NOT Top 100 Material

Originally posted by Sean Trane Easily Ayreon from this list.

Word!

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Anyone who voted for YES...   

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Edited by Roj M30 - July 02 2009 at 08:01

There's a few I don't like and a few I don't know from this list.

I've not heard anything by quite a few of these bands but I picked Marillion out of the list.  I only liked Script for a Jester's Tear and then I thought they went rapidly downhill.  I saw them in concert once in the late 1980s I think it was, and they were very disappointing - I seem to remember Fish spent much of the evening talking about himself.  Not that I dislike the guy though - I've heard him on the radio recently and he came across as a very likeable chap.

Okay, let's try this again.  At first my post went into the wrong forum, then when I copied it to put it here, it combined with an older post of mine with the wrong quote, and I lost the first part of the post.  I'll delete and start over.

Originally posted by progrocker2244 Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Frank Zappa: Call me what you want, i can't stand his music. Iván Oh, so I'm not the only one who doesn't love Zappa...

A few have expressed their dislike of Frank Zappa.  I tend to prefer his instrumental work.  Not that you should like it, but hearing "Peaches en Regalia" was such a joyous experience for me when I first heard it on the radio (might have been sandwiched between Bon Jovi and Kim Mitchell which made it all the more outstanding).

I like jazz-rock, brass, jam, blues (and jazz itself), as well as humour -- juvenile or not , though which will make me more open to Zappa than some.  This has never elicited a positive response, or any response that I can recall from any of the naysayers, and I wouldn't expect naysayers to like it, but it's something of a habit of mine to link to it when someone expresses their Zappa dislike.  (incidentally, Ivan seems to like Magma's 1001 Degrees Centrigade, and that's a very jazzy album so I don't expect that's his problem with Zappa's music -- instrumental or otherwise).  Some forget that even if they don't like Zappa songs, he has a great deal of instrumentals to, potentially, enjoy.



What I commonly find is that even if a band does not generally appeal, if I delve deeply enough (particularly with live performances) I can usually find something to like.  Sometimes it just takes "a moment", a phrase, a sound, that piques my interest to lead to much deeper appreciation.

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Frank Zappa: Call me what you want, i can't stand his music. Iván

Oh, so I'm not the only one who doesn't love Zappa...

Originally posted by BaldFriede Originally posted by Hercules It's between King Crimson, Pain of Salvation, Harmonium, Dream Theater, Van Der Graaf and Zappa for me. None of them have done an album which really deserves to be in the top 100 as far as I am concerned. All the rest thoroughly deserve their status. If pushed, I'd go for VDGG. They were generally considered very mediocre in the 70s (except in Italy, I gather) and not much has changed for me. I don't think anyone ever considered VdGG to be mediocre. There were (and still are) lots of people who disliked them, but no-one can honestly put the sticker "mediocre" on them.

I, too, am surprised to see VdGG with as many votes. To me they are the epitome of early 70's progressive rock. Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, He to He, The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other are milestones in progressive music

I voted for Opeth, they present the antithesis of what I like in music. I'm not a big fan of all the growling and death metal elements.

Easily Ayreon from this list.

Rush wouldn't get into the top 500...