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Did you guys hear about the first ever Progressive Music Awards? It's being held in London during September. Some of the categories are a little vague, so click on the link to get a description of them.

http://awards.progrockmag.com/

The nominees are as follows:

New Blood

Gazpacho
Haken
Headspace
TesseracT
The Reasoning
Touchstone
Von Hertzen Bros

Live Event

Anathema - Union Chapel/Koko
Jethro Tull - Thick as Brick tour
Marillion - Forum/US Tour
Opeth - Brixton Academy
Steve Hackett – Childline Rocks Charity Show, Islington Assembly Rooms
Steven Wilson - Shepherd's Bush Empire
Summer's End Festival

Anthem

Arena - One Last Au Revoir
Crippled Black Phoenix - Laying Traps
It Bites - The Last Escape
Karmakanic - Turn it Up
Panic Room - Song for Tomorrow
Squackett - A Life Within a Day
Steven Wilson - Raider II

Album of the Year

Anathema - Weather Systems
Opeth - Heritage
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Yes - Fly from Here
Nightwish - Imaginaerium
It Bites - Map of the Past
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

Grand Design

Jethro Tull – Aqualung 40th Anniversary Special Edition
King Crimson – Panegyric Reissues
Peter Gabriel – New Blood Deluxe Edition
Pink Floyd – Immersion Reissues
Rush – Sectors Box Sets
Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning Deluxe Edition
Tangerine Dream – Zeit Box Set

Visionary

Can
Hawkwind
Kate Bush
Muse
Kraftwerk
Peter Hammill
Radiohead

Lifetime Acheivement

ELP
Genesis
Jethro Tull
Moody Blues
Pink Floyd
Van der Graff Generator
Yes

Guiding Light

Fish
Matt Bellamy
Mikael Akerfeldt
Mike Portnoy
Robert Fripp
Steve Hackett
Steven Wilson

Prog God

Ian Anderson
Jon Anderson
Steve Hillage
Kate Bush
Roger Waters
Peter Gabriel
Rick Wakeman

Virtuoso

Mike Portnoy
Carl Palmer
John Mitchell
John Petrucci
Nick Beggs
Rob Reed
Roine Stolt
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Damn, a Progrock thread and I don't know about it (or I was already here and forgot it again?)
Count me in as a guy who likes Progressive Rock, though not everything in that genre. Not a fan of bands that use a ton of Synthesizers and have some AOR-like elements. I'm also rather lax on this genre, counting in Bands that not everyone will count as Progrock (as you'll see in the next sentence).
Huge fan of Genesis (Gabriel era), Porcupine Tree, Mars Volta, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Sweet Smoke, Fairport Convention, G!YBE, some Albums from the Decemberists (the Hazards of Love <3) and Krautrockbands like Kraan, Frumpy and Colour Haze. Surely I forgot some.

Anyone ever heard the first album from Supertramp? So far my favorite one. Just listen to "Try again". Don't know about their entire discography, in fact, I just have their first and third album and I wonder if they had another record that was so extremely progressive rock like the first one. I know about "Fools Overture", so there's that.
 
Spwn said:
Not sure if Pekka Pohjola has been mentioned in this thread. Bought three of his albums in the past month and been enjoying them quite a lot.

Hereilläkin uni jatkuu (Bialoipokku's War) from Harakka Bialoipokku / B the Magpie album.
Oivallettu matkalyhty (The perceived journey-lantern) from Keesojen lehto / Mathematician's Air Display album.
Vapour Trails from Visitation album.
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Thanks for those recommendations. I know Pohjoly only by name, never heard anything by him. The music reminds me of Happy the Man. How many people are familiar with this US band?

Happy the Man - Steaming Pipes

Speaking of US prog .... how many Gaffers have listened to multi instrumentalist David Sancious? His first albums were an ambitious mix of fusion and prog. Here's the A-side of Dance of the Age Of Enlightenment consisting of the overture and the first movements. Don't be scared by the vocals in the beginning, after the first minutes there's nothing but a long uninterrupted instrumental section.
 
leroy hacker said:
Is that set The Great Deceiver? I treasure my copy of that.
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Oh, bingo! Yeah The Great Deceiver circa 1992 it seems...King Crimson never sounded like this before...I got a separate set of CDs "The Collectors' King Crimson" and it sounds slightly worse. Really am glad I picked it up - it was only like $30 too (4 CDs big long box thing).
 
Any newer Prog Rock albums someone can recommend to me? Bands I've listened to so far:

The Dear Hunter
Porcupine Tree
The Mars Volta

I need more! There is a lack of prog rock in my life.
 
DarknessTear said:
Any newer Prog Rock albums someone can recommend to me? Bands I've listened to so far:

The Dear Hunter
Porcupine Tree
The Mars Volta

I need more! There is a lack of prog rock in my life.
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Pineapple Thief might be up your alley.

And you guys might enjoy Hidria Spacefolk as well - awesome Ozric Tentacles inspired prog rock.

Almost forgot to recommend Kingston Wall lthough I'm sure another Finnish gaffer has mentioned the band here. They only released three albums in the early 90's until their guitarist/vocalist committed suicide. They're quite beloved band here.

From I:
And I Hear You Call
Nepal

From II
We Cannot Move
Shine On Me

From III - Tri-logy
Another Piece of Cake
For All Mankind
The Real Thing
 
DarknessTear said:
Any newer Prog Rock albums someone can recommend to me? Bands I've listened to so far:

The Dear Hunter
Porcupine Tree
The Mars Volta

I need more! There is a lack of prog rock in my life.
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Cardiacs - As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea

Cardiacs - Leader of the starry skies (live)

Cardiacs - Dirty Boy

They're not exactly new (the Cardiacs have been around since the late seventies), but they're fresher, crazier and rawer than almost any band I know. That's what you get when you mix prog with punk, ska, psychedlic rock and god knows what else.

Dirty Boy is my definition of a prog masterpiece. It's absolutely sublime how it goes through uncounted chord modulations gaining force until that one last note that just goes on and on. Powerful. Genious.

It's terrible that Tim Smith has been completely unable to continue the band after debilitating heart attack four years ago. To help Tim with is financial expenses a dozen or so bands contributed a cover of a Cardiacs song for the "Leader of the Starry Skies" tribute CD, including Steven Wilson and Oceansize.

Here's a song from that tribute CD:

Oceansize - Fear
 
DarknessTear said:
Any newer Prog Rock albums someone can recommend to me? Bands I've listened to so far:

The Dear Hunter
Porcupine Tree
The Mars Volta

I need more! There is a lack of prog rock in my life.
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I have a few playlists on Spotify with newer (year 2000 and +) prog rock, maybe you can find a few bands that you like in them

http://open.spotify.com/user/wakajawaka/playlist/7d7H3HSCJu8ga4e9WKeBDj

http://open.spotify.com/user/wakajawaka/playlist/4ETupBzyJjZ3Og77mFlzQ4

http://open.spotify.com/user/wakajawaka/playlist/5iDzmNIAqFQ9vHfoFnFFtu

http://open.spotify.com/user/wakajawaka/playlist/07SidbPuevzF7lhaa95PwA
 
kruis said:

Cardiacs - As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea

Cardiacs - Leader of the starry skies (live)

Cardiacs - Dirty Boy

They're not exactly new (the Cardiacs have been around since the late seventies), but they're fresher, crazier and rawer than almost any band I know. That's what you get when you mix prog with punk, ska, psychedlic rock and god knows what else.

Dirty Boy is my definition of a prog masterpiece. It's absolutely sublime how it goes through uncounted chord modulations gaining force until that one last note that just goes on and on. Powerful. Genious.

It's terrible that Tim Smith has been completely unable to continue the band after debilitating heart attack four years ago. To help Tim with is financial expenses a dozen or so bands contributed a cover of a Cardiacs song for the "Leader of the Starry Skies" tribute CD, including Steven Wilson and Oceansize.

Here's a song from that tribute CD:

Oceansize - Fear
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I wouldn't have called them prog rock but this X1,000,000. Cardiacs are one of the greatest bands of all time.
One of my favorite Cardiacs tracks: The Everso Closely Guarded Line
 
creationtheory said:
I wouldn't have called them prog rock but this X1,000,000. Cardiacs are one of the greatest bands of all time.
One of my favorite Cardiacs tracks: The Everso Closely Guarded Line
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Not prog rock? And then you say The Everso Close Guarded Line is your favorite (and this happens to be one of the proggiest Cardiacs tracks ever, it even has a Mellotron)
 
 
It's good to see the love for this genre on GAF.

You guys should check out Club Merano's High Road.

A progressive rock album from Finland that came out late last year, very very inspired by 70's progressive rock and a super solid and good album all the way through.

You can listen to pretty much the whole thing here: http://soundcloud.com/club-merano
 
kruis said:

Cardiacs - As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea

Cardiacs - Leader of the starry skies (live)

Cardiacs - Dirty Boy

They're not exactly new (the Cardiacs have been around since the late seventies), but they're fresher, crazier and rawer than almost any band I know. That's what you get when you mix prog with punk, ska, psychedlic rock and god knows what else.
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Holy crap, these guys sound amazing!

I tracked down Sing To God and listened to it this morning and it's just ridiculously good. I can't believe I've never heard of these guys before. I think I might have just found my new favourite band.
 
Goblin are awesome, I don't know what is their line-up right now but you should probably still go.

You should check some of their music for horror films like Argento's Suspiria.
 
Damn I have a lot to learn about prog.

Most of my listening has been The Mars Volta (hence the avatar) but I like Opeth's more relaxed stuff (heritage was amazing, as well as Damnation). I'm also into Mastodon, and the other typical prog bands (Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Rush, etc.)
 
Not sure if you guys like Between the Buried and Me (they're obviously much more metal than rock) but their new album; "The Parallax Part II: Future Sequence" comes out on October 9.
 
Poimandres said:
Still absolutely floored by Cardiacs - Sing To God.

Seriously, everyone needs this album in their lives!
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The Cardiacs have made a number of truly magnificent albums. My favorites are three albums in their classic lineup with Bill Drake on keys and Sarah Smith on sax ("Songs for Ships and Irons", "A Little Man and a House" & "On Land and in the Sea"), "Sing to God" (obviously) and the two Garage Concerts live CDs. Those belong to my favorite CDs ever. I discovered The Cardiacs in the late eighties and I still love them dearly. It's just terrible what happened to Tim Smith. I don't think we'll ever hear new material from them, we'll have to make to do with their CDs and lores Youtube videos of badly recorded live shows.

I discovered a new Cardiacs song by accident BTW. It was the only new track on the Greatest Hits (yeah!) CD and I hadn't heard it before. And it was fucking glorious.

Cardiacs - Faster Than Snakes with a Ball and a Chain

It's a wonderful throwback to the glorious band sound from the early eighties (is that sax I hear?). And just listen to the song progression from 2:25 onwards!

Here's what Wikipedia has to say on this track:

Greatest Hits features one new and otherwise unavailable track, called "Faster Than Snakes With A Ball And A Chain". is exclusive to this album. This is described as having been taken from the then-forthcoming and as-yet untitled album which was to follow Greatest Hits (presumably the "lost" album which was abandoned following a hard disc crash in Cardiacs' studio, and which would have been replaced by the similarly incomplete and unreleased LSD album in the late 2000s).
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Fuck! One Cardiacs album lost in a computer mishap, another one disbanded ... It makes you wonder though if there's all kinds of stuff lying around that has never been released..
 
Trying to find some new music since there hasn't been anything good out lately.

Porcupine Tree's music I'm not into. Every album, minus maybe Radioactive Toy sucks.

Now Steven Wilson's Insurgentes is great. Salvaging is my favorite song. Are there any other musicians that are similar to Insurgentes?
 
Entropia said:
Decided to check out Anathema's newest album, I've never listened to them before - REALLY GOOD STUFF.
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So far, Weather Systems is still my favorite for the year. I could see it ultimately being my favorite of theirs, though A Fine Day to Exit is kind of a big album to top.
 
kruis said:
The Cardiacs have made a number of truly magnificent albums. My favorites are three albums in their classic lineup with Bill Drake on keys and Sarah Smith on sax ("Songs for Ships and Irons", "A Little Man and a House" & "On Land and in the Sea"), "Sing to God" (obviously) and the two Garage Concerts live CDs. Those belong to my favorite CDs ever. I discovered The Cardiacs in the late eighties and I still love them dearly. It's just terrible what happened to Tim Smith. I don't think we'll ever hear new material from them, we'll have to make to do with their CDs and lores Youtube videos of badly recorded live shows.

I discovered a new Cardiacs song by accident BTW. It was the only new track on the Greatest Hits (yeah!) CD and I hadn't heard it before. And it was fucking glorious.

Cardiacs - Faster Than Snakes with a Ball and a Chain

It's a wonderful throwback to the glorious band sound from the early eighties (is that sax I hear?). And just listen to the song progression from 2:25 onwards!

Here's what Wikipedia has to say on this track:



Fuck! One Cardiacs album lost in a computer mishap, another one disbanded ... It makes you wonder though if there's all kinds of stuff lying around that has never been released..
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Yeah... I'm pretty obsessed with these guys now, and I have you to thank for it! I seriously can't believe they aren't more well known.

I'm curious how much was done on the new album before Tims stroke, and whether it will ever see the light of day. God damn and album lost because of a computer mishap is painful.
 
Entropia said:
Friend recommended Judgement to me as well.
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Pretty much all their stuff is good. Personally, I put Judgement a bit further down the list, but that's just personal preference. I still love it. It is kind of hard to compare their older output to their last 2 albums (3 if you count Falling Deeper). They're a completely different feeling, and almost the same sort of change as when they went from doom metal to alt/prog rock.
 
A special salute to Sherman Hemsley in the Prog-Rock thread.
A true fan of the genre! You will be missed!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Hemsley#Music_career

In 1999, Hemsley collaborated with Yes lead singer Jon Anderson on an album titled Festival of Dreams which was not released.

Hemsley was a self-proclaimed fan of 1970s progressive rock bands including Yes, Gentle Giant, Gong, and Nektar. During his appearance on Dinah!, Hemsley performed a dance to the Gentle Giant song "Proclamation" from The Power and the Glory. After his dance, Shore laughed and asked what kind of music that was. Sherman then gave a five-minute speech about Gentle Giant.
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