Any Fans Of Progressive Rock?
 

this is a very interesting forum, but most of the artists mentioned here are popular modern artists, which sparks my curiousity...any prog fans out there?...my favorites are pink floyd, yes, jethro tull, king crimson, ELP, frank zappa and genesis...but i also like obscure groups like camel, gentle giant, gong, magma, caravan, van der graff generator, hawkwind, renaissance, focus, can, egg, atomic rooster, soft machine, captian beefheart, marillion and the moody blues....i have downloads from all these bands, so if you havent heard them but want to, just IM me.

Yes.

oh great...start a thread about a very interesting, imaginitive, challenging genre and only one person posts, start one about good charlotte and everybodys interested. :banghead:

i feel ya
 

i feel your pain its bull****. but ya im interested too

fff
 

not interested in good charloote, prog

me a fan!! dream theater rocks!!

i love prog rock. the classics such as floyd, van der graaf generator, hawkwind, can (courtesy of urban) but i also love the contemporary prog such as radiohead, the mars volta, tool, arcade fire and jaga jazz.

I'm listening to Rush right now :)

yea, greatest power trio ever in my opinion. :)

2112 album by Rush...our great computers fiil our hallowed halls... brilliant.

i already started a thread on this exactly,,, Prog rock is the greatest, the first post here is like looking at my ablum collection,

Yeah prog f*cking rules, listening to intersteller overdrive by pink floyd right now, but alas i havent heard much old school prog stuff mainly just rush and pink floyd and other bands which arnt so much prog but art rock, And new age stuff is alright but its all mainly metal or hardrock sorta stuff, which i aint complaining about

JETHRO TULL!!! yes... gotta love it....

yea, thick as a break, aqualung, minstrel in the gallery...great band.

and bourée... ah, good times....

YES!!!!!!!!!! PROG!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Alan Parsons Project, Argent, Caravan, Can, Electric Light Orchestra, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Brian Eno (Some stuff), Faust, Focus, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Kansas (Some stuff), King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Queen (Some Stuff), Roxy Music (Some Stuff), Rush, Styx, Supertramp, Traffic (Some Stuff), Yes, Frank Zappa...

That's all the prog I have.

ELO! rock

Progressive is fan.f u c king.tastic
I love music that is like a story of sounds within an unconventional legnth of time:D
It's-a-magic.

Hawkwind,yes,can,faust,vishnu orchestra.

yes pink floyd, jethro tull are great

hahahahahah
 

oh mr.9, mr.9 are you ok?

I like a lot of prog rock from the 60/70s. I call it hippy music.
I enjoy a lot of Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, Canned Heat, amonst others.

DEZZY'S BACK!!! where ya been?

i think king crimson pretty much makes most other prog bands of the 60s and 70s look silly.

i'm sorry stu...the arcade fire=prog rock?

those are pyschedelic rock bands not prog bands, though they do have progressive elements in their music for sure, but theres a slight difference between bands who make progressive music and true blue progressive rock bands...every rock artist progresse's in some way musicaly, progressive rock however is not just about progressing, it is also based on several distinct principles and characteristics...progressive rock and pyschedelic rock have some things in common as well as similar roots, but they are not the same genre...though both genres were born at about the same time...in the mid 60s post sgt peppers...jefferson airplane, love, grateful dead, quicksilver messenger service and the united states of america were the first pyschedelic rock bands and the moody blues, the nice, procal harum, traffic and the mothers of invention were the first progressive rock bands...but there are bands who blend both styles, pink floyd for example are both progressive rock and psychedelic rock...space rock is a style of rock that mix's both genres...hawkwind, gong and eloy are some notable space rock bands.

Hey Boo Boo
Thanks for that, you have an impressive knowledge of differences between the genres. I have always been rubbish at spotting the subtle differences between the masses of sounds out there.
I love all sorts of stuff especially the 60s "Pcsychedelic" stuff. So if progressive and Pscycodelic (can't spell it either) are different I do seem to like both. Floyd, Zappa, Velvet U (are they in this bracket?), Hendrix, Spooky Tooth.

Hello Pastor
Thanks for asking about my whereabouts I've been busy with work, broken PC, and spending several days/nights sat up a tree trying to prevent it being chopped down.

:wave:

haha...you're a tree hugger?

adidass. You're right to an extent. I love trees. I am sorry but I fibbed about trying to save one. I just dream that one day I will.

On the subject of Prog Rock.
Pink Floyd have been mentioned a lot in this thread. Has anyone heard the album called Ummagumma by them?
If so has anyone managed to listen to it all in one go without getting freaked out and putting something else on?
(I've not managed it............yet).

common characteristics of prog:

1.long, very long compositions...not all prog songs are long but most prog bands specialize in very long epics...and they are often in the form of suites...thick as a brick by jethro tull for example is 40 minutes long.

2.most prog songs are epics or suites...a lot of them have overlapping parts and contain songs within the song.

3.complex lyrics dealing with themes such as religion, fantasy, science fiction, history, war, insanity, philosophy, literature and stream of conciousness...there can also be political themes in prog music...which bands like ELP, jethro tull and genesis used a lot.

4.most prog albums are not a random collection of songs, instead they are based around a certain theme or storyline...and some prog albums have characters in their storylines...for example pink floyds the wall is about a rock star simply known as pink.

5.unsual vocal styles and multi part harmonys...the harmonys are often opera or folk influenced...yes, gentle giant and magma are good examples of prog bands with strange vocal harmonys.

6.the use of instruments not commonly used in rock music...genesis and jethro tull commonly used flute and recorders...a lot of yes songs features sitar parts..gentle giant incorperated many instruments into their music such as violins, cello, mandolin, saxophones, recorders and horn sections...prog bands are also known for popularizing the moog synthesizer...most prog bands feature uncoventional lineups instead of the standard guitar/bass/drums ensemble...rush are one big exception to this rule. =)

7.use of odd time signatures, scales and tunings...some prog bands offten play off each other instrumentaly to create a off ballance effect.

8.solo passages for almost every instrument, in other words with most prog bands, every instrument has equal importance.

9.coordinations withen the rhythm sections...bassists and drummers will often play off each other and different rhythms and progessions from the rest of the band...chris squire and bill bruford are good examples, also tony levin.

10.strong classical influences, and a lot of prog bands do interpretations of classical pieces...ELP have done adaptations of bach pieces for example.

11.linking the music with visual art...either with exotic and elaberate album covers or live performances that include light shows, props and animation sequences...pink floyd is a great example.

12.use of sound effects, to add depth to the story or concept, pink floyd use this a lot, as can be heard on DSOTM.

13.most prog bands are made up of classicly trained musicians with plenty of skill, though there are exceptions.

14.the fusion of many different styles and genres...yes for example blended hard rock, jazz, folk, classical, country, worldbeat, middle eastern and avant garde elements....jethro tull blended folk, classical, blues, jazz and heavy metal.

man, that must have taken you an hour to write....

if it means educating some people about one of rocks most underrated and little known genres, then it was well worth it. :)

Boo-boo I agree and disagree with you at the same time. Your list of characteristics describes some key and very common themes that have been found within the genre in the past, especially the late 60's/early70's, which is the era that is most commonly associated with peogressive rock, but esentially, progressive rock is just that: progressive, so its definition and subsequent criteria/characteristics are always evolving. The one defining characteristic that is constant is that progressive rock continue to push further outward the boundaries which define contemporary rock through imagination and innovation, and usually, a great deal of musical skill. Like I said your characterisitics are not wrong,. I just find them a bit restraining for a genre that is ever evolving and redifining itself.

bach = baroque :D

word! love those trees....

that was just my take on it, though im not implying that prog bands have all those characteristics, those are just common ones...bands like pink floyd and jethro tull lack some of those characteristics, but they are still prog...prog has many different forms and what i posted was merely characteristics of some of them...there are more sub genres to prog than any other genre in rock...symphonic prog, progressive metal, space rock, krautrock...and then theres RIO, which really isnt a genre but merely a discription of bands who really dont fall under any genre...they may lack most of the characteristics i mentioned and still be prog...prog is a genre that has evolved like no other, and there are several prog bands who escape the conventions of prog(like those i mentioned)and still be prog...mars volta for example, a very promising band indeed.

Mars Volta would be SO much better without their singer, I hate his voice.

that looks very much like a copy and paste job. but sounds right nonetheless.. though if your a fan of something you tend to already know what its about.

i didnt copy and paste, i had sorces, but i wrote that myself, i added my own spin and comentary as well.

i like his voice, a cool robert plant meets jon anderson style if you ask me. :)

Midgely do you like any GOOD music? (excluding pavement, the jicks and the eels)