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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2016 at 11:24
Definitely LOL I think Steve listened to too much Radiohead and U2 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2016 at 13:02
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Originally posted by Bungler 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.

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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2016 at 13:18
Originally posted by meggamuffin 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.


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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2016 at 16:23
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Originally posted by Bungler 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.


you're being a bit concervative, IMHOTongue

Already in Progmetal and Néo-prog, about 95% of it is utter sh*te and sounds like each otherEvil Smile

TBH, Post-rock doesn't fare much better in the same-sounding Sleepyand Math Rock is 95% crap as wellThumbs Down . I also have a problem telling apart of lot of those RPI symphonic bandsSleepy

TBH furthermore, a fair bit of JR/F and Zeuhl sound samey, but I happen to like the genresApprove

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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)


Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad 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





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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2016 at 04:16
Originally posted by ALotOfBottle 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.


I was waiting for the obligatory Tull pasting.........'cough!
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Direct Link To This Post 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.   Ouch So I'm SOL.
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:21
Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

Any Neal Morris project. 


Nah, I love a bit of Neal Morris.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:27
Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:


Any Neal Morris project.... 


Neal Morris does sound an awful lot like Neal Morse to my ear.
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2016 at 13:56
Originally posted by Kotro Kotro wrote:

Most Avant bands sound like screeech-zoing!-bangbangbang-AHHHHH! to me

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Originally posted by fudgenuts64 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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