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richardh
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 26228 |
Posted: March 06 2015 at 01:40 |
The Dreams of Men is one of my favourite modern prog albums of any genre. I don't know enough about Pallas though .The Sentinel seems highly rated, how does that stand up alongside their modern albums? (sorry if this is not meant to be a discussion about neo prog in general) oh and where is Arena?
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someone_else
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 02:44 |
Some good bands here, but an easy choice to vote for Echolyn.
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Altairius
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 02:59 |
IQ |
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Svetonio
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
Posted: March 06 2015 at 03:01 |
^ Right.
Voted IQ |
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: March 06 2015 at 03:41 |
Pre Hogarth Marillion, It Bites and IQ equally I guess..
Not a big fan of neo prog |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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friso
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 24 2007 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 2505 |
Posted: March 06 2015 at 04:51 |
For me its Arena - Contagion by far
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Mormegil
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 05:56 |
IQ. They've been solid throughout.
I was leaning towards Marillion, but I'm not into the post-Fish albums (as good as they are, they don't "stick"). |
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Hercules
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Near York UK Status: Offline Points: 7024 |
Posted: March 06 2015 at 06:03 |
Absolutely correct. IQ, Pendragon and Marillion are just symphonic bands who emerged in the early 80s. Let's start to call them "neo-symphonic prog". We can then call Spock's Beard and The Flower Kings "neo-neo-symphonic prog". Or let's just call them all "symphonic" and have done with it.
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driftingsun
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 06:56 |
I'd be tempted to mention Drifting Sun, but that might not be a very impartial opinion :)
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micky
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:03 |
hahaha |
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micky
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:04 |
hole in the head or castration...
ummm. I'll go with IZZ. I actually somewhat enjoy them. The rest? |
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driftingsun
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:09 |
Who are IZZ?
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micky
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:15 |
a group out of New York. Well worth checking out if you haven't.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=374 |
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Raff
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:21 |
I never saw IZZ or Echolyn as Neo Prog which is more of a British/European phenomenon than an American one. Then again, Discipline were for a long time labelled as Neo, and a very interesting (and hard to pinpoint) band such as Sanguine Hum are currently filed under Neo on this site.
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driftingsun
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:21 |
Yeah they sound clean, the piano is very upfront in their music, a bit jazzy too... reminds me of Michel Camillo a bit.
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driftingsun
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:22 |
My last posting was referring to IZZ by the way :)
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Raff
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:23 |
In my view, IZZ are one of those bands that must be experienced on stage to fully appreciate them. Their studio albums never did a lot for me, but when I saw them live twice in 2013 I was very impressed. Very nice bunch of guys and gals as well.
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micky
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:31 |
someone upstream made the point that Neo-prog could easily be seen as 'modern' symphonic prog. I suppose it is easy to do. Note the case of Discipline. Neo-prog? I suppose. Two sides of the same coin.
Why else would the OP have put the f**king flower kings as an option. |
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driftingsun
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:31 |
In a similar vein, but nicer in my opinion, are Special Providence, a band from Hungary. I got to hear some tracks from their new album recently, and they really are solid. There is definitely a jazz influence in their music too, pretty much as for IZZ, though SP are more to my liking.
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micky
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:31 |
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