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Prog-jester
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Topic: Which Prog band sounds the same to you. Posted: June 07 2016 at 13:56 |
Kotro wrote:
Most Avant bands sound like screeech-zoing!-bangbangbang-AHHHHH! to me | +1
fudgenuts64 wrote:
Marillion after Brave sorta just blends into one pot for me. | Anoraknophobia is so funky, you would've noticed
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Prog-jester
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Posted: June 07 2016 at 13:52 |
There's this thin line between a)sounding samey and b)having a certain style. I would say your admiration towards an artist draws this very line, but nevertheless I admit some of my all-time fave bands are on the samey side, it's not even about the style anymore. Lacrimosa had been releasing the same record since 1995, even the structure of their albums stays the same (opening epic -> single -> fillers -> a quiet one -> a heavy one -> closing epic). Anathema recycling their own 2010s album, Gazpacho releasing "Night" sequels every two years now, but it looks like it's business as usual with all KScope bands...
Funny no one mentioned Tool or Swans yet. I adore them, but hey...you know
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Logan
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Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:27 |
omphaloskepsis wrote:
Any Neal Morris project.... |
Neal Morris does sound an awful lot like Neal Morse to my ear.
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:21 |
omphaloskepsis wrote:
Any Neal Morris project. |
Nah, I love a bit of Neal Morris.
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Modrigue
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Posted: May 17 2016 at 10:18 |
Pendragon's albums in the 90's and the 2000's (the 80's ones are different). 21st century Iron Maiden.
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RockHound
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Posted: May 17 2016 at 09:57 |
Dream Theater could definitely use a sonic makeover. I don't think they've twiddled the knobs in more than a decade. The Flower Kings are another band that has acquired a serious case of sameness, but their sonic palate and musical interplay are colorful enough that I still find them interesting. And Banks of Eden was a very nice recent addition to their cannon.
Transatlantic's first two albums were very entertaining, but the last two studio efforts were largely paint by numbers. There are still some catchy themes on the Whirlwind, but Kaleidoscope just went nowhere for me.
I like when bands adopt a form for a few albums and then switch gears. I'd rather jump off a band's wagon because they took a new direction I didn't like than lose interest because they failed to evolve.
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: May 14 2016 at 09:59 |
Any Neal Morris project. I love IQ, but I'd rather them vary thier sound more. Most any Death Growl Metal. Intellectually I know Death Metal heads can perceive the variances, but I can't see in ultraviolet. So I'm SOL.
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BarryGlibb
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Posted: May 13 2016 at 04:16 |
ALotOfBottle wrote:
Yes and Genesis. Now, to be honest I find much of late-70's Canterbury scene so monotonous, for example National Health (which is great, don't get me wrong). Also, a bit of post-Aqualung Jethro Tull.
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I was waiting for the obligatory Tull pasting.........'cough!
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Rednight
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Posted: May 12 2016 at 14:23 |
Kansas to some extent. Have much of it on the ol' MP3 player but regularly skip over it as it comes up on shuffle. Boring, so why did I include it in the first place? Mongo don' know...
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Sean Trane
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Posted: May 09 2016 at 16:23 |
zravkapt wrote:
Bungler wrote:
What Prog band or artist do you find bland , boring , and just doing the same thing . |
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hearing all of it, I'm going to assume that at least 30% of the music
listed in the PA database is complete sh*t. About 10-25% is OMG Wow...holy poop on a stick! The rest falls somewhere in between.
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you're being a bit concervative, IMHO Already in Progmetal and Néo-prog, about 95% of it is utter sh*te and sounds like each other TBH, Post-rock doesn't fare much better in the same-sounding and Math Rock is 95% crap as well . I also have a problem telling apart of lot of those RPI symphonic bands TBH furthermore, a fair bit of JR/F and Zeuhl sound samey, but I happen to like the genres ================= Funnily
enough, while we wish that 70's prog stalwarts had done a few more
albums in the mould of their classic ones (especially in hindsight of
the 80's to come, a lot of the 90's pillars did "repeat themselves"
endlessly, and I can't help but finding them extremely boring (buy one
album, you own them all)
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Ozrics & Aranis spring to mind. Though I haven't listened to enough neo to be able to offer an opinion but my prejudice world view would say IQ, Marillion. Magma have been recycling the same themes for decades but man they are good themes. Alamaailman Vasarat certainly have a patented sound. |
agree with most bands you cite (well maybe not Aranis just yet >> their sound has progressed quite a bit since their debut until Roque Forte, but they've now come to sound very samey), and I could even add UZ, Cardiacs and a few more. I've stopped buying Vasarat after their fourth or fith and only kept their first two, plus the DVD
Edited by Sean Trane - May 09 2016 at 16:25
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miamiscot
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Posted: May 09 2016 at 15:29 |
IQ is a good call. But I love them anyway!!! Neal Morse/TFK's/TA? Same thing!!! A lot of sameness and a lot of greatness.
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ALotOfBottle
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Posted: April 30 2016 at 13:51 |
Yes and Genesis. Now, to be honest I find much of late-70's Canterbury scene so monotonous, for example National Health (which is great, don't get me wrong). Also, a bit of post-Aqualung Jethro Tull.
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Posted: April 30 2016 at 13:18 |
meggamuffin wrote:
I don't think I can tell the difference between most of the bands on Cuneiform Records but that might just me being naive. |
Welcome to the forum! There's a lot more diverse stuff on the Cuneiform label than perhaps you might expect. Not that you have to take an interest in it, but just saying, if you want to look there is a lot of varied music and you might find some you enjoy. It's not all avant-skronk. NB Edited my previous, unduly grumpy, response.
Edited by Mascodagama - April 30 2016 at 13:52
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Posted: April 30 2016 at 13:02 |
zravkapt wrote:
Bungler wrote:
What Prog band or artist do you find bland , boring , and just doing the same thing . |
Without hearing all of it, I'm going to assume that at least 30% of the music listed in the PA database is complete sh*t. About 10-25% is OMG Wow...holy poop on a stick! The rest falls somewhere in between.
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No need to list names for me, this pretty much says it all about the state of prog bands, especially the ones of the past 10-15yrs.
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meggamuffin
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Posted: April 30 2016 at 11:24 |
Definitely I think Steve listened to too much Radiohead and U2
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meggamuffin
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Posted: April 30 2016 at 11:23 |
I don't think I can tell the difference between most of the bands on Cuneiform Records but that might just me being naive.
Cardiacs comes to mind but I can't help but love it.
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King Manuel
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Posted: April 29 2016 at 00:59 |
AC/DC immediately springs to my mind ...
however on the Prog Side, agree with some mentioned here, like Flower Kings, Pendragon, etc. I also feel Saga sounds quite simmilar on differnt albums (at least on the ones I know, which are just a few). Also Polish band Sattelite comes to mind.
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Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: February 10 2016 at 13:20 |
MESHUGGAH tend to sound samey from album to album, though they always add a little twist to approach album to album.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: February 10 2016 at 07:42 |
scruffydragon wrote:
I don't have many Hawkwind albums, but struggle to tell one track from another on the ones I have.Then again perhaps I have just brought the wrong albums? |
Hawkwind have distinct periods of their history where they sound radically different from each other, within each of those eras they do tend to have a similar sound if you're not a fan and have repeatedly listened to the albums. I'm no expert but of what I know
1 - Hurry On Sundown - Folky psych 2 - In Search Of Space to Warrior On The Edge Of Time - full blow space psyche rock, their best period IMHO 3 - Astounding Sounds to PXR5 - more punky and upbeat with focus on Calvert vocals & lyrics 4 - Levitation onward - got heavier and more metalish, this is where I stopped buying.
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Ian
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Lewian
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Posted: February 10 2016 at 07:12 |
JD wrote:
^Einsturzende Neubauten comes to mind.
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Neither "officially" prog (as in "not on PA"), nor always the same. You don't know that much of them, do you? They have developed quite a bit over the years, but are still uncompromising.
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