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geekfreak 
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 12:57 |
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which of these 12 bands be your number 1... why and which album?
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 13:00 |
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Where's Anubis?
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 13:10 |
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Spock's Beard - The Light
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 13:17 |
IQ by a smidgeon over Marillion and Pendragon.
IQ have made several superb albums, but Ever, The Wake, Subterranea and the incredible Road of Bones are my favourites. Marillion made four superb albums from Fugazi to Seasons End, which is my favourite of all. Pendragon's three albums from The Window of Life to Not of this World are superb, but The Masquerade Overture is the best.
Truthfully, every band on that list has made good albums.
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 13:19 |
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Marillion, probably.
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b_olariu
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 14:06 |
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IQ is the most consistent neo prog band from the list , and Ever is my choice as best album from them together with The seventh house and The wake
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 14:19 |
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my two faves from this list are
Marillion & Echolyn
I don't think of Echolyn as neo, but whatever
I'll vote for Echolyn
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 14:32 |
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Marillion, easy choice for me
this poll is missing some great neo-prog bands like
Arena
Satellite
Galahad
Jadis
Airbag
Sylvan
Echolyn, TFK and Spock's Beard are not neo-prog bands if you ask me, but anyway...
Edited by Cristi - March 05 2015 at 14:33
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 15:38 |
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Airbag or Wobbler. Or Magenta. Definitely none of those on the list above.
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Enchant X
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 15:51 |
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Marillion then Pendragon
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 18:39 |
Both Spock's Beard and the Flower Kings would have been in the running but they are listed as Symphonic rather than Neo.  Marillion is worth consideration but I am only interested in the early Fish years and there are only a few releases of that, not counting live albums. The only other band that I have interest in that fits is IQ, a tremendous band who have done some of their best work on their more recent releases.
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 19:33 |
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Wanorak
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 20:27 |
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Marillion, followed by Pallas and IQ.
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 20:28 |
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Spock's Beard and the Fowers Kings are more symphonic prog IMO.
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 20:33 |
Honestly the only difference between symphonic and neo is timing.
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Enchant X
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 20:54 |
I consider flower kings Retro symphonic prog ... if there is such a thing  the reason why is The Flower Kings were clearly aiming to recapture that retro prog feel .. I remember when I first ever heard the Flower Kings back in about 1998 .. I couldn't believe it ! I was seriously impressed with how close to the fathers of prog they sounded.
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Enchant X
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Posted: March 05 2015 at 20:56 |
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I think the big difference with symphonic prog and Neo prog is Symphonic prog bands tend to combine more analogue Keyboards in their sound and also the date stamp , not sure when neo was invented but many claim Marillion's Script for a jesters tear kicked it off ... I trace it back to Eloy Oceans .. 1977 ? I think my ears definitely detect the Neo prog sound from listening to Eloy first. I give Eloy credit for inventing something that nobody else ever has (to my knowledge) ... Neo Prog.
Edited by Enchant X - March 05 2015 at 21:08
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 00:37 |
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Not on the list, but Magenta. Some of the names listed strike me as more 'symphonic' - ( I don't have anything by Citizen Cain, It Bites or Solstice) - but most of the others are on-par for me. Maybe a very close run between I.Q. and Pendragon.
To me, and I really never considered Genesis as 'sympho' ( just straight 'Prog' to me - whatever you take that to be), but I've never liked this 'Neo' tag to be honest, so................. f**k knows, probably Pendragon for me at the moment, but it can shift between I.Q., Marillion or Spock's Beard. Can't decide.........
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 00:50 |
For me it's a three-way tie between IQ, Pendragon, and Pallas. However, while I like more albums by IQ then the other two, Pallas's 'The Dreams of Men' and 'XXV' are simply masterpieces. Still need to hear the new album by them.
So Pallas for me.
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 01:36 |
 b_olariu wrote:
IQ is the most consistent neo prog band from the list , and Ever is my choice as best album from them together with The seventh house and The wake
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