Modern Music that tried to be "Prog"

Prog died basically in the late seventies with a few bands carrying on the flag throughout the  80`s an 90`s and even the 2000`s

Yesterday I bought a Guapo album ... I can assure any worried people that prog is alive and going strong.

I just don't like it, i think there is SO much more to the late 60's and early 70's...the music was so powerful and meaningful back then....and it can NEVER, EVER be re-done.

Prog is short for progressive, but it is also just a genre!  I prefer "Late 60's, early 70's prog", i call that PROG!  Nothing else is prog in my eyes, THAT is the era of prog music and it DIED with it!

Anything today or afterward woulkd either be "insert era here prog" or "modern prog"

Just like there is "rock", "alternative rock", and "classic rock"...there are subdivisions for prog.

I LOVE the vintage prog, the great, golden years of prog "Late 60's, early 70's", that is my prog, simple as.

I do not understand how people can love that era, and still subject there ears to the modern music today....despite how much talent, or whatever gopes into it, there is just something about the ERA that gives it that extra importance!

The Lost Chord wrote: I just don't like it, i think there is SO much more to the late 60's and early 70's...the music was so powerful and meaningful back then....and it can NEVER, EVER be re-done. Prog is short for progressive, but it is also just a genre!  I prefer "Late 60's, early 70's prog", i call that PROG!  Nothing else is prog in my eyes, THAT is the era of prog music and it DIED with it! Anything today or afterward woulkd either be "insert era here prog" or "modern prog"   Just like there is "rock", "alternative rock", and "classic rock"...there are subdivisions for prog. I LOVE the vintage prog, the great, golden years of prog "Late 60's, early 70's", that is my prog, simple as. I do not understand how people can love that era, and still subject there ears to the modern music today....despite how much talent, or whatever gopes into it, there is just something about the ERA that gives it that extra importance!

You are incredibly close minded for a Prog fan... I'm disapointed in you
I don't understand how YOU can limit yourself to the "Golden Age" of prog, the Flower Kings, IQ, Focus, the Mars Volta, Dream Theater, etc. All make beautiful prog music for my hungry prog ears. I think your (and I myself) overuseing the term "prog" as if prog is even a certain sound. Prog doesn't sound like anything really. It's just chalk full of melody, rythem, ideas, emotions. It borrows from so many genre's thus creating so many new sounds. Prog has always done this, and will always do this. As long as the "Prog-groups" are willing to transcend the ideal of a "Progressive" sound. No matter what the year, stop looking at "modern-prog" as if its competing with the "vintage-prog", this is not a battle, this is a joint on-ward march, in order to Progress sound and ideas. Listen to them for what they are today. Enjoy them for what they were, as the future comes. Open your ears.

cuncuna wrote: Space Dimentia wrote: Prog didn't die dude, it just went underground to evolve and take on new forms like Iron Maiden, DT, Marillion etc. I have developed a method to determinate who and who is not prog. for example, let's take Iron Maiden as subject. We aproach to them and ask: "...Excuse me, mr. Iron Maiden person you sir. ¿would you please tell if you, fine gentlemen, and those other Iron Maiden persons, consider yourself or your music or both as something we could define as, let's say, "progressive"?

Another way would be to rate all their songs' progressiveness - say on a 0 to 10 scale.

Hint: you can do that on my homepage.

1. Guapo
2. Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses
3. Koenji Hyakkei
4. Tortoise
5. Explosions In The Sky
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7. A Silver Mt Zion
8. Sigur Ros
9. Alamaailman Vasarat
10. Thinking Plague
11. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
12. Paatos
13. Taal
14. Machine & The Synergetic Nuts
15. Fantomas

And that's just off the top of my head! There's a lot of genuinely progressive rock out there - just accept that the genre has moved on since 1974 and open your mind and ears.