In the Prog Seat: Albums from the '90s That Helped Ignite the Genre

[@hellojimmypage]

As an absolute ignorant of prog in later decades I highly appreciate this show, specially coming from 4 articulate experts in the field.

[@scottmcgregor562]

This is hands down my favorite video from SOT. I loved hearing the anecdotal stories from each of the panel. It was also great to hear some love for Japan's phenomenal and very underrated Ars Nova. The one of the many things that I love SOT is that I know Pete's first love is metal and heavier music, but when he does another genre, he expresses a profound love of the subject. Pete is a music lover.

[@arnaudb.7669]

In the Prog Seat is my new favorite show of this amazing channel.Fantastic guests (especially Sean Tonar!).

[@johncollier9280]

Up The Downstair...The Sky Moved Sideways...Signify...Coma Divine...I'm talkin' PORCUPINE TREE!

[@TheProgNut]

Pete, love this new series. Thanks.

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

yeah same. Maybe my favorite thing on his channel now.

[@chiragchittar4179]

Brilliant stuff! Wow this channel is such a treasure. Nothing better than watching a bunch of music nerds talking hours about their favourite bands and albums. Absolutely loved the shoutout to some of my favorite 90s prog bands such as anekdoten, ozric tentacles and ofcourse dream theater. However I do think the extreme side of prog gets often overlooked so I will try including some of my favorites in my list. My picks are: Edge of sanity-crimson Cynic-focus Voivod-the outer limits Death-symbolic Coroner-grin Honorable mentions Fates warning-a pleasant shade of gray Green carnation-light of day day of darkness Sieges even-sophisticated

[@analogkid2869]

I’m loving this new format Pete ! I hope you do more of these !

[@dougmcauliffe2253]

I think a lot of credit is owed to the prog metal and specifically the tech Death scene. Cynic, Atheist, Death, Voivod, Pestilence. Of course Anglagard, Dream Theater and many people forget that the great Camel kicked off their late career in 1991 with the ambitious Dust and Dreams. Great show, a group of super sweet and genuine people with a deep appreciation of music!

[@notnowjohn765]

I love Dust and Dreams. It's meant to be played through one beautiful sitting, one of those that takes you to another place.

[@LuchaLibertaria]

Royal Hunt - Paradox Conception - Parallel Minds Shadow Gallery - Tyranny Threshold - Clone Dream Theater - Awake

[@gordy3714]

Great albums.

[@RickNBacker]

Some of the first bands I got into when I came online in '99 and make the exhiliarating discovery that prog had started up again in the 90's -- Echolyn, The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, Magenta, Rocket Scientists, IQ, Ad Infinitum, Nexus, Gerard, Nathan Mahl, Anglagard, High Wheel, Djam Karet, Ayreon, Zero Hour, Symphony X and a bunch more I'm not recalling without looking thru my CDs.

[@mikereiss4216]

Magenta's first album was in 2001.

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

For me bands like Spock's Beard, Enchant, Dream Theater, The Flower Kings and Arena helped bring new interest back into prog rock in the 90s as they were all making some incredible music while reminding everyone that the genre was far from dead, it was alive and very well

[@oregonwoodelf]

Great guests and great content! I learned a lot here. Prog nerds are my kinda people😁Chill, knowledgeable, courteous, and down to earth bros.

[@MrFrikkenfrakken]

Really entertaining info on a genre of music that needs to endure. Great thanks to Rand, Rick, Sean and Pete for an educational 92 minutes.

[@jkl2000]

Great video - very entertaining. Rand, seems we've been shadowing each other over the years! I was one of the people hanging out with Pendragon in the hotel bar at Progfest 1995, although I don't think we met. And Pete, unless I have things confused, I was a subscriber to SoT magazine (at least I think it was called SoT) back when it was incorporated into Progression. That situation worked out pretty well, at least from a subscriber's point of view. I'll be watching for more shows!

[@shyshift]

Cool JL. I was speaking of hanging out with Pendragon outside after their set Sunday evening. It's foggy though a quarter of a Century later. I remember Clive asked me and a guy I met who sang lead for Relayer to stand in front of the stage to attract more fans down there and we did. God it was loud.

[@terryjohnson5275]

My personal saviours of prog through the 90s were Dream Theater, Spocks Beard and The Flower Kings. However back in 1996 I heard about an organisation called the Classic Rock Society (CRS) based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire about a 50 minute drive from where I live. The CRS had started in 1991 by a chap called Martin Hudson, and produced a fan magazine called Wondrous Stories. The CRS not only produced a great mag but also put on gigs - and while they werent solely there for prog, prog was a significant portion of the music they promoted. The first ever gig in the UK by Spock's Beard was put on by CRS in a school hall they used - they asked for members to help with funding, something I was more than happy to contribute to. Rick Wakeman became honorary president, Dave Cousins was also involved and they used to put on multi band festivals. I was a member and would go to their gigs every couple of weeks from March 1997 (Jadis) to October 2004 (The Flower Kings).I stopped due to developing a back problem - since sorted - which meant that I couldnt continue to drive to and attend the usually all standing gigs. If it wasnt for CRS I would never have become aware of bands like Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, Arena, Threshold, Jadis, Egdon Heath, Ritual, Rocket Scientists and Lana Lane, Mastermind, Jump, Grey Lady Down, Grace, Mr So & So, Landmarq, Quidam, Cast, Moria Falls (great music but not so great singer), Karnataka, Mostly Autumn, Parallel or 90 degrees, Flamborough Head, Ars Nova, Enchant. They also put on gigs by established artists like Rick Wakeman, Wishbone Ash, Ken Hensley, Focus, Steve Hackett, Jan Akkerman,Pendragon, Pallas, Galahad, IQ, John Wetton, Carl Palmer, Qango, Oliver Wakeman.

[@neiljukes5272]

I saw Pallas and Jadis sometime in the 90s at CRS Rotherham.

[@terryjohnson5275]

@@neiljukes5272In the 90's I was there for Jadis on 22.3.97/ 15.11.97(they replaced Collage - support was Quidam) / 26.09.98 / 27.11.99/ and Pallas - 7.11.98. If you were at any of those I may well have bumped into you either at the bar or near the front of the stage.

[@scottya001]

Excellent show. Well done to all.

[@stephanrasmussen1894]

Just amazing. Shows like these open doors into music experiences I never knew existed.

[@SOALNightLive]

That's awesome!

[@johnmichaelwilliams6694]

No sophomore slump here ...a great second episode in this new series. Great panel participants and looking forward to each of them returning for another round. Thanks to all four for some great choices and new listenings, at least for this viewer.

[@maximegervais2213]

Arena is a great prog band from the 90s, great catalog I enjoy listen to

[@SB-kr1dw]

Nice group of guys here Pete! Was a pleasure to watch all the way through and got a couple of bands to follow up now. Thanks!

[@danielbetancourt1483]

Great panel. Great topic. Love this channel 👍

[@carlwarmington5325]

Excellent series Pete, super educational and love the passion from all your guests!!

[@daltonharper4208]

Another great show!! Some of my favorite 90s prog albums are 1. Images and Words- Dream Theater 2. Still Life- Opeth 3. Empire- Queensryche 4. Aenima- Tool 5. Judgement- Anathema

[@brianschleede5859]

Great episode Pete. I really enjoyed your group of guests.

[@Jojo-yl4qx]

TOOL- Aenima, one of the best 90s albums, and of all time.

[@Smlmusic2650]

Shout out to Sean, great guy 😉👍. Great episode, gentlemen.

[@joseantoniomarmol6324]

One of the best shows I’ve seen so far! The immense prof world just blows me away! Thanks for all bands, I’ve made a to-listen-list and so far wobbler is getting all my attention! AIRBAG from Norway? Anyone?

[@paulsimister944]

A great show. Thanks Pete and everyone else. Until a few years ago, I stubbornly refused to pay any attention to progressive rock after the 1970s. Since then, I've found a lot of albums I like a lot but none have yet to to love in the same way as the 70s classics. I'm hoping greater familiarity will edge some of them to greatness.

[@Kevinhamradio]

Discipline's "Unfolded like Staircase" is a masterpiece. They sound like Van Der Graaf Generator if they had heavy guitar.

[@lahloonatic]

I couldn’t agree more. It is being remastered and remixes by Terry Brown

[@jason-budney7624]

I am so digging this new show! I am learning so much, and discovering so much new and "new to me" prog. I'm not sure if I'll ever catch up with everything SOT throws my way. :)

[@kamranmalik8546]

Dream Theater - Images and Words, Awake, Falling Into Infinity, and Metropolis Pt. 2 Scenes from a Memory Tool - AEnima Marillion - Holidays in Eden, Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, This Strange Engine Spock’s Beard - The Light The Flower Kings - Back in the World of Adventures and Stardust We Are Pendragon - The World and The Masquerade Overture Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream I.Q. - Subterranea

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

too many choices, so I'll just throw out 5 of my 5-stars from the 90's. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray Jellyfish - Spilt Milk Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee King's X - Faith Hope Love Dream Theater - Awake some other names from the 90s that come to mind: Shadow Gallery, Enchant, Savatage, The Tea Party, I Mother Earth, Galactic Cowboys, Pain of Salvation, Superior, Angra, Queensryche, Soundscape

[@shyshift]

I love King’s X but again their career began in 1988,so they didn’t meet the criterta. They are in my top 10 favorite bands.

[@stephenzevetchin]

Jellyfish!

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

@@shyshift I didn't realize their career (or their 1st album?) had to have been released in the 90's. I guess then how would Dream Theater or some of the other picks (Ozric Tentacles) meet the criteria as well?

[@shyshift]

@@AllMediaReviewsPodcast If If were to guess maybe because Dream Theater was on MTV with the Pull Me Under video and When Day And Dream Unite wasn’t. Most didn’t know who they were in 1989. I didn’t hear Ozric Tentacles until Live Underslunky was released and I bought mine visiting in Philadelphia. So, for me they were a 90’s band. I bought everything including Vitamin Enhanced box set a few years later.

[@simond1574]

1. Dream Theater - Images and Words 2. IQ - Subterranea 3. Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers 4. Marillion - Brave 5. King Crimson - Thrak Hon. Mentions Anathema - Judgement Dream Theater Awake Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons Dream Theater - Metropolis II Fates Warning - Pleasant Shade of Gray Fish - Raingods with Zippos Fish - Sunsets on Empire Fish - vigil in the Wilderness of Mirrors In the Woods - Omnio? Marillion - Afraid of Sunlights Ocean Machine - Biomech Opeth - Still Life Payne's Gray - Kadath Decoded Pink Floyd - Division Bell Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream Spock's Beard - The Light Steve Hackett - Darktown Tiamat - Wildhoney Yes Keys to Ascension 1/2

[@fourseasons4105]

1. Dream theater- Scenes from a memory 2. Tool- Anima 3. Transatlantic- Bridge across forever 4. Cynic- Focus 5. Devin Townsend- Infinity 6. Spock's beard-Snow 7. Porcupine tree- Fear of a blank planet 8. The flower kings- Stardust we are 9. Opeth- Watershed 10. Mastodon- Crack the Skye

[@shyshift]

1990-1999.

[@cmiller6501]

Ice Age - The Great Divide. Royal Hunt - Fear. Nightingale - Closing Chronicles. Tiamat - Wildhoney/ Deeper Kind Of Slumber.

[@RickNBacker]

That Ice Age album is killer!

[@stephensitarski617]

I absolutely love how passionate all of you guys are about music. Especially intelligent music like the examples provided on this episode. If humanity has a chance to survive, music can save us. Unfortunately too many people haven’t been introduced to these genius musicians. Keep doing what you do, Pete. It’s meaningful beyond the entertainment level...

[@einarassipavicius1991]

I want to mention those that left unmentioned in this show: 1. Pain of Salvation - Entropia (excellent debut of one of my favourite bands) 2. Atheist - Elements (technical jazzy fusiony death metal, but really proggy to me, one of my all time favourite albums) 3. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biotech 4. Death - The Sound of Perseverance (Death at its proggiest really made an impact for progressive death scene) 5. Kingston Wall - III (Tri-Logy) (The one where Petri Walli went nuts, really brave Finnish psychedelic prog with bits of electronica) And I want to mention one more thing: Anekdoten might be the perfect modern prog band. Vemod is probably my least favourite album by them and it still kills. Those who haven't listened Anekdoten: you're missing a lot. Go check out any album by them!

[@gordy3714]

If anyone is heavily into Prog Rock and wanted to go heavier, Images and Words is a astounding album.

[@OriginalFluffy978]

I love Ozric Tentacles!

[@shyshift]

Ed Wynne has a fantastic solo album if you didn’t know already. His hero has to be Steve Hillage.

[@blackeddy65]

Another show I did enjoy a lot, cuz I am into prog a lot also! My picks of the 90's are the usual suspects who were already around in the 80's: Marillion, Fish , IQ, Pendragon. Then Dream Theater showed up after their debut that I already liked a lot in 89 with "Images and Words" Other great progbands who got me through the 90's: Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream, Flower Kings - Stardust We Are, Lana Lane (love is an Illusion)/Rocket Scientist (Oblivion Day), Iluvatar - Iluvatar, Enchant - A Blueprint of the World, Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone, Landmarq - Solitary Witness, Tracy Hitchings - From Ignorance to Ectasy, Threshold - Wounded Land, Royal Hunt - Paradox, For Absent Friends - Both Worlds, Egdon Heath - Nebula, Shadowland - Ring of Roses, Strangers on a Train - The Key part 1 & 2 and Fates Warning - Parallels to name a few

[@johnbenard9550]

Pete, great show loving this prog seat theme. Great to see Sean from SOAL Night Live on your show adding his insight to the program. If I may I would like to recommend someone else you should consider for future Prog seat episodes, Brendon Snyder. He has His own channel one that I watch faithfully like yours and Seans' and I feel Brendon would fit in perfectly with this prog theme.

[@abe3802]

Arena - The Visitor The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are Dream Theater - Images and Words Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone

[@shyshift]

I was going to pick Ever but we were asked to choose bands that were formed between 1990-1999.

[@peterichards3261]

The Ozrics. Thank you Sean. Ed Wynne such an amazing guitarist. A big mention to Andy Latimer of Camel too?? Great episode and some Enchant too

[@Gedsparrow81]

Ah i see you're a man of culture as well

[@mikereiss4216]

Camel was a seventies band but they did have a comeback in the 90's. Dust and Dreams was an excellent album.

[@peterichards3261]

Andy Latimer has had health issues so the Camel output been limited. Saw Camel at the 1st Rambling Man festival in the UK in 2015. Brilliant as always but Andy's health was not good

[@shyshift]

@@peterichards3261 he’s doing fine today and recently released a blu-ray from the Royal Albert Hall concert last year.

[@shyshift]

@@mikereiss4216 I was lucky to be inside Progressive Records while returning from a Bay Area concert as I walked in Ken said Hi Rand Camel will be here any moment to deliver their new album, Dust and Dreams. I was the first to buy one and Susan Hoover signed it. Andrew had the flu and stayed in Mountain View. Magical day to say the least.

[@docdeens4030]

I love Anekdoten...probably my favorite newer prog band. The first time I heard them, I immediately ordered all their CD's, which they were happy to sign

[@chrisflood9205]

Not the biggest prog fan but good show always looking for something new

[@tschingsch]

Taking "newer bands that helped re-ignite their love for progressive rock" literally, these are not necessarily Prog bands, but similar to Pete, bands they got me back into Prog as a metalhead. 1: Voivod - "Nothingface". Not a new band, but this album was a major shift in styles to more Prog direction (obvious ELP influence). Interviews with the band were the 1st time I heard of Van Der Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant. Still one of my all-time favorites. 2: Primus - "Sailing the Seas of Cheese". Watching Headbanger's Ball, they kept mentioning their King Crimson influence, who I didn't like growing up. I liked Primus, so I gave them another chance, and now KC is my favorite band. 3: Magellan - "Hour of Restoration". I was a college DJ at the time and remember putting this on and being amazed. Was a staple on my show (I still play them on my current show from time to time). Was typing this when it was brought up in the video, wasn't expecting anyone to mention it, so good to hear others appreciate it. 4: Echolyn - "As The World". It took many years for me to realize they were a few towns away from me. Despite that, I still haven't seen them live :( 5: Cynic - "Focus". IMO one of the greatest metal albums ever.

[@neiljukes5272]

As someone who got into prog in 1989 via Marillion, I'm right into this. After a rifle through my collection: Anglagard - Hybris Aragon - Mouse Casino (Nolan / Geoff Mann project) Echolyn - As the World Explorer's Club - Age of Impact Fish - Sunsets on Empire Grace - The Poet the Piper the Fool Jadis - More than Meets the Eye Magellan - Hour of Restoration Red Jasper - A Winter's Tale Royal Hunt - Paradox Shadow Gallery - Tyranny Spock's Beard - Kindness of Strangers Threshold - Wounded Land Winter - Across the Circle's Edge Plus anything by Galahad, Pendragon, IQ, Ayreon, Arena, IQ, Pallas....

[@themetallian2112]

1 - Symphony X - "Divine Wings of Tragedy" 2 - Spock's Beard - "The Light" 3 - Shadow Gallery - "Carved in Stone" 4 - Tool - "Aenima" 5 - Porcupine Tree - "Stupid Dream"

[@thekivster]

Pete’s picks: Echolyn- As The World (1995) Arena-Songs from the Lions Cage (1995) Dream Theater-Images and Words (1992) Shadow Gallery- Carved in Stone (1995)

[@kevinscott5558]

Great to see Toy Matinee and Kevin Gilbert get the nod. Story about Spocks Beard at Progfest 1994, was when they were doing "The Water" and the "Fuck you" part Kevin was down the front punching the air and screaming along.

[@MrOmarjafet]

echolyn As The World was the very first album I bought online and one of the very first '90s prog bands I got into, all thanks to a little corner on the interwebs known as Progressive Ears, which Mr. Tonar may have heard of.

[@RickNBacker]

I was fortunate to have a small record store in my area run by two progheads and they gave me a set of headphones and put on that Roine Stolt "The Flower King" album. A few minutes in and I'm saying, "SOLD!"...22 years later, I have all their albums along with many of the related solo and side projects.

[@sspbrazil]

Great episode Pete.

[@acedylan]

Thanks for giving Ozric Tentacles some air-time, Sean!

[@SOALNightLive]

Glad to!!

[@lazarossamaras4427]

Shadow Gallery came and played in Greece for two years in a row following their Digital Dreams album. They were unbelievable.

[@eduardopereira7207]

Collage - Moonshine (Best prog album from 90s) Pendragon - The World, The Window of Life, The Masquerade Overture Clepsydra - More Grains of Sand, Fears Arena - The Visitor Marillion - Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, Holidays in Eden, This Strange Engine Jadis - More Than Meets the Eye, Acoss the Water IQ - Ever, Subterranea Primus - Sailing of Seas of Cheese, Tales from the Punchbowl IT - The Stranger inside of Self Landmarq - Science of Coincidence The Flower Kings - Back in the World of Adventures Spock's Beard - The Light Liqud Tension Experiment Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

[@mikereiss4216]

The american band called IT(also prog) also had an album the same year as the IT you listed. Weird.

[@shyshift]

IQ 80’s band. Love that Collage cd.

[@eduardopereira7207]

@@shyshift Yes, but the band "resurrected" in the 90s, after two weak albums without Peter Nicolls

[@eduardopereira7207]

@@mikereiss4216 Yes, there are two bands called "It". An American and a British.

[@shyshift]

@@eduardopereira7207 It’s Peter’s gig not mine. He asked for bands that originated between 1990-1999.

[@kevinbutler3665]

I'd have to have mentioned 1, Pain Of Salvation 2. Frost 3. Pineapple Thief, can be a bit hit and miss but i really love their What Have We Sown album, brilliant.

[@scottmyers9360]

My son made an insightful comment about "neo-prog": in the 70s, bands did not set out to "make prog music", it was a natural, unforced "progression" with a fresh sense of excitement and discovery. The whole "neo-prog" thing feels forced to me. I've tried several bands and it just doesn't do it for me. There is one exception, Transatlantic's Bridge Across Forever, which I truly love. I'm thinking of checking out the new Transatlantic album based on Pete's review.

[@nectarinedreams7208]

The Flower Kings don't feel forced to me. I mean, Roine Stolt goes back to the 70s, so that might be why.

[@scottmyers9360]

@@nectarinedreams7208 The Flower Kings would be 2nd on my list, I have a few releases by them. However, the last few times I listened to them it didn't really do anything for me.

[@darrendohertymusic]

Over the moon with this new series Pete! Just watched the 2 episodes back to back and have a great new list of stuff to check out...I'm bias but I reckon the Prog fans are the most passionate fans. Thought everyone on this episode has great individual character and spoke so well. Personally Tools' Ænima brought prog back for me, particularly the epic closer 'Third Eye' which has it's roots in Crimson which they'd go onto to explore more on the follow up.

[@nicholaspayne5162]

Hi Pete. I just got around to watching this show today. Back in the 1990s I was mostly listening to bands like Saint Etienne, My Life Story and Pizzicato 5 who could probably be described as Progressive Pop. Plus alternative pop bands such as Kenickie, Bis and Shampoo. In ways it was probably all this that led me back towards Prog which I'd followed on the back of the first five Marillion singles and seeing them on their two UK tours in 1984. A book that was important to me in regards of the bands mentioned in your programme was Progressive Rock by Jerry Lucky. Cheers.

[@lazarossamaras4427]

Here are some my faves: ARENA - Songs from the lion cage SPOCK'S BEARD - Beware of darkness ENCHANT - Blueprint for the world GALAHAD - Nothing written FLOWER KINGS - Back in the world of adventures

[@ahmadbarqawi8031]

1) Anekdoten - Vemod 2) Anathema - Eternity 3) Enchant - A Blueprint of the World

[@jayfabe620]

Vemod is great, but Nucleus was the game changer. Holy shit, what a record!

[@ahmadbarqawi8031]

@@jayfabe620 Vemod was my introduction to this amazing band... Underrated as hell

[@jayfabe620]

@@ahmadbarqawi8031 totally agree. I am surprised the band doesn't get any love on SoT. They tick a lot of boxes for prog and heavy music, but have some of the most emotion invoking songs I've ever heard.

[@ahmadbarqawi8031]

@@jayfabe620 I'd love to see Pete tackling their discography with a ranking show

[@jayfabe620]

@@ahmadbarqawi8031 same. They've never had a bad album.

[@progperljungman8218]

Änglagård also took much inspiration from Cathedral's Stained Glass Stories. Tord once told me himself. When I went back and listened to it - it was SO obvious!

[@drummusicinc4027]

Great show Enjoyed it a lot 🎶👍💿

[@arnaudb.7669]

My 90's prog picks : 1- A Triggering Myth : The Sins of Our Saviours 2- Mongol : Doppler 444 3- Cairo : Conflict and Dreams 4- Ayreon : Into the Electric Castle 5- 5UU's : Crisis in Clay / Thinking Plague : In Extemis

[@SOALNightLive]

Nice list, Arnaud!

[@arnaudb.7669]

@@SOALNightLive Love your channel SOAL Night Live.I wish you more and more and more and more subscribers. Keep up the good work!!!!

[@shyshift]

My favorite Cairo of the 3. I was going to talk about them but I forgot. Western Desert is phenomenal. Have you heard Alec’s cd, A Cast Of Thousands?

[@arnaudb.7669]

@@shyshift Yes, Mark Robertson is phenomenal on Western Desert. I will check out the Fuhrman cd.Thanks for the tip!

[@shyshift]

@@arnaudb.7669 it’s under A Cast Of Thousands not Alec Fuhrman.

[@ChrisB-xl1lp]

Hard agree with Dream Theater's Awake album. It doesn't seem to get as much attention as it deserves. Played the hell out of that album.

[@anthonydebot45]

Regarding Neal Morse and the cursing in "The Water", he said in interviews that it's the reason why he doesn't sing this song anymore. He's in a very different place from the Neal that wrote this song, back in the day. Which is a shame, because it's a killer epic.

[@quigon6349]

Though he did a reissue of the Light commenting that he left it in the reissue to show context of where he was at during that period mentally

[@erikscholten5434]

Nice overview. Shadow Gallery did headline ProgPower Europe twice (2010 and 2013) and yes they were awesome. The most touring band in progmetal in the nineties were Psychotic Waltz. Easily the best live band around those days and one that with every new album would come over twice. Their constant tours with different support bands made the scene grow and resulted in the start of ProgPower in Europe.

[@Hy-jg8ow]

Shadow Gallery Dream Theater Symphony X Nightingale - The Closing Chronicle Porcupine Tree Enchant Conception Ayreon Fates Warning Threshold Divine Regale Sieges Even

[@sadcafe7675]

My take is very much in line with these guys. I rediscovered Prog in this period. From a British perspective we had a strong underground with many bands. Cyclops Records were at the forefront with many of these. So a shout out for: Vulgar Unicorn Mostly Autumn England In addition two strong albums from trad Prog bands: Thrak and Talk both managed to be current and strong albums. But ultimately, Porcupine Tree (Signify), Marillion (Brave) Spock's and Flower Kings provided the momentum. Dream Theatre were treated as Rush clones until Scenes.

[@SOALNightLive]

I give big props to Thrak for reigniting my love of prog in the 90s for sure. Really enjoyed Talk too.

[@shyshift]

I bought Vulgar Unicorn-Under The Umbrella at Progfest’95. Love that cd. I still have the Cyclops Sampler cd.

[@mikereiss4216]

I'll mention some bands instead of albums: Anglagard, Anekdoten, Eris Pluvia(have to have at least one Italian band in there), Echolyn, Mastermind, Arena, Glass Hammer, Ozric Tentacles, Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Porcupine Tree, IQ(already active but their 93 album Ever put them back on the map), Dream Theater, Par Lindh Project, Galleon, Cairo, Solaris, Discipline and the list goes on and on(I'm sure I forgot a few important ones).

[@shyshift]

Solaris played Progfest ‘95 and performed The Martian Chronicles. I loved them but they didn’t hang around like most of the other bands.

[@mikereiss4216]

@@shyshift Neither did Mastermind. Many prog fans (especially the younger ones) know very little about these bands except for PT, TFK, SB and maybe a few others. I kind of feel that the 90s are now the "lost years" even more so than the 80s.

[@joshuascott3428]

im not super familiar with prog rock thanks for your guys recomendations what you say, but since extreme metal is a subset of rock i have a few as a 90s kidinto death metal and black metal their were defiitely bands that ignited prog metal in the 90s .Opeth -My arms your Hearse, Cynic-Focus,Athiest -Elements (cynic and athiest revolutionized death metal by adding in jazz fusion),Agalloch -Pale Folklore (majestic band in the combining of black metal and folk and prog)and tied for 5 and honorable mentions i have 4 more lol that i cant decide between. Tourniquet -Psycho Surgery, Symphony X-Divine wings of Tragedy, Control Denied -Fragile art of Existence,and finally Edge of Sanity -Crimson .thanks for all the prog rock recomendations.

[@ModernDayWarrior2112]

I really liked Platypus which featured Ty Tabor (King’s X) , Derek Sherinian, John Myung (Dream Theater) and Rod Morgenstein. They released 2 albums then Derek dropped out and they turned into Jelly Jam which released 4 albums. Great stuff that should be checked out. Hopefully one day you can cover them on a Prog show (or maybe I missed it)

[@_PrimetimePranks]

Great video! Some of my favorites were Roots of Consciousness, Ines, Big Picture, Somnambulist....

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Very good. Found some CD titles hard to catch, but then - I'll have go look. Thanks! :)

[@danbretherton]

I always discover something new from these shows, this time is was Toy Matinee, very cool. Listening to them now on DVD audio in surround sound, brilliant

[@SOALNightLive]

That's awesome! That's Guy Pratt from 80s/90s Pink Floyd on bass on there too.

[@shyshift]

Guy did a KZbin video of himself playing Last Plane Out.

[@Dogfish63]

I miss Rosfest being in Gettysburg. I discovered many prog bands through that festival. It was convenient for me living less than an hour from there. Now in Sarasota, Fl. Travelling that far is not in the cards for me. I never got a chance to see a Nearfest show but I have a dvd from one of the band's Abigail's Ghost concert from there.

[@SJHUE]

Some great Prog during the 1990`s! Pendragon - `The World`, `Window of Life` and `Masquerade Overture` IQ - `Ever` Marillion - `Holidays In Eden` and `Afraid of Sunlight` Fish - `Vigil In A Wilderness of Mirrors` Flower Kings - `Stardust We Are` (If you only get one by this band make it this one!) Mostly Autumn - `For All We Shared` and `Spirit of Autumn Past` Arena - `Songs From The Lions Cage`, `Pride` and `The Visitor`. I thank the late great DJ Alan `Fluff` Freeman for introducing me to Arena(`Sirens` from the `Pride` album) Yeah I met Fish once after a Mostly Autumn gig in the pub and it didn`t go too well due to the fact that I couldn`t understand what he was saying!

[@SJHUE]

Oh I forgot `Clone` by Threshold`

[@shyshift]

Pendragon and IQ were formed in the early 1980’s so that’s why we didn’t pick them. They were part of the Second Wave aka NWOBPR New Wave Of British Progressive Rock. The 1980’s would be quite a challenge because there weren’t that many bands doing Prog. As the decade progressed the music, unfortunately didn’t and the albums that did went out of print and became scarce and pricey.

[@SJHUE]

@@shyshift I hear what you`re saying there Rand! Interested to hear your story of meeting Clive Nolan. About seven years ago I bumped into him at a London Underground station and only got to speak with him for a minute or so and I got the impression that he couldn`t believe he`d been recognised! As you say a very nice guy. Anyway really enjoy listening and talking about Prog so will look out for future episodes on this channel with you contributing. Best wishes and thanks for your reply

[@shyshift]

@@SJHUE Sure and thank you for your interest. I spent hours with Pendragon. The reason their set isn’t on the Progfest ‘95 videos is because Clive had massive technical issues with his keyboard rig except for the Mellotron which worked perfectly. I had a cassette tape of my homemade music and he took the time to listen. Gayle Ellet from Djam Karet heard my song too and loved it. He was there as a band vendor selling their cds. I bought The Ritual Continues from him. I also ate breakfast with Clive and Peter Gee with Moria Falls. Clive wore a Marillion-Afraid Of Sunlight t-shirt most of the time. He loved that band.

[@SJHUE]

@@shyshift Thanks for your reply. Wow Rand that sounds brilliant you`ve really managed to spend quality time with some great Prog musicians! Shame about the technical issues, I was not aware of that. Mind you whilst saying that I`d be happy to listen to the Mellotron for hours! Other than that chance meeting with Clive Nolan I mentioned the only other`s I`ve met Prog wise are Fish and Mick Pointer. Mick was at a Pendragon gig that I was attending. Can`t remember the year off hand but it was somewhere around the release of `The Visitor` by Arena as I remember seeing Arena live promoting that album and I`m pretty sure the Pendragon and Arena gigs were fairly close together time wise

[@sidecardog5244]

Great show! Next, 21st century Prog.

[@normboehr4103]

Timothy Pure - Blood of the Berry A band I absolutely loved in the 90's

[@mattshaw5179]

In no order... Amorphis - Elegy Spock's Beard - Beware of Darkness Kings X - Faith Hope Love Ayreon - Final Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment II

[@shyshift]

King’s X is in my top 10 bands of all time. 4 is my favorite.

[@tedkay_music]

Genesis-We can't dance Genesis-Turn it on again 81-83 live album Spocks Beard-The Light The Flower Kings- Space Revolver Peter Gabriel-Car

[@csantana1971]

Dream Theater made it thru with a Power Metal song: Pull Me Under. The rest of the story, we all know. Great recommendations, I will pick up some albums from this podcast.I attended a three night concert with Dream Theater on the 25th anniversary of Images and Words and they do repeat the same set list theses days, same thing for Distance Over Time tour, I got two gigs with the same exact same setlist (Orlando and Jacksonville gigs).

[@alexhamilton4084]

I saw Marillion at Reading Festival in 1982 way down the list but they were back in 1983 in second to top spot. They were awesome and did Grendel which was fantastic. I next saw them at the Mecca in Bradford. I saw Fish standing on a corner in Inverness waiting to cross the street in 2007.

[@kenl2091]

Good choices there. Apart from Porcupine Tree though, I think the best prog from the 90s was coming from Sweden - Anglagard, Anekdoten, Landberk, Ritual, Sinkadus and probably some more I've yet to discover.

[@Qyngali]

Lots of great picks here! If I could add anything though I would suggest Conception (Roy Khan's band before he joined Kamelot).

[@porcracer62]

Agreed about Fish, I love Wilderness and most of his other stuff but you really should listen to some of the latter Marillion...it's not neo prog but it's fantastic, Steve Rothery is superb a musician you're missing out on some great stuff with modern day Marillion

[@shyshift]

Got almost everything they did. I am missing Happiness is 1,2 and Holidays In Eden. I recently purchased the Royal Albert Hall blu-ray but I have yet to actually watch it. It was my best friend who said the Season Ended not me.

[@danalawrence4473]

Who DOESN'T love Magma?

[@allenemery4665]

Thanks guys I’ve found Echolyn

[@musicnerd8969]

Without question, my list includes the following items: 1. Pendragon's "Masquerade Overture". Wow!!! What a disk. Still one of my favorites! 2. Dream Theater's "Awake". Oops. Mentioned before I knew. My favorite album by DT. Excellent musicianship. 3. Shadow Gallery's "Carved in Stone". SG is the Kansas of metal. I love this one to death. A brilliant catalog. Not a dud in the discography. 4. Spock's Beard's "Beware of Darkness". What can I say? Love this one. 5. IQ "Ever". A Geneisis clone? Not by any stretch. This one was brilliant. 6. Jadis "More Than Meets the Eye". Melodic but wonderful. A bit commercial but what a cast of players! 7. Arena "Songs from the Lion's Cage". This one is still one of my favorite Arena disks. Brilliant songs and brilliant musicianship. Great clutch of songs.

[@musicnerd8969]

Gentlemen, what are the odds that the band whose initialize was two words and firends of Clive was... Moria Falls? "The Long Goodbye" was released in the timeframe you are talking about--and the Darlington was associated with Clive and Pendragon heavily for subsequent tours. It's in my collection somewhere so I cannot put my hands on it. I received a lot of rotation when I purchased it back in the day, but didn't age as well as others. The other notable mention that I forgot was "Rocket Scientists". The "Brutal Architecture" album was brilliant--and it wasn't long afterwards that I became a big Erik Norlander fan.

[@musicnerd8969]

Patrick Darlington--bass player. I think he was Peter Gee's bass tech for subsequent tours--but I am not sure. Moria Fall's first album was very good, whereas the 2nd had a few moments. Both were release by Verglas.

[@shyshift]

@@musicnerd8969 Yep I went to breakfast with Clive,Peter,Nick and Patrick and they were discussing Moria Falls. I listened while they talked.

[@shyshift]

@@musicnerd8969 I have Rocket Scientists-Brutal Architecture and their vhs tape.

[@fjkladsj3424]

Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle Arena - The Visitor Threshold - Clone IQ - Ever

[@notnowjohn765]

One I would recommend to all is Songs From The Lions Cage by Arena

[@SJHUE]

Great album!

[@GMHG777]

Pete did you say Ozrics were the US's answer to Hawkwind (yes you did lol)?? Ozrics are from the UK brother (but you knew that )!

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Yeah, old guy syndrome...I knew that, not sure why I said US.

[@jezclements2843]

Hendrix never played the same set twice....he wrote down a list of songs for Woodstock 69 (Kravitz owns the scrap of paper Jimi wrote down the set list minutes before he went on) Watch Jimi play Johnny B Goode live at Berkeley...totally spontaneous he only played it once live.....insane🤩

[@frankf684]

Rand Kelly was on my friend Tony’s podcast.

[@shyshift]

Yes, love Tony.

[@shyshift]

The Gribschnobbler.

[@erikberg5363]

A really good band no one seems to mention much is Landberk from Sweden. They only put out 3 albums, all in the 90s. Some of their stuff is quite mellow and atmospheric but they really throw some of everything into their sound and they’re very unique to my ears. I love all 3 (or kind of 4) of their albums.

[@shyshift]

I saw Landberk at Progfest ‘95 and talked to their guitar player after the show. Great band.

[@erikberg5363]

Wow, very cool! The whole band is fantastic but Reine Fisk’s guitar work especially stands out to me. It’s a shame they are so unknown and underrated by many even compared to their close peers like Änglagård and Anekdoten. I kind of feel that they were ahead of their time, maybe if they had come out in the last decade or so they would have been more successful. I love the vintage feel of their debut but there is something about their 2nd and 3rd albums that sounds “modern” to me even now, 25 or so years after their release. Their albums are also out of print and very hard to come by, the cheapest copies I’ve found for sale are over $60 (CAD). I can’t afford to spend that much unfortunately and they only have 1 EP on any streaming services so it seems the only feasible way to listen to them is KZbin or illegal downloading, neither of which help to support the band in any way. I can’t help but think that some reissues might help them get some of the recognition they deserve, hopefully that happens soon.

[@shyshift]

@@erikberg5363 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rae8gIutjrCbe9U

[@shyshift]

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[@stephanevilleneuve9450]

Listen to Timothy Pure. 2 great concept albums: Blood Of The Berry & Island Of The Misfit Toys. Classic prog like Pink Floyd (Animals) or Marillion (Brave) or IQ (Ever). Great prog of the 90’s.

[@mawrtea]

I saw Timothy Pure at ProgDay95, bought their album Fabric of Betrayal and have been listening ever since.

[@stephanevilleneuve9450]

Marty Schwartz It’s a shame. You make me realize that i never listen to it. Thanks for your comment.

[@mawrtea]

@@stephanevilleneuve9450 all credit to ProgDay - I've been fortunate enough to attend the lion's share of them and have been exposed to numerous bands I otherwise would not have heard. Hope you enjoy the listen - I now have "Scotty's Castle" spinning around in my head 😁🎶.

[@johnbenard9550]

Roine Stolt’s solo album, “The Flower King”, was not his debut solo album.

[@shyshift]

George Harrison Syndrome. He released Electronic Sounds and Music from Wonderwall, but most of the World will recite that his debut album is All Things Must Pass.

[@gmbtempe]

I listened to the Anekdoten album, if you like King Crimson styled music you will like this. Great album.

[@shyshift]

Nucleus Especially. Sounds like Crim in 1974.

[@andreasviskari1617]

Anekdoten released three good albums during the 90's