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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2009 at 17:17
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Originally posted by jplanet jplanet wrote:

How many PA members does it take to make a top ten list?

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2 to actually begin to make a list, and 15 to say that no such list should exist at all! It's like the "Philosopher Soccer" sketch on Monty Python where Descartes argues with the referee that the ball didn't exist!

Now, I'll weigh in, as a guy who is in a retro prog band, that even I take no offense to the term (although I don't know how many people will still think we're retro after the next album)...
 
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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2009 at 18:02
I think the term retro prog is stupid, but as for modern symphonic (or eclectic KC influenced bands and whatnot):

1. SMPTe - Transatlantic
2. Bridge Across Forever - Transatlantic
3. V - Spock's Beard
4. Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings
5. Snow - Spock's Beard
6. The Light - Spock's Beard
7. One - Neal Morse
8. Back in the World of Adventures - The Flower Kings
9. The Kindness of Strangers - Spock's Beard
10. Sola Scriptura - Neal Morse
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Points: 799 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2009 at 21:38
Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Originally posted by jplanet jplanet wrote:

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Now, I'll weigh in, as a guy who is in a retro prog band, that even I take no offense to the term (although I don't know how many people will still think we're retro after the next album)...
 
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LOL

Don't worry, we'll have plenty for both the "oh" and the "no" reaction to that!

We very deliberately paying homage to prog's founders on the first one in some respects - where we could have chosen any string sound, we went for the Mellotron and made the 70's style production a theme...I think of that first album as a "statement of purpose" in that sense...now we're taking some chances and stretching out...





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Points: 596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 06:53
1. Moon Safari - [Blomljud]
2. Glass Hammer - SHADOWLANDS
3. Anglagard - Hybris
4. Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory?
5. Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
6. Tempus Fugit - Tales From a Forgotten World
7. Black Bonzo - Sound of the Apocalypse
8. Anglagard  - Epilog
9. Nosound - Lightdark (is it retro prog?)
10. Il Castello di Atlante - Come Il Seguitare Delle Stagioni 2000 (and is it?)


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 07:08
Originally posted by jplanet jplanet wrote:

Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Originally posted by jplanet jplanet wrote:

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Now, I'll weigh in, as a guy who is in a retro prog band, that even I take no offense to the term (although I don't know how many people will still think we're retro after the next album)...
 
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LOL

Don't worry, we'll have plenty for both the "oh" and the "no" reaction to that!

We very deliberately paying homage to prog's founders on the first one in some respects - where we could have chosen any string sound, we went for the Mellotron and made the 70's style production a theme...I think of that first album as a "statement of purpose" in that sense...now we're taking some chances and stretching out...




Just been listening to some of your samples.

Sounds like I might like it.
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Points: 20585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 07:23

Unlike Ivān, I don't find offensive the use of retro prog, because it's clear that groups concerned are doing everything to sound retro.....  

The first real retro artiste about the 70's was Lenny Kravitz's superb Let Love Rule >>> I think this is the album that let everyone remember about how good the 70's sounded before the ugly 80's reared its head.
 
 
About retro-prog:  It's a genre pioneered by the Swedes that I found initially enthralling and I forget to count the nights spend with these early discs on heavy rotation. 
But that was about 15 years ago.
 
If I had some room for Discipline and Sinkadus (late 90's), I find myself uninterested in Wobbler, Gargamel (I'll still listen to that secoind album, though) and Beardfish
 
 
 
 
However:
 
If I don't have a prblem with Angla, anekdoten, Landberk, Sinkadus, Wobbler, Gargamel, Discipline being called that.......
 
BUT I do hesitate calling Spock's beard, Magenta, Tangent, Transatlantic, , & TFK  as pure retro prog as for me, these groups also have a neo-prog slant as well. Ditto for Maschera Di Cera or Hotsonaten.
 
 
Newer groups like Black Bonzo, Areknames, Wicked  Witches are all doing retro rock or retro prog, but I simply have no time for them.
 
 
 
Originally posted by King Crimson776 King Crimson776 wrote:

I think the term retro prog is stupid, but as for modern symphonic (or eclectic KC influenced bands and whatnot):

1. SMPTe - Transatlantic
2. Bridge Across Forever - Transatlantic
3. V - Spock's Beard
4. Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings
5. Snow - Spock's Beard
6. The Light - Spock's Beard
7. One - Neal Morse
8. Back in the World of Adventures - The Flower Kings
9. The Kindness of Strangers - Spock's Beard
10. Sola Scriptura - Neal Morse
 
 
So I simply don't consider this list as a retro prog list at all.
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 08:31
Oopps.. I almost forget the best retro-prog all the times: 5bridges: The Thomas Tracks
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