Help me find some progressive bands

What you need is a strong and simple beat that you can dance to.... or perhaps not. How to play in odd time and fool people by playing across the bar line.

 
Yes - Close to the edge

Spocks Beard- The light or for a great concept album Snow


Zappa- Apostrophe Best to start out in baby steps with Zappa


Neil Morse- ? SERIOUSLY THAT IS THE TITLE

Guthrie Govan- Erotic Cakes or the Aristocats
 
A bit heavy but a bit AAAAWESOME too:

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

Listen especially at the 1:09 & 2:17 mark, ooooooh yeah

 
I'm going to +1 most of the stuff said. I haven't seen Mars Volta here yet, Anglagard , Gentle giant?


Older stuff:
Mahavishnu orchestra - Inner Mountain Flame and Birds of Fire are mandatory listening.
Yes - Close to the Edge is definetly a "must listen"
King crimson - Court of Crimson Kings, Elektrik/ConstruKtion of Light, stuff with Bruford
Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Songs from the wood
Beatles (Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road)
Rush - 2112 and Moving Pictures
Yes - Close to the edge
Gentle Giant - In a glass house at least!
Return to Forever - romantic warrior and hymn of seven seas are some of the ones I introduce people to
UK (bill bruford, once again!)


newer prog waves:
Anglagard (Epilog and Hybris are mandatory listen! instrumental prog)
Animals as Leaders
Scale the Summit
Flower kings
IQ - dark matter
Isildur Bane - Mind.volume2 (this is insane!)
Liquid Tension Experiment volume 1 and 2 is required listen
OSI as recommended
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever and SMPTE
Spocks Beard - THoughts
Neal Morse - ?
Opeth - Heritage (simply stunning)
The Tangent - A Place in the Queue


towards the prog metal
Cynic - traced in air
Dream Theatre - Scenes from a Memory Part 2,
Ayreon (if you can stand the lyrics and the 80 heavy metal influence, has some good stuff in there. Try Human Equation or Universal Migrator)
Gojira \m/ new album is pretty cool!
Mars Volta - DeLoused in Comatorium and Bedlam in Goliath are amazing
Mastodon - crack the sky. This album ROCKED my 2011 year! (and 2012)
Meshugahh - Nothing, Obzen
Opeth - Ghost reveries, Watershed
Periphery
Symphony X
Planet X
Tesseract - concealing fate
Between the Buried and Me - Parallax is a good one to start with
Tool (lateralus and 10.000days are essential listen)
 
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Yes! Love Chris Poland's playing on this one. Too bad it's long out of print. I like his work with Ohm, too.

I'll offer the +1 on some of Neil Peart's lyrics from the late 80's onward. While there's still some good stuff, I cringe everytime my friends bring up "Dog Years".
 
Haha wow, thanks everyone. I'm already familiar with a few bands you've recommended that I totally dig, so I can't wait to check out the rest of the stuff!
 
Holy shit, +1,000,000 to the Porcupine Tree recommendations. My iPod is going to be full and my bank account is going to be drained by the time I'm done listening to all of the bands in this thread, but that's the way I like it!
 
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