Best and Worst prog

Thank you very much! I consider these recommendations as your Christmas gift for me! 

Logan wrote: I often prefer to do my lists in topics I create after others too (else everyone just ends up debating my choices before listing their own). Glad to hear you enjoyed Magma.  Since you like metal, I might suggest you start with groups like Taal, Kayo Dot, Mr. Bungle, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Estradaspere.  Wait, on second thought, get Hoyry Kone's Houno Parturi, Miriodor's Mekano and try John Zorn's naked City.  Maybe Taal first.  Then I suggest Present and Univers Zero, Boredoms so many.  Koenjihayakkei is a good modern Zeuhl band to try (Angherr Shisppa), and Eskaton and Dun are good old ones to try.  U Totem is one I love in Avant.  In Krautrock, Amon Duul II, Faust, Can.  I still don't know Krautrock well enough. If you appreciate fusion then, there are a ton of avant bands to choose from.  Miriodor might be a good one to start with, and I think Mr. Bungle might be a great one to try (might check out the samples).  It's such a varied category. That's just stuff off the top of my head.

Sckxyss wrote: Logan wrote: I often prefer to do my lists in topics I create after others too (else everyone just ends up debating my choices before listing their own). Glad to hear you enjoyed Magma.  Since you like metal, I might suggest you start with groups like Taal, Kayo Dot, Mr. Bungle, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Estradaspere.  Wait, on second thought, get Hoyry Kone's Houno Parturi, Miriodor's Mekano and try John Zorn's naked City.  Maybe Taal first.  Then I suggest Present and Univers Zero, Boredoms so many.  Koenjihayakkei is a good modern Zeuhl band to try (Angherr Shisppa), and Eskaton and Dun are good old ones to try.  U Totem is one I love in Avant.  In Krautrock, Amon Duul II, Faust, Can.  I still don't know Krautrock well enough. If you appreciate fusion then, there are a ton of avant bands to choose from.  Miriodor might be a good one to start with, and I think Mr. Bungle might be a great one to try (might check out the samples).  It's such a varied category. That's just stuff off the top of my head.    I would also second Taal, Estradasphere, or SGM as great starting points. Mr. Bungle is good too, but it's tougher on the ears. Huono Parturi is amazing, but impossible to find unless you download.

That makes sense to me.  Anyway, even if acquiring Huono Parturi proves difficult (the lack of availability on CD being very sad because it is a great album -- masterpiece), I recommend that people listen the streaming mp3 at this site ("Karhunkaato") -- see HÖYRY-KONE -- which is, in my opinion, a superb track (though I might be more likely to suggest "Terva-Antti Ku" as a starter track for DT fans... hmm...).  Then on to Present, Univers Zero etc. etc.  But Taal is a band that is very popular here, and a good for both getting metalheads into other styles and others into metal.  Estradasphere is excellent.  And of course I should mention Alamailmaan Vasarat (which grew out of Hoyry-Kone).  And EDIT (just glanced at my post), I really should spell Alamaailman Vasarat right if I'm going to mention it at all.




Edited by Logan - December 27 2007 at 22:34