rare prog from early 70s

[Abhorsen]

A Tab in the Ocean ranks well with Remember the Future and is better than Recycled on the whole. Down to Earth is a bit like Gentle Giant's Missing Piece. A few strong tracks but some obvious weak ones too.

Hot Rats is arguably the finest Zappa record. Can't go wrong with any Ulver, though some prefer the first three bm releases to the latter era material. Gryphon were one of a kind and still the finest prog band to feature sakbuts.

 

[NFU]

theres nothing in the brand X vein that is good, so i cant recommend anything there.

i do 2nd abhorsens recommendations of gryphon however, easily the finest "renaissance progressive" act ive heard. Circulus does a good job carrying the modern torch, although theyre a bit weirder...almost a bit of a comus approach with them.

Ulver...no brainer...any era...any album...all top quality music.

gentle giant, all 3 of those albums are solid. especially power and the glory.

nektar you cant really go wrong with either. tab in the ocean may be my fav.

zappa - hot rats....again probably the best zappa release that ive heard as well. also check out "freak out" its a solid album...and a good zappa starting point.

sleepytime gorilla museum i actually havent heard all that much of yet, but id say theyre very interesting and as soon as i have some time, im going to pick up their material and get into them more. i think theyre a great and fresh act for a time when people need them.

Yes - Going for the One and the yes album...both are ESSENTIAL.

Sophisticated/progressive metal : Arcturus, Sigh, Enslaved, Akercocke Madder Mortem, Dodheimsgard, Ved Buens Ende.

 

[Seance]

thanks both of you

 

[Mr. Josey Wales]

get Yes - Relayer

its highly underrated. ranks right up there with fragile, below CTTE imo.

 

[i aint play this]

Is King Crimson-Lizard a good album? only heard the song ''cirkus'' and i thought it was great...i have Red, Larks tongues in Aspic, In the wake of Poseidon, and In the Court...love them all, but people say that Lizard is bizarre, pretentious and all that shit, what do you guys think?

 

[Abhorsen]

Lizard and Islands get overlooked in the KC output and both are fantastic. Lizard is vastly underrated and no other Crim album sounds quite like it and not just because Jon Anderson sings on it. The instrumental writing is some of Robert Fripp's most interesting, if least accessible.

 

[i aint play this]

People's major complaints about Lizard, is that they say the songs are pointless jams with no substance, and that Fripp's trademark atonal/heavy riffs were replaced by a more accoustic-based sound, but i think i'll have to check it out/download a few more songs to see if i dig it.

 

[Mr. Josey Wales]

what do yall think about starless and bible black?

i like the stuff on there, but sometimes the tracks just STOP at 4 minutes, when it feels like they need to resolve the song, or continue playing just as its getting really good?

 

[i aint play this]

Went to a local record shop a few days ago and i saw an album called ''the first day'' a colaboration between Robert Fripp and David Sylvian, heard just 30 second samples of all the songs, sounds nothing like Sylvian's solo work or crimson at all...a bit rocking/funky i'd say, and i felt tempted to buy it...is it good? would you guys recommend it?

 

[arzachel]

^^ easily my least fav. of the fripp/wetton/bruford albums but still very solid imo.

 

[Necromantic-Hiko]

Shuttah - The Image Maker

 

[NFU]

a band ive been listening to a lot lately is a band called "Schtung". Theyre actually from the late 70s...but very decent pastoral symphonic progressive rock with added flutes and whatnot. Combine genesis with renaissance and youll have something close to this. they did one album...and its worth checking out.

 

[arzachel]

just listened to the 'soldier' track on their myspace page. Very nice.

 

[Seance]

*gives prog thread mouth-to-mouth*

 

[NFU]

*gives prog thread mouth-to-mouth*

seriously. its a shame too many people here are too busy blowing eachother and listening to moonsorrow to actually give this thread any sort of proper attention.

 

[Seance]

this thread pretty much singlehandedly opened up a huge world for me, so thanks to you and the other folks that help out

 

[Scourge of Malice]

NFU: Thanks for the Nektar album reccomendation, its fantastic!

 

[NFU]

thats how we do.

 

[Seance]

for sake of keeping this thread bumped, here is a hopefully-comprehensive-enough list of the CDs I've purchased in like, I dunno, the past half year that at least have prog elements I suppose (see how on-topic I am?)...

Pink Floyd - WYWH, DSOTM, Animals, Meddle (was familiar with DSOTM and some of WYWH at least, just never actually had the albums)
David Gilmour - On An Island
Enslaved - Below the Lights, Monumension
Comus - First Utterance
Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, HTTT (gotta love em)
Caravan - In the Land of Grey & Pink
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage: Acts I, II & III (Hot Rats will be next)
Paatos - Timeloss, Kallocain
Kansas - Leftoverture (thumbs up to Miracles Out of Nowhere)
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour, Morrocan Roll (I dig it, even if it's not regarded highly)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Nektar - Recycled, Remember the Future, A Tab in the Ocean (need to nab Down to Earth eventually, I love these guys)
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Yes - Close to the Edge
The Mars Volta - Deloused, FTM, Best Buy "The Widow" live single with FTM the song (bring on August 22nd)
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
Madder Mortem - Deadlands, Desiderata
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jethro Tull - Benefit, Thick as a Brick
Rush - 2112, Rush in Rio dvd (just one of those bands whos large discography frightens me from starting on them... wait I probably should've said that about Zappa)

some are obvious, some are from watching certain folk like a vulture in this thread and the Now Playing thread and pirating as much as I could with a parrot on my shoulder and buying up the ones I liked the most with the cash I was willing to spend, some just came out of my own personal interest... even though all of them are pretty closely related

looks like about 40 purchases... regrets? I'm not sure... maybe Crimson II for what I could've gotten instead, and probably Morrocan Roll; other than that I'm pretty much extremely happy and love every one of them, though I know I've barely scratched the surface of anything yet

I'm in dire need of Ulver

 

[illidurit]

^very good list, although it's pretty rudimentary