Prog is cool

[Pyro Tramp]

Prog is cool, who's with me?
My favourites include Pink Floyd (obviously), Tool, The Mars Volta and Mr Bungle.

[Garrett]

King Crimson, Yes, Rush, Genesis, Can... Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, Queensrÿche, etc.

[OG-]

The best and the favorite; Tool.

[LordSlaytan]

What is prog? I've never heard it used as a reference to my favorite: Pink Floyd.

Oh, I love, love, love Tool too.

[OG-]

I never had either and was kind of confused when I first read the title of the thread, but I'm assuming it just means "progressive", which is a term I've heard to describe Tool.

But if ya asked me to define what exactly makes a band "progressive", I couldn't tell ya...

[Garrett]

"Progressive rock ("prog") is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s principally in England, reaching the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, but continuing as a musical form to this day. Progressive rock was largely a European movement, and drew most of its influences from classical music and jazz fusion, in contrast to American rock, which was influenced by rhythm & blues and country, although there are notable exceptions in the New World such as Kansas and Rush — considered by many to be the finest examples of the form. Over the years various sub-genres of progressive rock have emerged, such as symphonic rock, art rock and progressive metal." - A Definition Of Progressive Rock (http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive-rock.asp)

[Pyro Tramp]

(nu) progressive rock/metal

[Pyro Tramp]

Ohh check out http://www.progarchives.com/ for free downloads

[Nexus]

Tangerine Dream's Phaedra is one of the best damn things ever created.

[Monkeypunch]

Frank Zappa. Most definitely. Especially Over-Nite Sensation and One Size Fits All.

[adidasss]

Just The Mars Volta I'm afraid. One of the best bads ever methinks.

[Pyro Tramp]

Shame Amputechture was a major let down. One of them has a new side project as well, heard one song, seemed like the random noises of a Volta song- just as a song.

[undercoverlover]

coheed and cambria

[adidasss]

Shame Amputechture was a major let down.

So it's not just me. I'm a huge fan yet I think that album blows. Other MV fans seem to think it's just as brilliant. Sadly, they'll probably never recapture the ferocity of De-loused. Now it's all ambient shit...

[Pyro Tramp]

Frances the Mute is my favourite, gives me tingles everytime. Really hope they'll be at Reading this year.

C+C, don't really think they're particularly prog, from the stuff i've it blows.

[undercoverlover]

almost any and every description of coheed and cambria is 'progressive rock'

personally i like what ive heard, Welcome Home especially

[Pyro Tramp]

Yeh, i've heard them described as that as well. Just don't like them.

[Funeral]

Mr. Bungle, Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta, Tool, Pelican, Isis, just to name a few.

[Monkeypunch]

Oh, and Pink Floyd, obviously, Rush, Yes, and Styx.

(Almost everything I listen to currently could be catergorized as prog....)

[Nexus]

Coheed and Cambria always struck me as a parody of progressive rock.

I just discovered Godspeed You Black Emporer! on progarchives. They seem to be...really, really good.

[Pyro Tramp]

Oh they so are. If you like Post Rock they're almost the best, better than Sigur Ros, though think Explosions in the Sky are at the top, from what i've heard.