Prog rock, anyone?

Come on, there's got to be somebody out there who shares my love for pretentious lyrics and silly time signatures. Anybody? Even if you just listened to Dark Side of the Moon once?

I actually have been listening to this one album by Carpark North on loop for days, but I don't know if it's really prog or not, I'm terrible at naming genres. The album is All Things to All People, it's totally rad

Gimme a band to enjoy symuun. I will listen to it with an open heart.

Originally Posted by dangercheetah

I actually have been listening to this one album by Carpark North on loop for days, but I don't know if it's really prog or not, I'm terrible at naming genres. The album is All Things to All People, it's totally rad

Haven't heard of it. I'll have to look it up on Spotify.

Originally Posted by prooker

Gimme a band to enjoy symuun. I will listen to it with an open heart.

If you haven't listened to Pink Floyd yet, you really ought to. Or Frost* are pretty much flawless in my eyes, but they don't seem to provoke that reaction from everyone.

Duh. Pink Floyd. I'm a guitarist and David Gilmour is like crack.


But I will take a crack at Frost.

Good man.

Milliontown's the better of their two albums, for my money, but it depends what you're after. Experiments In Mass Appeal is fairly decent as well, so it probably doesn't matter.

And I've no idea what Carpark North are, but I'm a song and a half in and already intrigued.

They're some Dutch dudes. I've only listened to that one album I mentioned, but I liked it so much that I plan on acquiring the rest of their ****.

Yeah, it's a bit interesting. It's nice to know Europe can put out decent music when it particularly wants to.

Yeah, even if they are Dutch

Also, check out Republic Tigers, they're good **** too

Hmm...can Circa Survive and As Cities Burn be considered progressive?

Well, Wikipedia reckons they are, and that's good enough for me. I haven't heard of them before, though- what are they like?

Why has Rush not been mentioned yet? That is so very disappointing.

I could be wrong, but aren't Genesis and Tool also considered Progressive?

I'd have said Genesis practically invented the genre. I can never quite make up my mind about them- they're great musicians, but sometimes it seems like they get so caught up in how good they are they forget to keep a song compelling and interesting. You can say that about a lot of prog bands, though, I guess.

Originally Posted by symuun

Well, Wikipedia reckons they are, and that's good enough for me. I haven't heard of them before, though- what are they like?

Circa Survive is really...indescribable.
As Cities Burn has changed their styles over the years and in their final album, they have a really unique sound. Listen to 84 Sheepdog on YouTube and you'll see what I mean.

Wow, that could really grow on me. There's shades of Radiohead in that, but you're right, it's very much their own sound. A really interesting mix of stuff. They're a band to look further into, I think...

If you consider Coheed and Cambria prog rock, which I do, then yes I enjoy them very much. One of my favorite bands out there. Claudio Sanchez is a beast of a man.

If you want pretentious lyrics and silly time signatures, all you need to do is listen to Turkish pop music. ****'s all in 13/8 and whatnot.

Originally Posted by symuun

Come on, there's got to be somebody out there who shares my love for pretentious lyrics and silly time signatures. Anybody? Even if you just listened to Dark Side of the Moon once?

Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest albums of all time. You are referring to Pink Floyd right?

Rx Bandits later material has some prog going on, and it is f-ing rad as hell.

Also, The Mars Volta.

That and Rush is about as far into prog rock I go. I do also listen to some progressive reggae and progressive bluegrass, though!

Originally Posted by symuun

Well, Wikipedia reckons they are, and that's good enough for me. I haven't heard of them before, though- what are they like?

As Cities Burn is a great band. =] I recommend the song "One: Twentyseven"

By the way, they're one of those screaming bands. They're apparently a Christian band also. I really didn't know that when I started listening to them like 3 years ago.....