The Tubes
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Forum Name: Suggest New Bands and Artists
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Topic: The Tubes
Posted By: rikkinadir
Subject: The Tubes
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 12:22
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I would like to suggest you The Tubes for prog related.In my opinion their first albums was quite progressive.Tell me what you think? |
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 18:20
| They were a stange band, dressed provacatively and strange and had a very weird single, Dont touch me there..... I remember all that. But not sure about a Prog genre for them. It was more a type of anarchist techno music, conceptual of course and very strange. But so many bands were doing that back then. Gimmicky rather than prog. Not sure here. Others? |
Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 22:32
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Perhaps approaching crossover prog.
They are listed as: pop/rock, glam rock, rock, AOR, art rock and proto punk.
here; http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the_tubes" rel="nofollow - http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the_tubes
Rock, hard rock and new wave in this Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes
"What Do You Want From Live" is a cherished item in my collection.
To me, it's close to listening to a Frank Zappa concert. ------------- http://revbookburn.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/rexcat http://www.myspace.com/prxcat Greetings! And Welcome to The Global Internet Church of Prog! Hail the Prog and Praise "Bob"! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 22:57
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"...and a baby's arm holding an apple."
I love "White Punks on Dope" and "What Do You Want From Life". But I've never considered them progressive. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 13 2011 at 23:25
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I will say this: I think it goes great with this album art by Roger Dean for Rare Earth.  as well as many other albums.  ------------- http://revbookburn.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/rexcat http://www.myspace.com/prxcat Greetings! And Welcome to The Global Internet Church of Prog! Hail the Prog and Praise "Bob"! |
Posted By: Digestor
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 00:51
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I would call them prog, for sure. Love that band. ------------- https://lightyear.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 08:18
| A lot of the music in the samples sound really progressive, with instrumental quirkiness that remind me of Zappa and Gentle Giant. Good stuff. I've notified the Crossover Prog Team. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 10:29
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They had a fair amount of prog on their debt album. And a great album it was. After that, however theatrical they were, they were not prog. I would say no. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 14 2011 at 10:59
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The song She's A Beauty has always reminded me of Karn Evil 9 from ELP for some reason or another. Not sure why, but it might have had something to do with the music video and reference to a carnival. ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 17 2011 at 17:16
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Love this band. Plenty of prog moments ,even the more commercial stuff like Remote Control is still very interesting to my ears. This is The Tubes at their 'proggiest'
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Posted By: Jellybeantiger
Date Posted: March 31 2014 at 09:36
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First album ,if listed here would be a near 5. A classic and alot of proggy moments. Up From The Deep. Haloes Space Babies. Mondo Bondage Even the other tracks have proggy bits. A must have record. Still blows me away every time I crank it up on my Dynaudio monitors and subby. A one of a kind band. Live as tight as a drum. (from all the you tubes I've seen) Re Styles was smokin' hot also lol. ------------- Trying to spread the good prog to mud eared Aussies. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 02 2014 at 02:21
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A resurrected thread.... oh well it could be worse it could be recommending Gary Numan... oh wait a second... ------------- 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 02 2014 at 04:32
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Let's ignore Love Bomb, shall we !!!
I own the white vinyl 7" of Prime Time - bloody nifty track, that !! Not sure about Prog though.... |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: April 02 2014 at 05:02
First album is very proggy. ^ Nice one. i loved the Completion Backward Principle and the Attack of the 50ft Woman. The music sounds so coked up nowadays  ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Tom Ozric wrote:Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 02 2014 at 05:33
The Tubes would be in prog related section , imo.  |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 03 2014 at 20:17
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Nice doco !!! -------------
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Posted By: Gooner
Date Posted: April 03 2014 at 20:35
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I play The Tubes on my radio show. Usually the earlier stuff, Remote Control and the track "Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman". |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 02:50
| A long time ago since I listened to them, but I like "Don't Touch Me There", "TV Is King", "What Do You Want From Life" and "Don't Want To Wait Anymore" |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 03:26
 I was in the 3rd row of the gig in Leicester where Fee Waybill aka "Johnny Bugger" broke his leg falling off the stage brandishing a chain-saw. The documentary lies - he did not continue to run around with a broken leg terrifying the audience, he landed on the poor guy sitting in front of me and we were all sent sprawling across the floor by the impact. It didn't take long to realise that this wasn't part of the act when Waybill didn't get up, it took less than a minute for the band to stop playing so the roadies could carry him backstage. Also, several websites claim this happened at the Hammersmith Odean in 1978 during the recording of What Do You Want From Live (which was actually recorded in 1977), they lie too: it happened at Leicester's De Montfort Hall on 9th May '78. At the later Knebworth open-air concert in October '78 What Do Yo Want From Life ends with "...or a broken leg in Leicester?" instead of "...or a baby's arm holding an apple?" (I was there too). Anyway - The Tubes - damn fine musicians, Theatre Rock, Art Rock, but not Prog Rock. They could be Prog Related but I don't see the point in adding them.
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 03:51
Why not? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 04:08
Because while some Prog is Art Rock and some Art Rock is Prog, not all Art Rock is Prog. The Tubes were not influenced by Prog; they were no influence on Prog; although they were later produced by Rundgren they were not an integral part of the Prog Scene in the 1970s; it is significant that of all the extant genres of 1970s rock music they chose to parody, Prog Rock and its obvious excesses was not one of them. I could go on, but that's enough. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 04:27
The Tubes' debut album is progressive rock without a question.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 04:27
I question that completely. How is it Progressive Rock? ------------- What? |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 04:30
Sometimes I have the impression that you're deaf.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 04:38
Sometimes I get the impression that when people lose a discussion they revert to personal attacks. I also get the impression that when people make personal attacks they forfeit the right to continue in a discussion. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 04:50
It was not a personal attack. In fact, the claim that The Tubes were not influenced by progressive rock, it can only be made by a deaf person, or person who never heard some prog, or a person who say that due to some other reason - e.g. to keep that gate to Prog Related section closed.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 04:51
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Another personal attack. *sigh* ------------- What? |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 06:43
| I guess, no matter how much loved a band is, such as The Tubes, not everything can be a Prog-related entry. Perhaps Elton John could be included in that case. How about fretless bass-ace Mick Karn ?? Sooooo many artists could be included here at archives, but there's a fine line between creative Pop/rock and Prog-related...... |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 06:55
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A very talented, entertaining and innovative parody band who initially assimilated some Proggy references but like every borrowed ingredient in their oeuvre, it's purpose was principally ironic, It's illustrative that these references were immediately abandoned as soon as Prog fell off the radar of the popular consciousnesses circa '76. Telling a fart gag about Samuel Beckett doesn't make you 'influenced by' Samuel Beckett now does it? Not Prog and I couldn't even make an argument for Prog Related. ------------- 
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 07:27
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^ do you know any fart gags about Samuel Beckett, as a matter of interest? ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 07:46
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^ tried Googling for same but there is a dearth of intestinal gas related material for this celebrated author. Rumour has it though, that no-one would share a taxi with him in Paris.... Watt conceived for Mr. Graves a feeling little short of liking. In particular Mr. Graves’s way of speaking did not displease Watt. Mr. Graves pronounces th charmingly. Turd and fart, he said, for third and fourth. Watt liked these venerable saxon words. And when Mr. Graves, drinking on the sunny step his afternoon stout, looked up with a twinkle in his old blue eye, and said, in mock deprecation, Tis only me turd or fart, then Watt felt he was perhaps prostituting himself to some purpose. (Samuel Beckett - Watt) -------------
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 08:50
Mr Beckett is duly cleared for inclusion in Fart-Related  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 09:00
| The only "problem" with that eventualy additon of The Tubes as Prog Related act aswell, is that proggy-British chauvinism. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 09:01
 Thanks for not following through to post fart-------------
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Posted By: sukmytoe
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 09:48
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Way more so than 'The Tubes' I would argue that 'Alice Cooper' should be here. Music is a subjective thing and it plays differently to the ears of different individuals. My son was upset about his failure to get Stratovarius included here and I do agree with him fully in that regard in that to my ears 'Stratovarius' are in no uncertain terms a progressive act. The thing is that they are that to my ears and in my own collection they sit proudly in my Prog section - others may not see it that way and I personally accept that. There's no point in fighting about music - just love it for the reasons that you love it. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 09:49
You're walking a very fine line Svetonio. I don't think I've ever put on my "admin hat" with you - even when I've been most irritated by your conduct. Recently though, you've been very rude to people. Last time it was with Yam, who just so happens to be one of your only supporters on PA. With this little back n forth with Dean though, you're pushing it. You can consider this a warning. If you don't clean up your act and start conversing with members in a kind and respectful manner, I will have absolutely no problem showing you the door  Enough is enough.Also, why on earth do you keep visiting this site, when we obviously aren't up to speed with your quasi views on what constitutes prog? Every time we end up here - ie you think something unquestionably is prawk and nobody else does, you throw a fit and start acting rude. Last chance boyo. ------------- “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: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 10:36
Admission to the category of Prog Related is determined by the Admin Team. How many of the current Admin team are British? Most people are prepared to forgive your gauche enthusiasm for music that may be of interest to PA, but eventually we just run out of largesse. Wise up numpty*, calling people deaf or chauvinistic just because they don't share your views makes you an unequivocal a.r.s.e. Yes, that's a personal attack so hit the report button and see how much I recant my sincerity. * Futile to Google this really -------------
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 11:00
David, I think it is fair to say that you are very angry when you are beautiful! ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 11:39
So, self reporting your insults makes it okay. PA has the greatest forum for entertainment.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 12:19
Cognizance of non compliance to PA's published guidelines confers immunity ? Direct your inquiry to those who decide such matters.. Entertainment? you ain't even on the bill son.... .-------------
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 12:26
| I don't see a question mark in my post grandpa. Wrangle on. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 12:31
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If you were a relation I'd write you out of the will and hose you off the lawn. Old people today...tsk
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 12:34
| The lawyers will get it all anyway.Now go cut that grass while I listen to this excellent band I just discovered......Circles End....most definitely prog. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 12:40
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So , me cutting grass ( I don't have a garden alas) and you listening to a Norwegian Progressive Rock band is some sort of rebuttal? This frisson is plain vanilla silly as we both know that the Tubes ain't gonna be on PA anytime soon. Cut to the chase, I don't have any beef with you and I like to think there are far more insidious fish to fry -------------
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 12:44
| It's all good. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 04 2014 at 17:30
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Thanks Steve. ------------- “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 |