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Posted: June 08 2013 at 21:22
Wanorak wrote:
None of them really, but Deep Purple definitely has it's proggy moments. The other two are hard rock or classic rock as per Lazland.
I consider 60s purple very much prog of its time. Some fine stuff on their 2nd and 3rd albums eg. Chasing shadows, April, Blind, Shield, Listen learn, Exposition/We can work it out, Anthem
Edited by dr prog - June 08 2013 at 21:24
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Posted: June 09 2013 at 01:27
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None of them. None of them were prog, at all. It's called classic rock, dear chap.
Yet on this site they are called either Proto-Prog, a category often despised here yet if not for the artists of this category we would not have had the more beloved categories we praise oh so often, or Prog-Related, which means they have characteristics typical of Prog. Deep Purple and The Who are listed as Proto-Prog. Classic Rock is too broad a term for us and can also include a lot of other artists on our site, including Symphonic stalwarts such as Yes, ELP, and Genesis, as well as artists like James Taylor, Carly Simon, and Helen Reddy. For me on this poll, it is Deep Purple all the way. To truly appreciate them as a band, you have to listen to their live recordings. Pick any, or even several, from the Mark II era, and you will hear what I mean. Those 10-15-20-plus minute jams are not just the same thing over and over. Another one we could include in this poll is Black Sabbath.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Posted: June 09 2013 at 02:41
The Who had the compositional thing in parts of Quadrophenia, and to a lesser degree Tommy (then there is stuff like "A Quick One"). Zep and Purple expand their songs through blueswailing or repeating riffs more often than through actual composition. The Who might sound superficially more basic than Purple, but there are more changes in their proggiest music.
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Posted: June 09 2013 at 15:49
I went with The Who, which really surprised me, but after thinking about it I chose them for two achievements.
First, "A Quick One, While He's Away" recorded in 1966 was something new...a 9+ minute song made up of several shorter songs linked together. This kind of structure (though greatly expanded and much more cleverly done) became a common thread in the epic prog classics like Close to the Edge, Thick as a Brick, The Lamb, The Wall, etc.
Second, "Quadrophenia". I never liked "Tommy" and always thought it was too repetitive and not thematically related well enough, Quadrophenia on the other hand does a great job of introducing 4 themes/personalities then intertwining them into a story. To me, it's The Who's finest hour and is kind of a straight ahead rock band taking on a "Lamb Lies Down" kind of project.
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 05:05
Of course, none of them is not the prog-band in strictly sens. But I guess Zeppelin had many progressive elements. “Kashmire” IMO is clearly prog composition. Although the Purple albums contains proto-prog, my vote went to Zeppelinas more virtuosic and inventing band.
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 05:28
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 06:19
Gerinski wrote:
Taken as whole output perhaps DP, but Quadrophenia is the proggiest album any of those three bands released, so my vote went to The Who.
Her Majesty Quadrophenia although the great concept Rock album with a lot of synths, orchestral moments and so on, - that we can to categorize Quad here as "crossover prog" or "prog related" album and that will not be a big scandal after all - it contains actually (in my humble opinion, of course) just three tracks of the whole album that are 100% progressive rock tracks: title track, TheRock and Doctor Jimmy.
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 08:43
charles_ryder wrote:
Of course, none of them is not the prog-band in strictly sens. But I guess Zeppelin had many progressive elements. “Kashmire” IMO is clearly prog composition. Although the Purple albums contains proto-prog, my vote went to Zeppelinas more virtuosic and inventing band.
I read an old interview in Melody Maker and Jimmy Page said he'd like to do some arty complex music like Yes (this was after Tales was released) ---their next album was Physical Graffitti---so I think Jimmy was open to prog and maybe that's how XYZ happened for a moment a few years later.
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 21:36
Hercules wrote:
Deep Purple were always considered prog in the early 70s; the other two never were.
I read in the booklet of one of their albums, which I started getting last year, they expressed themselves as a prog (or porgressive or whatever) band.
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Posted: April 17 2014 at 21:57
None of these bands were progressive, but as many have pointed out they had their moments where they were right on the fringe. I mean Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven is pretty progressive to my ears. Not in the incorporating a diverse range of genres, but in the natural progression of the piece itself. Also, Achilles Last Stand sounded rather progressive to me.
What do you guys think?
Edited by Mirror Image - April 17 2014 at 22:00
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Posted: April 18 2014 at 18:20
Mirror Image wrote:
None of these bands were progressive, but as many have pointed out they had their moments where they were right on the fringe. I mean Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven is pretty progressive to my ears. Not in the incorporating a diverse range of genres, but in the natural progression of the piece itself. Also, Achilles Last Stand sounded rather progressive to me.
What do you guys think?
I think Song Remains The Same from Houses and that whole lp is fairly proggy at times.
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