The Progressive Thread

[Fizzeler]

Hey I am trying to compile a list of greatest Prog. Artists on any instruments so far I have
Ian Anderson - Best Flutist
Need some more from the community I will post it when it is done

[a21schizoidman]

Ray Thomas > Ian Anderson, lol

[Fizzeler]

Ray Thomas > Ian Anderson, lol

Defending Ian Anderson is this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdz_G1VGJ4c

However I actually agree Ray Thomas has seniority and correct me on this one if I am wrong he did influence Anderson so I guess Ray wins

Current list
Ray Thomas - Best Flautist

[a21schizoidman]

Defending Ian Anderson is this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdz_G1VGJ4c

However I actually agree Ray Thomas has seniority and correct me on this one if I am wrong he did influence Anderson so I guess Ray wins

Current list
Ray Thomas - Best Flautist

Ray Thomas has more control IMO


Anderson goes over the top too much

[SputnikDX]

Gonna go out on a limb here and argue that Peter Hammill is the best Progressive Vocalist. Opinion, sure, but it could be fact. I think argumentatively, finding the best vocalist will be hard, but Steve Howe could easily be the best guitarist.

On a more personal note, got Octopus by Gentle Giant the other day. The whole album is just and I've listened to it almost religiously 5 times in a row. River is my least favorite song, with Raconteur, Troubadour being my favorite. Oh, and the whole album is WAAAY too short, not even hitting 35 minutes.

Regardless, I mega-suggest it to any prog fan who doesn't some reason already have it. (like I did)

[SputnikDX]

Got another album, Operation: Mindcrime. Highly suggested by Schizoid in his list of prog bands.

My opinions: Fabulous album from start to finish. It's an hour long, but that hour zings by in like 20 minutes. The album, for the most part, is seamless. Songs often lead from one to the next with not even a second to break, giving the album an incredible flow.
However, it's progity(?) isn't as high as most of the bands on that list. It's prog, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't feel like it at first.

Regardless, I highly recommend it.

Double post but who cares, right?

[Fizzeler]

Got another album, Operation: Mindcrime. Highly suggested by Schizoid in his list of prog bands.

My opinions: Fabulous album from start to finish. It's an hour long, but that hour zings by in like 20 minutes. The album, for the most part, is seamless. Songs often lead from one to the next with not even a second to break, giving the album an incredible flow.
However, it's progity(?) isn't as high as most of the bands on that list. It's prog, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't feel like it at first.

Regardless, I highly recommend it.

Double post but who cares, right?

If you are looking for some good Prog. Metal my top album suggestions would be:
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Opeth - Damnation (If you do not like death metal pick this album up, I do not which is why I am recommending it)

If you are looking for some good classic Prog. my top album suggestions would be:
Emerson, Lake, And Palmer - Tarkus or Brain Salad Surgery
The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Past
YES - Fragile, Close To The Edge, or The YES Album
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

[Tono_Fyr]

That Coheed album's all right, but it really drops off at the 8th song or so.

My definition of prog tends to be kinda loose. Any band that advances their music, trying new things that distinguish albums from one another, I would call Progressive. If you've done a concept album, you probably also fall under "Progressive". Then there's the old school prog sound with moog synths and the rock organ. There's also odd time signatures and tempo changes and such. Songs regularly going over 10 minutes are another symptom.

I've seen a number of people go '"But rush was only prog for four albums!!!111", and to you i say, for many people, they were one of the original prog bands, because they kind of were. If you ask the average person without as rigid definition of prog as some of you guys here, they would probably call them progressive. And by nature, Prog does not have a stark definition. You can be a progressive power metal band with black metal tendancies, for instance.

To me, prog is more of something that a band IS rather than a strictly defined genre.

[Fizzeler]

That Coheed album's all right, but it really drops off at the 8th song or so.

My definition of prog tends to be kinda loose. Any band that advances their music, trying new things that distinguish albums from one another, I would call Progressive. If you've done a concept album, you probably also fall under "Progressive". Then there's the old school prog sound with moog synths and the rock organ. There's also odd time signatures and tempo changes and such. Songs regularly going over 10 minutes are another symptom.

I've seen a number of people go '"But rush was only prog for four albums!!!111", and to you i say, for many people, they were one of the original prog bands, because they kind of were. If you ask the average person without as rigid definition of prog as some of you guys here, they would probably call them progressive. And by nature, Prog does not have a stark definition. You can be a progressive power metal band with black metal tendancies, for instance.

To me, prog is more of something that a band IS rather than a strictly defined genre.

Search this forum there is a Prog. definition in a thread as to Rush they released their first album in 1974 while most Prog. bands released their first album in the late 60s so no they were not one of the original Prog. bands

[Tono_Fyr]

Search this forum there is a Prog. definition in a thread as to Rush they released their first album in 1974 while most Prog. bands released their first album in the late 60s so no they were not one of the original Prog. bands

You just made me roll my eyes. Most prog rock bands released thier debuts in 1969, but Prog's hayday was the 1970s. Any band that came across as prog from that time period was a part of the early prog movement. The fact that the band formed a few years later means very little in the scheme of decades past. Rush also has had a lasting effect on prog rock bands up to today, such as Dream Theater, Symphony X, and Nevermore, as just a few examples.

Furthermore, if you ask a prog musician to name off early prog bands, they'll go down the laundrylist of something like this; Yes, Rush, Genesis, King Crimson, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Etc.

And ****, the first ELP album came out in the seventies. Does that make them 'not early prog'?

And this makes me laugh every time. I love both musicians featured, but steven smokes mikeal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2InJpqo_bw