Besides Enchant, what are some of your favorite bands/artists?

[Disintegrator Of Lasting Hope]

This is an opportunity to see if we share common interests.

My list:

Marillion + Fish-solo
Fates Warning
Tangerine Dream + Edgar Froese-solo
Van Der Graaf Generator + Peter Hammill-solo
Genesis + Peter Gabriel-solo
Sieges Even
Rush
Yes
Kate Bush
U.K
IQ
Renaissance
Mike Oldfield
+ some others

 

[Alberik]

This one is easy:

OZRIC TENTACLES
HIDRIA SPACEFOLK
EAT STATIC
WEATHER REPORT (Joe Zawinul is the man!!!!)
RETURN TO FOREVER
THE FLOWER KINGS
ECHOLYN
ARTI + MESTIERI
CONTROL DENIED
FISHBONE
LIVING COLOUR
GRAVEDIGGAZ
STEVE HILLAGE
JOHN ZORN
KINGSTON WALL
KORAI OROM
NOETICS
KRAAN
LEB I SOL
MORDRED
NODENS ICTUS
ORBITAL
PRIMUS
SHIP OF FOOLS (UK)
DEVIN TOWNSEND

 

[Sevlar]

my time...

Marillion
Spocks Beard
Dream Theater
Dalis Dilemma
A.C.T
MoggWay
Arena
King Crimson
Rush
Symphony X
Fates Warning
Pain of Salvation
Geneys
Yes

(as far as I can remember now)

 

[Sticks]

Right now A.C.T are hands down my favourite.
Just caught them live too, blew Saga off stage (never thought I'd say that!!)

So who else?

Old favs
Genesis up to 1983
Supertramp until RH left
Saga
It Bites (soon to reform I hope!)
Split Enz / Crowded House
Wings (only at their best)

New favs
Spocks Beard (once I got past the name!)
The Flower Kings
Dishwalla
Salem Hill

Mainstream favs
Alanis Morrissette
Avril Lavigne (Alanis part 2..)
Semisonic

and I could go on and on....

Pretty varied tastes as I've not even mentioned
people like Ronnie Baker Brookes (Blues Rock)
Bond (Classical pop) Trilok Gurtu (World) and
a blast from the punk era, The Stranglers...
But now I have just mentioned them!

NP:Sylvan - Artificial Paradise (very good)

 

[StocktontoMalone]

Rush
Kansas
House of Shakira
Harem Scarem
Fair Warning
Emerald Rain
Balance of Power(Lance era)
Michael Angelo
Genesis(post Gabriel)
Ayreon
Chicago
Hall & Oates
Lana Lane
Journey
Styx
Maximum Indifference

 

[jjmannford]

You lucky man, Sticks. I really want to see A.C.T live, and heard they are awesome on stage. Any stories?? I see you are an It Bites fan too. According to their website, they all are getting back together for some shows.

70s Prog
Camel
Be Bop Deluxe (I wish Bill Nelson would dust off those tunes and go out on tour

)
Kansas
Genesis
Hackett Solo
Floyd
Some songs from Yes, ELP, PFM, Focus, Nektar, UK, Gentle Giant, and all the other Prog Dinosaurs (Never will like King Crimson

)

Newer Prog (Definitely my favorite with Enchant #1 in this category)
IQ
A.C.T
It Bites
Jadis
Iluvatar
Echolyn
Spock's Beard
Saga (Although some in late 70s)
Plenty others too like 12th Night, .....
Definitely like some Prog Metal like POS, & DT, Everon (P Metal Lite)

Pop Prog
Kevin Gilbert
Utopia/TR

Pop
Journey
Cheap Trick (Saw them on Monday nite, Good time)
Missing Persons
Survivor (older mostly)
Police
Rick Springfield (thats right, good early 80s tunes)
Pat Benatar
Whole Slew of Early 80s Songs (Check out I love the 80s on VH1 --- hilarous shit

)
Even growing fond of some 80s glam bands from a nostaligic point of view

70s Rock (Although overplayed and sometimes boring)
Bruce
Who
Zep (of course)
Fleetwood Mac
Toto
Supertramp
Styx
Heart
Plenty of others too

I of course like the Beatles, but personally I think the Stones suck. Some other 60s bands are cool.

Not too fond of jazz and its derivatives, classical - ok, country -

but the chicks are smoking, rap/hiphop - some of it is eyyight, most is weak, alternative - again some of it is ok, motown - like it, punk - some of it is good, alot is

. I like 70s lite rock a lot

Later
jim

 

[keeper of the flame]

These lists of favourite bands get longer and longer

Well I will try to narrow it down to my 10 favourites other than Enchant.

Ayreon,
Saga,
Marillion ('80s)
Vanden Plas
Queensrÿche,
Dream Theater
Pink Floyd,
Silent Agreement (my own progband,
Pendragon,
Spock's Beard

 

[ProgMetalFan]

I have lots of favorite artists... but lately I've been listening to nothing but Enchant and Queensryche!

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Ok, I'm in a mid-80's Rush phase right now!

They dream in Middletown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[knust2002]

I really like the following bands/artists:

Enchant (Surprise!)
Porcupine Tree
Marillion (until BRAVE)
Dream Theater
Spock`s Beard
Ray Wilson
Maná (Great Mexican band)
Jadis
Saga
Asia (+John Wetton`s solo works (Until SINISTER)
Arena
Pendragon
Alejandro Sanz (Pure Mainstream! The Spanish Eros Ramazotti)

 

[ProgMetalFan]

I enjoyed the little Mana I heard... I had a roommate from Nicaragua who had their unplugged album... sounded pretty good!

 

[Soundscape]

In short

Soundscape
Marillion
King's X
Fates Warning
Dream Theater
Rush
Shaman/Angra (Matos)
Transatlantic
Pain of Salvation
Enchant

Big 5
Big 3 Jazz-Rock

I like all good music.

Kyle

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Soundscape, I'm an Edu-only Angra fan!

 

[Soundscape]

Soundscape, I'm an Edu-only Angra fan!

yeah there are some people who only like the current Angra. I think there is some of the material on Rebirth which i liked, but to me Angra will never be like the Angra I fell in love with. I am not very much a fan of Powermetal and Edu's voice is not bad, but it's not Andre to me. I dunno, many bands have had splitups and change in singers I went onto like as much if not more: Marillion, Genesis, Fates Warning, Spocks Beard coming up, however in this case their sound seems to be more dramatic of a difference toward speed and powermetal. But who knows, maybe Angra will have more progressive elements to their sound in the future. I love Shaman though, very much capturing what I enjoyed about Holy Land.

Kyle

 

[Frank]

Some people hate these types of threads, but these kinds of threads are how I find new music.

Some of my favorites:

Rush (THE greatest band on Earth)
Dream Theater
Black Sabbath (All iterations)
Iron Maiden
Camel
The Cranberries
Bruce Dickenson (Chemical Wedding is one of my all time favorite of my collection)
Spock's Beard
Hootie and the Blowfish (Good rock'n'roll plain and simple)
Type O Negative
Tonic
Transatlantic


A new favorite:

Evanescence

 

[DiscoDave]

In rough give or take order depending on my mood:

Pink Floyd
Spock's Beard
Dream Theater
Transatlantic
Kevin Gilbert (Anyone else catch NDV's ProgWest shindig last year? Sweet Jesus, that was incredible!)
Genesis (I think the Home by the Sea series was the last really good stuff they've done)
Sarah McLaughlan (except Surfacing)
Tears for Fears

Other bands who have specific cd's I really like:

Queensryche (Mindcrime), Fates Warning (Disconnected), Liquid Tension Experiment (2...such an amazing disk!), Porcupine Tree (In Absentia), Creed (My Own Prison).

 

[rsog2000]

Steve Hackett solo!

I just got his new CD in the mail today. It arrived autographed (my second autographed Hackett CD). It's a good CD imo, not his greatest, but good nonetheless. Also has some anti-war comments in the liner notes; as far as I know this is the first time he's been vocal on a political issue.
Long-time Hackett fans will like this, but if you're not used to his styles you probably won't like this (Steve Hackett is the type of person that you have to get used to; best to start with his early stuff and work your way up).

 

[warmwetos]

Besides Enchant, here are some of the bands I dig:

Marillion (like if you couldn't tell from my handle) add Fish as well
Porcupine Tree (Wilson is a genius)
Opeth (one of the very few I like in this genre)
Dream Theater (nuff said)
Adagio (fairly new commers but Stephan and the boys can sure play)
Symphony X (see Dream Theater)
Rainbow (classic Blackmore and Dio)
Black Sabbath (the fathers of heavy metal)
Queensryche (although I start to drop off around Empire you have to admire what they did for this scene)
Rush (professional masters)
Nightwish (Operatic metal at its best)
Lacuna Coil (Italy's finest import in a long time)
Genesis (Gabriel Era of course)
Deep Purple (see Rainbow kind of)
Jethro Tull (one of the bands I have seen over 10 times)
Pink Floyd
Gentle Giant
Kevin Gilbert
Ozric Tentacles
Fates Warning
OSI
ChromaKey
Warlord (Bill Tsamis and Mark Zonder)
MSG (Schenker solo)
Echolyn
Anekdoten (incredible band from Sweden)
UK (Holdsworth)

Evergrey
The Gathering
Freak Kitchen
Steve Vai
Threshold
Spock's Beard
Iron Maiden
Dredg
The Tea Party
Thought Industry
IQ
Big Wreck
Kansas
Devin Townsend
Kamelot
In Flames
Magnitude 9
Children Of Bodom
Pain of Salvation
Stratovarius (old stuff)
Angra
Yngwie Malmsteen (ok so not really into him anymore but he did some great stuff for a lot of the new breed neo-classical guitar players)
UFO (Schenker)
Scorpions (Mostly with Uli Jon Roth)
Nightingale (most Dan Swano stuff)
Therion (another one of the few in this genre that I like)

Hodge Podge:
Tori Amos, Ziroq, Tapping the Vein, Jorn Lande, Conception, Time Requiem, Evanescence, Kate Bush, Bjork, Michael Hedges, Rusty Cooley, Bernd Steidl, Everon, Lemur Voice, Falconer, Shawn Lane, Michael Manring, Savatage, Vinnie Moore, Paco De Lucia....shit I better stop!

 

[Coldfire Mouse]

Here is a short list of mine


Shadow Gallery
Superior
Lemur Voice (RIP)
Madsword (RIP)
Mayadome(RIP)
Vanden Plas
Devin Townsend Band
Ocean Machine - Biomech
Symphony X
Dream Theater
Reading Zero
Zero Hour
Power of Omens
Digital Ruin (w/Matt Pacheco only)
Evergrey
The Crystal Method
The Gathering
Robert Miles
Conception (RIP)
Braindance
Incubus
Filter
Saliva


and that is just the short list.



Coldie

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Madsword (RIP)

They are one of my favorites. "The Global Village" is a perfect album. I REALLY wish they would get back together!



I've heard some Braindance... "From Whence it Came" is mind-blowing.