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LAM-SGC
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Was there a moment when neo really wasn't neo anymore? When it had become its own thing, band by band I mean, not across the board.
Let's take Arena, for example, as a band that were still making classic neo well into the 90s, their first two albums are 100% classic neo, but then on the 3rd studio album, they had found their own sound and it wasn't neo anymore it was just Arena. I don't know how it was in your circles back in the day but where I was Wind & Wuthering was a new kind of breakthrough album for Genesis, and was and still is considered by many as the first neo album, because rather than looking back to classic prog, it looked forward and reflected the moods of the day....enter Marillion and the others... but when did that sound really end for bands and turn into something else. Obviously, it varies from band to band. So when did your favourite neo band stop being neo? EDIT: Jesus, I hate autocorrect. Edited by LAM-SGC - March 09 2020 at 12:00 |
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I'll pick Marillion. I'd say they stopped being a neo prog band with the Brave album, though I could see one arguing that the change started happening as early as Clutching at Straws. In fact, I'd say they would be a better fit under eclectic if you consider their entire discography, but their hallmark earlier albums will always have them pegged as neo prog.
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I can't really remember, but I never saw the 2nd or 3rd instalments....
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LAM-SGC
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Eerrr, what? |
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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.
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Are you referring to The Visitor? It sounded less derivative, but to me it's still Neo. I don't care what they identify as, but they're not as good now. The first few albums (yes, up through The Visitor) are excellent melodic prog rock. I saw them perform at Prog Fest '97 (only two albums out) and they tore the roof off the venue. Good times!
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LAM-SGC
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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. |
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I completely disagree, I saw them live in May 2018, on the Double Vision tour, and I think they are better now live and on album than they have been in a very long time. As for The Visitor, fantastic album, but I don't hear classic Neo on that at all. |
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I haven't liked any of the vocalists after Paul. And he sounded exactly the same live as he did on album.
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LAM-SGC
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Wow! You've got some catching up to do. Paul Wrightson left in 1998. The current singer Paul Manzi has been with them since 2010. Double Vision (2018) is my joint favourite album with The Visitor. |
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It's a given that Arena adapted some metal guitars on the 'Immortal?' album, but to me it still ticks all the neo-prog boxes way up to 'Pepper's Ghost'. 'Seventh Degree' and 'Double vision' are more like symphonic metal records because of the lack of progressive songs. I do like 'The Unquiet Sky' though.
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Sanguine Hum is not neo. However, they are classified neo on PA. More Canterbury to my ears. So my fav neo band was never really neo.
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I think you missed the part where I said "I haven't liked..." I dropped off after Pepper's Ghost, and I've sampled the newer albums, but wasn't moved to buy them. I like the old stuff best.
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I agree.
That's why I'm not into them. We've already got Threshold, and I've got most of their albums.
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Not really my area of expertise, since I don't think about labels very much. I either like the music or I don't, simple as that. Labels help clasifly the music and give us an orientation as to what kind of music to expect, but if I don't like it, I don't mind what lebel is under, I won't get into it, and if I like it, I'll certainly enjoy it.
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LAM-SGC
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You're right, sorry. I misread it as "haven't heard" 😂 |
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Pendragon went through a change I think from neo prog to something else a bit more heavy , but I haven't heard their latest album though I'm told it's very good I really must check it out soon .
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Neo Prog was just a bunch of bands that revived the old symphonic approach in the early eighties. It was a movement but the style evolved. Marillion's second album was quite different as was IQ's second album compared to the first. The Wake is probably what people have in their minds eye as 'classic' neo but IQ hardly made another album like it. 'Genesis on a Walkman' was the disparaging throw away comment of one critic (it might have been the whole review though!) at the time. I just see it as music that is very broadly symphonic in approach but less about fantasy subjects or deep concepts. Its more emotional and human based and suicide and death are favourite subjects. I enjoy it for what it is and I'm not sure as already said that the labelling is that helpful.
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There's not really such a style as neo-prog.
It's just a new wave of bands doing classic symphonic prog (and some of them doing it extremely well). And some bands do evolve their styles - look at Strawbs, who went from bluegrass to prog folk to glam rock to symphonic to God knows what and back again.
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Sorry, an attempt at humour, based around The Matrix... I don't really get the whole "neo" label. I don't see why IQ aren't "symphonic", because they are to my ears.... As someone else said, it was just about a new wave in the early-mid '80s!
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