>>66162643
>>66162643
crappy production, sloppy basslines and last minute guitar solos
>>66162659
boooring, think it has somithing to do with syd or something
>>66162668
greek gods and space voyaging? really?
try something modern and fresh like this
>>66163061
prog metal but whatever, still a solid 9.5/10
>>66162643
5/10
>>66162659
7/10
>>66162668
6/10
>>66162690
3/10
>>66162699
7/10
>>66162747
7/10
>>66162810
God tier, probably their best album
>>66163087
8/10
>>66163061
>>66163186
Epic simply epic
>>66162643
>>66163266
>Epic
XD
>>66162643
>Moving Pictures
>they're literally moving pictures on the cover
fuck man
>>66163314
Don't lump Pink Lemonade in with Dreamtheater. Why you would ever do that is a mystery.
>>66163266
>Tool
>"Epic"
your fedora is showing mate
>>66162643
This and Foxtrot. Nursery Cryme and Lamb Lies Down on Broadway are a level below IMHO.
>>66162659
>>66162643
As far as Jethro Tull goes, I think Aqualung is a better album for the Spotify I-fancy-listening-to-just-one-track generation, but Thick as a Brick is better to listen to all the way through.
>>66163061
>>66162810
10/10
>>66163361
Tool is shit
>>66162747
>not Lightbulb Sun or In Absentia
>>66163384
Nice to see Space Shanty get some love, Khan (and Egg for that matter) are an underrated outfit.
Other complaints: LTIA deserves to be in top tier, and DSOTM and Animals are vastly overrated and barely even classify as prog in any case. WYWH on the other hand I do think deserves its place. I think Mirage is a bit underrated, Camel are a poor man's Gentle Giant in my view, competent but hardly breaking any new ground. Also needs more ELP, it's fashionable to hate them because of Punk and the Works/Love Beach era but the debut, Tarkus, Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery are all superb albums. Same goes for Wakeman from Six Wives to Criminal Record.
>>66163447
Lightbulb sun is terrible
In absentia is more pop than prog
>>66163497
>Lightbulb sun is terrible
kys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5nAA_QXBPY
>>66163384
Those Miles Davis albums are superb (especially Kind of Blue), but they're not prog rock.
>>66163409
I think Thick as a Brick's songwriting is pretty weak in some spots...
>>66163403
Seriously stop doing that Pink Lemonade is GOAT Dreamtheater is sterile trash
>>66163492
No, Tarkus is okay i guess, but Brain Salad Surgery is terrible. I like their classical covers though
>>66163492
Whoops, should have said that I thought Mirage was overrated. I never did like Camel.
>>66163552
Glad someone mentioned this, Shadow of the Hierophant is nearly as good as Firth of Fifth imho.
![220px-Cracktheskye[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xzTBXd1.jpg "220px-Cracktheskye[1].jpg")
why does moo hate RIO, zeuhl or avant? no one fucking mentions any that at any time
>>66162643
garbage
>>66162659
8.7/10
>>66162699
2/10
>>66162747
2/10
>>66162810
4/10
>>66163087
5.50/10
>>66163186
3/0
>>66163324
8/10
>>66163409
2/10
>>66163455
6.5/10
>>66163552
3/10
>>66163447
>>66163497
In Absentia is indeed more pop than FOABP. I can't say it's a good album either, it has like 5 good songs?
FOABP doesn't have any bad songs and Anesthetize is really fucking good.
why does /mu/ dislike neo-prog?
>>66163603
>rio
just listen to frank zappa
>zeuhl
listen to actual opera
>avant
some of the earlier bands were great but apart from that its sterile
>>66163630
moo's taste on prog is pretty bland. almost no italian prog either.
>>66163603
There are a lot of people who like sporkcore
>>66163608
awful taste kys
>>66163575
>Brain Salad Surgery is terrible. I like their classical covers though
See, that's the complete opposite of my opinion. Their Copland stuff like Hoedown I think worked well, but the Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and hymnal stuff they insisted on covering was just a mish-mash that didn't improve or elaborate on the original for me. Emerson's insistence on shoehorning in the Hammond doesn't help, it and the Mellotron have dated in a way that the Moog (by virtue of still being unique) hasn't so much. I think that's why I prefer Wakeman's classicism to Emerson's, at least pre about 1977 (after which point prog died)
>>66163650
>italian prog
thats the blandest of the bland when it comes to prog
>>66163641
zappa's humor is complete trash. he only has a couple of listenable albums
>>66163612
In Absentia hs no weak songs except 3
First 5 tracks, Prodigal and Collapse the Light into Earth are 10/10
>>66163656
>sporkcore
awful taste kys
>>66163650
Italian prog is barely differen from anglo prog except being in different language
>>66163674
Premiata Forneria Marconi are good .... but all the vox is in italian.
>>66163608
>Rates Pink Floyd
>Doesn't rate Jethro Tull and Hackett
>Literally hasn't given a rating to Larks' Tongues in Aspic
I pity you famalan.
>>66163694
Trains is 11/10 even if it's one of the poppiest songs PT has.
I wonder why most of /mu/ overlooks Porcupine Tree even though it's fairly famous.. I think.
>>66163650
Le Orme is great
>>66163716
>"dude weed lmao"
awful taste kys
>>66163693
Excellent taste. Wetton is really underrated, he keeps getting unfairly overshadowed by Greg Lake.
>>66163756
>???
awful taste kys
>>66163747
PT is discussed here fairly often though, they are the only modern prog bands /mu/ cares about with The Mars Volta and Tool
There are pretty polarising opinions on them though
Also Steven is best when he tries to blend prog with pop like on Stupid Dream, I also like how his music has minimum wanking
>>66163747
Because they're shit.
Steven Wilson is also shit.
>>66162643
>>66163814
kys
>>66163814
How are they shit?
>Steven Wilson is also shit.
You gonna get beaten up, kiddo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhhN82dGqQ
>>66163751
literally a shit genesis
>No one posted this yet
>>66163780
floyd you numbnut
of course youre too dumb for the spiritual liberation that is sporkcore
>>66163874
Go to bed Ghos
>>66162643
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT NO-ONE IN THIS THREAD IS PIRATING MY MUSIC
TO PURCHASE MY MUSIC YOU CAN JUST VISIT https://www.dgmlive.com
IF ANY OF YOU ACQUIRE MY MUSIC ILLEGALLY YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL WITH PETER SINFIELD, WHERE YOU WILL HAVE TO LISTEN TO LADIES OF THE ROAD FOR ALL ETERNITY. THEN YOU WILL BE SORRY
>free time hatejamming intensifies
.
>>66163896
>LISTEN TO LADIES OF THE ROAD FOR ALL ETERNITY.
>>66163409
>>66163837
Thank you for the second vote, fellow seed drill enthusiast. We have some anti-Tullers in this thread who need to be shown the Deist god's love.
>>66163876
are you high lmao? where the fuck did floyd come from? calling it sporkcore is usually an insult so that's why i ordered you to kys friend
>>66163327
And the people on the stairs are crying because the pictures are moving (emotionally)
>>66163747
There seems to be a thing about certain bands like porcupine tree or deftones or whatever that most of /mu/ seems to know and like them but they are rarely discussed
Is this album good? I downloaded it on a whim a while ago but never ended up listening to it.
>>66162659
OP said prog, not pop.
>>66163929
ebin XD
>>66163896
>>66163928
I like that song
>>66163324
It took me five years to realize that this was the best thing to ever come out of prog rock. I think when I was sixteen I even thought Tales From Topographic Oceans was Yes's best work, with my logic being something to the effect of, "Yeah, Close to the Edge is great, but the second half isn't as good as the first, and how can you argue with four twenty minute god-tier songs?" Now Close to the Edge is my favorite album and Tales From Topographic Oceans is among my least favorite. It is the definition of pretension in music and is basically what cause punk rock. It assumes so much importance that it lacks. It arouses a desire for the highest without fulfilling it. I used to think Yes made a mistake in not going for the "epic closing track" on Close to the Edge, but now I realize that they couldn't have possibly followed up the title track in a more perfect way. The last two songs on there have such an organic, humble approach to filling out the rest of the album, and that's how Yes should have gone about following up the album Close to the Edge if they were going to, but instead, Tales From Topographic Oceans is like, "LMAO we're totally topping Close to the Edge right now XD."
>>66163946
nah idk what i was going for, i just saw you snarking on that other anon and felt in the mood for that type of shitpost too
seriously though there is absolutely nothing wrong with raising the spork
>>66164081
Relayer had a similar structure to CTTE, but with Wakeman and Bruford gone I just don't think it hit the same heights. I know some people absolutely adore Gates of Delirium, but I personally find it to be more of an interesting experiment than a track to rival CTTE. Opinions are divided on Going for the One, but in my view Awaken is the only great track, and it's rather let down by all the other tracks (Turn of the Century and Parallels are OK but not life-changing). Everything from Tormato onwards can be discarded.
Thing about Tales is that I genuinely think that The Revealing Science of God is only just a tiny fraction worse than Close to the Edge, and that fraction can be explained by Alan White not being as incredible as Bill Bruford. After they had done their "standard" epic track I think they just lost focus. A golden rule with Yes Album and onwards Yes is that Anderson provides the concept and Howe charts out the actual execution, and I just don't think Howe had the kind of stomach for cleverly devising four epics that Jon had, since all he had to do was take some LSD and read the Siddartha and the songs wrote themselves. The result is 3 sides of rubbish to follow one good side, with a couple of good motifs or harmonies here and there. A real shame. I also think Nous Sommes Du Soleil is overrated, we expect more from Yes than a pretty harmonic vocal line. Maybe if The Who had done it it might have been noteworthy, but it's too otherwise unremarkable to be good Yes music.
How do you feel about Wakeman's solo stuff? (Or for that matter Squire's, Howe's and Anderson's?) For me, Six Wives, parts of Journey, Arthur and Judas Iscariot from Criminal Record as as good as the best of Yes, albeit different, and indeed usually have the rest of the band playing on them anyway. Different, much more classically oriented and western rather than eastern in inspiration, but just as well thematically and structurally executed. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
>>66164078
I don't hate it either, I just used it for comedy effect.
