if you like X, try Y...

[Michael Rawdon]

If you like IQ, you'll like Jadis.
If you like Spock's Beard, you'll like The Tangent.
If you like Marillion, you'll like Tr3nity.
If you like Rush, you'll like Ice Age.
If you like Renaissance, you'll like Karnataka.
If you like King Crimson, you'll like a wide variety of things.

BTW, I see Tr3nity's new album Precious Seconds is available on AM. I picked it up last month and am lovin' it!

Originally posted by Roger Lee
Or perhaps a "If you like X you'll LOVE THIS" type of show.

Roger -Dot- Lee, the one with the -Dot-

I used to do a "If you like that you'll like this" show for hospital radio for a few months until my studies got in the way.

That was a Classical music show though.

We'd start off with a piece of music and play others along the same theme. That could be less well known pieces by that composer. Pieces by his pupils or teachers. Things that were in the same mood......things like that.

It was fun to do.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by Michael Rawdon
If you like IQ, you'll like Jadis.
If you like Spock's Beard, you'll like The Tangent.
If you like Marillion, you'll like Tr3nity.
If you like Rush, you'll like Ice Age.
If you like Renaissance, you'll like Karnataka.
If you like King Crimson, you'll like a wide variety of things.

BTW, I see Tr3nity's new album Precious Seconds is available on AM. I picked it up last month and am lovin' it!

Not bad.........but I don't agree with the Ice Age. Didn't remind me of Rush. Saw them at Nearfest a while back.....they had no dynamics....have they changed in 6 years? I haven't kept up on them.

[progdirjim(Admin)]

If you like Dream Theater, try valium
If you like Godspeed You Black Emperor, try therapy
If you like Don Caballero, try music lessons

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by progdirjim
If you like Don Caballero, try music lessons

oah! The style they play is different from the norm, but don't knock the TALENT! I believe it was Jim himself who bought Battles on the spot when he heard Ian jamming away

Originally posted by Yesspaz
oah! The style they play is different from the norm, but don't knock the TALENT!

I'm really sorry Spaz but I just tuned into the Moon and "Please Tokio, Please This Is.." started playing.

Talent???? Don't make me laugh!!! This is charlatanism. It's a complete pile of balls. No real ideas. Just play random notes and record it and some sucker might buy it!

But it's all a matter of taste.

[Rick and Roll]

that's why I thought this thread was not a stickyable (oooh new word) thread.

[roger]

that's why I thought this thread was not a stickyable (oooh new word) thread.

yup. my first sticky, soiled...
we're just such a social, contentious bunch...

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by Keith Waye
Talent???? Don't make me laugh!!! This is charlatanism. It's a complete pile of balls. No real ideas. Just play random notes and record it and some sucker might buy it!

Play random notes? I thought you understood music. If you think Don Cab is mindless, you need to rethink. Don Cab is of a different mind, yes, but they hardly play mindless notes. Most of what they play is meticulously precise.

See new thread.

[Michael Rawdon]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Not bad.........but I don't agree with the Ice Age. Didn't remind me of Rush. Saw them at Nearfest a while back.....they had no dynamics....have they changed in 6 years? I haven't kept up on them.

Their album Liberation felt very Rush-like to me, particularly in song construction. Its length aside, "The Lhasa Road" felt like it would have fit right in with Rush's late-80s/early-90s albums.

Admittedly, Rush's late-80s stuff is my favorite period in their career, whereas I find their 70s (pre-Moving Pictures) stuff to be (to put it mildly) weak (Permanent Waves is the earliest Rush album I own). So if Rush to you is 2112 and its contemporaries, then I'd say we're just looking at Rush from completely different perspectives.

[Rick and Roll]

I don't think I ever heard that before about Rush..if I was in the mood (pardon the pun) I'd rant and rave about the "weak" comment



Did you grow up in that period? Maybe that would explain it.

I'm frightened to ask you about Tull, since you have them on your profile and they are my favorite band...

[Michael Rawdon]

I really got into rock music around 1988 (college years, for me), mostly through The Who and Jethro Tull, so yes, I discovered Rush through Presto and Hold Your Fire. HYF is easily my favorite Rush album. The two pre-Permanent Waves albums I've heard of their - 2112 and A Farewell to Kings - were both very boring to me, and I quickly sold them.

I am a huge Jethro Tull fan. I have nearly everything they've released. They have their ups and downs as any band with a 35-year history does, but by and large they are terrific. Unfortunately, the only time I saw them live was 1989, which was a weak concert in support of one of their worst albums (Rock Island). On the other hand, I have very much enjoyed their last few albums, and Ian Anderson's Rupi's Dance solo album is fantastic. It seems like his voice is finally back close to where it was before he lost it in the mid-80s.

[Rick and Roll]

Rock Island is also my least favorite. Way to go!

Still scratching my head over Xanadu classified as boring.

[fonzy]

I personaly think that the recomendations at www.amazon.com or co.uk is a good way to start. If you rate a favorite album, they give you some sugestions. AMG just to be good resource for theese sort of questions but I have somewhat given up on them since they changed their site..It so sad.... :-)

[cosmorock]

Here's my two cents...If you like ELP,try every band who's name starts with the letters "TR":Trace,Trilogy,Triumvirat,Tritonus and The Trip!Ciao! Alain

[cosmorock]

Oups!Almost forgot Triade from Italy.No joke ,all of the bands mentioned above do sound like ELP,that is,they play classical influenced prog,most of them in trio format,with strong emphasis on keyboards.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by cosmorock
Here's my two cents...If you like ELP,try every band who's name starts with the letters "TR":Trace,Trilogy,Triumvirat,Tritonus and The Trip!Ciao! Alain

Triumph, Trower, Travers, Traffic, Tragically Hip......

[cosmorock]

...none of these acts sound like ELP!!!...Tragically Hip?!?Hate them!

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by cosmorock
...none of these acts sound like ELP!!!...Tragically Hip?!?Hate them!

I was joking, sir

[cosmorock]

...so was i...