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matti meikäläin View Drop Down

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Posted: December 15 2005 at 06:51

- van der graaf generator

- godspeed you black emperor

welcome to progarchives

Dick Heath View Drop Down

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Posted: December 15 2005 at 07:27

Welcome. I have to say, experience here at PA indicates that open invitations for such recommendations are guaranteed to give you random lists of what of other people like, but no guarantee you'll like them - and a potential bill running into 100's of dollars, pounds, euros etc.. Commonsense suggests you buy one or two good compilations with good liner notes, and work out which bands you prefer, then perhaps ask for recommendations for those specific bands. Check out the compilation section in PA for start points. For early prog, there at least 5 cheap British compilations (each 3 CD sets, 70+ per album) Legend Of A Mind, Time Machine, All Good Clean Fun, Ars Longa, Strangely Strange. Then somewhat less risky are those sets called something like The Best Prog Rock Album ever - but of course they never are the best and rarely have all tracks which could be rightly called prog (often thrown together to shift back catalogue by somebody in a record company who has no real love of the genre). Alternatively (and quite illegal - apparently it is killing the record industry or is it those rip off prices for downloadable mp3s??), find somebody with prog records and get them to burn a compilation onto CD or cassette or MD full.

Bob Greece View Drop Down

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Posted: December 15 2005 at 08:00

Nice advice Dick. Inside Out have got a couple of good compilations of new bands that are on their label ... Music In Progress 1 (prog) and Music In Progress 2 (prog metal). I must say that I haven't seen any compilation section in prog archives but I will have a search for it now.

Space Dimentia View Drop Down

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Posted: December 15 2005 at 08:18

Welcome to prog archives mate, trust me you will learn some interesting things on here allowing us all to seek out new proggy horizens!

Prog is music for the mind
Hear your Orphaned child!
Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17

-Radioswim- View Drop Down

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Posted: December 15 2005 at 17:23

Dick Heath wrote:

Welcome. I have to say, experience here at PA indicates that open invitations for such recommendations are guaranteed to give you random lists of what of other people like, but no guarantee you'll like them - and a potential bill running into 100's of dollars, pounds, euros etc.. Commonsense suggests you buy one or two good compilations with good liner notes, and work out which bands you prefer, then perhaps ask for recommendations for those specific bands. Check out the compilation section in PA for start points. For early prog, there at least 5 cheap British compilations (each 3 CD sets, 70+ per album) Legend Of A Mind, Time Machine, All Good Clean Fun, Ars Longa, Strangely Strange. Then somewhat less risky are those sets called something like The Best Prog Rock Album ever - but of course they never are the best and rarely have all tracks which could be rightly called prog (often thrown together to shift back catalogue by somebody in a record company who has no real love of the genre). Alternatively (and quite illegal - apparently it is killing the record industry or is it those rip off prices for downloadable mp3s??), find somebody with prog records and get them to burn a compilation onto CD or cassette or MD full.

My older brother is a huge prog-geek. Unfortunately I dont get to talk with/see him much. When I do though he always gives me CDs to try out (most recently he gave me Tales from Topographics Oceans)
But I always test drive CDs before I buy them (the internet is a very good thing...)
I also have pretty much every pre-collin era Genesis Album on cassette. :P

Dust in the Kitchen

Dalex_61

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Joined: December 15 2005
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Posted: December 15 2005 at 18:04

Welcome! After all the suggestions you had, I shouldn't add more bands. BTW, coming back to the 70s, try Cressida, a band that released just two albums, but they're very good! As I'm italian, I can also suggest Premiata Forneria Marconi, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and Le Orme. But, please, take your time to listen!

Bye.

Tony R

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Posted: December 15 2005 at 20:28

-Radioswim- wrote:

EDIT- oh and By the way, If thats your picture, your very pretty.
Too bad I dont get along with a lot of women... *sigh*

Itys not his picture......

Figglesnout View Drop Down

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Posted: December 16 2005 at 02:21

erlenst wrote:

You should definately get Änglagård - Hybris, Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments, Harmonium - Si On Avait Besoin D'une Cinquieme Saison, and (for God's sake) anything by PFM.

YES YES YES and YES!!!

I'm a reasonable man, get off my case

-Radioswim- View Drop Down

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Posted: December 22 2005 at 23:33