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Posted: August 02 2005 at 04:57

Tormato is more prog.

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Posted: August 02 2005 at 04:31

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You say tomato

I say tormato...

No it's not!!

You say Tormato

I say "What a trainwreck of an album".

...and Queen II is prog.

Nyer, nyer, nyer...

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Posted: August 02 2005 at 04:30

Tony R wrote:

Queen are not a prog band.This is really crazy.Queen II,wholly Prog?? Come of it,that is borderline deceit!

In your opinion.

Read my review.

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 21:06

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Proglover wrote:

GUYS.....CHILL OUT WILL YA!!!...........QUEEN IS HERE...LEARN TO LIKE IT......AS FAR AS DEEP PURPLE IS CONCERNED.........I SAY YES, IF THEIR ALBUMS ARE PROG....YES INCLUDE THEM TOO...........the same with Led Zeppelin and Electric Light OPrchestra!!!!!!!!!

We don't need to chill out or learn to like it, why should we?

You're right...you dont have to chill and you dont have to like it.........but still, the band is on the site!..........I say, lets ADD DEEP PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........................LONG LIVE PROGRESSIVE MUSIC AND DOWN WITH THIS IDEOLOGY OF PROGRESSIVE BANDS!!!!!!!!

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 19:34

I think Deep Purple did more prog than Queen. I also think they don't belong here as a prog artist. They did some very interesting things. Jon Lord was a decent keyboardist and the interplay between Ritchie Blackmore and him was pretty adventurous. Ian Paice is a completely underrated and ignored rock drummer but they still don't belong here. I find it very strange that Queen and Uriah Heep are considered prog by the admins here. I never thought of Queen as anything but as a hard rock band with some theatrical elements. My friends and I from the 1970's thought Uriah Heep was a poor mans Deep Purple.

I doesn't matter to me other than the fact there are other bands who are working now, recording now can't seem to get added, get their music reviewed and exposed to people who might like it because some dinosaur band who will never do anything again hogs all the attention

"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?"

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 19:15

Queen are not a prog band.This is really crazy.Queen II,wholly Prog?? Come of it,that is borderline deceit!

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 18:15

You say tomato

I say tormato...

No it's not!!

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 18:13

Yes it is.

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 17:34

No its not

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 17:30

In Rock is a very progressive album, and Deep Purple did produce some proggy tracks. I don't have a problem with them being included - although "Book..." is more psychedelic than prog rock. "In Rock" is probably DP's most progressive album, IMO.

However, to say that they were more proggy than Queen is nonsense. Queen II is a pure prog masterpiece.

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 17:20

Highway Star Proggy?

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 17:15

Listen to Highway Star and Child in Time and tell me that they are less proggy than Queen. Richie Blackmore along with Jimmy Page metallized guitar playing and if that's not deserving of a little bit of prog respect, than I don't see how Queen is given any respect at all. Just because one suggests Deep Purple be added to the site doesn't automatically mean that he is being opportunistic and is only suggesting it because he sees progarchives weakened by accepting Queen and sees it as a time to take advantage of that. It's just that realizing a band like queen CAN get accepted to progarchives makes us Deep Purp fans realize that the Purp does deserve being included in the archives because they are more prog than Queen. I don't believe we can approach the acceptance of prog bands by only considering whether an entire album is prog. I believe a more reasonable approach is whether their output or influence progressed rock in any way and if they created a new sound at that time. Whether they had a few proggy tracks on each album or whether they had one album that was entirely prog is of no consequence. What matters is the band's outlook on music and how they progressed rock by their entire output of work.

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 17:09

We don't need to chill out or learn to like it, why should we?

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 16:38

Originally posted by <SPAN =bold>philippe</SPAN>

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All the bands you like are not necessary prog just because they play in an "intelligent" way.

so, no thanks!!

they not only play in an intelligent way, or I presume you forget that Queen are just been added. Also Queen play in an intelligent way their Glam Rock, but are on Prog Archives.

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 16:25

GUYS.....CHILL OUT WILL YA!!!...........QUEEN IS HERE...LEARN TO LIKE IT......AS FAR AS DEEP PURPLE IS CONCERNED.........I SAY YES, IF THEIR ALBUMS ARE PROG....YES INCLUDE THEM TOO...........the same with Led Zeppelin and Electric Light OPrchestra!!!!!!!!!

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 16:14

The Wizard wrote:

Now that we have Queen in the prog archives, I think that Deep Purple is deserving enough to be on the Prog Archives.

All the bands you like are not necessary prog just because they play in an "intelligent" way.

so, no thanks!!

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 16:13

I would agree that Deep Purple have made more prog music than Queen (well, they made an album with an orchestra for a start). Also Purple are on The Best Prog Rock Album In The World Ever and Queen aren't, so there.

Personally, I think they both have some prog elements but neither are truly prog. This is a very difficult question. Perhaps they both fit best in the "some prog influences" section.

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 16:06

Deep Purple made a lot more prog rock music than Queen,so I agree.Add them.Their might as well be consistency (although I'd rather Queen were deleted from the archive)

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Posted: August 01 2005 at 16:03

Their first two album are prog, but please DO NOT BREAK THE RULES ANOTHER TIME.

As someone already said, why should we damage PROG ARCHIVES more and more?

Altough.. uhm..wait a minute.. Deep Purple are so good!