Italian progressive, 1973. |
Post Reply | Page <1234> |
Author | |||||||
omphaloskepsis
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2011 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 5921 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Yeah that Jumbo album owns a special place in my collection. I like the roughness of Alvaro Fella's voice.
Edited by omphaloskepsis - January 13 2019 at 10:16 |
|||||||
Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Online Points: 10056 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 32755 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Yeah.... And there's something fantastical about Prog to me. I don't have statistics to back this up, but I could imagine a greater percentage of "Proggers" or fans of progressive electronic music such as Tangerine Dream playing Dungeons and Dragons and reading Tolkien than, say, fans of pop music such as Paul Anka or Ricky Martin. Marillion named themselves after Tolkien's Silmarillion (their original name then shortened), and one of their popular songs is "Grendel". Then there's Gandalf and Gandalf's Project included in Crossover Prog and Gandalf's Fist included in Neo-Prog. I think of Tolkien and the like being referenced quite a bit in Neo-Prog type acts. And the whimsical nature of certain Prog (like Gong or various in Canterbury), and the unusual lyrics and themes can lends itself to a sort of fantasy sort of world more than standard blues rock or country music. Prog quite often deals with mystery, mythology, legend, occult topics etc. and can be rather esoteric -- compare the themes in progressive acid folk such as Comus to songwriters such as Nicki Minaj (okay, a very lame comparison). Prog partially grew out of psychedelia, and psych often got into such themes. Proto Prog bands such as Cream (proto prog to me) were also delving into such fantasy and myth. Prog has lent itself to fantasy more than most popular music or barroom rock, or lounge music, I think. A lot of Symphonic Metal, and other metal, of course, seems interested in such things. Prog is often not very down-to-earth and direct in subject matter. I would sooner expect some elements of fantasy in Prog Rock than in pub rock. EDIT: And of course Vander created a fantasy world for Magma's music, and something of a language to boot. Edited by Logan - January 13 2019 at 13:21 |
|||||||
Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Online Points: 10056 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
||||||
^Yes the whole geekyness to it is also why it was ridiculed and loathed by jocks and rockers alike, but the 00's + adulthood feels like the actual Revenge of the Nerds
"Flyer than a kite, I get higher than Rapunzel / Keep the Snow White, I could buy it by the bundle / Step your cookies up 'fore they crumble / Don't be actin' like the Cardinals and go and fumble" |
|||||||
|
|||||||
jamesbaldwin
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 25 2015 Location: Milano Status: Offline Points: 5744 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Bologna is a beautiful city. University city, full of young people, clean and safe (today a little less), with efficient services. But in central Italy (actually throughout Italy) there are many art cities more beautiful than Bologna. I believe that Italians know that Italy is a small but beautiful land, with an artistic heritage and a phenomenal landscape, among the best in the world. If anything, Italians believe they are always worse than the others people, they are extermophiles. Also in the prog: take the leading Italian prog music experts and ask them to make a list of the most beautiful records: they will put the best records of PFM, Banco, Le Orme, Area etc at the bottom, not among the first.
|
|||||||
"Happiness is real only when shared"
|
|||||||
b_olariu
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2007 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 5531 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Le Orme for me
|
|||||||
Olape
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 28 2013 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 2034 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
I still hear often and love all of these.
Banco>Area>Le Orme>PFM>Museo
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
digdug
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4707 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
some great albums here
Museo for me
|
|||||||
Prog On!
|
|||||||
Frenetic Zetetic
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9233 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
PFM
|
|||||||
"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
|||||||
octopus-4
Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13396 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Area above the others
|
|||||||
Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
|||||||
Mascodagama
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 5111 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
What an incredible year in Italy. I voted Banco, but could and maybe should have voted Area. The Jumbo, Battiato, Cervello and Dedalus albums are also close to my heart.
Edited by Mascodagama - January 15 2019 at 02:20 |
|||||||
Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to.
Bandcamp Profile |
|||||||
dr prog
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 25 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 2449 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Le orme is the best band from Italy hands down
|
|||||||
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
|
|||||||
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10215 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Since technically Per Un Amico is not from 1973, I went with Zarathustra.
|
|||||||
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
I’d love to live in either Italy or Portugal
My pink bikini would fare so much better down there. My ears are itching for some old school RPI but I’m at work which means either Bob Marley or Kim Larsen. Magma was ok when I was working with erm...regular kids as they all seemed to get the whole Uruk Hai thang..but yeah autists and Magma do not mix well. I tried MDK here the other day and learned very quickly that it indeed wasn’t Bob Marley ie a small but very hard plastic doll was flung in my direction |
|||||||
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
|||||||
octopus-4
Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13396 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
About living in Italy: it really depends on the place tgat you choose and the kind of life you want to live. Italy has beaches and islands, some close to Africa, but it has also the highest European mountains. There are hills, lakes, big cities and small towns. It really depends.
|
|||||||
Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
|||||||
someone_else
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24005 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
I love to go to Italy now and then. I've been there 7 times during the last 16 years, of which 5 in Sicily.
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
miamiscot
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 23 2014 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 3432 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
All of them!!!
But I voted for the mighty Zarathustra!!!
|
|||||||
AEProgman
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 11 2012 Location: Toadstool Status: Offline Points: 1787 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
I can't decide!
The PFM album was my first RPI and fell in love with with the genre. Le Orme and Area albums were next. All of them are special in their own way.
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30845 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Felona
|
|||||||
dr prog
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 25 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 2449 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||||
Le Orme are one of the best bands ever. Great run of albums from 1971-79
|
|||||||
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
|
|||||||
Post Reply | Page <1234> |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |