What's Your Favorite Old Neo-Prog Album?

**Scrotum Scissor** · 03-29-2013

Originally Posted by mellotron storm

Oh except for the Step Ahead album which I listened to last week.

As did I - for the first time in nearly 10 years! I'm not altogether convinced that it's an actual "neo" album though, as the band had existed since the mid-70s and performed some of this material rather early on. There were quite a few of those "latecomers" in France and Germany during the early 80s; La Rossa (whose album is very strange but completely interesting), Tibet, Schwarzarbeit, Synopsis etc. And a whole lot in Eastern Europe who were definitely not "neo" but wandered in "symph" nonetheless.

**JKL2000** · 03-29-2013

Originally Posted by Progbear

Foxtrot: A Shadow of the Past
Leviathan: Bee Yourself
Rachel’s Birthday: An Invitation To...

I listened to Rachel's Birthday just a couple of weeks ago. I only bought it a few years ago. I remember passing on it when Robert Wolf was hawking it, probably due to the horrible looking cover (though it's interesting), and it was a difficult one to find a copy of later on.

I haven't listened to Leviathan's Bee Yourself in many years, but for some reason it's one where I find melodies from it running through my head occasionally. This was one of the first albums I bought when I discovered the prog "underground" - I ordered it from Laser's Edge in the early 90s or very late 80s. The strong Italian accents gave me a little trouble. I remember the singer pronounced "wax" as "woks."

"This (something) reminds me, of the time when I was a flying bee..." A pretty cute album, I should give it a listen.

**mellotron storm** · 03-29-2013

Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor

As did I - for the first time in nearly 10 years! I'm not altogether convinced that it's an actual "neo" album though, as the band had existed since the mid-70s and performed some of this material rather early on. There were quite a few of those "latecomers" in France and Germany during the early 80s; La Rossa (whose album is very strange but completely interesting), Tibet, Schwarzarbeit, Synopsis etc. And a whole lot in Eastern Europe who were definitely not "neo" but wandered in "symph" nonetheless.

Funny you would say that about Step Ahead because I also felt it was a bit of a stretch for them to be called Neo-Prog, and when I looked for it I initially didn't look in my Neo section, but in the end that's where I had it. Love the guitar on that one and that Irish singer is far from being a slouch.

**JKL2000** · 03-29-2013

Holy crap!

Leviathan live @ Locanda Blues 25/2/2009

**TheH** · 03-29-2013

Apart from the obvious.

Leviathan Bee Yourself
Illuvatar - Children
Aragon - Don't bring the Rain
Collage - Basnie
Asgard - Arkana
Aufklärung - De' La' Tempesta ... L'Oscuro Piacere
Deyss - Visions in the Dark
Animator- Gallery

**The Fantastic Progo Rican** · 03-29-2013

Pallas-The Sentinel
Marillion-Script and Clutching At Straws
IQ-Ever

**Chuck AzEee!** · 03-29-2013

Originally Posted by simon moon

IQ - Ever

Indeed.

**Azol** · 03-29-2013

How do you tell neo-prog from not-so-neo one?

IQ, the usual suspects!
Crucible and Janison Edge, both perfect choices!

On the other hand... I would also like to mention Dagmahr - My Magnificent Instability How about that one?

**Rarebird** · 03-29-2013

Twelfth Night - Live at the Target

**Guitarplyrjvb** · 03-29-2013

IQ-"Ever" for me too! It's my favorite neo album still, not just amongst the old ones!

I'd also put in a vote for Jadis' "Across the Water" and mabye Arena's "Song's from the Lion Cage". Neither of these are up to "Ever", though!

**Lopez** · 03-29-2013

Galahad - Following Ghosts
Pallas - The Sentinel

**devoidzer0** · 03-29-2013

Originally Posted by mellotron storm

Clepsydra-Alone

Is it just me, or does the name Clepsydra sound like a particularly nasty strain of STD?

**Scrotum Scissor** · 03-29-2013

Originally Posted by Azol

Dagmahr - My Magnificent Instability How about that one?

I like both of their records, but they weren't really that "neo" - were they? That specific time and age (mid-to-late 90s) brought with it a whole array of bands which might have been purpotedly "neo", but who somehow ventured far beyond the usual standards; Discipline, Crucible (as mentioned), Versus X, Scythe, Malibran and so on. And I think Dagmahr fit with these.

**Crystal Plumage** · 03-29-2013

Pallas - Arrive Alive, The Sentinel
Aragon - Rocking Horse, Don't Bring The Rain
Winter - Around the Circle's Edge
Twelfth Night - Live and Let Live, Fact and Fiction
Landmarq - The Vision Pit, Solitary Witness
Magdalena - Magdalena
Outer limits - Scene of Pale Blue, Misty Moon
Teru's Symphonia - Do Androids Dream of Electric Camel?
IQ - Ever
Marillion - Fugazi

**Pr33t** · 03-29-2013

IQ - Tales from the Lush Attic

**gregory** · 03-29-2013

Citizen Cain Raising The Stones

**JKL2000** · 03-29-2013

Egdon Heath - Him the Snake and I

**The Fantastic Progo Rican** · 03-30-2013

Originally Posted by Rarebird

Twelfth Night - Live at the Target

Yup, love this one...

**JKL2000** · 03-30-2013

Originally Posted by devoidzer0

Is it just me, or does the name Clepsydra sound like a particularly nasty strain of STD?

LOL. It sure does.

I also like Aragon's "Mouse." It's long as hell, but good, as long as you can handle Les Dougan's voice. I like it.

**Trane** · 03-30-2013

Originally Posted by Yaman Aksu

Script

yup, my one and only...

The genre that never bettered itself after being born on its first album....

**JKL2000** · 03-30-2013

^ Obviously neo-prog existed before Script, because Mark Kelly was in Chemical Alice before Marillion. Just sayin', though yes, Script is certainly a great one, and it was my intro to the genre.

**JIF** · 03-30-2013

Originally Posted by JKL2000

^ Obviously neo-prog existed before Script, because Mark Kelly was in Chemical Alice before Marillion. Just sayin', though yes, Script is certainly a great one, and it was my intro to the genre.

Fact and Fiction by Twelfth Night came before Script. Btw, wasn't Chemical Alice an electronic band?

**JohnTG8** · 03-30-2013

Final Conflict-Stand Up
Primitive Instinct-Floating Tangibility
Pendragon-The Window Of Life

**moecurlythanu** · 03-30-2013

Originally Posted by JIF

. Btw, wasn't Chemical Alice an electronic band?

No.

**Trane** · 03-31-2013

Originally Posted by JKL2000

^ Obviously neo-prog existed before Script, because Mark Kelly was in Chemical Alice before Marillion. Just sayin', though yes, Script is certainly a great one, and it was my intro to the genre.

Yeah, I know... I suggested in the Anyone's Daughter Adonis thread that there were some proto-neo-prog albums as far as the late 70's

Originally Posted by JIF

Fact and Fiction by Twelfth Night came before Script.

That's indeed possible... And Script was not Marillion's first release anyway...
But what I meant is that it is Script that put the genre on the map