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    Top 5 All Time Eastern European Prog Bands

    Vezhlivy Otkaz
    iamthemorning
    Pikapika Teart
    Rational Diet
    Uz Jsme Doma
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    What exactly IS eastern Europe?
    There is no border on the European map so I am puzzled.

    Ex-Yugoslavia?
    Greece? or is that Soutern Europe?
    Czech reupblic/ Slovakia? hungary? I would qualify that as central Europe.
    Does Turkey count as well?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thedunno View Post
    What exactly IS eastern Europe?
    There is no border on the European map so I am puzzled.

    Ex-Yugoslavia?
    Greece? or is that Soutern Europe?
    Czech reupblic/ Slovakia? hungary? I would qualify that as central Europe.
    Does Turkey count as well?
    All the bits that aren't Western Europe

    THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS THREAD.

    Personally I always think of Eastern Europe as everything that used to be in the Soviet Bloc but then that's probably my age. I'll go with the UN definition - Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    All the bits that aren't Western Europe

    THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS THREAD.

    Personally I always think of Eastern Europe as everything that used to be in the Soviet Bloc but then that's probably my age. I'll go with the UN definition - Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
    I consider Eastern Europe as countries (or parts of countries) that where behind the iron curtain and that were active before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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    No really, you are just putting a bunch of consonants together and calling it a band.
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    Politically speaking - and as others have noted, this could be age talking - there really wasn't a "Central Europe" as there is now. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland were all considered Eastern Europe. That said

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    If central Europe is 'eastern Europe' and ex-Yugoslavia is ruled out then my absolute nr 1 is...

    Iva bittova!!! For me the absolute queen of the avant garde.
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    Rational Diet
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    Vezhlivy Otkaz
    PikapikaTeart (only 1 album but it is VERY good)
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    Quote Originally Posted by thedunno View Post
    What exactly IS eastern Europe?
    There is no border on the European map so I am puzzled.
    Before I opened this thread, I was thinking of asking to see a map of Europe.

    I guess the vast majority of prog I like comes from England or the USA (and to a lesser extent, Scandinavia). I do like various world musics (though I hate that term), but I find myself interested in the more traditional music from countries than their take on prog rock. For example I love most types of Brazilian music, but I can take or leave the prog I've heard from there. YMMV.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No Pride View Post
    Before I opened this thread, I was thinking of asking to see a map of Europe.

    I guess the vast majority of prog I like comes from England or the USA (and to a lesser extent, Scandinavia). I do like various world musics (though I hate that term), but I find myself interested in the more traditional music from countries than their take on prog rock. For example I love most types of Brazilian music, but I can take or leave the prog I've heard from there. YMMV.
    Then try Iva Bittova and Rational Diet.

    Iva Bittova incoprorates Moravian folk music into her own version of Avant prog.
    Rational diet is a chamber rock group heavily influenced by ex-sovjet composers like stravinsky, Schnittke, shostakovich and others.

    Both very much represent where they come from.

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    Vezhlivyi Otkaz certainly are runners up, as are Uz Jsme Doma. There are dozens and dozens of fantastic Eastern European acts.

    Of the "classic era" names, I should have included Ruja from Estonia as well (although they are somewhat ambivalent to being considered "Eastern bloc"). Wonderful band before they went weirdo rockabilly from the mid-80s.
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