Basically, a club for Progressive musicians, fans and other sorts to get together.
Talk about bands that are on the roundabout, talk about what you're doing to bring progressive back, and connect with others.

Some Personal things:
- I do not consider Opeth or Tool to be progressive.
- Indie =/= Prog.
- New-Prog is a form of Indie.
- Neo-Prog is not New-Prog.
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band started Progressive Rock, due to Harrison.

Bumping.

Come on guys, you got to at least know Roundabout.

Well, why not :P

I like

Blotted Science
Dream Theater
Between Tehe Buried And Me
Behold... The Arctopus
Jacobs Dream
Liquid Tension Experiment
Cynic
Spastic Ink
Symphony X
The Human Abstract
Protest The Hero
Angra
Stratovarius
Warmen
Buckethead
Genesis

what else? :P

At 8/30/09 02:45 AM, igott wrote: - I do not consider Tool to be progressive.

Seriously? Why-ever not?

My favorite prog bands

Kingston Wall
Von hertzen brothers
Pink Floyd
Porcupine tree
Yakuza

Also, Tool and Opeth unless you give a good reason why they aren't progressive.

At 9/6/09 05:43 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 8/30/09 02:45 AM, igott wrote: - I do not consider Tool to be progressive.

Seriously? Why-ever not?

Because he is stupid. Clearly.

What defines the progressive genre? Cuz I seriously have no clue..But I do like protest the hero.

At 9/6/09 03:38 PM, Nev wrote:

At 9/6/09 05:43 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 8/30/09 02:45 AM, igott wrote: - I do not consider Tool to be progressive.

Seriously? Why-ever not?

Because he is stupid. Clearly.

Agreed. I have yet to find another band that even remotely sounds like them. And last time I checked, 10 minute songs with retardly complex drum beats and guitar timing is not mainstream.

Prague Rock!

is the thread starter ever going to post in his own thread?

hey Denta

At 9/8/09 12:27 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: is the thread starter ever going to post in his own thread?

hey Denta

He's probably just pissed because everyone else likes Tool, and he doesn't. On a semi-related note, is Opeth any good? I've never listened to them before.

At 9/8/09 10:01 AM, XIII13 wrote:

At 9/8/09 12:27 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: is the thread starter ever going to post in his own thread?

hey Denta

He's probably just pissed because everyone else likes Tool, and he doesn't. On a semi-related note, is Opeth any good? I've never listened to them before.

Yes, they combine acoustic/mellow stuff with extreme metal, and their songs are quite long. I suggest you check them out.

At 9/8/09 10:31 AM, DeIirium wrote:

At 9/8/09 10:01 AM, XIII13 wrote:

On a semi-related note, is Opeth any good? I've never listened to them before.

Yes, they combine acoustic/mellow stuff with extreme metal, and their songs are quite long. I suggest you check them out.

Nice, I will then. Any songs in particular I should look for?

At 9/8/09 10:37 AM, XIII13 wrote: Nice, I will then. Any songs in particular I should look for?

I think Opeth albums work best as full albums and there is generally a concept behind them.
Some of their stuff is quite hard to endure though. If you like Prog you should be able to tolerant them more, but they are kind of repetitive.

Album wise Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse are my two favourite albums. And Damnation which is all acoustic and absolutely beautiful. It's also very Porcupine Tree (and rightly so as Steve Wilson was heavily involved).
Blackwater Park is popular too, but I dislike the album apart from a few songs.

Song wise check out:
The Moor
When
Blackwater Park

All acoustic songs:
Harvest
Windowpane

Should be enough for ya :).

Prog is good. I like prog. proggy prog prog.

I like a lot of prog rock, new and old (more than just the usual Rush Yes, ELP, etc.), as well as a lot of prog metal.

At 9/6/09 02:52 AM, igott wrote: Come on guys, you got to at least know Roundabout.

Yes

lolgetit

About time I found a thread like this. I'll start with my favorite prog bands:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Rush
3. ELP
4. Genesis
5. Asia
6. Yes

And I have noticed one thing. A lot of the same musicians that are in the above bands (with the exception of Pink Floyd and Rush) were all in the same groups at one time or another.

At 9/6/09 03:11 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: what else? :P

Everything he said, only Stratovarius isn't progie, with the exceptions of there 5 or so 10+ minute long songs.

At 8/30/09 02:45 AM, igott wrote: - I do not consider Opeth or Tool to be progressive.

That is blasphemy. That's like saying Emeniem isn't a rap artist just because hes white.

Seriously, that's just wrong.

Both progressive and both great.

Nope, disregard that. I'm a motherfucking moron.

1) I confused Opeth with OTEP. Which is a shitty Nu-Metal band. But thanks to AniMetal, the difference is fixed.
2) After listening to more Tool except Prison Sex (Where I based my blatant, stupid remark), It's safe to say you're right. Sorry.

I also haven't kept this thing under control due to the belief of it being a flop.

Anyone else liking Protest the Hero? My guitar teacher got me inot them recently.

At 9/16/09 05:52 PM, XIII13 wrote: Anyone else liking Protest the Hero? My guitar teacher got me inot them recently.

Yes, but Cynic is better :P

At 9/16/09 09:10 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 9/16/09 05:52 PM, XIII13 wrote: Anyone else liking Protest the Hero? My guitar teacher got me inot them recently.

Yes, but Cynic is better :P

*mind =blown* If there's something better than Protest, you might as well kill me.

Cynic is brilliant, at least their album Focus is. I still haven't heard Traced in Air.

At 9/17/09 08:51 AM, Sense-Offender wrote: Cynic is brilliant, at least their album Focus is. I still haven't heard Traced in Air.

It's not as good as Focus. But it is still grand.

At 9/17/09 03:28 PM, Nev wrote:

At 9/17/09 08:51 AM, Sense-Offender wrote: Cynic is brilliant, at least their album Focus is. I still haven't heard Traced in Air.

It's not as good as Focus. But it is still grand.

I'll go look it up for sure then.

At 9/17/09 03:28 PM, Nev wrote:

At 9/17/09 08:51 AM, Sense-Offender wrote: Cynic is brilliant, at least their album Focus is. I still haven't heard Traced in Air.

It's not as good as Focus. But it is still grand.

Traced In Air sounds way too much like a "generic prog baalbum"

Focus just kicks ass :)

When I was younger, I had a massive affinity for prog. Not as big of a fan of it as I was then, but I still enjoy it.

Pink Floyd, some Bowie, Beatles, Mazzy Star, and select Dream Theatre songs are pretty good. Tool is a pretty good band as well, I just felt like mentioning them.

CCR is Progressive? Right? You can hear some of it from Ramble Tamble and I Heard it From The Grapevine.

Hm, never really thought of CCR that way, they always seemed like a folk band to me.

So, math rock besides Battles and Don Caballero. anybody?

I'm in.

Proggy bands I like.

Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Pineapple thief
Pure Reason Revolution
Mars Volta
Mastodon
Isis
Cult Of Luna
Baroness
Anathema
Tool
Pink Floyd
King Crimson
Rush
Radiohead
Dream Theater
Intronaut
The Ocean

Basic list