electric soft parade. that's a room without any doors i'd say.
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 4 September 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Just about anybody's Brian Wilson tribute song such as:
The Dukes of Stratosphear - "Pale and Precious"Lindsey Buckingham - "D.W. Suite"
From the same Lindsey Buckingham album - "Play in the Rain" (though the fragments never really gel into an actual song)
His Name Is Alive - "Sick"
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 5 September 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
& don't forget Olivia Tremor Control
― myndbloom, Saturday, 5 September 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
How has Big Star not been mentioned yet? Just about every song on Radio City has what, like, 75 doors.
― Matt Weston, Saturday, 5 September 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Sunset Rubdown does this a lot, to particularly great effect on Dragonslayer (esp. "Idiot Heart" and "Anna Anna Anna OH")
― Simon H., Saturday, 5 September 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 4 September 2009 22:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark
listen to their goddamn second album and their EP and then listen to thomas white's brilliant ESP-transcending solo record and then restate that galdarn claim
actually silent to the dark is *fabulous* and i am all for its discussion here
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Saturday, 5 September 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"Savitri" from the new Rodrigo y Gabriela is a recent example of this, one that takes the concept quite literally with the sound of creaking doors accompanying peeks into different parts.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 September 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Delgados - The Past That Suits You Best
― rentboy, Monday, 14 September 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Virtually anything by Motorpsycho.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 14 September 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Opening track of the new Working For A Nuclear Free City (Do A Stunt) is the best out-and-out 'prog' song since the 70's maybe? haha ok that's bullshit but it's *fucking incredible*
and it's 2:44
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Not on spotify :(
Btw, listening to Ddiamondd - almost forgot how good it was.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 2 January 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPzHUtNwbX0
^wasn't mad about this. Also, 'Alphaville', how fitting.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 2 January 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Do A Stunt is nothing, absolutely NOTHING like that Alphaville song
Ddiamondd is GREAT hehe - Mirrored still rly bangs
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, I'll Sendspace it
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Here. Get ready for...greatness. http://www.sendspace.com/file/36l75h
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
:DDD
In the queue after Intertiatic ESP finishes! Cedric can sing really nicely actually..shame the song is Yes minus geir-friendly hooks.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I suppose some songs by Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti and Field Music this year might fit into this category.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
It's very good indeed - so many ideas and little bits! For some reason I always assumed Working were a spacemen 3 style dronerock thing.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Come to think of it that opening strummy guitar bit could be on a Stone Roses or Primal Scream record! Then the acoustic comes in..
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Field Music were the only band WFANFC could come up with when trying to name good contemporary British music, haha! They're not really dronerock (although they can do it) so much as true eclecticism at play (with an electronic/rock skew, admittedly) - and it's very exciting to hear a band willing to do that
haha no challop to say that either of those bands' imaginations wouldn't have lasted more than 5 seconds of that song
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd say Blind Guardian's "I'm Alive" fits that...
― O'Shea the Cubeman (San Te), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"Prog" in 2011 = horrible bad cardie bait
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
nah this is microprog, the new shit, kids are snorting it in the gutters
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
g.d. let's find nice ways of preeshiating the barOQUE y'all
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like NO WHINAY
Also SLABS >>> twiddly twiddly diddly I doh
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wfanfc's slabs are there, they're just not gonna spend ages mulling over their slabdom
get righteous quick, then get outta there
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Not in any way. Prog is finally back, and it was about time!
However.... this thread is not really about prog.....
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is about MICROPROG
thing is geir, microprog is all about the sophisticated melodies so you shd get on board
p.s. what are the good prog albums from this year I should listen to?
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
LOT OF CUTE GUYS IN THE CLUB TONITE
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually 2010 was a kind of silent year for prog IMO after 2009 which was the best year for prog since the mid 70s or so.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
so sounds like John Cage ruled 2010 then
― O'Shea the Cubeman (San Te), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
But, yes, "microprog" I suppose is closely related to the more sophisticated pomp pop from the 70s that I love. Definitely into stuff like Boo Radley and Super Furry Animals and their likes as well (even though I prefer the two Boo Radleys albums where the faster moments are fast and lively without being noisy)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
love Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
as do I :D
so what were 2009's prog highlights? take it Frost was one...
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
For me it was largely the old guard. Stylistically at least. Transatlantic, IQ and Dream Theater all released perhaps their best albums ever. Guilt Machine, Astra, Syzygy and Bigelf also released great albums that year.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Although perhaps the most important thing to happen to prog in 2009 was not music, it was a magazine.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Heat had a good 12 months
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll take your word for that, although prog still has a way to go for its musicians to be interesting for the readers of that magazine. :)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"The End" is a Doors song with rooms: first the singer finds his sister in one, then his mom and dad in another. Bad scene all around.
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(It is quite proggy even, although largely in a krautrock/spacerock kinda way ;) )
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
btw I hope yr all downloading that song I linked a Sendspace of upthread
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
That Alphaville song sounds not at all bad. Although the Alphaville name is occupied, occupied, OCCUPIED!
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 2 January 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Buncha Zep besides the already-mentioned "Dazed and Confused":
What Is and What Should Never BeNo QuarterWhole Lotta LoveOver the Hills and Far AwayThe Rain SongStairway to Heaven (obviously)KashmirA couple things from Physical Graffiti that I can't remember
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 3 January 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
most of these aren't really rooms with many doors. they're more like railroad apartments. a bunch of rooms in a row.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if LJ is a Plank fan. they remind me (a very little) of lapsus linguae
― ron pinot (electricsound), Monday, 3 September 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
where was I during this thread?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 3 September 2012 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
in a padded room with no windows
― cute, banned, alert (some dude), Monday, 3 September 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
Hah!
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 3 September 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, that record with the owl might be (for it's genre) a little too restrained and polite for him.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Monday, 3 September 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link