The Transatlantic Tree (Recommendations)

From The flower kings I recommend you Unfold the future.Also from Marillion buy the Fish-era albums.

Originally posted by The Quiet One If you like jazzy symphonic prog, get Unfold the Future, in my opinion The Flower Kings best album. Also, Paradox Hotel and Flower Power are must-haves.   By Spock's Beard you should definitely get Snow.   You should get some The Tangent as well,  not directly linked to Transatlantic, but it has Roine Stolt on the first two albums. The Tangent are by far more jazzier and Canterburish, but still symphonic driven. Get The World that We Drive Through.   Also, why not any Marillion? They're different from the other bands, but still have some great stuff in my opinion. Script for a Jester's Tear is an album every prog fan should own, not because it's the greatest prog album, but because it shows the 80s symph-influenced prog at full force, with great lyrics and vocals. Of course, if you don't like the 80s production with much synths...   Hope that helps.

yknow i forgot i got a bunch of recommendations at the TFK thread, and they all told me UTF. haha

Snow is the one ive been thinking about, mostly because from what ive heard it's similar to Neal's solo stuff, and im a big fan of those albums. Is Kindness of Strangers the other popular one by SB?

Speaking of Neal Morse, the only other prog album of his is Lifeline? how is it?

I'll look into The Tangent (another band ive heard of since i joined this site, but never checked out. Ohhh there's so many bands out there

Funny thing about Marillion, i had the chance to get an album of theirs recently. It was between Marillion - Misplaced Childhood, or IQ - Frequency. I went with IQ. I mostly bought it because it was released in 2009, and another thing im trying to do is have everything from 2009 (for many reasons...)


Edited by darkshade - February 20 2011 at 14:00

The Tangent's very related to many of those bands you just mentioned. I would recommend their album "Down and Out in Paris and London". 

Roine is in quite a few bands. Check out his solo albums, Agents of Mercy, The Tangent (first two albums), and Kaipa.

Edited by Anthony H. - February 20 2011 at 16:57

Can't see any mention of Karmakanic yet - Wheel of Life and Who's the Boss in the Factory are both excellent.

Originally posted by darkshade Im looking to further expand my collection of everything Transatlantic-related. I have all the Transatlantic studio albums plus the Whirld Tour 2010 live album Dream Theater - everything - Done Neal Morse - Testimony, One, ?, Sola Scriptura Enough. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are, Space Revolver, The Sum of No Evil The Rainmaker, Flower Power Spock's Beard - The Light, V You already have their best. Try a Morse-less album like Octane or the last one. And try Beware of Darkness.  i have no Marillion All Fish albums and Brave. Enough said.  i want to continue my SB and TFK collections, so which albums should i get next? Plus, try The Tangent's 2009 gem.

I'll second Teo's The Rainmaker for TFK. My personal favorite, with Unfold The Future (which is also needed) close behind. However, those are really the only two I enjoy by them.

Edited by Man With Hat - February 24 2011 at 22:18

Snow is good - but Beware of Darkness was always a favorite of mine.

After Fish era Marillion I would recommend Marbles - it's a fantastic album.

for The Tangent definitely pick up Not As Good As The Book and The World That We Drive Through.

Get the Roine Stolt solo album "The Flower King"

I liked Marbles and Misplaced Chilhood from Marillion.