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TheForgotton posted:I made the mistake getting THRaKaTTaK as my second King Crimson album, not realizing it was a bunch of improv I did exactly the same thing and I hated it (The first album was Crimson King, naturally) It killed my interested in them for years but later on, after my musical tastes had expanded (after listening to a lot of Merzbow and other noise) when I came back to it, I found it far more palletable. I have been own my own prog discovery journey for the last 6 months or so mostly through my GBS-FM show where i've been playing what i've found, and I have found a few absolute gems. The Enid An amazing symphonic prog band, it's as close to classical music with synths, guitars and drums as you are going to get. I started with the live album Live in Hammersmith 1983 which I found to be exquisite. The Song of Fand is magical. Magma These guys have created a really specific sound. It's like someone trying to franticly describe to you a nightmare about the end of the world through the medium of music and screaming (think Diamanda Galas but less prominent). Which is actually what it is in a way because (from Wikipedia) "Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him." made a new language to describe just that. The album I have heard is Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
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Songs of Distant Earth onwards: poo poo.
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Prog lyrics should be embarrassing to listen to. They need a vague sense of mysticism with clunky or a flagrant disregard for rhyme, sung in a English accent with an utterly unremarkable voice. Something like: The ancient city of times long past Beheld a strangers secret worry Of future streaming waters entwined The path of which we know not when
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No, it's ok. Dream Theater suck. They have absolutely no soul to their music. Technically brilliant, but that's all.
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Tonight on BBC Radio 3 is a performance of Frank Zappas The Adventures of Greggery Peccary and G-Spot Tornado for the BBC Proms. The Proms, for those who don't know, are a season of classical music performances, and this is the first time Zappa has been performed during it. It starts at 22:15 BST (local UK time) (There is also some Nancarrow and Philip Glass being performed too!)
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Rama Lama Magnus posted:Fläsket Brinner - Psych/hippiejam/folk music. Two albums and one 4 CD live compilation. That's a great list, lots of bands i've never heard of there. I've singled these guys out because their grooves are hypnotic and they sound like an early Zappa band at times too.
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That's nice - I am getting a really strong Studio Ghibli film score vibe from it
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There is now an official Progressive Rock Album Chart in the UK! Here's the very first one: 1.Tame Impala - Currents 2.Muse - Drones 3.Roger Waters - Amused To Death 4.Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova 5.Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space 6.Faith No More - Sol Invictus 7.Symphony X - Underworld 8.Pink Floyd - The Endless River 9.Tim Bowness - Stupid Things That Mean The World 10.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful They also compiled a chart for "Progressive Album Chart of the 21st Century": 1.Muse - Black Holes & Revelations 2.Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of the Moon 3.Radiohead - OK Computer 4.Kate Bush - Aerial 5.Jeff Wayne - The War Of The Worlds 6.Air - Moon Safari 7.Sigur Ros - Takk 8.Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 9.Genesis - Selling England By The Pound 10.Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots I am not sure why Air is there for Prog Rock? or Sigur Ros?
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This Zeuhl band popped up in my Spotify Discover Weekly list just this week! They're Italian, I believe. Universal Totem Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YL-rCvmdAk
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Jun 22, 2017 11:47
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Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds 
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Gianthogweed posted:Doubtless KC would have had a lot more commercial success if Elton joined in 1970 and some of his hit songs were adapted into KC songs. This is making me laugh far too much
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Jul 6, 2017 12:07
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Henchman of Santa posted:Animals is their best album, fool This is the correct answer.
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If you're of minimalist bent, Incantations is lovely. Pretty much anything after Tubular Bells 2 can go gently caress itself. And let's not forget the remake of Tubular Bells 1 so it's "perfect." I mean jesus christ Mike what were you even thinking? It's soulless and horrible.
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There isn't a doubt in my mind that they aren't voracious swingers.
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