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New, improved list: 1. The Smashing Pumpkins 2. Sonic Youth 3. Neutral Milk Hotel 4. Boards Of Canada 5. Sunn O))) 6. Swans 7. My Bloody Valentine 8. Fleet Foxes 9. The Band 10. The Arcade Fire
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Posted: October 21 2012 at 12:21
AEProgman wrote:
^ Good grief, how did I forget Mott the Hoople, remove the Mule and insert Mott (loved the Mott album). Mott makes me think of T-Rex, oh crap my list could be changing hourly or with the volume of Merlot.....
I like pretty much everything they did, even their post Hunter albums are pretty cool. My favorite of theirs is probably Mad Shadows, although Mott comes in a very close second. Brain Capers, Two Miles to Heaven and All The Young Dudes make up the remainder of the top five.
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Posted: January 20 2017 at 15:02
old topic... interesting topic.. the site has done a great job. Leaving out those I think have a place and weren't included.. versus those that are IMO no brainers that for various reasons.. weren't. In that the site has done such a good job... I don't know if I can come up with 10.
biggest omission IMO would be
1) The Velvet Underground made more a glaring omission by inclusion of various bands that didn't have a fraction of the proto influence this band had. Hell I think they sucked... but that isnt' the same as saying they had more proto-prog credentials than any single band this site capriciously included (the Airplane?? come on... no ONE loves that band more than I do.. perhaps they belong.. TVU. DID belong)
2) Ginger Baker (still befuddled at the JR-F team for his absence..) 3) The Grateful Dead (not as befundled... strong push back as just a silly jam band but like the Allmans.. so much more than just a bunch of dope smoking hippies jamming off whatever came into their minds for 20 or 30 minutes at a time) 4) Judas Priest (caught between proto and prog metal.. they were neither.. yet large parts of both. First 3 and Nostradamis should have got them in. They, not sabbath, was THE prote prog metal band) 5) Willie Nelson ( American Folk Prog at its finest! )
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
Joined: September 03 2005
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Posted: January 20 2017 at 15:49
Here's my list : Quicksilver Messenger Service Bruce Cockburn The Grateful Dead Kajagoogoo Jefferson Starship Anthrax Megadeth Magic Mushroom Band Sade Phantomband
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Posted: January 20 2017 at 17:42
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Shins
Neutral Milk Hotel
John Coltrane
The Cure
U-2
The Raveonettes
Morphine
The Byrds
Stevie Wonder
I think The Shins and Neutral Milk Hotel are more progressive than many bands on progachives. I'm guessing they play 4/4 too much, but their lyrics, melodies, and styles are as progressive as things get and they're music is original, new, and resplendent. Morphine and The Cure also have progressive leanings. Yet, I'm glad they're not included. We can't have everybody in our club.
Edited by omphaloskepsis - January 20 2017 at 18:07
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Posted: January 21 2017 at 02:41
My list would be too long to post (and plenty of the ones in the list would be jazz awyways)
but here is a few-few (I'm excluding anythingentered in PA), and listing only the ones where I like a majrity of their albums)
Ten Years After and Savoy Brown (both could be catalogued as progressive blues) Cream (Yes, Eric, it was a jazz band >> Jack and Ginger never told you ) Quicksilver Mess Service (these guys got proggier as they went on and their last one Coming Thru is awesome) Mahogany Rush (with Frank Marino, of course) Noir Désir Free Rory Gallagher
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Posted: January 21 2017 at 07:29
Sean Trane wrote:
Cream (Yes, Eric, it was a jazz band >> Jack and Ginger never told you )
awesome Hugues.. and so true... and yeah. Good catch, would put them in at 6, and toss the Allmans in at 7. Very akin (along with Steely Dan that Martin and I did at least manage to get added) in the differences in the public perception of they played (pop or blues), as to the actual structure of what they were playing (fricking Jazz Rock/Fusion).
If I had it to do all over again, I would left AR to flounder, RPI to go unrecognized, and taken over the JR/F team. That was the path to real corruption of the site
Edited by micky - January 21 2017 at 07:31
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