Thinking Plague
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Biography
Thinking Plague is an American avant-garde progressive rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer Mike Johnson and bass guitarist/drummer Bob Drake. Based in Denver, Colorado, the band has been active off and on since 1982, taking on a number of musicians over the years. They have made seven studio albums between 1984 and 2017, and released one live album recorded at NEARfest in 2000. Their music is a mix of rock, folk, jazz and 20th-century classical music. Music.com remarked that "...Thinking Plague stand out as a shining example of avant-garde music blended with just enough rock for it to be called progressive rock..."
While never directly related to Rock in Opposition (RIO), Thinking Plague was strongly influenced by this late-1970s movement, particularly Henry Cow and Art Bears. In spite of Johnson's dislike of the term, the band has often been categorized as a "RIO" band.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Consolamentum
- Blown Apart
- Gúdamy le Máyagot (An Phocainn Theard Deig)
- Rapture of the Deep
- Dead Silence
- Behold the Man
- This Weird Wind
- Les Etudes d'Organism
- Maelstrom
- The Aesthete
- Kingdom Come
- Collarless Fog That One Day Soon
- Inside Out
- Moonsongs
- I Do Not Live
- Warheads
- Etude for Combo
- Four Men in the Rain
- Thorns of Blue and Red/The War
- Possessed
- A Light Is on and Name the World
- The Taste That Lingers On
- The Gyre
- A Virtuous Man
