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Round 2:
Which band name do you like best?
Lost Frequencies
Spock's Beard
Voting ended onFeb 23
Note that this is about band names not their music or members.
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Round 2:
Which band name do you like best?
Lost Frequencies
Spock's Beard
Note that this is about band names not their music or members.
Devil's Got My Throat by Spock's Beard
(Full seven minute version, not the "revisited" reprise)
6️⃣
Oh man, you're pretty good at finding things that are both new to me, and that I really enjoy.
Devil's Got My Throat by Spock's Beard
instantly infatuated
it's aight
immediately repulsed
i don't even know yet?
i have such mixed feelings about this
Roie Avin: Essential Modern Progressive Rock Albums: Images and Words Behind Prog's Most Celebrated Albums 1990-2016 (2018)
As the editor of The Prog Report website (and a longtime friend and music biz colleague), Roie Avin is one of this planet's preeminent experts about this often misunderstood, sometimes reviled, but obviously enduring branch of rock 'n' roll's family tree.
Punk rock tried its damndest to kill progressive rock in the late 1970s, but it frankly never stood a chance and so-called "dinosaurs" like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd kept right on selling millions of records long after their assailants had gone extinct themselves or sold out to new wave.
And then, after a relatively quiet 1980s (emphasis on "relative" since the decade spawned the mighty Marillion and many other genre standard bearers featured here), progressive rock grew ever more ambitious and expansive in the decades that followed.
Hence this period frequently being referred to as the 'Third Wave.'
Roie's book makes that abundantly obvious with a chronological survey of over 50 LPs, each of which receives a dedicated chapter full of historical information, band interviews and photos, and the author's own well-informed opinions about each title.
From Queensrÿche's multi-platinum-selling Empire to Opeth's twelfth opus, Sorceress (both obviously pictured above), Roie proves that prog never stopped, uh, progressing in the capable hands of major names like Dream Theater, Tool, Fates Warning, Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, and Devin Townsend.
What's more, even a somewhat knowledgeable music fan like me learned a lot about unfamiliar albums by the likes of Scale the Summit, Beardfish, The Flower Kings, The Tangent, Periphery, Haken, Enchant, Riverside, and Karnivool.
If anything, Roie seldom ventures into the extreme metal woods where countless Cookie Monsters beyond Opeth tread, but he had to draw the line somewhere, or else no coffee table would be large enough to support the resulting Encyclopedia Progtannica.
And I was thrilled to see Cynic's incomparable Focus LP included, alongside other personal favorites like Anathema, Ayeron, King's X, Mastodon, Between the Buried and Me, and, of course, Marillion.
So here's to you, Roie!
May you carry on sailing these seas of cheese (it's at least guaranteed to be gourmet cheese) and remain safe aboard all of those crazy prog rock cruises.
Featured Records:
Queensrÿche: Empire (1990)
Dream Theater: Images and Words (1992)
King's X: Faith Hope Love (1990)
Opeth: Sorceress (2016)
Cynic: Focus (1993)
Buy from: The Prog Report
Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing
Look, sometimes you just have to sit down for 27 minutes and listen to some prog rock. Can't be helped.
The lyrics scream Antoine/Camille @varlaamsdarkventures 💖
I thought I'd come to you and say All the things I had on my mind I thought it might be really great To show you how I feel inside Then I think Maybe not You wouldn't speak to me I would be left behind We'd be through if you knew All the things in my mind I'd probably feel worse You'd probably scream and shout Scratch and curse or even worse Quietly shut me out I thought I'd come to you and say Everything within my heart I just can't look the other way And wait for us to grow apart Then I think What's the point? This might just go away I think I'll think some more Either way I will pay And suffer for evermore You wouldn't speak to me I would be left behind We'd be through if you knew All the things in my mind I thought I'd come to you and say All the things I had on my mind
