[December] What's got you Listening?

Mark CMG · Dec 3, 2014

I hope to discover at least two new Prog Rock bands before the end of the month. Any suggestions?

Umbran · Dec 3, 2014

Progressive Rock? I got nothin'.

Unless you're into progressive so far that it wraps around back into the past. I've been listening to a lot of Postmodern Jukebox.

Scott Bradlee was trained as a Ragtime pianist. He hated pop music, felt it had no artistic value. But then he tried transposing current tunes into slightly different forms - and realized that modern music cannot be without merit, if he could, with a slightly different arrangement, get something he liked.

Also, check out the Saturday Morning Slow Jams...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZH8sevmMq75ucc8vmpGXaOnRcxFjSX2

Rabulias · Dec 4, 2014

What do you define as progressive rock? My CD player has been re-visiting Camel, Keats, Asia, and the Alan Parsons Project lately.

Mark CMG · Dec 4, 2014

Rabulias said:
What do you define as progressive rock? My CD player has been re-visiting Camel, Keats, Asia, and the Alan Parsons Project lately.

Well, I'm an early Genesis fan and love bands like Yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Genesis, ELP as well as some more recent bands like Transatlantic, Spock's Beard, Phideaux, and The Flower Kings. I catch a lot of Prog Rock through Music in Widescreen -

http://www.musicinwidescreen.com/

Jhaelen · Dec 4, 2014

I've been listening to "And you will know us by the trail of dead" a lot in the past weeks. Somehow the band manages to combine progressive rock with punk rock. Sometimes its more of the former, sometimes more of the latter.