Top Ten Favorite Modern Bands

Pain of Salvation
Paatos
Isis
The Flower Kings
Meshuggah
Porcupine Tree
Pure Reason Revolution
Anekdoten
Opeth
Do Make Say Think

Not in order and there are more bands that are amazing that have released stuff in the last 4 years like Oceansize, A.C.T, Riverside, etc., it was really hard for me to narrow it down to 10.

And didn't include Magma and older bands, because well.. simply they aren't modern bands


Edited by King of Loss - May 20 2008 at 02:22

NurseryCryme89 wrote: 4..............um, I'll pick more when modern music stops sh*tting out of its mouth...

sort of off topic but I think I read somewhere that Maynard said APC has a reasonably good chance of getting back together at some point in the near future

NurseryCryme89 wrote: um, I'll pick more when modern music stops sh*tting out of its mouth...

It never will, alas. Eschew it and focus on quality tunes from bygone days.

Audioslave
Pearl Jam
Flower Kings
The Tangent
Marillion
Deep Purple (new stuff)
Inxs
Simply Red
Yes (new stuff)
Whitesnake (last two albums, alt rock at somewhat best)
Coldplay (early stuff)

nightlamp wrote: Poseidotica Titan Mammatus The Bad Plus Tortoise Slough Feg Hammers of Misfortune Supersilent

hahahah those are the funniest names ever!

In no order:

The Mars Volta
Tool
Flower Kings
Spock's Beard
VDGG
Anathema
Opeth
Oceansize
Porcupine Tree
Red Hot Chili Peppers

schizoid_man77 wrote: sleeper wrote: schizoid_man77 wrote: p0mt3 wrote: 1. Tool (duh, it's me, the ultimate tool fanboy) 2. Porcupine Tree 3. Meshuggah 4. Opeth 5. Pain of Salvation 6. Disturbed 7. Linkin Park 8. Barenaked Ladies 9. A Perfect Circle 10. R.E.M.   Hate to burst your bubble, but A perfect circle is broken up. I know it hurts, as good as thirteenth step was. Emotive was 2003 right? Well, Pnoom!" did say recently broken up bands, unless Emotive was theri last album?   It was.

Well... they're technically not disbanded, just still on hiatus.  Apparently,  Maynard stated in a Puscifer newsletter (his solo project) that APC is "alive and well" (whatever that means).  Even so, I still don't see them ever making another full length album if they do return from hiatus.

I found a link:
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/maynard_james_keenan_says_a_perfect_circle_is_still_alive.html


Edited by darkmatter - May 23 2008 at 15:51

When I think of modern prog, I don't think of Yes and Genesis as some people have posted. For me the obvious delineation between Classic and Modern Prog is " Did the band debut occur in the 70s?"  If yes then they are classic Prog.  If no they are Modern.  This is just my definition and how I've thought of it for years, I suppose that I need a new catagory since my Modern definition covers close to 30 years now but I have no idea what  criteria to use.   But I'll use your definition here

Here's a list in no particular order of the bands whose new albums I look forward to a lot, though it would be very difficult for me to place them on top of one another, as my musical preferences change frequently:

-Kayo Dot
-Ulver
-Porcupine Tree
-Earth
-Estradasphere
-John Zorn
-Mastodon
-Secret Chiefs 3
-The Sound of Animals Fighting
-Toby Driver
-Radiohead
-Tool
-A whole bunch of modern composers, many of whom don't belong on THIS list as their last "albums" of pieces were released pre-2004

Probably more but off the top of my head, that sounds pretty accurate.

I Modern Music