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Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« on: May 12, 2021, 08:00:42 AM »
Who is the "best" or most generally well-regarded band from the prog community that, for whatever reason, you don't care for? 

Please don't include bands you've just never given a chance.  I'm talking bands/artists that are generally thought of to be pretty good to great, and you just don't like them.




For me, it's Marillion.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2021, 08:02:32 AM »
Pain of Salvation
Riverside
The Flower Kings
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2021, 08:03:33 AM »
Haken
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2021, 08:09:42 AM »
Pain of Salvation
Leprous
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2021, 08:15:02 AM »
Big Big Train
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2021, 08:23:20 AM »
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2021, 08:27:19 AM »
All the ones mentioned so far, and probably quite a few that will be mentioned.  In general, I don't really care for prog as a genre. 
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2021, 08:32:26 AM »
The Flower Kings and Leprous are two bands, where I put in an effort to see if I like them, turns out I don't.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2021, 08:33:04 AM »
Yeah, I'm not crazy about Pain of Salvation, either.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2021, 08:47:09 AM »
Porcupine Tree
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2021, 08:47:39 AM »
Also not too huge into prog in general. Oddly it’ll be shorter to lost prog bands I love than ones I don’t. But contrary to most of you crazy people, I love pain of salvation. 
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2021, 08:54:16 AM »
Gentle Giant.

I have disliked everything I have heard by them (and have ZERO urge to check any more out). 
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2021, 08:57:28 AM »
Genesis

I like some of their songs, but not enough for me to buy an album.

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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2021, 09:11:55 AM »
Quote from: Kwyjibo on May 12, 2021, 08:32:26 AM
The Flower Kings and Leprous are two bands, where I put in an effort to see if I like them, turns out I don't.

I've given Leprous every chance, even saw them live, and they let me down every time.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2021, 09:42:11 AM »
Pink Floyd


Also, some of the bands mentioned in prior responses I've heard of but never heard any of their stuff and am surprised to hear that they are "prog."
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2021, 09:42:52 AM »
Symphony X, Circus Maximus, Ayreon (but I haven't heard enough), Between the Buried and Me, Haken, Liquid Tension Experiment.

Category I deeply hate: any djent band.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2021, 10:15:25 AM »
Evergrey. I listened to their newest album and it just wasn’t interesting, I’ve seen them labelled as prog metal but it really wasn’t proggy at all apart from the fact that it had keys on it.

Leprous too, I tried listening to what I think was their newest album and I couldn’t finish it, it was just really boring to me.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2021, 10:45:57 AM »
Haken 
Pain of Salvation
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2021, 10:47:53 AM »
Anything neal morse, an obviously talented guy whose voice I cannot stand
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2021, 10:53:18 AM »
Haken
The Flower Kings
Pain Of Salvation

I've tried many times to get into them but just not for me. They are very talented bands though.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2021, 10:57:40 AM »
Quote from: Cyril on May 12, 2021, 10:47:53 AM
Anything neal morse, an obviously talented guy whose voice I cannot stand

I have absolutely zero interest in anything Neal has done post Spock's Beard.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2021, 10:59:37 AM »
Rush

there, I said it  :biggrin:

but generally, I like prog metal, not prog in general.  So there's really a lot of bands I can name and have been named in this thread already
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2021, 11:01:51 AM »
only 1?

Haken
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2021, 11:52:26 AM »
Quote from: cramx3 on May 12, 2021, 10:59:37 AM
Rush

there, I said it  :biggrin:

but generally, I like prog metal, not prog in general.  So there's really a lot of bands I can name and have been named in this thread already

It was nice knowin' ya!  :) :) :)
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #24 on: May 12, 2021, 11:53:25 AM »
Big, huge prog fan, so this is easy:  Steven Wilson and anything Steven Wilson related that didn't appear on a Fish solo record. Haken is a close second.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #26 on: May 12, 2021, 12:01:07 PM »
Probably something like The Flower Kings or Periphery
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #27 on: May 12, 2021, 12:39:37 PM »
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there, I said it  :biggrin:

You beat me to it
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2021, 01:02:08 PM »
Probably Spock's Beard/Flower Kings/Transatlantic

I don't really dislike either but what I've heard hasn't really motivated me to check out more so I guess i'm in the grey zone
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2021, 01:21:37 PM »
King Crimson
Kings X
Haken
Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull
ELP
The Moody Blues
Genesis
Yes

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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #30 on: May 12, 2021, 01:47:43 PM »
I usually answer Pink Floyd for this, but I do like some of their stuff a good bit. Kansas is another option, though I do like some songs. Steven Wilson is one I don’t like near as much as everyone else, though I respect him as a musician and producer, and I like some Porcupine Tree. I haven’t heard that much Jethro Tull or ELP, but what I have heard has not compelled me to dig much deeper.

I’ll go with Jethro Tull and ELP.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #31 on: May 12, 2021, 02:44:27 PM »
Haken was the first to come to mind.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #32 on: May 12, 2021, 03:43:21 PM »
Haken.
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #33 on: May 12, 2021, 06:05:42 PM »
Lots of classic prog bands like Yes, Genesis etc. that I haven’t really given a chance to.

Bands I have tried though and they didn’t do anything for me:

Haken
Anathema
Symphony X
BTBAM
Mastodon
Gojira
Meshuggah
Periphery
The Flower Kings
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Re: Best Prog Band You Don't Like?
« Reply #34 on: May 12, 2021, 06:34:24 PM »
Like, almost any that have come out in the last 25 years.

Besides that, the big ones are probably
Spock’s Beard
The Flower Kings
Steven Wilson
Porcupine Tree (other than In Absentia and Deadwing)
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