Thread: Progressive rock?

Discuss.

Not my cup of tea. Unless I'm under the influence of something that makes me wanna be mellow. I like harder rock but nothing crazy/yelling BS at all... I also like rap a lot.

progressive metal

i'll go to a dream theater concert
happy

Coheed and Cambria ftw.

fuck that they're not emo

LOVE progressive rock! Rush was one of the first rock bands I ever listened to when I was a little kid and I'm still a huge fan. Yes is an amazing band. Love progressive metal too. Dream Theater rocks.

2112, baby! *listens to it*

I saw Rush on their 30th anniversary tour, and theyre just as good now as they were back then (except back then, they didn't have fancy digital audio, so Neil Peart had to do a lot more labour to achieve the same results .

Pink Floyd has some really good progressive stuff as well.

The Alan Parsons Project are definitely underrated.

When it comes to prog rock i'm more interested in the more left-of-centre bands of the 70s. I'm not really interested in Yes, or Rush, or ELP. King Crimson are ok, and Rush are decent, but i'm more partial to the krautrock, canterburry, zeuhl bands etc. I'm talking Univers Zero, Art Zoyd, Gong, Caravan, Faust, Can, Frank Zappa, Magma, Soft Machine, Henry Cow etc. etc.

Well let's see instead of buying a new a guitar, I bought all of Dream Theater's cds and dvds (except When Dream and Day Unite but I hope to find that soon, and the Score cd set). I am listening to DT right now and look at my sig. Yeah best band ever. My brother is really into Rush and puts it on whenever we're in the car. I like some of their stuff but it's not completely my style. Pink Floyd is amazing and David Gilmour has the best guitar solos ever. Tool has some good stuff from what I've heard of them but all their songs sound the same.

The thing I love about DT is that they have progressed through different styles throughout the years. They started out mostly with more epic songs and are now completely heavy and very metal. They just need some more Kevin Moore piano songs (like Wait for Sleep or Space-Dye Vest) which Jordan Rudess isn't gonna give us because he was playing that kind of stuff at age 10 and has now moved onto shred, shred, pitch wheel, shred more, shred on Continuum, Shred. Yeah i can see why people don't like DT.

The one thing that really makes some prog bands stand out are the singers. You can tell a Rush song when you here when because of Geddy Lee's voiec and same with DT. People either love or hate James Labrie. I think he's great. The one thing that I always thought was funny is that the only time I ever realized that there is a person singing on Tool's Vicarious is when he gets to the climax ("Vicariously I live while the whole world dies" towards the end). I obviously knew there was someone singing but the voice just doesn't stand out.

In a world where the radio plays non-music (hip-hop and wannabe punk) prog is one of the better things to listen to (along with jazz).

IM SO IMPRESSED there are heaps of Dream Theater fans here...maybe dreamers understand the awesomeness...

im not a pink floyd fan...everyone goes about them...but i mean come on

Dream Theater
-technical compositions (the time signatures are like...woooh)
-expressionate performance (petrucci's solos are mind blowing, but he always carries a melody)
-musicianship (interplay between guitar/keys. like fast and in perfect harmony)
-long works and concept album
-lyrics of a thoughtful nature (although systematic chaos...proves a bit otherwise)
-reinvention

musicians understand!

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^--My charts. I'm big on death and prog metal/rock.

Love Rush, Opeth, old Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, some others.
Abigail's Ghost is pretty good, too. Nevermore is awesome, great stuff.
I've always wanted to get into Devin Townsend's stuff, but can't really find any.

Oh, and older Death is great, too.