Tame Impala: prog or just psych?
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Topic: Tame Impala: prog or just psych?
Posted By: desistindo
Subject: Tame Impala: prog or just psych?
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 20:53
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Do u thick Tame Impala could be consider prog in some sense?
For those who doesnt know the band:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tame_Impala - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tame_Impala
I have the impression that Harmonium will be the firt to comment
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 23:21
It's proto prog of the 00's.  ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 04:27
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I'm gonna toss them into Psych Team, but many difficulties for evaluation will lie ahead of them maybe. Anyway, thanks desistindo for your suggestion. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: desistindo
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 06:02
| Thank u, Damo. |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 06:38
you've lost  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
desistindo wrote:Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 07:31
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Yeah, seems like this suggestion is getting a lot of attention.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 08:33
| Very nice band. They sound like Dungen, minus the prog. The melodies and the vocal harmonies are splendid. |
Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: March 01 2011 at 17:16
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They've already been evaluated in Psych Team and voted "MOVE (to Crossover)". http://progfreak.com/Tame-Impala-104366.html?path=pa/psych" rel="nofollow - http://progfreak.com/Tame-Impala-104366.html?path=pa/psych Sorry for my belated report. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: May 16 2011 at 04:09
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Crossover would work for me with Tame Impala ...though I would have thought Psych/Space as the first port of call Great to see a local band from my neck o' the woods getting discussed  ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 16 2011 at 04:17
Wow, Coops is back! Maybe this also means the return of the cover game? 
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Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 19:26
| I very much like Tame Impala. I myself think they are at least a little progressive. What is prog anyways. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 20:54
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I love them, but they kind of snuffed Swedish band Dungen's sound and made it more straightforward. Plus, the single most alluring part of the equation is that the singer sounds like the perfect combination of Lennon and McCartney...
Maybe Prog related? I don't really care, I dig em just the same. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 20:58
Hoofed out in no uncertain terms by Crossover team: http://progfreak.com/Tame-Impala-104366.html?path=pa/recent" rel="nofollow - http://progfreak.com/Tame-Impala-104366.html?path=pa/recent 
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Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: January 22 2013 at 04:47
Just wondering if we might need to re-visit this band... They released a new album called 'Lonerism' on 8th October 2012, which gets decent enough reviews pretty-well everywhere, and featured in four of the UK 'Prog' magazine critics 'top 20 albums of the year' lists, with an overall rating of #10.Not my own personal cup of tea, it must be said...but for anyone who would like to check it out
- here's the full album on YouTube: |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 22 2013 at 07:23
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I loved Lonerism, but it just got them further away from any Prog connection, IMO. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: nescafe726
Date Posted: January 22 2013 at 10:08
| In my opinion, the new album "Lonerism" is more precisely Psychedelic a bit spacey to be fair and pop-ish. Anyway, going to see them play this Saturday. |
Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: January 26 2013 at 22:16
I like! Thanks for turning me on to something new. Parts sound reminiscent of early Pink Floyd to me. Will have to search out more of their stuff. 
------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 07:50
| Very cool band. Glad to see them being discussed. I don't think I ever thought of TI as Prog but it's all good. I would like to ask if anyone has heard or heard of the band POND? POND is a side project of some of the members of TI. Pretty trippy sounding and I guess they would fall under the "Psych" label. Give 'em a listen. |
Posted By: BigEgg
Date Posted: February 13 2013 at 16:23
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I love both Tame Impala albums, I think they have a perfect blend of trippy freak outs and spacey, etheral pop melodies. Some of those guitar tones are gorgeous! A great 'headphones' band too, I can't wait to see them live. |
Posted By: mustachemanager
Date Posted: February 15 2013 at 14:33
| "Lonerism" is definitely more of a step in the pop direction, but not in a band way. just more melody at times and good ones at that. I would say more psych than prog. |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: February 15 2013 at 15:08
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just let me emphasize that this is not a question of prog or psych, just like the thread title implies we do have a prog subgenre Psychedelic/Space Rock here with reason, which embraces artists who play psych/space music and also can be counted to the progressive rock fold ... Tame Impala is a great band, but their music shows too much pop influences overall. But there is another incarnation called Pond, which sounds more improvised and experimental, I'm about to add them to the database and recommend to check their albums too, especially ' Corridors Of Blissterday' - it's worth it. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow"> |
Posted By: mustachemanager
Date Posted: February 15 2013 at 16:02
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Pond is great. Are they the touring band he uses? Isn't Tame Impala just one guy in the studio? I also noticed that in my last post I wrote "band" went I meant "bad". OOPS! But it still worked in a weird way.... |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: February 15 2013 at 16:09
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there's some obvious interlacing to state, but i would not say that Pond is the live incarnation of Tame Impala really
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Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: February 15 2013 at 16:13
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7879" rel="nofollow - Pond now added to the database
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Posted By: nescafe726
Date Posted: February 21 2013 at 11:07
| Pond's Corridors of Blissterday = Astronomy Domine. I like it. |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: February 21 2013 at 16:56
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Either way they are starting to become popular in my age bracket. ------------- 
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: February 21 2013 at 19:25
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Great band, but I think they're just a neat little Psych-Indie Rock band. Very unique and creative, but I don't find their music to overly experimental to the extent of being appropriate for the database, y'know? One of Pitchfork's babies, that's for sure. The real question is, why is Swans still not on the archives?  ------------- 
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Posted By: Electrocuted
Date Posted: February 25 2013 at 17:05
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Me with the camera on a stick backstage with Swans in Vienna. Great guys. Got taken out for a free lunch up the next day. Can't say fairer than that! http://youtu.be/3t4gWxFfnNU" rel="nofollow - http://youtu.be/3t4gWxFfnNU Stick em on the list and stop being so snotty about what prog is and isn't. It's making you all live in the past. Move on guys  ------------- Progression doesn't happen unless it is new! |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: February 25 2013 at 17:30
| ^ ^^ http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=90204" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=90204 |
Posted By: Barsoom
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 09:34
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I recently heard their track 'Elephant' in a shop, after hearing bits of that track on a TV commercial, and the mid-section was seriously spacey. I decided to check them out on Youtube, then bought both albums and their EP in one go. They remind me very much of Yes, circa their debut album and Time And A Word, stuck in a blender with psychedelic-period Beatles and a large side-order of Cream, and the lengthy out-tro on Keep On Lying could have been an out-take from Dark Side Of The Moon. The last Aussie band I heard that truly 'got' the seventies rock sound was Wolfmother, although they're more at the Led-Zep end of things. Tame Impala sound proggy enough for me to put on a playlist with other prog bands on my iPod, so no complaints from me! |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 02:42
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Why in the world would this band be considered prog
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Posted By: ProgressiveMike
Date Posted: May 21 2013 at 00:00
| Well, they had a ad, or a feature, or a review... I can't remember which in one of my Prog magazines. We happened to have a couple albums at the store so I opened them up and spun them. They are very... Accessible! They seem to resonate well in many fans of what I have been told is "Dream Pop" I.E. the Cults. They are a bit Floyy, too, in the respect that they are a psych/prog band that is enjoyable to a wide range of people from different musical backgrounds. The first time I spun their newest album I couldn't help but notice that theyw ere using the exact same effects the Beatles used (particularly John Lennon) which sort of bothered me... NOT to say that ONLY the Beatles can use those effects, just that it's really noticeable. There was an effect on the vocals and on the guitars that were ripped straight out of a Beatles album. once again, I realize this is a very unfair assessment. But having said that, after I got over it, I very much enjoyed the album. They are sort of the synthesis of psych and pop. I heard some prog in it! But they are a very interesting group and I think a lot of prog fans would appreciate their brand of music, although it may not contain enough odd time signatures or pretense (lol). |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: May 21 2013 at 03:26
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Mild prog like the Beatles were between 66 and 68. A few of their songs sound like how the Beatles may have sounded if they continued in 1970, 71, 72 and 73. They are the only band forming after 1980 who have a handful of songs which I quite enjoy ------------- 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. |