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Posted: June 27 2010 at 18:43
desistindo wrote:
I would say "Owner of a lonely heart" by Yes. And you?
not bad.. right album.. wrong song.
Changes.. near letter perfect prog-pop.
Could launch into my thoughts about Yes being the most misunderstood (and incorrectly labelled major group on the site) but won't.
However Yes was a pop band first and foremost.. and their transition to shorter song structure retained enough prog to not lose old fans.. and yet gain scores of new mainstream fans. What prog band made the transition from the 70's to 80's in that way. None.. it was a seemless transition for they didn't change what they had always done.. or become something they were not. They merely made it more accessible and shorter.
I would say "Owner of a lonely heart" by Yes. And you?
not bad.. right album.. wrong song.
Changes.. near letter perfect prog-pop.
Could launch into my thoughts about Yes being the most misunderstood (and incorrectly labelled major group on the site) but won't.
However Yes was a pop band first and foremost.. and their transition to shorter song structure retained enough prog to not lose old fans.. and yet gain scores of new mainstream fans. What prog band made the transition from the 70's to 80's in that way. None.. it was a seemless transition for they didn't change what they had always done.. or become something they were not. They merely made it more accessible and shorter.
2nd best.. perhaps this gem.
Great song. But i think its a little obscure to be a pop song...
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Posted: June 27 2010 at 19:05
desistindo wrote:
micky wrote:
desistindo wrote:
I would say "Owner of a lonely heart" by Yes. And you?
not bad.. right album.. wrong song.
Changes.. near letter perfect prog-pop.
Could launch into my thoughts about Yes being the most misunderstood (and incorrectly labelled major group on the site) but won't.
However Yes was a pop band first and foremost.. and their transition to shorter song structure retained enough prog to not lose old fans.. and yet gain scores of new mainstream fans. What prog band made the transition from the 70's to 80's in that way. None.. it was a seemless transition for they didn't change what they had always done.. or become something they were not. They merely made it more accessible and shorter.
2nd best.. perhaps this gem.
Great song. But i think its a little obscure to be a pop song...
obscure??? not if you were alive and listening to the radio in 1983
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Posted: June 27 2010 at 19:07
Atavachron wrote:
ELP's 'Lucky Man'
oohhhh.. now perhaps that should be the one. Great one David.. the moog solo from hell.. and the best drumming bare none that you'll ever hear on a 'pop song' haha.
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Posted: June 28 2010 at 02:52
Atavachron wrote:
'Back in NYC' (followed by more Genesis like 'Abacab' or 'Robbery,Assault and Battery')
I agree with the last two, but Back in NYC? Pop? Hm...wouldn't have thought that. Perhaps Carpet Crawlers or I Know What I Like. I actually was going to suggest Follow You, Follow Me. But overall, I think it's obvious that Genesis is the master of this prog-pop stuff.
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Posted: June 28 2010 at 06:25
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
'Back in NYC' (followed by more Genesis like 'Abacab' or 'Robbery,Assault and Battery')
I agree with the last two, but Back in NYC? Pop? Hm...wouldn't have thought that. Perhaps Carpet Crawlers or I Know What I Like. I actually was going to suggest Follow You, Follow Me. But overall, I think it's obvious that Genesis is the master of this prog-pop stuff.
Yes, Back in NYC is too long and in too weird a time signature to be prog-pop. Now Carpet Crawlers is a different matter.
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