5 Sub-Genres, 3 Bands
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Topic: 5 Sub-Genres, 3 Bands
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Subject: 5 Sub-Genres, 3 Bands
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 16:34
Inspired by a previous thread dating back to 2009. Tried to put a bit of variety of bands in this one and mix up the classics with the modern.  Really hard choice, but I'm going with the second Post/ Math Rock option - I love all three of those bands dearly. What's your choice?
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 16:40
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Krautrock...would have gone for RIO if not for Kayo Dot.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 16:50
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Maybe not too surprisingly, I went with the Krautrock option. I mean Phallus Dei, Yeti, Tanz, Babylon, Wolf City, Viva la Trance, Delay, Soundtracks, Monster Movie, Eve Bamyashi, Tago Mago, Future Days, Babalooma, Landed, Affenstund, Pharaoh, Hosianna, Einsjager, Nosferatu, Letze Tage, Seligpreisung, Aguirre, Salomos etc etc....
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 17:02
 Nice poll From this selection, Crossover.------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 17:03
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Voted for Crossover because Oldfield is one of my favorites and I like what I have heard from Big Big Train. However, I do not like Talk Talk. For me, it is less about the genre than the band or artist. King Crimson is also one of my faves, but I have not heard enough Beardfish to make a statement about them and I know nothing about Storm Corrosion. I also really like Amon Duul II, and have respect for Popol Vuh from what I have heard, but again, I don't know their music that well. I can't stand Can. The bands on the other two categories I don't care much for either, so it was easy for me to ignore them with impunity. Categories have their uses, though, and can help guide us to new music we might enjoy (with the risk of trapping us in a maze of genre identifications with no understanding of the music). ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 17:05
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RIO...for the strength of the Cow and Zoyd. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 17:07
| Went with Crossover. I love Talk Talk. Of Big Big Train I only heard and own The Underfall Yard, and it's a fantastic record. Mike Oldfield is not an artist I usually listen to, but albums like Hergest Ridge or Ommadawn are pretty impressive. |
Posted By: ScorchedFirth
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 17:23
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don't know all of beardfish's output, but King Crimson and Storm Corrosion is enough to give it to eclectic.
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 17:39
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The last option I guess although I don't really care for Kayo Dot. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 17:58
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Very hard choice between Eclectic, Kraut and RIO/Avant. Oldfield is one of my favorite artists but I don't like Talk Talk at all. No vote by now. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 18:06
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Haven't heard all of these bands, but I have to go with post/math because Russian Circles is my favorite band on the list, and Sigur Ros is great, too. ------------- I love dogs, I've always loved dogs |
Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 18:24
| I tend to like more from Crossover, but with the band options I went with Eclectic. I love Big Big Train and I like some Mike Oldfield stuff but I don't like Talk Talk at all. I don't like Storm Corrosion at all but I do enjoy some King Crimson and Beardfish is one of my favorites so I went with Eclectic. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 19:11
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The eclectic one followed by crossover. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 20:15
| This one would have been quite tough had Talk Talk been replaced by Ritual or Peter Gabriel. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 20:24
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Eclectic over Krautrock yo ! Rio / Avant and Post-Rock have some killer albums in there too. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 21:41
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RIO...would have gone for Krautrock if not for Kayo Dot.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 22:00
Yeah.. the krautrock trio is the only one, imo, with three amazing bands as opposed to one or two. |
SaltyJon wrote:Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 22:02
Not Post Rock? Betrayal to your fellow comrades.  -------------
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 22:46
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 22:48
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I voted for Krautrock as those are three really terrific bands. My runner-up is certainly RIO/Avant -- I adore Art Zoyd (a particular fave of mine in PA), love Henry Cow, and really like Kayo Dot. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: July 07 2012 at 23:19
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I know and like 2 out of 3 in most of the categories. Ended up with Eclectic, though.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 08 2012 at 07:03
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Crossover. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 08 2012 at 07:09
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Crossover. I like all three bands listed.
I haven't heard any RIO/Avant or Krautrock I like, I don't like King Crimson much (if at all) and Sigur Ros are the only post rock band that do anything for me.
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Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: July 08 2012 at 08:48
| Krautrock |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 08 2012 at 14:31
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RIO/Avant. I love Kayo Dot, Art Zoyd's first two albums are brilliant (I really need to hear more from them) and the one HC album I have isnt bad (Western Culture). I dont like kraut- or Post- Rock and the only eclectic band there I like is KC. I dont knowany of the crossover acts so it was a very easy choice in the end. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 02:24
Eclectic option. By the way, what's actually "eclectic" on minimalistic, quiet and melancholic album Storm Corrosion? ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: July 17 2012 at 07:09
| Kraut, and before Electic the eclectism that is Rio/Avant! |
Posted By: MonsterMagnet
Date Posted: July 17 2012 at 08:25
| Hard poll (especially between eclectic and RIO) but I would go for RIO |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 17 2012 at 08:52
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RIO/Avant just ahead of Kraut |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 17 2012 at 08:57
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Krautrock, easily
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: March 02 2016 at 13:40
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RIO/avant prog
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Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: March 02 2016 at 21:21
| Krautrock |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 06:10
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This is too complex a choice for me. For example I like of Talk Talk what is more Avant or Postrock than Crossover, also Oldfield is fine but not where he has "crossed over" to pop. Can are pretty eclectic etc. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 06:31
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Amon Düül 2 and Can are 2 of my top ten favorite bands, and Popol Vuh,
while not making it into the top 10, are excellent as well. it would have been a much tougher choice if Van der Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant had been in for eclectic instead of Beardfish and Storm Corrosion and the Residents and Univers Zero had been in for Rio/Avantgarde instead of Kayo Dot and Art Zoyd -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 11:39
| Eclectic is my Fav genre. |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 11:41
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PR/MR for Sigur Ros and Russian Circles. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 12:35
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Crossover for me. Big Big Train and Mike Oldfield are heavyweights, even when Talk Talk isn't my cup of tea. ------------- 
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Posted By: malmc02
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 15:38
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There are great things about all of these categories, but if I was stuck on an island, I'd have to go with: Crossover: Mike Oldfield, Big Big Train, Talk Talk
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 15:42
EclectKrautRio : King Crimson, Can, Henry Cow 
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Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 15:44
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Really tough choice between kraut and avant. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 17:09
| Eclectic |