Despite repeated attempts, numerous listens, and even owning albums, I never got into:
Kansas
Asia
Saga
Happy The Man
Magma
Henry Cow
Tangerine Dream
Can
Despite repeated attempts, numerous listens, and even owning albums, I never got into:
Kansas
Asia
Saga
Happy The Man
Magma
Henry Cow
Tangerine Dream
Can
Last edited by PeterG; 02-23-2016 at 02:57 PM.
The list would be enormous. There's far more stuff I'm not into than stuff I am.
U2
Pearl Jam
Springsteen
Hyfi
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Sorry, I should have been clearer with the title, which I have now corrected. I mean big names within prog rock. I thought my list would have spoken for itself. Otherwise, as B said, the list would be enormous!
ELP
Renaissance
UK
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
Shootin' fish, eh? All righty then...
Rush
Renaissance
Kansas
Hawkwind
Strawbs
Tried on several of these but for whatever reason, no go.
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Marillion
Renaissance
Focus
Dream Theater
Fates Warning
Kansas
UK
Camel
Porcupine Tree
I don't consider Asia 'prog' but them too
Probably others.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
I certainly struggle with Dream Theater. I've tried so many of their albums (though not the last three/four) over the years in the hope that this will be the time where it clicks...but it only rarely has (some of Scenes From A Memory and Images And Words). I think some of it is down to personal taste- LaBrie's vocals, the keyboard sounds, the (IMHO) overplaying from Portnoy and Petrucci.
Camel
UK
Rush (are they Prog?)
Kansas
post-Benefit Tull
post-Tarkus ELP
post-Relayer Yes
post-Gabriel Genesis
post-Meddle Floyd
post-70s KC
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Marillion
Most Italian Prog
Tangerine Dream
Rush
Henry Cow
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A gentleman is defined as someone who knows how to play the accordion, and doesn't.
Steve Wilson (all encompassing, from PT to solo,etc.)
ELP
Genesis
Marillion
Dream Theater
Jethro Tull (exception "Aqualung" album)
Marillion (exception "Misplaced Childhood" album)
........a good bulk of a lot of the lesser known bands you guys generally talk about........... I find a few albums here and there by these artists that I like (sometimes just a song or two) without really liking their whole discography
Transatlantic
Kevin Gilbert
Pineapple Thief
Neal Morse
Kansas
Marillion
IQ
Dream Theater
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Genesis pre Foxtrot & post Wind & Wuthering
Strawbs
Magma
Caravan
Renaissance
Pink Floyd with the exception of WYWH & DSOTM
Kansas
I have never been able to get into Rush due to Geddy Lee's vox. A friend made me an all-instrumental comp I liked.
I have never been able to appreciate Daevid Allen era Gong despite being a huge Hillage fan.
VdGG (the band is great, I'd buy their entire catalog if they'd masked out the vocals)
Camel
Caravan
Most of the insipid Canterbury bands
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
Most stuff on the commercial side of prog, with a few exceptions.
Rush (not sure I consider them prog, but since many here do, for at least part of their career...)
Pink Floyd (don't consider them prog, or good)
It Bites (they do)
Post "Wind and Wuthering" Genesis
Post "Brain Salad" ELP
Asia (never were prog, and never were good. Not sure why they are mentioned so often here)
Neal Morse
Post "Drama" Yes
Saga
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Marillion, and most if not all early 80's neo
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
I hate the name Big Big Train for a Prog-Rock band. It's just silly. Not the silliest ever, but silly.The silliest ever is probably Steak, though I might be able to think of worse if I take the time to think about it.
I tried, but never took to:
ELP
SAGA
PALLAS
UK
FISH
Fish Era MARILLION
VDGG
CARAVAN (except for a couple of songs)
MAGMA
ARENA
PENDRAGON
JADiS
ASIA
Genres that I generally find off-putting: Canterbury and Zuel.
Compact Disk brought high fidelity to the masses and audiophiles will never forgive it for that
Spock’s Beard, Porcupine Tree, Riverside, solo artists who used to be in prog bands too numerous to name.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
King Crimson
ELP
Zappa
Never heard anything from any of them that made me go "Wow".
There are plenty of other acts who get mentioned here on PE that I am not into, but not sure that "big" applies in the sense of well known outside the prog circle.
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King Crimson, Early Genesis, Flower Kings, Marillion
I got nothin' :
...avoiding any implication that I have ever entertained a cognizant thought.
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