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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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More Of That Jazz is brilliant. I thought yiou were talking about all the albums though. Don't Lose your Head is Ok too. Not keen on cat songs either But it isn't a bad song just because I don't like it. Or you. Or Laz.
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octopus-4 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14209 |
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Well, I've been quoted
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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Interesting. I have never found it so.
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Lizzy ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 15 2010 Location: Schnitzelland Status: Offline Points: 4675 |
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Adam Bolton (inside joke) denied this on his Twitter, but it would not surprise me if this is just testing the public's reaction and we'll eventually get to see such an abomination materialise. Also, Greatest Hits 3 yesterday's most popular album on PA? ![]() |
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Property of Queen Productions...
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Guzzman ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: August 21 2004 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 3563 |
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But back to the question: Is Queen a progressive band? No. |
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"We've got to get in to get out"
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Catcher10 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: December 23 2009 Location: Emerald City Status: Offline Points: 17869 |
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Epignosis ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32536 |
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progistoomainstream ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 07 2011 Location: Willow Farm Status: Offline Points: 220 |
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I am a fan of Queen until Day at the Races. Anything passed that is quite bad. Even though I feel Queen and Queen II have large gap where emotion and passion should be placed, they are very solid musical albums. Sheer Heart Attack is good. A Night at the Opera is one of my favourite albums and A Day at the Races is very good. News of the World is quite bland, Jazz is just bad except for having 2 entertaining songs (Big Bottom Girls, Bicycle Race). And everybody knows about 80s queen. Overall, queen is like every band from the 70s era that survived into the 90s: They were good until the 80s, then they sucked.
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ole-the-first ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 03 2012 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 1534 |
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Surprisingly or not, Queen had a lot of connections with prog bands at all. In early 1970's they were an opening act for Genesis and Yes. And in 1986 Fish joined Queen on their show in Mannheim, Germany. |
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octopus-4 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14209 |
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And Steve Howe as guest, too
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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ole-the-first ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 03 2012 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 1534 |
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First five Queen albums are definitely prog. If not 'pure' prog, but heavy or crossover prog.
But after that they started to write more pop-oriented music, so their albums from 1977 to 1986 are even not 'prog-related', just pop/rock. 1989 album 'The Miracle' is a pop album too, but that's where Queen started to return to their prog roots, and following album 'Innuendo' have a very strong prog feeling. Edited by ole-the-first - January 26 2012 at 04:28 |
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geneyesontle ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 14 2012 Location: Quebec Status: Offline Points: 1266 |
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I agree with you.
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areyouxp ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: December 27 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1 |
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agree with Was It All Worth It and Innuendo being Queen's 'later' proggy tracks. definitely worth a listen to, if you're into their early stuff.
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tamijo ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 06 2009 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 4287 |
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A bit of prog, Yes - but not a prog band ! ,
Stravinsky was a bit Jazzy at times (late of course) , but he is not a Jazz-Fussion artist.
Regarding Tubeway Army - Replicas, i think its considered Proggy Wave in some circles, but i dont know the album myself.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 28377 |
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For me Tubeway Army - Replicas was a prog album. I still regard it as such and won't be told otherwise
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tamijo ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 06 2009 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 4287 |
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What Dark Elf. said and....
Allmost every band from the 70's got a bit of prog, in them, as what we today call prog., was what everyone was dooing back then. A bit of wierd sound effect, some symphonic elements here and there, stereo running from one speeker to the other.
Would i consider Queen to be basicly a prog band overall : NO !
I consider them to be a (hard) Rock band, as i do with Roling Stones, 10cc, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Dire Straight.
Van Hales, Deep P, Led Z. ect ect.
Loads of great music i do not think of as prog., even if they had the "some proggy elements" in the 70's.
And im afraid if we are not carefull, every band that was just a tiny bit "unmainsteam" in the 70's, will be considered
a classic prog. band, to the point where there is nothing proggy left about prog.
If Queen is prog, why is Frankie goes to Hollywood not prog ? None of them have odd times nor any real style fussion, Is it just that they was from another time, or we dont like them as much, factualy they hold as many prog elements on the Pleasure Dome, as queen does on the Opera.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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harmonium.ro ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989 |
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^ Indeed.
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 28377 |
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^ great post
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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I think one has to take the term "progressive band" with a grain of salt, particularly in the 1970s. Queen had their progressive albums (Queen II, certainly, and A Night at the Opera in part as well), but I don't believe the band ever strived to achieve and maintain the title of "progressive band". The title simply was not important or relevant at the time. Like Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, each of whom had their progressive moments (or whole albums) in the 1970s, Queen and these other great rock bands did whatever the hell they wanted in that decade, unhindered by classifications and stratified genres that became more important later on.
The urge to label artists has become almost a mania, and I am unconvinced that this is a good idea. Pink Floyd was a psychedelic band, as well as a hard rock band, as well as a progressive band. Tull was a blues rock band, a progressive band, a hard rock band, and a folk rock band. Zeppelin was blues rock, hard rock and folk rock with a dabbling of progressive rock on Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti. The same can be said of Queen's approach to multi-genre albums (including British burlesque, heavy metal and one notable tune composed in rhapsodic form).
And this is one of the sterling examples of why rock music in the 1970s maintains its legendary status (at least among the truly innovative and important performers, throwing in the likes of David Bowie as well). Their diversity was the hallmark of their greatness. They cannot be so easily pigeon-holed into comfortable little containers with a one-size-fits-all title and an expiration date.
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Neue regel ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 27 2006 Location: uk Status: Offline Points: 152 |
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Queen II is one of the finest examples of Pomp-Prog rock ever. Imo.
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