WTF is wrong with me? I'm listening to Prog Rock

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:58 pm

dhilsabeck wrote:You didn't listen to the whole thing did you?

guilty as charged. I listened through the first chorus but had the Olympics on pause and was tired.

Fine, here's another but you have to promise to listen to the whole song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KMwBtR- ... re=related

hey!! there's a Rush song I like!!

Tom Sawyer's pretty cool as well.

I love music and have always thought that someday I'd understand Rush and get into them, great musicianship no doubt, just not my cup of tea (yet?)

Canadian TV show with Alex Liefson in a bunch of scenes, I'd say more but no spoilers. the last few minutes of the show have Alex playing acoustic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMNCMuELGA <-- Trailer Park Boys - Closer To The Heart

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:59 pm

that's an amazing Ween song, BTW. But i think it's tough to sell it as proggy.

A lot of prog is so technical and passionless. Ween is neither.

.lm.

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:04 pm

great psyche rock:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo0e_s ... n-67_music

.lm.

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:26 pm

and here's some souless techno:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyW91zZVclE

.lm.

dhilsabeck · Post by **dhilsabeck** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:28 pm

Tone Deft wrote: I love music and have always thought that someday I'd understand Rush and get into them, great musicianship no doubt, just not my cup of tea (yet?)

I understand. I had 3 years of getting it pounded into my head by my older brother. Fed a steady diet of Rush, Primus and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (pre "Lets Face It"). And I love him for it.

dhilsabeck · Post by **dhilsabeck** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:34 pm

leisuremuffin wrote:that's an amazing Ween song, BTW. But i think it's tough to sell it as proggy.

A lot of prog is so technical and passionless. Ween is neither.

.lm.

Ween is the greatest living band today.

kuniklo · Post by **kuniklo** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:53 pm

The best prog rock is the old Italian stuff. Check out PFM, Banco, Il Balleto, Semiramis, Goblin etc. Weird shit.

Daddy?! · Post by **Daddy?!** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:02 pm

I'd recommend for prog:

Naikaku
Planet X
Uncle Moe's Space Ranch
http://www.myspace.com/ThreeMachineBand
http://www.ThreeMachine.com

Darwinist · Post by **Darwinist** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:09 pm

Prog has no soul? Nonsense. Bad prog has no soul.

This, however, has. In spades. One of the most underrated prog band IMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZzLPf_zyKk

EDIT: On second thought, Kansas was never a pure prog rock band. They sort of straddled the middle ground between southern hard rock, prog and the older hippy stuff of the late 60s. Overall a great band, but I stand by my claim that The Pinnacle is one of the greatest prog songs ever.

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:25 pm

leisuremuffin wrote: A lot of prog is so technical and passionless. Ween is neither.

.lm.

This from the asshole that owns every fucking soulLESS piece of Techno shit ever made.

Ooo. This is gonna be fuuun!

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landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:27 pm

kuniklo wrote:The best prog rock is the old Italian stuff. Check out PFM, Banco, Il Balleto, Semiramis, Goblin etc. Weird shit.

Goblin = Awesome Dawn of the Dead soundtrack

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landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:28 pm

leisuremuffin wrote:and here's some souless techno:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyW91zZVclE

.lm.

Hey muffinStain, what's next? A nice bit of Hawtin? Shine for me, sweetheart.

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Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:32 pm

Darwinist wrote:Prog has no soul? Nonsense. Bad prog has no soul.

This, however, has. In spades. One of the most underrated prog band IMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZzLPf_zyKk

EDIT: On second thought, Kansas was never a pure prog rock band. They sort of straddled the middle ground between southern hard rock, prog and the older hippy stuff of the late 60s. Overall a great band, but I stand by my claim that The Pinnacle is one of the greatest prog songs ever.

IMO <-- stress that
still lacking any soul, emotion yes, soul no. by soul I mean that thing that was carried back from Africa that makes the blues wail, rock gets its swagger from, that thing that makes your head bop.

this stuff strikes me as white boy music, derived from European composers, lacking that connection to African music (or rather music of the first African Americans.) that's what mainly draws me to music, that's what I like, that's what I'm not hearing in all this.

some interesting tunes nonetheless.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:35 pm

landrvr1 wrote: Goblin = Awesome Dawn of the Dead soundtrack...

Goblin's Suspiria soundtrack too -ultra Goth Prog!

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:39 pm

Since I haven't noticed them mentioned yet, check out Gentle Giant. British band:

Their song So Sincere on the album The Power And The Glory is Stravinsky rock! Amazing weirdness.

Their other top album is Free Hand.

Some of their other albums are dodgy though... Go for their best.