I haven't listened to this album in a while, so I'm gonna do that, cuz I remember the album being pretty epik. More albums like Le Orme's Uomo Di Pezza, besides Le Orme's other albums?
Prog Thread
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Adam Fisher
Nobody wants to talk about Prog?
Jaxson Carter
try starting a prog thread on Yea Forums, unironically
if you're lucky and jannies aren't fannies, you will get a got thread 100% of the time
but sure, I'll talk to you about prog. Recently been listening a lot to The Tea Club, I'm kind of confused why they aren't more popular.
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Bentley Williams
Cool man, but I just started a Prog thread on /r9k/, so I guess I'll have to check on both of these threads at the same time. That Tea Club stuff seems pretty cool. It sounds surprisingly good, like if ELP wanted to be more chill and more like Yes.
Elijah Jackson
i'm gonna get into Mars Volta and listen all their albums in the next few days. What am I in for?
>t. Moody Blues/King Crimson fan
Samuel Moore
Bump. Have you listened to much other Italian prog, user? Pfm, Banco, Quella Vecchia Locanda, Alphataurus. Btw, what ever happened to those /prog/ general threads? Always found great rec’s in those things.
Liam Adams
I listened to the album Maxophone, but I mostly only care for two songs on that album, C'è Un Paese Al Mondo and Al Mancato Compleanno Di Una Farfalla. I also tried getting into Area but I could never get into them because none of their songs on Arbeit Macht Frei were anywhere near as catchy and cool sounding as the intro song. I'll try listening to Crac! sometime.
Josiah Taylor
Maybe.
Luke Perry
LE ORME!
Matthew Jones
not him but I haven't explored much outside of LE ORME! and this album by Garybaldi:
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Nicholas Butler
Mars Volta gets old pretty fast imo. They can be very repetitive, and their best album (Francis the Mute) also has their worst moments for me. I feel as if 25% of that album is annoying experimental electronic noises that go nowhere, and I don't think I'm the first person to have this complaint. The first few listens of every album is pretty solid though.
Cameron Cook
psychadelic post-hardcore
Jayden Long
I'm surprised i dont see niemen more often, especially in threads like these. he's so fucking talented it's unreal. A perfect blend of avant-jazz, sonorism and soul. His vocal range is unmatched.
On top of that, he was an absolute giga-chad.
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Jaxon Fisher
Can someone REDpill me? I like the album but I've never really understood why it was elevated so highly above the rest of KC's output if I'm being honest. My preferred secondary after the debut tends to be Starless and Bible Black
Hudson Diaz
It's not as good as Starless and Bible Black, it's ok but not too memorable besides maybe Starless. It shouldn't be so elevated above the other albums.
Hunter Ramirez
I like you user :)
Josiah Rogers
I like you too. BTW got any albums similar to Starless and Bible Black?
Joshua Reed
Aquaman kind of gives me similiar vibes along with Led Zeppelin IV somewhat ironically
Samuel Collins
Has anyone listened to the band named after this? I think they’re called Starless & Bible Black. Don’t think they’re on streaming.
Michael Powell
I actually think Red is a bit overrated. Personally it's my 2nd least fav KC album, but it's still a 9/10 to me, and I'll explain to you why I like it
Red is a concept album that explores 2 main themes commonly explored in Prog rock:
1. somber/tragic moods that sound depressive, and
2. loud/heavy moods that sound angry.
Providence tends to lean towards Theme A while One More Red Nightmare tends to lean towards Theme B. The other tracks have more of a balance of both themes in them.
These two themes put together can be summed up by one collective theme: Angst. Red is the Angstiest prog album I've ever heard. And yet... it's actually handled very well. Red is able to encapsulate the atmosphere of angst and present it to the listener so skillfully, I haven't seen it done so well anywhere else.
Despite this, I don't like listening to Red as much as Islands, or Larks', or Beat, or pretty much every KC album besides THRAK. But I highly admire Red for it's ability to take an atmosphere and push it to it's limit.
So while it's one of KC's worst albums in my book, it's one of their best Concept Albums, only beaten out by ITWOP for me, and maybe tied with Islands and ITCOTCK in terms of how they build and utilize their Atmosphere.
also Starless is not the best song of the Prog Rock genre, i don't care what the redanons say. The last 2 minutes is really badass but the rest of the song just doesn't measure up, I'd rather just listen to One More Red Nightmare if I want to hear a song from Red.
Isaiah Smith
Thank you for blessing me with your wisdom sage, I am honored to be in thy presence
Hudson Evans
oh I forgot to mention Anxiety, that's one of the big elements of Red too (mostly in Providence, but certainly present in the mid-section of Starless)
Adam Flores
OP here, listening to this sick shit. Pretty cool, sounds epic. I think I'm supposed to listen to Darwin! and the debut after, along with a couple other albums I forgot, then I avoid everything else they made like the plague.
Ryan Adams
>Aquaman
lol, thanks for that user. Good album btw.
Xavier Young
Listen to Nektar.
Nathan Ross
screamo with experimental noises and time signatures
You need to check out Museo's Zarathustra if you haven't already. That's arguably the best RPI there ever was.
I thought it was overrated at first, but it grew on me over time. It's the most subtle KC album. Definitely deserves its praise from the broader public, even if it obviously only gets it because of Starless.
I'm guessing you hadn't gotten to the second side yet, because it drops off hard. Italian bands tend to suffer from that even more blatantly than the English ones, in my opinion. But Darwin! is an exception, and by far Banco's best album. Get to it as soon as you can.
Parker Rivera
is there any good 80s prog? Other than Marillion and Pallas, I don't know any neo-prog bands, but it doesn't have to be neo-prog
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Jose Ortiz
Cheers for the rec user. I’ll blast this today. That cover is nuts.
Hunter Sanders
I'm a big fan of Quella Vecchia Locanda's albums. Very much on the 'lush' side of prog so your mileage may vary.
Alexander Brown
What else from Wakeman’s solo discog is worth checking out. I adore picrel.
Matthew Bell
bumpo
Jordan Murphy
Criminal record is pretty solid
Lucas Powell
Based. Recycled is my fav album of all time.
Ian Brown
i also like italian prog but spanish prog scene is criminally underrated compared to that of italian. besides the bigger names like triana and medina azahara there are great bands such as Máquina!, Azahar (picrel is one of my all time fave albums), Mezquita etc.
Other than those bands, some of the famous bands in Spain are not that known abroad like Extremoduro, their La ley innata is also a decent prog album, would rec.
Mason Perez
Shockingly loud production for music that needs dynamic range. I like their first two albums a lot, but the compression on them is unreal and I get exhaustion from the noise quickly.
Kevin Young
Digging this a lot this week
Leo Taylor
Most people agree this is their best. I really liked bedlam also
David Bell
I bought this a year ago in a whim and have seen it get memes here. Do people actually like it I still don't think I've listened to it
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Jose Clark
It's a solid 4/5 album. Many people say the title piece is their best work.
Henry Wood
The first side, the title track, is fucking amazing. The other side has hits or misses. Jeremy Bender and Are You Ready, Eddy? Are great.
Pic related is my favourite prog album, tied with Close To The Edge.
Nolan Cook
I love this one too.
Aiden Peterson
It's fantastic! It is a little noticeable that there's no Rick Wakeman though :(
Zachary Reyes
drama is better
i like moraz's work on relayer, i just wish that he remained that good when he joined Moody Blues
Colton Cox
Never really liked Drama. I like Tales though.
Kayden Robinson
drama > tales > CTTE = Relayer > Tormato
don't really care for their other albums besides those 5
Matthew Myers
The Light Dies Down through to the end is probably my favorite sequence in all of music
Leo Murphy
Based Steve Hackett enjoyer
BASED, album makes me emotional
For me it is Relayer = CTTE >drama >tales >tormato
But Yes is possibly my favorite band so I'm not too upset when people have different tastes in their albums, though Drama is underrated to me, it really isn't bad at all. I can't get into Tales though, but certain parts of it are beautiful.
Justin Diaz
anthony phillips has such a good sound
Parker Gutierrez
Fucking BASED prog thread OP. Prog is so good and I love that it Leans into maximalism and beauty in music—most other modern music that’s underground tends to focus too much on taking apart Music and art which is cool in its own way(I’m thinking post punk). Having any kind of reverence or love for anything that isn’t HAHA MUH DICK FUCK THE SYSTEM is very cool and based. Anyways my favorite prog band is probably camel or King Crinson. How far into prog metal do you go OP? I was just listening to the gods in Krallice.
Brandon Perry
Based and beautiful post
Gavin Martinez
Cardiacs is pretty good if you like gentle giant
Mason White
Rush duh
Cardiacs
And Rush and Fates Warning if you include metal
Nathaniel Foster
I love progressive rock and I've tried to get into progressive metal but the only prog metal band I enjoy is Voivod.
Even the prog metal bands that supposedly took influence from Voivod like Vektor or Obliveon do nothing for me.
Henry Bell
Discipline by King Crimson
Aaron Bell
I'm not into prog metal because it all seems too focused on the guitar and whatnot. Only prog metal band I've heard that manages to balance the instruments out is Tool, and I'm not even a big tool fan.
Cameron Barnes
Fair enough, would either of you consider a band like Hella or !!! Prog? I know those groups were never strictly prog but at the same time I always felt like they were spiritual successors to prog in the 2000’s with a focus on exploration and instrumental songwriting. I think Hold your Horse Is is probably one of the best musical projects of all time.
James Torres
I'm always partial to that cymbal on One More Red Nightmare, and I think the album in general has a bigger emphasis on the drumming, especially since it's heavier than their other work.
Starless itself just encapsulates that constant building of layers to a crescendo that I always associate with prog. It's like waiting out a storm in a cabin, hearing that sax wailing as it dies off.
Camden Baker
Try Still Life by Opeth maybe
Elijah Adams
Prog metal has a problem of being insular and newer bands just being influenced by other prog metal.
Voivod's one of the very first prog metal groups so they pulled from a lot wider for inspiration.
IIRC Piggy's distinctive guitar playing comes from him training by playing zeuhl and krautrock songs backwards, and Away was really into post-punk and art-rock when Voivod shifted from thrash metal to prog metal.