Most Popular Prog Bands by Country Currently? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

tribalfusions wrote:

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

The op might be interested in trying this: go to the top rated album part of this site and put in 100 albums(or 500 etc) or more from the countries you want. That will give you the most popular albums from those countries(or at least the most popular on here).

Thanks though the most popular groups on here aren't necessarily the most popular at large

I have gone through the list by country somewhat though to make sure I'm not forgetting anything.

Do you have any guesses?

You were looking for the most popular prog bands and artists though right? So being that this is a prog website you will get the most popular acts in the prog genre.

Other than the most obvious bands I think most have already been covered. I will say that anything metal or metal related seems to be popular and also anything post rock or crossover.

No, I don't have any guesses other than what I already guessed.

The op might be interested in trying this: go to the top rated album part of this site and put in 100 albums(or 500 etc) or more from the countries you want. That will give you the most popular albums from those countries(or at least the most popular on here).

Tricot from Japan are making some waves. They do quite well in their home country, have overseas distribution for their stuff now (I got a nice colored vinyl of their most recent album without having to deal with import fees), and seem to enjoy touring other parts of the world in the rock-club circuit. Next month they'll be playing gigs all over the UK.

They are basically an all-female hyper-math-rock band with some catchiness thrown in.

Does anyone have any more suggestions from different places?

Meltdowner wrote:

From Portuguese bands on PA, I'd say Moonspell and Linda Martini. The first certainly plays in other countries while I don't think the later has any popularity outside Portugal.

Thanks very much! Do any other Portuguese prog bands play much outside Portugal? Any prog metal perhaps? I don't know much about prog in Portugal I confess.

Would you like to try to guess the equivalents for Spain as well?

tribalfusions wrote:

verslibre wrote:

Tribal, it sounds to me like your definition of prog is classical symphonic progressive. Prog isn't defined only by myriad key and tempo changes within the space of five bars. TD's aesthetic is different. They're not fusion, they're not Zeuhl. They're Tangerine Dream. They're one of the bands that made the world safe for Teutonic and ambient electronic styles. They're very much a progressive group in that regard.

My criteria don't regard symphonic progressive any more than they do any other genre like jazz-rock, zeuhl etc.

The point is that is if one's melodic structures come from certain source material and one's harmonic vocabulary comes from a certain place, then it can easily be 'pop' vocabulary. TD's vocabulary is a lot closer to pop in that sense while their timbres and the length and pace of the tunes are obviously not.

That is why I say that it sounds like pop music to me in its essentials where Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu, Henry Cow, Magma or many others, all different from each other, do not. It's not their timbre or pacing which make them progressive. It's the deeper structures.

I'm not interested in debating that here though; let's make a thread in the general discussion about it.

You really haven't heard the diverse spectrum that Tangerine Dream has recorded. Check out "Electronic Meditation" for example. Pure Krautrock all the way through. True, TD has implemented pop hooks here and there and not considered prog rock per se but certainly has proven itself within that context as well albeit on rare occasions. Progressive electronic is a completely different beast that is included here for the sheer influence it had on the prog universe. Therefore it gets kind of a special category. It's progressive most of the time, just not rock all of the time.

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BaldJean wrote:

My sister did not hi-jack the thread at all; this is merely in your imagination. To accuse her of all people of attention-seeking is plain ridiculous. She gets into contact with some of the most powerful people in the world on a regular basis in her line of work, so she definitely does not need this kind of attention.

As my sister rightly pointed out it was you who first deviated from the subject; she merely responded to your deviation.

As if the thread needed more of this...and from that poster's sister no less.

I didn't deviate from the subject; I simply asked if people here considered TD prog which what is relevant to this thread. Once that was fairly well established, that was the end of that line of inquiry in any reasonable person's mind regardless of my own view on the band.

It wasn't an open invitation for endless debate on that topic and I suggested repeatedly that if that was of such interest, then a thread should be opened to discuss that.

As for your assertion that having a position which offers contact with powerful people precludes poor behavior in some other environment, it's a patently illogical point.

One could just as easily argue the opposite; that a person habituated to such an environment internalizes certain behaviors and sublimates certain resentments etc. And such a person feels a compulsion to send unsolicited insulting private messages.

I suppose it's too much to ask that we skip this absurd discussion entirely and post about the question posed originally?

Lewian wrote:

tribalfusions: You could stop this easily by not responding; if you claim something here surely those who disagree can post their disagreement, and it doesn't play a role whether you're the OP for that.

Yes and I have stopped responding to him in fact but I do not appreciate my thread being hijacked when it's clear that the point has been addressed and that it's not relevant enough to consume the whole thread as it was doing.

The disagreement was about a peripheral issue and I had already stated repeatedly that TD are prog enough for the purposes of the thread so there was no reason to keep discussing it here.

Perhaps instead of assigning blame to a new member who asked someone on a crusade to open up his own thread, you might have a word for the fellow on his crusade. That same member also took the liberty of sending me an unsolicited and insulting private message which is further indication of some issues I will leave to the moderators.

Now that we have that out of the way, it would be lovely if you had some input into the original question under discussion.

Edited by tribalfusions - October 20 2018 at 19:24

USAGirl wrote:

My dear sir, you have some nerve to come up with this yourself and then "nicely" ask not to derail the thread.

Though being a musician is not my primary profession music is most definitely more than a hobby for me; I write my own compositions and have had in-depth training. Fortunately I don't have to make a living with music; my primary job is extremely well paid.

Yet AGAIN you feel the need to derail the thread. You were asked several times by the OP (myself) to drop it but you continue every time.

Like the typical internet bore, when the thread isn't about what you want to discuss and the OP himself asks you repeatedly to drop it, you still just HAVE to have your way.

How many times do you have to be asked to drop it before you get it?

I am not interested in your views on Tangerine Dream here beyond whether they should be considered one of the most popular prog bands in Germany and around the world etc. Once that was answered (and it was), there's no more need to debate how prog they are or are not here beyond the initial exchange of views.

This is not a thread on Tangerine Dream specifically. In fact I am specifically saying it is NOT about them so stop it.

Can someone please tell me how to contact a moderator to clean up this thread and take care of this poster?

Thanks

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