"This Dolphin is a Robot" -- I'm glad Prog Rock is making a comeback!

If Devin Townsend isn't on this list representing Prog Metal, there's gonna be some head-bangin' trouble!

It is very different and poppy compared to previous stuff for sure. I like it in the context of the song, even though overall I prefer Tool's prog/metal melding.

I'm not a Maynard whisperer / expert, but my guess is that there are 2 motivations for the sound of this song/album compared to other stuff.

1) Although Maynard is the vocalist for Tool, APC, and Puscifer (which I haven't listened to much), he kinda wants to keep all those projects distinct. Tool is more dark and heavy, APC is a bit more rock, and Puscifer trending towards some electronic stuff. But that kinda oversells this, because mostly he is putting vocals down onto musical tracks that the members of those bands have already recorded without much or any input from him...

2) From my interpretation of the song itself, he's being (mildly) critical about getting caught up in triviality of celebrity gossip and nightly news instead of paying attention to stuff closer to home. While simultaneously accepting that we all do that, and that sometimes it takes the death of a far-off idol from our adolescence that we'll never meet in person to get us to consider our own mortality.


So the poppy sound with that dark edge right around the corner really fits -- at least to me.

FUCK. YES.

I like my Prog Rock thematic, my Pink Floyd loud and my Roger Waters ANGRY AS FUCK.

You got me to do some prog rock listening. It's good to visit my musical roots every now and again.

This was great. Always looking for bands like this. May I recommend listening to Pelican? Similar, a bit less 'heavy', a bit more prog, but along the same vein of instrumentalism.

Sounds like a prog metal song, sans the metal.

Numberphile - Pi Prog Rock has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.

It was the prog feel of the jam that got me.

YAY!. Ok for student art prog in a lotta ways-Good-Actress, loota good emotive response and timing(guessing was your baby from start to finish Bea-) , needs camera work as far as someone who knows how to use and feel (eat, live and sleep with) a camera...(work on focus and when to do what with lenses). Great time-constraint editing with timing of music esp....and I ain't no film student or professional....LIKED IT! grade, depending on school, and courses offered...B+ - A- Beatrice...You got a future in whats sounds good with content and editing

Congrats on the Gold star and i just spent some time enjoying your prog rock playlist. Nothin like some good old prog rock.

Happy Holidays

*promote all things Moog and the lovely and talented Miss Rachel Flowers
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/03/08/prog-virtuoso-rachel-flowers-wails-on-keith-emersons-moog-modular-synthesizer/

Does slap bass make prog rock "funk"?

I was thinking, "When did Joss Whedon start singing prog metal?"

Magisterial sound, great guitar riffs, solid tune, utterly epic prog metal. But the lead singer looks and sounds like Patton Oswalt.