I don't like Neo Prog, change my mind

essexboyinwales wrote: Blacksword wrote: richardh wrote: The latest Lifesigns album is a real 'goodie'.  Going back anyone mentioned Pallas - Dreams Of Men? That's a powerful recording from about 2005. Pendragon - Love Over Fear is probably the best Neo Prog release of last year. Frost* - never really think of them as neo prog band but certainly check out Falling Satellites. That's a very creative modern prog album that owes little to Genesis (although there is a sneaky reference to Duke on the track Fine Day For it) . Jem Godfrey is something of a genius in my eyes and the band also has John Mitchell on lead guitar , and talking of whom.. It Bites - The Tall Ships. Classic early 00's album , I have to listen to The Wind That Shakes The Barley at least once a week. That's them the rules  Oh yes! It Bites are a great band and probably the band I've seen the most times since the 80's. Seen them even more times than I've seen Rush. The Tall Ships may even be their best album. As much as think Frank Dunnery was one of the best rock guitarists of the 80's, I think John Mitchell made an excellent contribution to that band later on. The Tall Ships is probably their most prog album, although Once Around the World is probably my overall top IB album. Old man and the Angel and the title track were mind blowing live. They also always had the best live sound of any band I've ever seen. I saw them in London about 8 years ago, and the crowd were absolutely loving it. I think Mitchell was quite taken aback by the reaction. The Wind that Shakes the Barley was also glorious live. I remember on the show 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' they played a clip of It Bites once and Mark Lamar commented They were once described as Marillion with sex. A far more palatable concept, you'd agree than sex WITH Marillion' Another big fan of It Bites here.  Never seen them live, and pretty much given up all hope now, but their 5 albums are all gems in their own way.  The Tall Ships is magnificent

The first time I saw them was in a small club in Reading in 1987 ( I think) a schoolfriend persuaded me to go with him. I knew very little about them. He was a pop fan. I was a rock fan, and he promised me I wouldn't be disappointed. I wasn't and I made sure he listened to plenty of Rush and Genesis after that, so he understood who had influenced IB.

richardh wrote: The latest Lifesigns album is a real 'goodie'.  Going back anyone mentioned Pallas - Dreams Of Men? That's a powerful recording from about 2005. Pendragon - Love Over Fear is probably the best Neo Prog release of last year. Frost* - never really think of them as neo prog band but certainly check out Falling Satellites. That's a very creative modern prog album that owes little to Genesis (although there is a sneaky reference to Duke on the track Fine Day For it) . Jem Godfrey is something of a genius in my eyes and the band also has John Mitchell on lead guitar , and talking of whom.. It Bites - The Tall Ships. Classic early 00's album , I have to listen to The Wind That Shakes The Barley at least once a week. That's them the rules

Oh yes! It Bites are a great band and probably the band I've seen the most times since the 80's. Seen them even more times than I've seen Rush.

The Tall Ships may even be their best album. As much as think Frank Dunnery was one of the best rock guitarists of the 80's, I think John Mitchell made an excellent contribution to that band later on. The Tall Ships is probably their most prog album, although Once Around the World is probably my overall top IB album. Old man and the Angel and the title track were mind blowing live. They also always had the best live sound of any band I've ever seen.

I saw them in London about 8 years ago, and the crowd were absolutely loving it. I think Mitchell was quite taken aback by the reaction. The Wind that Shakes the Barley was also glorious live.
I remember on the show 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' they played a clip of It Bites once and Mark Lamar commented They were once described as Marillion with sex. A far more palatable concept, you'd agree than sex WITH Marillion'

Edited by suitkees - February 26 2021 at 03:10

^ Cristi, you've probably noticed by now that only you call it "tormenting" and "trolling". I call it friendly banter. 

Oh you two, stop quarrelling all the time. It is really getting very very very tedious and has made several threads derail. And Cristi, in all good decency you can not ask a forum member not to post on a forum. You could start by doing what you ask Paul to do: not reacting to his posts!

Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ I like Magenta too and YES and Renaissance are two of my favourite bands.  I wonder what words would make you understand "stay away from me"...

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - February 26 2021 at 02:48

^ I like Magenta too and YES and Renaissance are two of my favourite bands. 

The latest Lifesigns album is a real 'goodie'. 

The Psychedelic Ensemble

^Try Sanguine Hum, The Psychedelic Ensemble, Frost*, Subsignal, Sylvan, K2 and Lifesigns.


Edited by Grumpyprogfan - February 25 2021 at 15:45