My Top 10

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Top 10 artists(more lists may come later)
1.) Mangala vallis - terranova. This song is a masterpiece. Very prog/italian prog that reminds me of pavorotti and andrea bocelli style music. 

2.) Arena pins and needles, mea culpa, the visitor, Elea, friday’s dream…
Arena is a band that remains unbeaten when it comes to me.  I loved the way how Arena can portray concepts in s way that is depressing but that one can really relate to almost in very serious tone where Mea Culpa takes the torch - you have done something unforgivable and now has to pay the price. I do not like depressing music, but music tha tcan speak to a depressed person. Arena does this magnificently. I really admire how it “syncs” with your depressive mood in a way of saying that we are a lll f**ked and can really talk to you and to your soul. Which is what divides the wheat from the chaff.

3.) Cairo - Seasons of the heart - This is song should actually be number 1 on my list for any prog album. I fyou do not know this song, listen to it NOW. Cairo is easily a band as large as ELP and any othe rprog rock band. They deserve a medal for fame. The whole songs tells a deep story and the trasitioning is magnificent. 

4.) Illusion of Control - Jeremias. There is something that reminded me of Shrek 2 and Ratchet and Clank 1, as well as James Bond, Rogue Spear, and No one Lives Forever 1.

Because I am a 90s guy, I love the feeling of 90s pop in general and there was something reminiscing my childhood and fantasy driven dreams in the is album. I really admire fantasy driven albums like this.

5.)Frost, Lonely Robot, albums, Kino. I love these albums from John Mitchell. 

6.) Aimee Mann - Wake up. Again a song with extremely nice etherealness that makes one sad almost and is so beautiful at the same time.

7.) Hangover Paradise - wake me up. The last part of wake me up was the most beautiful think in the world I ever heard. The lyrics are also well crafted."Dont wake me up, dont wake me up again, dont wake me up again(Awesome end piece in the music)". Definitely reminds me of my early University days, very union like.

8.) Emerson Lake and Powell - love blind. I truly love th e80s vibe to this where it is reminiscing of we laundry and sunlight soap, as well as sunshine and good vibes in the air. ELP is the best. 

9.) Legend of Zelda, Sims 4 pets, etc were also very nice music I listen to and reminds me of my childhood and just is amazing to listen to.

10.). I and thou - Speak. Rock Opera. I love the Dream Theater Octavarium feel. It is extremely nostalgic, almost like being at the top of a watchtower at night like that Casper movie scene(Saw it long time ago), but almost the feel of something hidden you discovered and you sneak out at night to re-announce an exiting time that is almost abandoned by others.

I dont know what my music tastes fall into but I find most prog rock too bombastic and bores me to death. I tend to like deeper music with more intense story lines, especially melancholic traces.
I dont like mainstream prog rock. Something in the vein of Iamthemorning is much more appearling to me in general although I do not know specific songs I enjoy about them.

Edited by Lydianlover - July 15 2019 at 10:44