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Points: 107 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2006 at 07:51

I agree that some stuff (with Eno) are prog and that in the path he has taken with music he also represents a progressive vision of music.
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Points: 3491 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 04:28
Queen & Deep purple here but not Bowie! Thats %&¤#" joke! Dead
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 09:56
Originally posted by The Wizard The Wizard wrote:

Prog or not, David Bowie kicks ass.
 
Forgive me Wiz for picking up on your post to make a general point.
 
A few of the posts here focus merely on how "good" Bowie is, and how much people like his music. Such comments, while understandable and well intended, do not further the cause for him to be added. The imply that people want him added because the like his music, not because he fits here. This actually helps the case of those who don't want to see him (or whoever we are discussing) added.
 
This not intended a criticism, just a pointer.


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Points: 228 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 13:08
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by The Wizard The Wizard wrote:

Prog or not, David Bowie kicks ass.

 

Forgive me Wiz for picking up on your post to make a general point.

 

A few of the posts here focus merely on how "good" Bowie is, and how much people like his music. Such comments, while understandable and well intended, do not further the cause for him to be added. The imply that people want him added because the like his music, not because he fits here. This actually helps the case of those who don't want to see him (or whoever we are discussing) added.

 

This not intended a criticism, just a pointer.


Isn't that case of Iron Maiden? They were added because many people like their in my opinion naive and immature metal music. I think that category "prog-related" is a disaster for this site because now we'll get questions like why Bowie isn't included when Iron Maiden are?
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Points: 4252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 13:12
David Bowie is great, but if we include him in PA then we'll have to include...T Rex.....then....The Sweet....thennn....ELTON JOHN!!!!AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHDead...and then....good
bye MF!!!LOL
 
 
 
 
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Points: 81 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2006 at 16:21
NO! You would not have to include those groups.  Understand that while good, those groups (and John) did nothing to really stretch beyond their immediate style of music.  Bowie was and is different.
 
I would include the following albums as Progressive:
 
The Man Who Sold the World
Diamond Dogs
Low
"Heroes"
Outside
 
and the following songs are examples from other albums:
 
Cygnet Commitee
Station to Station
 
There are more but I cannot think of them right now.
 
Listen to these albums....  You hear a theme and a particular fullness to a vision.  The music is challenging and is at times expansive and fully realized progressive songs.
Twenty men crossing a bridge into a village,
are twenty men
crossing twenty bridges
into twenty villages.

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Points: 2537 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2006 at 18:18
People say "Where is the prog?" , then people spend their time explaining (like tdbark) saying which albums and which songs..
Then the next post says "No! No! He doesn´t belong here!'
This is just so damn frustrating..
Another prog song would be "Wild Eyed boy from feecloud" off Space Oddity.
 
Prog Related at the least
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