Forum Home Forum Home > Other music related lounges > Proto-Prog and Prog-Related Lounge
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Should Bowie be moved to Crossover Prog?
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Should Bowie be moved to Crossover Prog?

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  12>
Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
Logan View Drop Down
Forum & Site Admin Group
Forum & Site Admin Group
Avatar
Site Admin

Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
Status: Online
Points: 35810
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Should Bowie be moved to Crossover Prog?
    Posted: May 02 2020 at 09:02
"Even if it's a witty, singing and dancing turd, it's still a turd" (Stephen King, "Sleeping Beauties").

"That which we call a turd by any other name would smell as sh*te" (Logan, "Guano and Manuret").

My favourite joke: What's brown and sounds like a bell?
Dunggg!

Moving this topic from Brownie back to Bowie. A case could be made for Bowie in Crossdresser Prog.
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 17511
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote moshkito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2020 at 08:38
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

(To paraphrase Dean) You can roll a turd in glitter but it's still a turd
To quote early American politician John Randolph, ''like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, he both shines and stinks.''

Hi,

We need a new thread for quotes ... nice one there DE
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
ExittheLemming View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 19 2007
Location: Penal Colony
Status: Offline
Points: 11415
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ExittheLemming Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2020 at 15:43
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

(To paraphrase Dean) You can roll a turd in glitter but it's still a turd
To quote early American politician John Randolph, ''like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, he both shines and stinks.''


Made my day LOL
Back to Top
The Dark Elf View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: February 01 2011
Location: Michigan
Status: Offline
Points: 13056
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Dark Elf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2020 at 11:59
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

(To paraphrase Dean) You can roll a turd in glitter but it's still a turd
To quote early American politician John Randolph, ''like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, he both shines and stinks.''


Edited by The Dark Elf - May 01 2020 at 11:59
...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...
Back to Top
ExittheLemming View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 19 2007
Location: Penal Colony
Status: Offline
Points: 11415
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ExittheLemming Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2020 at 10:24
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Who cares what slot he is in? This PA proclivity for splitting hairs is one of the least endearing activities of this site.


Yep, like watching bald men fighting over a comb.

Hey now, gimme some credit, I still have a few more years of this full head of hair!Smile

Hi,

Goodness ... 69 and counting and my hair still grows all over my face and I have to trim it and shave now and then! What a hassle that is, hey?


(To paraphrase Dean) You can roll a turd in glitter but it's still a turd
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 17511
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote moshkito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2020 at 08:33
Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Who cares what slot he is in? This PA proclivity for splitting hairs is one of the least endearing activities of this site.


Yep, like watching bald men fighting over a comb.

Hey now, gimme some credit, I still have a few more years of this full head of hair!Smile

Hi,

Goodness ... 69 and counting and my hair still grows all over my face and I have to trim it and shave now and then! What a hassle that is, hey?

But, honestly, to comment on DE's line, the issue is not so much splitting hairs as it is the concept of doing this about ALBUMS and not ARTIST ... too many of these "artists' change from album to album and what might be prog in one is MOR in the other and DB is a very good example of this for the early days in FM ... longer cuts that resembled prog, but were merely longer songs that would not be considered "prog" ... I hardly think Spiders from Mars is progressive ... just a damn good rock album!


Edited by moshkito - May 02 2020 at 08:37
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
dougmcauliffe View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 23 2019
Location: US
Status: Offline
Points: 3895
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dougmcauliffe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2020 at 04:32
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Who cares what slot he is in? This PA proclivity for splitting hairs is one of the least endearing activities of this site.


Yep, like watching bald men fighting over a comb.

Hey now, gimme some credit, I still have a few more years of this full head of hair!Smile
The sun has left the sky...
...Now you can close your eyes
Back to Top
ExittheLemming View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 19 2007
Location: Penal Colony
Status: Offline
Points: 11415
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ExittheLemming Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2020 at 03:07
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Who cares what slot he is in? This PA proclivity for splitting hairs is one of the least endearing activities of this site.


Yep, like watching bald men fighting over a comb.
Back to Top
micky View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 02 2005
Location: .
Status: Offline
Points: 46833
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2020 at 19:47
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Who cares what slot he is in? This PA proclivity for splitting hairs is one of the least endearing activities of this site.

can't really say I agree with you there.. perhaps if one is in the market for a boring forum. It has proven to be one of the most entertaining aspects...  you don't see it much anymore as this site has slipped into its dotage but was the undercurrent  to the chaos and bloodshed of the glory days when we were building the database. People really did lose their sh*t about those hairs.  If an artist got put where someone didn't like... the fur flew man.. and god help them if the site added an artist they didn't think was prog... oh boy...cattle were raped and the womanfolk stampeded...wooo hooo!!! Guns were drawn and knifes were not just drawn.. but used.  The admins did little but hose the pavement down every evening.  I don't recall you getting too much into it.. what a waste of talent. you are one of the few I've seen here that has the quick draw and sharp wit with a certain flair for viciousness that made those that did..  PA's legend back then haha.

good times.. perhaps you had to be in the thick of it a we were(ie having those guns and knives drawn on you ) to appreciate the joy of blowing someone's cyber head off who crosses you.. but at one time we had a lot of people here who really knew music, not just knew what they liked.. and were passionate about prog and really got rubbed the wrong ways about additions/genre placements they didn't agree with

anyhow wasn't much said from the gen pop either way about Bowie. Most instinctual knew he belonged here and again I think most would have been at a loss to have found a natural fit for him.  


Edited by micky - April 29 2020 at 19:48
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
Back to Top
jamesbaldwin View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 25 2015
Location: Milano
Status: Offline
Points: 5986
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jamesbaldwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2020 at 18:55
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Shawn Phillips is more proggy than Bowie (and than Steely Dan etc.) and he sits in the Prog-related category.

Hi,

Logic man ... LOGIC. Wink Wink LOL

You're making me think that some of the decisions made many of the choices actually make sense!!!!!

Again, this is the perfect reason why these divisions should be about the artist, NOT THE ALBUM. DB is not always "progressive" in most albums, although at times, it comes off as art rock, and then it comes off as rock with the biggest finger in the sky possible!

Big smileWink
Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
Back to Top
The Dark Elf View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: February 01 2011
Location: Michigan
Status: Offline
Points: 13056
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Dark Elf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2020 at 08:42
Who cares what slot he is in? This PA proclivity for splitting hairs is one of the least endearing activities of this site.
...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...
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 17511
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote moshkito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2020 at 07:55
Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Shawn Phillips is more proggy than Bowie (and than Steely Dan etc.) and he sits in the Prog-related category.

Hi,

Logic man ... LOGIC. Wink Wink LOL

You're making me think that some of the decisions made many of the choices actually make sense!!!!!

Again, this is the perfect reason why these divisions should be about the artist, NOT THE ALBUM. DB is not always "progressive" in most albums, although at times, it comes off as art rock, and then it comes off as rock with the biggest finger in the sky possible!


Edited by moshkito - April 29 2020 at 07:56
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
jamesbaldwin View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 25 2015
Location: Milano
Status: Offline
Points: 5986
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jamesbaldwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2020 at 19:08
Shawn Phillips is more proggy than Bowie (and than Steely Dan etc.) and he sits in the Prog-related category.
Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
Back to Top
siLLy puPPy View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic

Joined: October 05 2013
Location: SFcaUsA
Status: Offline
Points: 15243
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote siLLy puPPy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2020 at 11:06
Only if crossover refers to artists who are no longer living in this physical world!

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy
Back to Top
Tapfret View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin

Joined: August 12 2007
Location: Bryant, Wa
Status: Offline
Points: 8581
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tapfret Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2020 at 10:44
Absolutely not. 
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 17511
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote moshkito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 27 2020 at 13:41
Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Who is EF, Elmer Fudd?

Hi,

Your knowledge of music and the postings here, as well as the history of DB in Berlin, is astounding.

EF is Edgar Froese, from Tangerine Dream that rehearsed several times with DB, but came to the conclusion that what DB was doing was not for him at all ... it's on his book about TD. In fact, one of the lnocks on the book is that there is "too much" about DB ... but you learn a thing or two about how he worked! ... well, and Micky's comments seem to show that he drank too much and had way too much sex last night to remember anything! Embarrassed


Edited by moshkito - April 27 2020 at 13:43
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
micky View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 02 2005
Location: .
Status: Offline
Points: 46833
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2020 at 20:19
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

David Bowie should have his own genre.

by the time I added him I had already created 4 subgenres here..  I was on fumes by then almost reaching the burnout that led to years long vacation from the site...  so we phoned him in to PR...out but knowing my history.. it was definitely discussed LOL  The best part in hindsight with putting Bowie where we did was not having the Miles Davis effect on whatever sub-genre we would have jammed him into.. Brian mentioned career arc earlier but in my mind that misses the boat about Bowie..  there was nothing linear about him or his music.
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
Back to Top
progaardvark View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams

Joined: June 14 2007
Location: Sea of Peas
Status: Offline
Points: 51057
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote progaardvark Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2020 at 15:05
David Bowie should have his own genre.
----------
i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag
that's a happy bag of lettuce
this car smells like cartilage
nothing beats a good video about fractions
Back to Top
micky View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 02 2005
Location: .
Status: Offline
Points: 46833
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2020 at 07:35
^ is that what he calls the voices in his head.  OK? Whatever man...  that would make sense in a Pedro way. At least as much sense as his post did.

At least the voice in my head doesn't try talking music.. Sheena with her mangled German accented english has one hell of sexy voice and she talks to me all the time and sure as sh*t not about music.. umm hmmm
 

it is a reason I go through my days with a big ass smile on my face. LOL


Edited by micky - April 26 2020 at 07:37
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34055
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Icarium Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2020 at 07:13
Who is EF, Elmer Fudd?
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  12>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.125 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.