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recommend me some prog?

codpieceface [Edit] [Delete] 145 replies 06:03 October 14th, 2009

i like dungen and amon dull II and os mutantes and king crimson and that sort of guff.

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The Polite Force by EGG

is a really good prog album . or try some Mahavishnu Orchestra (The Inner Mounting Flame), bit more jazz, but still prog.

iamnotaperson | 14 Oct '09, 07:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
try

some live Floyd
http://rapidshare.com/files/144166535/PF-69TMTJ1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/144197130/PF-69TMTJ2.rar.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DU2G5S7H
and Gong - 'You'
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XQ824PA8
and Hawkwind - 'Space Ritual Alive'

http://basementrug.com/1744

freddiehubbard | 14 Oct '09, 08:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
Any

of the early Amon Duul

chupacabra | 14 Oct '09, 09:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Fuck yes
  
  "Yeti" is one of my favourite albums of all time
  
  blisters @chupacabra | 18 Dec '12, 00:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
this band are me fave...

Cardiacs....proggy math punk messed up time signature all over the shop stuff....go read about um on Wiki which is a decent write up(for wiki that is) then go check stuff out on the ol y'tube.

seen um 20 odd times....amazing live.

AdyRandom | 14 Oct '09, 11:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
- not the right thread but yeah they're the best band ever
  
  Ach, who am I kidding, every thread is the right thread
  
  Loui_Tacceh @AdyRandom | 14 Dec '12, 20:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Comaboy this'd this
more

codpieceface | 14 Oct '09, 15:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- More?
  
  What do you mean 'more' you ungrateful, demanding little scrote.
  
  Try 'please' next time, there's no need to forego politeness just because it's a web forum...
  
  Bassdrum13 @codpieceface | 14 Oct '09, 16:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - calm down big man
    
    i was just giving it a little bump
    
    codpieceface @Bassdrum13 | 14 Oct '09, 16:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Calm down dear.
    
    pichaelmarker @Bassdrum13 | 14 Dec '12, 17:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    xheathenx and Raanraals this'd this
  - LOL
    
    This post is so great.
    
    theShipment @Bassdrum13 | 14 Dec '12, 23:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    Loui_Tacceh this'd this
    - prog as fuck
      
      Loui_Tacceh @theShipment | 15 Dec '12, 11:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
More Swedish prog

gösta berlings saga

http://www.myspace.com/gostaberlingssaga

www.gostaberlingssaga.se

Anschul | 14 Oct '09, 15:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Fontain
  
  and Three Trapped Tigers pretty proggy and good!
  
  Anthonyc @Anschul | 14 Oct '09, 16:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- this is good
  
  yes it is
  
  codpieceface @Anschul | 14 Oct '09, 16:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - it's fucking great is what it is
    
    buy their 2 CDs of their website - you won't regret
    
    Anschul @codpieceface | 14 Oct '09, 16:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
new band, '70's pastiche

Astra - the Weirding
http://rapidshare.com/files/260813730/heavycomet_satra_.rar

freddiehubbard | 14 Oct '09, 16:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
thanks all but can we stop with the rapidshare?

thread'll get deleted :(

codpieceface | 14 Oct '09, 16:16 | X | ^ This | Reply

xheathenx this'd this
Do yourself a favor

and give the albums "Octopus" and "Three Friends", by Gentle Giant, some close attention.

Scaffolding | 14 Oct '09, 16:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
Soft Machine

Any of the first four albums are best but as with Mahavishnu, pretty jazzy in places. Still ace though.

themolegerald | 14 Oct '09, 16:21 | X | ^ This | Reply

xheathenx and Loui_Tacceh this'd this
- Moon In June off Third is the greatest thing* to have graced my ears
  
  Not even analogous to a religious experience. It is the Holy itself, the Divine Energy, the Confirmation
  
  *a few Cardiacs songs possibly notwithstanding
  
  Loui_Tacceh @themolegerald | 14 Dec '12, 20:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
In The Court Of The Crimson King

Yes - Fragile (even just for Heart Of The Sunrise!)
Can (if you describe them as prog!)

leyrbpw | 14 Oct '09, 17:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
i was going to make a thread asking people to recommend me some prog

but then i realised i already did that 3 years ago so i'll just bump that thread then. ok.

gosta berlings saga are so good. well done anschul from the past.

codpieceface | 14 Dec '12, 17:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Some super prog albums
  
  Frances the Mute
  Selling England By the Pound
  Everyone Into Position
  
  Mew?
  
  pichaelmarker @codpieceface | 14 Dec '12, 17:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - always though mew were post rock or something
    
    cheers, will have a look
    
    codpieceface @pichaelmarker | 14 Dec '12, 18:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Also add Foxtrot to that list
    
    Bloody superb album.
    
    sadballadman @pichaelmarker | 15 Dec '12, 16:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    pichaelmarker this'd this
first two mahavishnu orchestra albums

ethricdouble | 14 Dec '12, 17:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
- if someone could just takes all the violin tracks off inner mounting flame i'd be well into it
  
  mclaughlin is brill but i don't want to ever hear a distorted guitar harmonising with a violin. my brain wont cross that line.
  
  codpieceface @ethricdouble | 14 Dec '12, 18:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - aw
    
    too bad.
    if you're braver than i you could try the maclaughlin/santana album but i really can't stand the latter.
    
    ethricdouble @codpieceface | 14 Dec '12, 18:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - aye i proper love that record
      
      the drumming on life divine is untouchable
      
      codpieceface @ethricdouble | 14 Dec '12, 19:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
Here's some stuff you might like

I fear and distrust the prog tag (my dad's fault for making me listen to jethro tull at an impressionable age) and as a result I have to slide around the edges of the genre for fear of being tainted by cape and beard, so these might not be what you're looking for.

Helios Creed
Emperor Machine
Turing Machine (their latest one at any rate)
A New Silent Corporation
120 Days
Wooden Shjips
Most stuff Gavin Russom works on (Crystal Ark, Black Meteoric Star)

xheathenx | 14 Dec '12, 18:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- cheers, not heard of many of these
  
  just so everyone else knows though, i am entirely willing to go full cape.
  
  codpieceface @xheathenx | 14 Dec '12, 18:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ooft. full cape...
    
    you've probably heard of most of these.
    
    Camel
    Jethro Tull
    Emerson, Lake and Palmer
    U.F.O.
    Tangerine Dream
    Marillion
    Rush
    
    xheathenx @codpieceface | 14 Dec '12, 19:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - OH YEAH!
      
      you might like Chrome Hoof, Chrome (helios creed's original band), Faust, Neurosis, Kong, Shipping News, Sinaii, The God Machine.
      
      That's a bit over the place tbh, but there's prog influences or the bands are from similar genres (krautrock and kosmiche).
      
      :D
      
      xheathenx @xheathenx | 14 Dec '12, 20:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - this latest batch are awesome
        
        Neurosis and the lamentably-ignored Chrome Hoof especially. Fuck was their last album a lost classic
        
        Loui_Tacceh @xheathenx | 14 Dec '12, 23:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        xheathenx this'd this
        
        i had to think a bit sideways about what constitutes prog
        
        due to being a big pansy about genre definitions and ting
        and really prog, psych, krautrock, kosmiche, stoner and a bunch of other stuff crosses over. or at least enough.
        
        i stopped short of going full synth and flinging names of wierd disco shit at him though.
        
        GOBLIN! Get some of that down you.
        
        xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 14 Dec '12, 23:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        oh go nuts
        
        tomorrow I'm posting about thirty completely different things, prog as a maximalist embrace of the musically restless
        
        Loui_Tacceh @xheathenx | 15 Dec '12, 00:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Excellent.
        
        I'll look forward to that.
        
        xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 15 Dec '12, 00:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        synth (wierd disco shit) edition.
        
        Roland Sebastien Faber
        Alden Tyrell
        Antoni Maiovvi
        Kalson (digital baroque is a particular favourite)
        Syclops
        Mogg & Naudascher
        Aaron Hedges
        Craig Peyton
        Teslasonic
        Space
        Brassica (in particular the track Ballo dei Morti)
        Peter Visti
        Cerrone (the Supernature album, Cerrone 3 especially)
        Space
        
        xheathenx @xheathenx | 15 Dec '12, 09:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Yellow Magic Orchestra
        
        xheathenx @xheathenx | 15 Dec '12, 09:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        just to clarify, that's not the Space who did that awful
        
        female of the species track. i wouldn't ask ANYONE to listen to their dire guff.
        
        It's this act here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_%28French_band%29 Start with Magic Fly.
        
        xheathenx @xheathenx | 15 Dec '12, 09:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Van Der Graaf Generator all the way baby

If you want some Prog with some fire in its belly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPGb5iYtyjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asPDvjUYFy4

Binary_Star | 14 Dec '12, 18:38 | X | ^ This | Reply

Loui_Tacceh and Oissin_ this'd this
- Oh these posers
  
  They're only the second-best band of all time, the TWATS
  
  Pawn Hearts, Still Life and Godbluff, in that order, are *motherfuckers*
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Binary_Star | 14 Dec '12, 20:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
Some starting essentials for you:

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Rush - Hemispheres
Camel - Mirage
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Soft Machine - Third
Wishbone Ash - Argus

These ones aren't strictly 'progressive rock', but you'll probably did them if you like Amon Duul II:

Faust - Faust IV
Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Embyro - Embryo's Reise

Avoid anything by Tool, Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree 'cause they're all really mince.

Puds | 14 Dec '12, 20:14 | X | ^ This | Reply

Loui_Tacceh, xheathenx, and Oissin_ this'd this
- this is this thread's Ground Zero
  
  good work
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Puds | 14 Dec '12, 20:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
- tool are great you punk
  
  (I endorse purty much everything else in this post tho)
  
  anal_schwarzenegger @Puds | 14 Dec '12, 21:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - was thinking of saying this
    
    but I'm not a huge fan so figured someone else would put it better
    
    Loui_Tacceh @anal_schwarzenegger | 14 Dec '12, 22:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - sorry no
    
    i can confirm tool are old old balls.
    
    codpieceface @anal_schwarzenegger | 15 Dec '12, 17:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - snigger
      
      xheathenx @codpieceface | 15 Dec '12, 17:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Your loss if you don't get Tool. Greatest band ever.
      
      TheGrudge @codpieceface | 18 Jan '13, 14:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i'll be checking out popol vuh and magma
  
  ta very much.
  
  xheathenx @Puds | 14 Dec '12, 23:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Magma are one of my favourite bands
  
  Very good list, Puds wins the thread
  
  pip_ @Puds | 15 Dec '12, 08:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
thanks peps

hahah can't believe i wrote amon dull II up there. stupid bastard.

codpieceface | 14 Dec '12, 20:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
- don't worry about it.
  
  PROG PARTAY!
  
  xheathenx @codpieceface | 14 Dec '12, 23:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
advance warning

I'm on my phone right now so I have to be concise, but just you wait

Loui_Tacceh | 14 Dec '12, 20:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
Vulcan Worlds by Return To Forever

GREAT

GabrielGuerra | 14 Dec '12, 21:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Has anyone mentioned Gentle Giant yet?

They're fucking ace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC6BS8WqtNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EopMDQ-YI9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWfmfgHXAfE

Oissin_ | 15 Dec '12, 11:33 | X | ^ This | Reply

Comaboy this'd this
Some of the Cardiacs stuff is quite proggy.

Prog punk!

LOLpop | 15 Dec '12, 15:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
- *Pronk
  
  Oissin_ @LOLpop | 15 Dec '12, 16:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Punk Rog
    
    LOLpop @Oissin_ | 15 Dec '12, 16:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    Comaboy this'd this
did we just open the gates for full cape

and then start talking about Neurosis? Wtd, DiS.

ethricdouble | 15 Dec '12, 18:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
- in the name of balance
  
  and i also had to de-tull myself. :D
  
  if you're that clenched about genre boundaries, the synth stuff i recommended will make you have an anyeurism.
  
  xheathenx @ethricdouble | 15 Dec '12, 19:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
ok give me 1 more day

the wife and i have just had a night of the 'funny videos' thread, although the best one has quite a prog soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffDPTKn7HiY&feature=youtu.be

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 00:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
Fucked Up

Severed799 | 16 Dec '12, 00:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
- *snrk*
  
  OK pal.
  
  Comaboy @Severed799 | 17 Dec '12, 18:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - but they are...
    
    Severed799 @Comaboy | 19 Dec '12, 01:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - They're not really though are they?
      
      Puds @Severed799 | 19 Dec '12, 02:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - yes...
        
        Severed799 @Puds | 19 Dec '12, 02:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Proggle Has Landed

OK, first outta the gate is some sick shit from Norway with designs on restructuring yr face

Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster (their most perfect composition): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xze30kh6q3k

Shining - Blackjazz Deathtrance (fucking hell): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JcovhZtY8

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 20:26 | X | ^ This | Reply

xheathenx this'd this
- <looks at watch, raises eyebrow>
  
  xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 20:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
- whoa
  
  8o
  
  xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 20:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
Cardiacs had some progressive songs but weren't really prog

Their ex-keyboardist and 'other' compositional genius, however, was prog as BUTTONS!

William D. Drake - Homesweet Homestead Hideaway (just the loveliest thing, joy n tears all at once): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3uoARaBrMk

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 20:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
Who wants to bet that a prog-as-fuck song can't be three minutes long?

YOU JUST LOST YOUR MONEY

Lapsus Linguae - The Terse Crimp (four Scottish boys' strict religious upbringing is exorcised in a single outrageous wrestling-combination (oh look, I did the first comment saying exactly the same thing, fancy that)): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmT871PkLyM

Working For A Nuclear Free City - Do A Stunt (in the greatest possible world, this is every TV news theme; it's UNDER three minutes and will prog you into a cocked hat): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rssnmlh1Vdw

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 20:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

xheathenx this'd this
- not the only heartbreakingly exquisite electroprog odyssey WFANFC have composed either
  
  here's Nancy Adam Susan to leave you wide-eyed and wonderin'
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnjRARUgIG8
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
What do you call a prog band disguised as an indie band?

You call them 'of Montreal, sometimes'

No Conclusion (nine-minute break-up prog-out that will move you to PROGGY TEARS): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1D1NYVyuM

Ye, Renew The Plaintiff (nine-minute mental-breakup prog-out that will move you to INSANITY): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FruCLjy7ZFQ

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 20:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
- see also THE FIERY FURNACES
  
  Blueberry Boat (the album) has to be heard to be believed; it's pop as performed on the flying trapeze. The albums Bitter Tea and Widow City are also brilliant but less prog (still pretty prog)
  
  The best cut is debatable but I usually go for Chris Michaels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INOF67PMvjw or Chief Inspector Blancheflower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qTkqFvftcE which are both exhilarating mindblowers with complex lyrical narratives and alternate male/female vocals OH IT'S SO PROG
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - <3 Gallowsbird's Bark
    
    hell, <3 all of that.
    
    I haven't heard their solo stuff yet, however.
    
    incandenza_ @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Jan '13, 23:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
- this is the first time i've actually listened to them
  
  it's a bit of a revelation, as i'd written them off as just another hyped indie bellend band.
  
  xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - they've just released their best album
    
    nobody thinks it's their best album because it's totally off-the-deep-end completely-mad prog-as-all-hell clusterfuck-mayhem-insanity
    
    might be album of the year, actually. just stunning, stunning music
    
    Loui_Tacceh @xheathenx | 16 Dec '12, 21:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - i'll be checking that out then.
      
      xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
- and as for British prog bands disguised as indie
  
  well it's Oceansize and Youthmovies innit. Both exceptional, both deceased, and both so beloved on DiS that I don't think any Youtubes will be necessary (although I could be persuaded otherwise)
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 22:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - <twists arm>
    
    <ever so slightly>
    
    xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 22:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Oceansize - Saturday Morning Breakfast Show
      
      I could have chosen any one of about 15 songs but this is probably their proggiest, which is the criterion this thread must ultimately be judged by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4e6SEHBq30
      
      ...and Youthmovies - Last Night Of The Proms, which is by no means the longest song (it's like the second-shortest actually) on their superb, exquisitely-crafted album Good Nature which you all must hear if you haven't, but is just so ludicrously prog that oh come on man just LISTEN to it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIsTVDJ-m2k
      
      Loui_Tacceh @xheathenx | 16 Dec '12, 22:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - no wait, Massive Bereavement is probably O'size's proggiest
        
        well it's great too. find it. listen to the whole first album. then the second, the third, the EP and some of the 4th. yay.
        
        Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 22:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
Actually, on that note, there's nothing so great as a prog band disguised as NME bait

You all know about Mansun's Six so I'll just leave that one unYoutubed, but what about My Computer? Anyone remember THEM?

They did these two songs, both (hey guess) nine minutes long and both fucking in-credible, guitary singersongwriterness meets rave meets heartbreak meets proletarian struggle, all crashing ultimately into beautiful despair...

All I Ever Really Wanted Was A Good Time (one of the great song-titles, plus the first track on their first album): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdoIAmP0eU

Pulling Myself Together (this should have basically ended all Britpop right there): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMnvZ6_gBg

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 20:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
- and who can forget The Cooper Temple Clause?
  
  they tried really hard, nearly did it too. but not quite, so no youtubes (their best two songs, Did You Miss Me and Murder Song, are more post-indie than prog)
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - oh and THE WILDHEARTS!!!
    
    Briefly big in NME circles, it's important to remember that they were also an extremely brilliant prog* band with delirious 11-minute odes to alien invasion called Sky Babies up their sleeve
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU9Ep4zYM40
    
    *meets classic metal, in a bar, during a fight
    
    Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - we're listening to this right now and my wife says I should get into Iron Maiden
      
      she's probably right yknow
      
      Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - seventh son of the seventh son
        
        http://youtu.be/WRmGIBT_GTw
        
        xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- oh shit there's an incredible example of this I forgot
  
  Silent To The Dark by The Electric Soft Parade - a 3-minute bubblegum Britpop song gone terribly, terribly astray
  
  ...or HAS IT?
  
  Thomas White wrote this when. he. was. blithering. sixteen.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkAd_UR3xNI
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 22:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
Right, who's ready for a 16 and a half minute meta-metal fuckabout called The Mighty Masturbator?

If I told you it was one of the most glorious musical experiences of the last few years...(hails to Devin Townsend for EVER!!!!!!!!)

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

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
- :(((((((
  
  Puds @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - is the video not the song :/
    
    didn't check
    
    Loui_Tacceh @Puds | 16 Dec '12, 21:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Oh no, it is
      
      I was just doing a big sad face 'cause it's Devin Townsend
      
      Puds @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - D:
        
        just listen to it, might convert ya, dude's got more compositional talent in his farts than Porcupine Tree and Dream Theater combined
        
        Loui_Tacceh @Puds | 16 Dec '12, 21:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Welp
  
  the music is all kinds of awesome. it reminds me of the bits in Metalocalypse where they'd have the mad mythology stuff unfolding.
  
  and i'll be looking into buying that game.
  
  whats the drama with devin townsend then puds, im totally ignorant, but incredibly nosey?
  
  xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - here he is doing that song live
    
    http://youtu.be/8eDngElZBxQ
    
    xheathenx @xheathenx | 16 Dec '12, 21:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Ahhhh, it's just not my sort of thing really.
    
    Used to be a fan of SYL and his earlier stuff back in the day, and I can see why he's so massively popular, but nowadays his music pretty much encapsulates everything I seek to avoid within my metal/prog, haha.
    
    It's all just a bit too wanky (yep, I know this is a prog thread) and overly polished for my liking. There also seems to be this air of slightly sinister, forced wackiness that lingers over everything he does like some sort of distinctly unsettling odour.
    
    Puds @xheathenx | 16 Dec '12, 21:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Or maybe I'm just a miserable prick.
      
      Puds @Puds | 16 Dec '12, 21:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - nah
        
        you cant expect to like everything.
        
        as for wackiness, i can see what you mean, i've just got to the french singing bit with the sock puppet in the above video. i'd just edit that bit out like ive done with a few pieces of music which are more suites of music than 'just a song'. :D
        
        xheathenx @Puds | 16 Dec '12, 21:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - haha
        
        this song goes through the self-knowingly-wacky looking-glass and comes out flaming majestic. i don't really like the ziltoid album myself, but trust me, this is a different kettle of fish, it's almost like a grand personal confession, a labour of self-love and self-contempt, an Apotheosis. and it's messy as hell, the opposite of polished!
        
        Loui_Tacceh @Puds | 16 Dec '12, 21:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
OK, but what's ACTUALLY my favourite song of the last ten years?

It's Whateley by the incomparable Thumpermonkey, of course.

Is it prog? (Is it doom? Is it art-rock? Is it slow-motion modern-classical played on guitars?)

You tell me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCT7kioyXSU

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
barely gotten going btw

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
- YAY!
  
  xheathenx @Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
ULVER. BLOOD INSIDE.

The greatest record of the last decade, now. All of it. 45 minutes of micro-engineered psychological mania and Gnostic foresight. Although you can turn off after the opening track, if you decide you don't like that sort of thing. Or if your shattered brain causes you to die and then faceplant your computer, thus logging you out. FOREVER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bb6yvlkT9M

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
Who likes abstract American prog-metal?

I mean, Kayo Dot. Might be a bit TOO far, this, but worth a shot if you can dig 18 minutes of calculated sonic destruction entitled '___on limpid form': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmx7ayXS6LU

Oh and there's the superb Extra Life too. Here's something brilliant (Blinded Beast) from this year. Naturally, it's their longest song, but what can you do? Slow as molasses at first. It stays that way. Honest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXDFxetVmc

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 21:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ah," but you say, "I've heard of all these

Well, you have, you cheeky scamp, and just for that, here's something you won't have heard of, even if it's by a dude who's in Spiritualized and features all of Coil. It's a...a...a...um...nightmare. The best kind - an analogue-synth industrial electro-prog nightmare, if you dare.

Thighpaulsandra - Optical Black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiCjEY6jKuU

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 22:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
All very well, you add, but where's the old-school, the 70's shit?

OK well most of the really good stuff's been recommended anyway, but a little-known American gang known as Captain Beyond slipped the net. They did a self-titled debut record in 1972 that sounds like a classic str8-up rock'n'roll record for a short while until you realise that the tracks are all flowing into each other in increasingly cosmic ways and your mind is...kinda...expanding? One of the finest sequencing-jobs known to music, then, and a sign that prog can leap out of almost any corner...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0NGwiv2tsI

^^^it's an album but it's only 35 mins, have a heart yo

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 22:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
Anyone like Mercury Rev?

They did Holes and Goddess On A Hi-Way and other limp shit like that!

Oh, and they did this. Open the video and gawp at the perfect title, the slightly diverting album-cover and the giggling descent into the sun that is the song itself...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VffKMuFKo

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 22:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
and regarding Yes, their greatest song is one you probably won't have had thrown your way

namely Awaken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98-iBpbEbNk

tho Gates Of Delirium ain't far behind along with And You And I, Starship Trooper, Perpetual Change *ok nuff*

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 23:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
Good list:

http://www.scaruffi.com/music/progrock.html

nyodeneD | 16 Dec '12, 23:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
- yeah he's pretty much the world authority
  
  altho he skews MUCH more cape n wizard than I do (having just posted some Yes, the cheek of it!)
  
  Loui_Tacceh @nyodeneD | 16 Dec '12, 23:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
stop me before I go totally mad and start posting Autechre

a prog band disguised as an IDM duo :D

Well, they ARE! Or were for a couple of albums. Draft 7.30 foreverrrrrrrrrr

Warning: contains the universe, and is called Surripere, which might not be a Latin verb in the infinitive for 'to disintegrate the mind'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8RBdR-Mws

prooooog progprogprog

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 23:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
Last one for now!

Oh, fuck it :D

STROOOKE ANNNNND PRAIIISE HIMMMMM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dd4fMUhAY

Loui_Tacceh | 16 Dec '12, 23:13 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_ this'd this
Late to the party as usual.

Start with a few of older ones:

Univers Zero - the best thing thing to come out of Belgium since the saxophone. The only 70s prog band that can top Van Der Graaf Generator in terms of darkness (though being largely instrumental, they aren't quite as 'visceral') and like VDGG are still going strong today. Much of this is less like 'prog' and more like menacing, brooding modern chamber music. While they remain obscure they are nowhere nearly as dated as much of the bands of their era.

La Faulx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnjugbOUkE

Les Kobolds (actually this one's kind of chipper)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs2SRkjYAkg

Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 18:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- listening now
  
  my dog is whining, hiding his face. he knows.
  
  awesome stuff :) and it's reminded me of another one I failed to post earlier...
  
  will have to give 'heresie' a full listen soon
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Comaboy | 18 Dec '12, 22:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
This Heat

Only tangentially prog, perhaps, influenced mostly the krautier side of things, and sometimes categorised as experimental post-punk. I don't know what they were apart from fucking awesome. Way ahead of their time.

Makeshift Swahili (check out the proto-vokills :DDD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZMhAM2SqU

Health and Efficiency
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gw0oF5eFeo

Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 18:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Deceit is such an amazing album.
  
  Oissin_ @Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 19:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Aye.
    
    Shame they were so short-lived
    
    Comaboy @Oissin_ | 17 Dec '12, 19:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - oh hell yeah
      
      I already know This Heat and for fucking sure - what an awesome set of ideas they had!
      
      Loui_Tacceh @Comaboy | 18 Dec '12, 22:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
Moving onto the 80s (it wasn't ALL shit like Marillion)

Thinking Plague - An American band sometimes heavily indebted to Univers Zero in terms of instrumentation and mood, though there is much greater emphasis placed on vocals and guitars.

Behold the Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gw0oF5eFeo

Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 18:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
- link is for this heat fwiw
  
  gonna have to search for Thinking Plague - Behold The Man MYSELF, oh the HASSLE
  
  oh wait no i don't, here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO85cTFgI_k
  
  wasn't that lucky
  
  as for how it sounds, holy shit! bringing the gorgeous tendrils of dissonance AND the rock. approve. that is some manic heart-of-darkness robot-abuse
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Comaboy | 18 Dec '12, 23:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Cheer-Accident

A band that's been going forever despite the fact that no fucker's ever heard of them. They have a pretty huge sprawling discography, much of which is pretty hard to obtain. Their 90s work is mostly like a proggier take on the math-rock of the time, they have often (and increasingly) made attempts at making eccentric pop records, the results of which are sometimes pleasing sometimes a bit rubbish. Practically none of the songs I would have picked are on the 'Tube, so I'll post a song from probably their most 'prog' album and an example of their early weirdness:

Blue Cheadle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpwhMfE9dDg

Theme from Shaft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7BOMfWOaw

Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 18:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- holy shit @ Blue Cheadle
  
  what a song!!!!!! yesssss, gotta hear that whole album now
  
  god that was beautiful, have heard that 'introducing lemon' and 'enduring the american dream' are both worth it too...but yeah, give me cheer-accident or give me death
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Comaboy | 18 Dec '12, 22:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
Finally a couple of more modern endeavours

Time Of Orchids - I have nothing to say except that these guys were utterly brilliant, toiling away in obscurity before finally breaking up in 07 :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUvZ_xiwFs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeIGrdQc0uc

Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 19:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- maybe tomorrow
  
  needs to be digested in a relaxed state, yo, but the kayo dot comparisons are extremely encouraging
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Comaboy | 18 Dec '12, 23:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
Combat Astronomy

Industrial Avant-Jazz(???) with a downtuned fretless bass getting the everloving shit beaten out of it? Yes, ta. All of it can be found here:
http://combat-astronomy.bandcamp.com/

Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 19:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
- oh very very nice
  
  kickass, even
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Comaboy | 18 Dec '12, 23:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- dunno about avant jazz
  
  but the second track on there is real good.
  
  codpieceface @Comaboy | 19 Dec '12, 20:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Loui_Tacceh this'd this
Also I will work my way through the stuff I haven'y heard on this thread

at... some point

Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 19:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

Loui_Tacceh and Oissin_ this'd this
- your contributions look amazing
  
  a few people have told me cheer-accident would be one of my favourite bands (also nomeansno)
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Comaboy | 17 Dec '12, 21:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
How could I forget Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

The Donkey-Headed Adversary Of Humanity Opens The Discussion........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksutNW3HFT8

(certifiably insane, fairly thespian dulcimer-metal-prog-fusion from America that sounds like Mr. Bungle if they were from the 22nd and 17th centuries simultaneously)

oh shit and why didn't I post any Mr. Bungle? Have a Stubb (A Dub) while I'm about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RBSrUtX0bA

definitely the greatest song about the mortality of dogs ever written. meanwhile my own dog has just recovered after a univers zero-inspired tug-of-war fit

Loui_Tacceh | 18 Dec '12, 22:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
- you should never listen to Stubb (A Dub)
  
  without listening to My Ass Is On Fire immediately afterwards
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18wHoMOBPh4
  
  ^^^possibly the most jawdropping prog-metal song of the 90's? actually yeah, no, it just is. REEEEEEDUNDANT REEEEEDUNDANT REEE... DUNNNNNNDANT REEEEDUNDANT
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 18 Dec '12, 22:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
Cheer-Accident remind me of nobody so much as Camp Blackfoot

Oxford's finest. This shit should come with a HEALTH WARNING, amirite?

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

^^^contains thorns

Loui_Tacceh | 18 Dec '12, 22:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
course the Japanese know how to sail straight off that edge

and so I leave you tonight with Koenjihyakkei - Grembo Zavia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b103w4JysI

like you're inside a computer game that is actually one giant glitch

Loui_Tacceh | 18 Dec '12, 23:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
oh yeah

i like sound of animals fighting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4y46nLK9yU

codpieceface | 19 Dec '12, 21:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
OK, this one's been bugging me for a few days

theShipment has dismissed it as a Led Zeppelin rip-off. Yeah, well it's a COSMIC Led Zeppelin rip-off. Set a course for the Beyond...

Danava - One Mind Gone Separate Ways

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9DS4me6NsM

Loui_Tacceh | 19 Dec '12, 21:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
- :')
  
  http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4414397#r6985659
  
  theShipment @Loui_Tacceh | 19 Dec '12, 21:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - oh yeah that PM you sent
    
    on it
    
    Loui_Tacceh @theShipment | 19 Dec '12, 21:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
Praxis

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4272056

theShipment | 19 Dec '12, 21:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
Amplifier (especiall the self titled debut)

Give Panzer or Airborne from the debut a listen

Oceansize - Effloresce (One of the greatest debuts ever IMO)

Try Catalyst, One Day All This Could Be Yours or Massive Bereavement

Pure Reason Revolution (I can recommend all 3 albums)

Try Deus Ex Machina, In Aurelia, Bullitts Dominae, The Bright Ambassadors Of Morning, Black Mourning or Open Insurrection

TheGrudge | 20 Dec '12, 11:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
Long Fin Killie

I'm not really sure if they were "prog" as such, but they certainly fit with some of the other stuff posted in this thread, and are utterly brilliant and deserve to be much more well known...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl55AFCtqKc (this one feature's Mark E. Smith)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkm1MSeY-9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ0Bp6avemI

Oissin_ | 16 Jan '13, 22:43 | X | ^ This | Reply

incandenza_ this'd this
Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer is basically a prog album

It's called Dragonslayer ffs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX3R1rcDNlI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQX8-7v7RA

Oissin_ | 16 Jan '13, 22:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ga'an

Poprivet | 18 Jan '13, 12:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places

http://thankyouscientist.bandcamp.com/album/maps-of-non-existent-places

Unbelievable.

waterwings | 18 Jan '13, 14:06 | X | ^ This | Reply

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