Equal Vision Records
1. Rebirth
2. The Old Haunt
3. Waves
4. At The End Of The Earth
5. Remembered
6. A Night On The Town
7. Is There Anybody Here?
8. The Squeaky Wheel
9. The Bitter Suite IV And V: The Congregation And The Sermon In The Silt
10. The Bitter Suite VI: Abandon
11. King Of Swords (Reversed)
12. If All Goes Well
13. The Line
14. Wait
15. Ouroboros
6 comments
Prog rock lives!
The think about prog is, while it may stink sound-wise, it is needlessly complicated.
About thirty years ago.
If you check out sites other than Nodata, you’ll find there’s an amazing amount of prog rock still going (very) strong. It just usually doesn’t make it onto sites crowded with ultra-simplistic, samey techno singles. Don’t get me wrong, I like (some) techno, but sometimes I want to listen to something in non-4 time signatures at a tempo of other than 120-180bpm, with some actual real-time, real-instrument musicianship (even if that is overblown!) Check out prog-sphere, you might be surprised by just how much of this stuff there is out there, and by how much it’s evolved since about thirty years ago.
Open your mind bro – music’s not a highway, it’s a tree, and all the branches all just keep on growing.
I appreciate your reply, well thought out, though I think we have to agree on what an orange is compared to what we call Apples. Back in their day, The Beatles or The Stones were considered progressive rock, today, a lot of that stuff is played over commercial air time, or has just been played out. Yes, music does evolve, even genre music evolves. Neil Young penned it in one of his songs “Hey hey, my my, Rockn’roll will never die…” For some reason though, I feel like it has died. I can’t think of a band that has or is riding the charts to the top with ‘The Rockn’Roll Genre or any off shoots of that genre. This is where it becomes difficult, discerning what we used to call RockN’Roll and attaching the off shoot genre to it, and from what I hear, most Rock’NRoll songs are written in standard 4/4 meter, occasionally we get a waltz time 3/4. Your point about returning to Progressive Rock to delve into more adventurous meters and times is moot. I’ll miss RockN’Roll as a genre, and I still like slapping on Chuck Berry or Elvis, and you are right, I should explore prig-sphere to see if I might like what the young people who are still interpreting the genre of RockN’Roll Music have to say. I gave up on Rock’nRoll when I started hearing people like Green Day and all of their white boy bands, and just that awful sound you can hear streaming from someone’s convertible while stranded in traffic on the 405 in L.A.. The Seattle Music scene in the late 80’s and throughout the 1990’s set the template for angry white boy music, and I liked some of Nirvana’s music, but that is where it seemed to have died. Somewhere around then.
Prog’s not for everyone; indeed, many people find it difficult to listen to, but I think we can all agree that it is needlessly complicated.