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    Posted: February 24 2015 at 15:28
Suppose you could only listen to 5 Prog Bands for the rest of your natural born life?   What 5 Prog Bands would you choose?
 
Just a few rules:
 
- If choose a band like Genesis or Yes,  you can also listen to the members solo albums like Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins, but guest appearances on other artists albums don't count.   In other words all Genesis, Peter Gabriel, and Phil Collins albums would count as one band.  
 
- If you choose Steven Wilson,  you get to listen to all Steven Wilson written projects, such as Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, and Storm Corrosion.  But again, you can't include guest appearances. or any album that Steven Wilson mixed but did not write and create.
 
-All bands on Progarchives are eligible for inclusion, except for Proto Prog bands like The Beatles and Prog Related bands like Led Zeppelin. 
 
- Jazz Fusion bands like Miles Davis are eligible.
 
Remember you can't listen to any other progressive bands for the rest of your life, except for the 5 bands you choose.  Feel free to explain your reasoning.  Cool


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Seven Impale
Necromonkey
Motorpsycho
Steven Wilson
Swans

Swans give me Angels of Light as well, and Necromonkey gives me Anglagard.

But excepting the volleyball, all are chosen mainly for themselves. And because you've got to be modernistic.
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Marillion
Riverside
Van Der Graaf Generator
Genesis
Rush

You get a good amount of side projects with this selection too, which is nice.
breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping...

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Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Seven Impale
Necromonkey
Motorpsycho
Steven Wilson
Swans

Swans give me Angels of Light as well, and Necromonkey gives me Anglagard.

But excepting the volleyball, all are chosen mainly for themselves. And because you've got to be modernistic.


And don't forget the utterly wonderful Gösta Berlings Saga, whose keyboardist and guitarist are also members of Necromonkey! Speaking of what, you MUST come to the NJ Proghouse in October to see Necromonkey. It will be worth every cent.
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Seven Impale
Necromonkey
Motorpsycho
Steven Wilson
Swans

Swans give me Angels of Light as well, and Necromonkey gives me Anglagard.

But excepting the volleyball, all are chosen mainly for themselves. And because you've got to be modernistic.


And don't forget the utterly wonderful Gösta Berlings Saga, whose keyboardist and guitarist are also members of Necromonkey! Speaking of what, you MUST come to the NJ Proghouse in October to see Necromonkey. It will be worth every cent.

Nice! I'll be sure to work out a way for me to go.
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Pain Of Salvation: 5 prog masterpieces (Entropia, One Hour By The Concrete Lake, The Perfect Element Part 1, Remedy Lane and "BE"), one good new-metal album (Scarsick) two average hard rock oriented albums (Road Salt 1 and 2) two amazing unplugged albums (12:5 and Falling Home) and my favourite live album (Ending Themes)

Pink Floyd: One awesome psychedelic album (Piper) seven five star albums (Atom Hearth Mother, Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall, The Division Bell) the live Ummagumma, Richard's Wet Dream. And the fabulous Endless River.

King Crimson: ITCOTCK, Red, Discipline, Lizard, Larks, Islands, a lot of box sets, live albuns and bootlesgs with awesome jams, the projeckts. ELP, thanks to Greg Lake.

Van Der Graaf Generator: A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers is probably my fav song, i can't spent the rest of my life without listen to it. And VdGG got H to He, Godbluff, World Record, The Least We Can Do and Still Life. And Hammill solo stuff.

Death: Metal madafaka, metal. The Sound Of Perseverance, Symbolic, Human, Leprosy, Individual Thought Patterns and Spiritual Healing.  Do i get Cynic by choosing Death?


Edited by infernalfrog - February 25 2015 at 09:27
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Jesus!

How many more of these threads do we need.

All variation on the same theme.

Crissake.



I'm going to start a:"If they were going to colonize Fecking Uranus, what 5 albums would you take?" thread.
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"...you can also listen to the members solo albums like Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins..." and reaffirm just how preciously better the earlier stuff was.
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Yes
Genesis
The Flower Kings
Neal Morse
Gentle Giant
 
I'd really miss Pink Floyd, Rush, ELP, Jethro Tull and King Crimson though!!!
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Yes
Genesis
Steven Wilson
Devin Townsend
Mike Oldfield
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Funny you mentuion Devin Townsend Project.

I got "Cloud..." cd from the public library last week.

Masses of vocal-groupings, metal guitar...totally unlistenable. A thick jumble of Nothing.

Frankly, I was appalled.
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Opeth
Rush
Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson
Anathema
Riverside
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Triumvirat
Dzyan
Colosseum
Passport
Wallenstein
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Magma
Pink Floyd
Soft Machine
Genesis

Assuming i can listen to as much non prog as I want.
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Tough one!  Need bands with large catalogs for this one.

Kate Bush
Yesrushorme
Genesisgiant
BancoOysterCult
Floydsabbathtramp

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Steven Wilson Rush King Crimson Emerson,Lake&Palmer Maynard J Keenan
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That is indeed a tough one ... for me it would be:

Yes
Porcupine Tree
King Crimson
Riverside
Oceansize
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Genesis would then give me everything by Anthony Phillips, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Mike + the Mechanics, Tony Banks, GTR, and Phil Collins.
 
Yes would give me everything by Steve Howe, Jon Anderson (including Jon & Vangelis), Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire (including The Syn), Billy Sherwood, The Mystery, Trevor Rabin, Patrick Moraz (including Refugee), Bill Bruford (including all his work with King Crimson), Alan White, as well as albums by Asia, Flash, Badger, and Glass Hammer.
 
Miles Davis would give me Weather Report and Joe Zawinul, Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, John Scofield, John McLaughlin as well as Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Tony Williams.  If we can count members in the various bands here, I would also get Al Di Meola, Billy Cobham, Stanley Clark, Airto, Jan Hammer.
 
U.K. would give me all albums by Allan Holdsworth, anything with John Wetton on it (all 20,000 bands he's worked with), Bruford again, Eddie Jobson's wide variety including Roxy Music.  If I can link on that I would also get Phil Manzanera, Eno, and Brian Ferry.
 
Fripp would give me King Crimson as well as his collaborations with Eno, solo projects, and Crimson Projekts.  If I can link I can get all of Eno again but once should be enough.
 
If I worked harder, I could possibly tighten this up, but that's what I can think of right now.  There would be a lot I would miss, but I think I can live with this.  Wink
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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ELP
Yes
Genesis
Spock's Beard
Pink Floyd
Oh, I like the UK idea, I wanna switch.

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ELP -Greg Lake's voice, Emerson's amazing keyboards
Yes- love the mixture of keyboards, wailing guitar, wandering heavy bass
Genesis- great guitar, soaring melodies, wild stories
Steven Wilson- love that guitar
Moody Blues (''67-''72) - Justin Hayward's vocals and guitar, great melodies and themes
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