appearance by Steve Hackett doing "Blood on the Rooftops."
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May 29, 2020 03:27
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New Transatlantic when. poo poo sorry, I just say that out of habit.
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May 29, 2020 04:03
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I will accept a new Transatlantic album, but only if we can get another Transatlantic interview to go with it.
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May 29, 2020 18:37
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Rush made a video of "Spirit of Radio" in tribute to Neil Peart. It's pretty cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QtO0Rhp0w
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Jun 19, 2020 15:18
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That was really good
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Jun 19, 2020 17:28
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Tsaedje posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtppXIfi9Nk Holy crap inject this straight into my veins. edit, I just need to say, I love this album so much it almost hurts.
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Jun 19, 2020 23:11
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Jun 24, 2020 15:09
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Finding out at last that furry is A state of mind
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Apple Music's "discovery" is finally starting to pay off. I had never heard of these guys, they're a Norwegian prog group. This album is pretty drat good.
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algebra testes posted:Finding out at last that furry is will always be so much more human than we wish to be
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Summer came with longing for the things we could not be.......
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For the longest time, the only Fates Warning album I had was Perfect Symmetry and I didn't really care for it. I gave it a bunch of listens and it always came off as flat, mechanical, soulless. But I tried the more recent Theories of Flight and I really liked it. The songwriting seems much more animated, more interesting. So am I missing something with Perfect Symmetry? Do they have any other early albums worth checking out?
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Seventh Arrow posted:For the longest time, the only Fates Warning album I had was Perfect Symmetry and I didn't really care for it. I gave it a bunch of listens and it always came off as flat, mechanical, soulless. But I tried the more recent Theories of Flight and I really liked it. The songwriting seems much more animated, more interesting. So am I missing something with Perfect Symmetry? Do they have any other early albums worth checking out? Listen to the classic John Arch era stuff. If you hear Awaken the Guardian and The Spectre Within and come away thinking they’re unanimated, then you just have problems.
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Finally got around to listening to the new PRR album, and... as a whole, I don't love it yet, but it's a lot better than Hammer and Anvil (everything's written by Jon Courtney again, thank God). It's very much a prog metal album in contrast to their previous albums, where I think they blurred genre lines more interestingly and effectively, and some of it feels a bit aimless and longwinded like the weakest parts of The Dark Third. Lyrically and thematically, it feels almost bizarrely relevant for an album released in the midst of a pandemic it wouldn't have been inspired by. Hope they've still got some more albums in them and we don't have to wait another decade for the next one.
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Seventh Arrow posted:For the longest time, the only Fates Warning album I had was Perfect Symmetry and I didn't really care for it. I gave it a bunch of listens and it always came off as flat, mechanical, soulless. But I tried the more recent Theories of Flight and I really liked it. The songwriting seems much more animated, more interesting. So am I missing something with Perfect Symmetry? Do they have any other early albums worth checking out? I'm the opposite. Theories Of Flight bores me to tears and Perfect Symmetry is like top-tier FW for me next to No Exit and A Pleasant Shade Of Grey. Ray Alder's solo album from last year is a banger tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvzmK-X7SPw
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I listened to some of Awaken the Guardian while I was out doing errands and it's very, very good. So I guess Perfect Symmetry is just an anomaly with me.
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Seventh Arrow posted:I listened to some of Awaken the Guardian while I was out doing errands and it's very, very good. So I guess Perfect Symmetry is just an anomaly with me. My favorite FW album tbh.
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I've been revisiting some of the prog albums I met this year and some of them are holding up. Kino's Picture is really good, although it's standout alt sound is only found on the first song and the rest of the album is neo-prog. That being said, this is really good neo-prog and one of my favourite neo-prog albums. I gotta give Peter Gabriel a deeper look. Up is a fantastic album and I can't wait to get ahold of his other works. I avoided him for most of my music enthusiast career (despite being a huge Genesis fan) because I associated him with his pop music (albeit really good pop music) and didn't think his work would be so proggy and artsy. Relistened to Frost*'s Milliontown and Sylvan's Posthumous Silence, where the former held up very well and its praise is completely deserved, I didn't think Posthumous Silence was exemplary although once of the best prog albums of that year.
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Seventh Arrow posted:For the longest time, the only Fates Warning album I had was Perfect Symmetry and I didn't really care for it. I gave it a bunch of listens and it always came off as flat, mechanical, soulless. But I tried the more recent Theories of Flight and I really liked it. The songwriting seems much more animated, more interesting. So am I missing something with Perfect Symmetry? Do they have any other early albums worth checking out? Awaken the Guardian and The Spectre Within are near universally regarded as their best albums by far.
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Seventh Arrow posted:I listened to some of Awaken the Guardian while I was out doing errands and it's very, very good. So I guess Perfect Symmetry is just an anomaly with me. When you're done with classic Fates Warning you should listen to Arch/Matheos, which is basically a combination of the best FW lineups. Some of the best prog metal of the 2010s.
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Henchman of Santa posted:When you're done with classic Fates Warning you should listen to Arch/Matheos, which is basically a combination of the best FW lineups. Some of the best prog metal of the 2010s. As long as we're talking about PM from the last 10 years or so, Atlantean Kodex really scratches that itch well.
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I don't remember Atleantean Kodex having much prog in their sound at all but maybe they've changed a bit since 2013?
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DoubleCakes posted:I gotta give Peter Gabriel a deeper look. Up is a fantastic album and I can't wait to get ahold of his other works. I avoided him for most of my music enthusiast career (despite being a huge Genesis fan) because I associated him with his pop music (albeit really good pop music) and didn't think his work would be so proggy and artsy. Up, Ovo and 3 are probably his most experimental and unique stuff, so maybe check out those after. I think that, besides Us, all his albums are good even if some of them are surprisingly accesible for an artist like PG. And So is solid, no matter if you just enjoy the pop aspect or the craftmanship behind it.
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A human heart posted:I don't remember Atleantean Kodex having much prog in their sound at all but maybe they've changed a bit since 2013? I found Course of Empire to be wonderfully proggy and well crafted.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QKmOJl4GXQ Unf.
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Gildenlöw's been seriously hitting gym after his brush with death.
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My favourite FW album is FWX and I feel bad about it but they're at their best when they're writing short, focused songs! Ahhh I'm sorry!!
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tote up a bags posted:My favourite FW album is FWX and I feel bad about it but they're at their best when they're writing short, focused songs! Ahhh I'm sorry!! Short songs are for the W E A K!
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Oh hey! Phideaux came out with a free odds-'n'-ends album, Lysogenic Burnt Offerings. It's mostly rough cuts and concept tracks but there's also a live version of Thank You for the Evil which might rock even harder than the original. And the song which is basically In the Hall of the Mountain King but about robots has got me grinning like a fool. Probably best received by Phideaux fans. But that should be most of you 
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Apple Music hit another solid recommendation today: Barok Project. I've only listened to one album thus far, but you can hear a little of each classic-era prog group in it. They are Italian, but with English lyrics. The founder is evidently a Keith Emerson fanboi, and it really shows in this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzrO7ACVNM
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I think Toyah has turned Fripp from an introvert weirdo into an extrovert weirdo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJH8TenrrQ
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He's not taking lockdown well, is he?
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There isn't a doubt in my mind that they aren't voracious swingers.
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Picked up a McKendree Spring album (Tracks) earlier this month at Goodwill. This is run of the mill light country pop, until the very end of the album where they drop this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9jTsJdfbeA It's not great, but has a bit of a Curved Air vibe to it. YouTube recommended another song of theirs, God Bless the Conspiracy, which I like more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSbZdd-PF7o Is anyone familiar enough with them to know if the rest of their stuff is the country pop, or more like these two cuts?
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This is so strange, For most of my life I subscribed to the "Dream Theater is a bunch of technical wank" school of thought, but now I find myself thinking that Scenes From a Memory, Awake, A Change of Seasons and Images and Words are good actually? I never thought I'd turn 180 on a band so much.
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algebra testes posted:This is so strange, For most of my life I subscribed to the "Dream Theater is a bunch of technical wank" school of thought, but now I find myself thinking that Scenes From a Memory, Awake, A Change of Seasons and Images and Words are good actually? Like any band they had their hits and misses. The hits are pretty solid though.
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