Prog Artists You Like Everything Of

verslibre wrote: cstack3 wrote: I have yet to hear something with Ronnie James Dio as a vocalist that I didn't like! My brother from another mother! If we broaden the margins to include hard rock and metal, I cannot agree more! The Elves/Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, his own band Dio, Heaven and Hell, and his guest appearances (especially on Kerry Livgren's Seeds of Change)...Ronnie was a singer's singer and the consummate frontman with a voice like no other.

Thanks!! I consider RJD to be "prog related!"   

Edited by cstack3 - June 24 2025 at 00:12

richardh wrote: verslibre wrote: Zombi, easily. The only reason the honor escapes Goblin is because of Volo. Vangelis (even some of his weirder stuff). Zombi- I listened to the 2024 remix of Cosmos yesterday , and just wow! Checking out their other material as of now that is available to stream. Love that drumming. That is how drumming should be imo. Goblin don't know enough. Vangelis - maybe Alexander was just too much of a step down for me and honestly I'm not a big fan of The City even though I know it's a popular Vangelis album.

The previously unreleased bonus title track from the 2CD remaster!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C65oZn7VN84&list=RDC65oZn7VN84&start_radio=1

Check out their most recent album, Direct Inject. It's incredible. Then Surface to Air.

If it weren't for some bad (not bold) choices on Club Ninja, Blue Öyster Cult would be another.

dr wu23 wrote: King Crimson.....only one I can think of at the moment.... I assume you mean studio lps.

I would assume with your username that Steely Dan would apply.

Hi,

There are a lot of them, but I suppose that Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis and Ryuichi Sakamoto are the ones that I can really state that they are special because they were very good from the start. One might say that TD's first album doesn't fit, but it actually does because you know there there is going to be a lot of stuff all over the place, and giving us different ideas and thoughts.

From their earlier days of what we might consider "experiments" to their last work, most of these folks were pretty much all around fairly good ...

Bands ... now it gets funky ... since so many of these changed folks, but I can't say that I have ever heard a KC album I did not enjoy, so it kinda fits in the idea, even when the music changes.

Other than that, I'm still attached to Ange and the redos lately have also been very good, but it's easy to see how old they are getting and probably having a hard time.

The other band I liked everything of was Banco, until Francesco passed away. As much a I want to enjoy the current version, it simply is missing its very soul, and, somehow, it has not really been able to make it work ... maybe it's the loss of the conceptual edge they had before that seems gone. It's very listenable, but now you can feel, and hear, the solos being added where before you felt the continuity and did not exactly think of "solos" at all. Probably the only major one for me that lost it.

AD2, has been excellent all the time, with one exception ... in one later CD, Renate goes crazy, and all of a sudden, you can see why the band had some issues, and don't like to rehearse as a way to keep the music fresh, but when the whole thing goes too far, it leaves everyone wondering what is going on and what to do ... the only album of their I have ever not enjoyed their version of "anarchy".

Edited by moshkito - 9 hours 18 minutes ago at 10:37

For me Radiohead didn't really hit their stride until their third album, I like everything after that

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: For me Radiohead didn't really hit their stride until their third album, I like everything after that

OK Computer is for me where Radiohead became really great, but I like music off The Bends very much as well, and the much maligned debut by some, Pablo Honey, I still like and has music I love. I like its hit "Creep" and find "Blow Out" great. For what little it's worth, here's a youtube playlist I created with one track per Radiohead studio album I like, plus Spectre.



Less than ten, but Dead Can Dance is another with lots I like (although I like its 1984 to 1993 period best). And Miriodor is very strong...

tough topic for sure. For these ears/mind:

King Crimson
Spock's Beard
National Health
Hatfield & the North
Egg