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I decided I want a playlist called "Prog in Your Face!" and I am looking for recommendations of songs worthy of making the playlist. These can be classic or modern, well known or obscure, any sub-genre.

Recommend me anything that makes you think "Prog in Your Face!"

Edited by mathman0806 - December 20 2019 at 01:54

If heavy rockin is what you mean by “in your face”, then

Jade Warrior - Minnamoto’s Dream (off of Released)
Jade Warrior - Snake Bite (off of Last Autumn’s Dream)
Jade Warrior - Red Lotus (off of Floating World)
Jade Warrior - Monkey Chant (off of Floating World)
Steve Hackett - Vampire With a Healthy Appetite (off of Guitar Noir)
Steve Hackett - Mechanical Bride (off of To Watch the Storms)
Steve Hackett - Tubehead (off Out of the Tunnel’s Mouth)
Bob Bralove and Henry Kaiser - March of the Wind Potatoes (off Ultraviolet Licorice)
Morgan Agren, Henry Kaiser and Trey Gunn - An Unusually Nice Hotel (off Invisible Rays)
Frank Zappa - 3 tracks: five-five-Five, Hog Heaven, and Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar (all off Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar)
Frank Zappa - Ship Ahoy (off of Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar Some More (same box set as above))

I could go on...

I want to request thatt you to post your playlist when you’ve compiled it.

A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now)

It's better than frog in your pace, that can be embarrassing.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

HackettFan wrote:

If heavy rockin is what you mean by “in your face”, then

Jade Warrior - Minnamoto’s Dream (off of Released)
Jade Warrior - Snake Bite (off of Last Autumn’s Dream)
Jade Warrior - Red Lotus (off of Floating World)
Jade Warrior - Monkey Chant (off of Floating World)
Steve Hackett - Vampire With a Healthy Appetite (off of Guitar Noir)
Steve Hackett - Mechanical Bride (off of To Watch the Storms)
Steve Hackett - Tubehead (off Out of the Tunnel’s Mouth)
Bob Bralove and Henry Kaiser - March of the Wind Potatoes (off Ultraviolet Licorice)
Morgan Agren, Henry Kaiser and Trey Gunn - An Unusually Nice Hotel (off Invisible Rays)
Frank Zappa - 3 tracks: five-five-Five, Hog Heaven, and Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar (all off Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar)
Frank Zappa - Ship Ahoy (off of Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar Some More (same box set as above))

I could go on...

I want to request thatt you to post your playlist when you’ve compiled it.

I am leaving "Prog In Your Face" open to interpretation. Apparently it's dirty to some.

Definitely will have some Zappa. I don't own any Jade Warrior. Will have to look into some Hackett.

Edited by mathman0806 - December 17 2019 at 18:56

I have my playlist started. 20 songs, clocking in at around 2 hr 40 min. I am not sure about the sequence and some songs may go. I am still looking for recommendations. This it so far:

Il Balletto di Bronzo - Introduzione

Ozric Tentacles - White Rhino Tea

Yes - Machine Messaiah

FM - Slaughter in Roboot Village

Tool - The Grudge

Frank Zappa - Five-Five-Five

King Crimson - Vroom

Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - The Barbarian

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

Al Di Meola - The Wizard

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Colosseum II - The Scorch

Jonas Hellborg / Shawn Lane / Kofi Baker - Rice with the Angels

John Paul Jones - Zooma

IQ - Frequency

Kansas - Journey from Mariabronn

Echolyn - Island

Pink Floyd - One of These Days

Marillion - Assassing

Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Purpose of the playlist is for upcoming cross-country plane flight.

Edited by mathman0806 - December 19 2019 at 10:06

When I think of "Prog in your face" I think of songs that immediately hit you over the head with strange rhythms and/or multi-layered melodies/harmonies. Off the top of my head, examples could include "Generale!" by PFM, "Ace Of Wands" by Steve Hackett, "Neurotica" by King Crimson, "Sound Chaser" by Yes, "Cogs In Cogs" by Gentle Giant and "Brujo" by Area. Perhaps also "Nekomajin vs" by Nuito if you have a tolerance for math rock Wink

Mirakaze wrote:

When I think of "Prog in your face" I think of songs that immediately hit you over the head with strange rhythms and/or multi-layered melodies/harmonies. Off the top of my head, examples could include "Generale!" by PFM, "Ace Of Wands" by Steve Hackett, "Neurotica" by King Crimson, "Sound Chaser" by Yes, "Cogs In Cogs" by Gentle Giant and "Brujo" by Area. Perhaps also "Nekomajin vs" by Nuito if you have a tolerance for math rock Wink

Or The Residents.

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Samla Mannas Manna - "Dundrets Fröjder"
Magma - "Iss Lansei Doia"
Van der Graaf Generator - "Darkness"
Area - "MIRage? Mirage!"
Gentle Giant - "The Moon is Down" and "So Sincere"

Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

I'm thinking more Flying Luttenbachers, or Upsilon Acrux, you guys are picking stuff that's way too gentle.

How about Yowie - Synchromysticism:

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

mathman0806 wrote:

I have my playlist started. 20 songs, clocking in at around 2 hr 40 min. I am not sure about the sequence and some songs may go. I am still looking for recommendations. This it so far:

Il Balletto di Bronzo - Introduzione

thread win for you.... nothing more in your face musically than being beat over the head with a 2x4.

vicious man.. then again.. the whole damn album pretty much is in your face and beating you silly...

Edited by micky - December 22 2019 at 15:28

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