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doitlive said:
Lightbulb Sun is my favorite PT album.
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Despite how... poppy (i guess) and not really prog that album is, it is probably my favorite PT album too. It just hits so many right notes and it isn't over produced like some of the latest albums have been.

You know, I think this is the album that started to curve me out of prog metal and into more straight (but well constructed) rock and folk.

That said there will always be a sweet spot for Prog in my heart.
 
Great thread! Just heard the new Seventh Wonder single, great stuff:D . For me, classic prog has to be Yes, Genesis and King Crimson. But for new, love DT, Rush and Coheed+Cambria
 
Big Porcupine Tree fan. Love all their stuff and his side projects like Blackfield and No-Man.

Some of my favorite PT are Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet and Sky Moves Sideways
 
Clemsontigers35 said:
wat are people's favorite Dream Theater albums? Scouring Amazon right now for some good albums.
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Metropolis
Live at The Budokan DVD is a must-have, one of the best produced live concert videos.
Wished they had a bluray version.
 
Clemsontigers35 said:
wat are people's favorite Dream Theater albums? Scouring Amazon right now for some good albums.
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Images and Words
Awake
Octavarium
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
 
I think my favorite DT albums are Metropolis Pt2, Awake, Train of Thought and Images and Words in that order.

A change of seasons is also a beastly good track.
 
The best DT albums are:
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Images & Words
Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory



I'm gonna check out that Seventh Wonder band, their songs sounded good on Youtube.
 
Clemsontigers35 said:
bought Scenes from a Memory, Images & Words, Train of Thought and Yes's Fragile. 30 bucks off amazon used.:D
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Classic album. You're in for a treat.


My favorite official Dream Theater album is Live at the Marquee, which has a great performance of Another Hand/ The Killing Hand and a unique improvisation Bombay Vindaloo, but if one allows a looser definition Liquid Tension Experiment is my top choice. I like their over the top instrumental playing and solos much more than their songwriting and this album is nothing but the former.
 
Nappuccino said:
I think my favorite DT albums are Metropolis Pt2, Awake, Train of Thought and Images and Words in that order.

A change of seasons is also a beastly good track.
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The original live version with Kevin Moore is still the best version.
 
About Dream Theater,
1. Images & Words, except for the non-instrumental parts.
2. Awake, solely due to Space-dye vest. <3 Chroma Key and OSI
3. Metropolis Pt. 2 live


Truant said:
There's nothing progressive about 90% of all progressive rock. It's as stale and lifeless as modern autotuned rap and R&B.

I think perhaps Battles, Extra Life and Kayo Dot could be seen as progressive, but that's like three bands. Sad.
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The title "progressive" is merely a handy name for easy reference that shouldn't be taken as a literal expression of the music's quality. That said, there's an immense number of musicians and bands always trying and (sometimes) managing to bring new aspects into all those well-trodden areas from crimsonesque glory to the downright ugliness (sorry) that is neoprog (i.e. basically what ymmv said). Btw., Extra Life are awesome.
 
Maybe it`s been mentionned but just in case:

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ymmv said:
Images and Words
Awake
Octavarium
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
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If you get Black Clouds and Silver Linings, get the one with the bonus cover tracks of Rising (Rainbow) and Take your fingers from my hair (Zebra). Amazing covers.

Also, Count of Tuscany is one of their greatest ever tracks.
 
Clemsontigers35 said:
wat are people's favorite Dream Theater albums? Scouring Amazon right now for some good albums.
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This is so hard for me to answer, since I think almost everything they've made is great. The weakest ones would have to be When Dream And Day Unite and Falling Into Infinity.

WDADU was their first album. It has a few good songs, but they just hadn't found "it" yet. Also, the singer on that album (Charlie Dominici) isn't that good. Thank god they got LaBrie for Images And Words (though I know many consider him pretty awful). IAW is such an improvement, and a great album. The same goes for Awake.

FII is an album DT never wanted to make. They got pressured into making it far too commercialized, and the result was a lightweight album (by DT standards) that almost broke the band up.

Since then they've had complete control over what they put on their albums (they demanded this to agree to even make another album after FII), and as a result everything since then has been awesome. For me personally Train of Though is the weakest DT album since FII, but that's only because they chose to make a less progressive and more "edgy" metal album. It's still good, I just infinitely prefer their really progressive stuff.

If I had to recommend just a few of them to a DT newbie I'd probably say Images And Words (timeless classic), Scenes From A Memory (amazing concept album) and Black Clouds & Silver Linings (to get a taste of their newer stuff). But really, as long as you don't start off with the weaker ones I've mentioned you really can't go wrong.

Anyone else have the deluxe edition of Black Clouds & Silver Linings?

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It's really unnecessary (I don't even have an LP record player), but I just couldn't resist.
 
Clemsontigers35 said:
wat are people's favorite Dream Theater albums? Scouring Amazon right now for some good albums.
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Images and Words, A Change of Seasons, Scenes from a Memory, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Black Clouds and Silver Linings.

I also really enjoy FII for what it is. If i skip about half the songs on the album, you end up with some pretty good ones.


Live at the Budokan is awesome, too, as someone already mentioned.
 
Thanks for the advice, since I don't know too much about DT, had only heard a few songs before. I was mostly into Genesis, Yes, Rush and Coheed before hearing them.
 
Clemsontigers35 said:
Thanks for the advice, since I don't know too much about DT, had only heard a few songs before. I was mostly into Genesis, Yes, Rush and Coheed before hearing them.
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So what are you favourite Genesis albums? :) Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, Selling England or Lamb? They are all so good! :O
 
I need some recommendations. Here's what I'm into: Genesis, Between the Buried and Me, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Flower Kings, Pain of Salvation, Protest The Hero, Mastodon

Everytime I look at my playlists it's so short. :<
 
Entropia said:
I need some recommendations. Here's what I'm into: Genesis, Between the Buried and Me, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Flower Kings, Pain of Salvation, Protest The Hero, Mastodon

Everytime I look at my playlists it's so short. :<
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Porcupine Tree would probably fit your tastes pretty well, especially earlier albums like The Sky Moves Sideways and Signify. Though my personal favorites are Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream. Practically all their albums are winners though.
 
Entropia said:
I need some recommendations. Here's what I'm into: Genesis, Between the Buried and Me, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Flower Kings, Pain of Salvation, Protest The Hero, Mastodon

Everytime I look at my playlists it's so short. :<
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You need some Spock's Beard and Oceansize up in this bitch.
 
What do you guys think of Spocks Beard?

I have about 5 of their albums (mostly later stuff) and it randomly came up on my shuffle. I forgot how much I liked these guys.

edit: How does that always happen on these forums? Two people mention a rather obscure thing minutes apart from each other.

High Five though.
 
Nappuccino said:
What do you guys think of Spocks Beard?

I have about 5 of their albums (mostly later stuff) and it randomly came up on my shuffle. I forgot how much I liked these guys.

edit: How does that always happen on these forums? Two people mention a rather obscure thing minutes apart from each other.

High Five though.
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Yes, well done.

Everything up until Feel Euphoria is great, conveniently descending in order of quality by the album order (i.e. first is the best, second is the second best, etc.).

Of course Transatlantic is better.
 
CygnusXS said:
Yes, well done.

Everything up until Feel Euphoria is great, conveniently descending in order of quality by the album order (i.e. first is the best, second is the second best, etc.).

Of course Transatlantic is better.
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I really do need to get some of their older stuff. The only Neal era albums I have are V and Snow. That said, I do like (most) of their new stuff too. They're one of the few bands that focus on the vocals with out forgetting about everything else.
 
dLMN8R said:
Porcupine Tree would probably fit your tastes pretty well, especially earlier albums like The Sky Moves Sideways and Signify. Though my personal favorites are Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream. Practically all their albums are winners though.
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In Absentia as well. That album has it all. Such a laid back album with haunting and creepy subject matter. :D
 
I have a few albums from Spock's Beard: V, Snow, and the self-titled.

And yeah, Transatlantic's "Whirlwind" was an awesome album.

I have "Fear of a Blank Planet" and "Deadwing" from Porcupine Tree, I'm not sure what it is, but I can only seem to listen to their longer songs.
 
Earlier I wrote a post about Heldon and its leader Richard Pinhas, whose music fans of King Crimson or 1970s electronic music should check out. My one regret was that I couldn't find any good sample tracks on youtube. Now I have found some. I still couldn't find any samples for the solo albums I recommended, Iceland and Chronolyse, but here are some Heldon tracks in chronological order:

from their second album Allez Teia:
In the Wake of King Fripp, featuring the mellotron.

from It's Always Rock and Roll:
Cotes de cachalot à la psylocibine

from Agneta Nilsson:
Perspective III (Baader - Meinhof Blues)

Their later albums have a more energetic and generally aggressive sound.
from Un Reve Sans Conequence Speciale:
Marie Virginie C, which is Heldon at their most radical and industrial.

from Interface:
Bal-A-Fou
Le Retour des Soucoupes Volantes

from Stand By:
Stand By, which may be their best song.
Une Drôle De Journée, short and wonderful.


Bonus: Here's a Pinhas rarity, unusually pop-oriented for him, that I'd never heard of before finding it on youtube:
T.H.X. (Richard Pinhas) "Telstar" 1978
 
been on a huge Porcupine Tree kick too lately. Especially Sky Moves Sideways, Signify, and Up The Downstair. Looking to find more similar stuff with the pysch/moody shifts. How's Steve Wilson's Insurgentes album?
 
This is a few years old, but I don't think many people checked it out:

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...It's fucking fantastic, it kind of sounds like Jethro Tull meets Radiohead, in a really good way.
 
Frost* fans, this fucking sucks. I hope Jem makes it through okay, he sounds rough as hell based on the message below:

http://www.frost-music.co.uk/frosties/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2563

Hello all,

There’s not really an easy way to say this, so I’ll just say it. I’ve decided to suspend the Frost project with immediate effect. If this were somebody else’s band, I’d just say I was leaving, it would be so much easier, but it’s not so easy when you’ve created the band in the first place…

The reasons are many - I don’t feel comfortable any longer in the role of singer/front man/keyboard player/principle songwriter/principle cheque writer. Truth be told, I never have. It’s all got a bit out of hand from the gently self-mocking studio project I started for fun in a shed in East Sussex in May 2004 when I was young and happy and it was always sunny.

More than that though, trying to juggle two full time careers as I have over the last 7 years has been a tough ask and has ultimately become a price to high to pay in certain areas of my life. One of which is my health. I’ve been to a very dark place over the last 8 days and ended up in a pretty bad way. Although I’m now emerging out the other side (a stone lighter into the bargain), I have realised that I have some serious issues I must address. I’m no longer young, I’m no longer happy and the sun is no longer shining.

These issues have made me realise that life is sometimes about doing what you must do when the time comes regardless of what other people might want or expect of you. Some things are bigger than music or bands, expectation or disappointment. Figuratively speaking, I’ve now been given a yellow card and my priority now is to get myself back together before I get sent off for good.

So what now?

Nothing. I’m going to go to ground for a bit. Be private. Grow some veg. Get well.

And reflect. It’s been an amazing journey full of brilliant moments. Too many to list, I’m sorry it’s stopped like this, so abruptly, but I’ve been at my wits end lately and I’m no use to anybody in an urn.

I hope you’ll understand. Thank you for being brilliant.

Jem.
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You people need to listen to this! All the way through! Such a raw and feel-good album. It's really the melodic songwriting and the arrangements that shine here. Not to mention the great and unique voice of Christ Farlowe! I'm going to see them this year on a festival around the corner. :)
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I'm trying to expand into the more prog metal aspects of my music, but it usually winds up as me just throwing in a few parts not in 4/4. I've done one song entirely in 7/8 though, so that was a bit different. I find it a challenge to write music outside of 4/4 so I try and do it as often as I can, regardless of the result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMKKHq43mao (the 7/8 song I mentioned)
 
Definitely more on the progressive metal side. No vocals ... but WOW.

Animals as leaders

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Simply amazing.


Also ... very much like this. Saw them open for DT. Wasn't too into their last album but this one is awesome as well.

Scale the Summit

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Wow, a prog rock post. So, how much love for Spanish/Italian Prog?

This album in my opinion is not only one of the best of my country, but elsewhere too. For those who want something diferent but still top notch quality, a flamenco-rock fusion album from 1975. Triana - El patio.

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Also for those who use spotify (I believe it's coming to USA) I have few prog rock playlists there, both modern and classic. In the modern one there are a few songs from bands mentioned here.

My Spotify profile
 
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