When your fav neo band stopped being neo.

LAM-SGC wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Porcupine Tree stopped being Neo-Prog for me with the release of their Progressive Metal "In Absentia" album in 2002, but I still like them. Porcupine Tree were never neo, they started as a one-man mushroom psych band, then a couple of Pink Floyd type albums, then he found the PT sound.

I agree. I never regarded PT as neo prog. The really early stuff seemed to have more in common with the trippy ambient electronica of the early 90's. Not sure how I would classify albums like Signify (which is actually my second favourite PT album after In Absentia)

Wow! As a big metal fan, I listen - obviously - to lots of metal of all tyoes, and there is no metal at all in Double Vision. Hard rock yes, but no metal. But no harder than anything played by Marillion or Pink Floyd. But I suppose, if you are usually listening to softer types of prog and fusion, then you might misconstrue that type of hard rock as metal, if you aren't used to hearing metal.

Edited by LAM-SGC - March 10 2020 at 05:01

Neo was most definitely a style in its own right. The Neo bands in the 80s shared lots of elements, and musically had far more in common with each other than say, Yes did with Jethro Tull or Mike Oldfield with ELP.

Edited by LAM-SGC - March 10 2020 at 05:46

Neo-Prog (or new prog) has always been a chronological definition for me, meaning most post-1970's prog bands. That's why I still consider Porcupine Tree to be a Neo-Prog band, even though I know most PA members here disagree with me on that point.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Neo-Prog (or new prog) has always been a chronological definition for me, meaning most post-1970's prog bands. That's why I still consider Porcupine Tree to be a Neo-Prog band, even though I know most PA members here disagree with me on that point.

Okaaaay.....

Where did you put Synergy, Paul? 

Perhaps we should have had. Genesis like Neo prog, Yes like neo prog, ELP like Neo prog, Crimson like neo prog, Tull like neo prog and mixture neo prog?

LAM-SGC wrote: Most respected band??? Hhhmmm. For me: 1. Jethro Tull 2. Mike Oldfield 3. Camel 4. Pink Floyd 5. Tangerine Dream

Respect? Strange word to use I think? And by whom? In symphonic prog circles...KC/Floyd possibly get most kudos because I reckon their late 60's efforts had great influence on the better music that was to come....but hey, I give respect to any band or musician who says...fook you, if I want to bombastically noodle for half an hour and produce a lengthy tone poem, then I will...thats why I love the new IQ so much and the flower kings, lengthy in your face prog of seventies flavour with a twist of the modern mixed in...