The Who
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Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Suggest New Bands and Artists
Forum Description: Suggest, create polls, and classify new bands you would like included on Prog Archives
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28110
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Topic: The Who
Posted By: Zoso
Subject: The Who
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 14:06
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Why is The Who not considered a Proto-Prog band? They created the concept album Tommy, and used much synth in their recordings. Seems to me that they could get away with being in the archives if The Beatles can.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 14:07
Green day did a concept album and used some keys here and there, wanna have them in the site just cause of thouse two reasons? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Zoso wrote:Posted By: crpearson2004
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 14:09
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Quadrophenia also sounds rather proggish. Quadrophenia is probably my favorite album of all time. A masterpiece. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 14:10
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Only the greatest band ever! -------------  
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Posted By: Penumbra
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 14:11
My isn't this site full of craziness? We're all so bitter about the freaking genres.  The Who progressed quite a bit, but so did other bands. You may as well just put every musical act to exist on Prog Archives.I will now leave this and all other band-inclusion topics alone forever... I could argue with myself over the merits of putting in The Who and the merits of leaving them out. I just can't decide! ------------- The Holy Trinity of Symphonic Progressive Rock 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 14:11
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Who is either Proto or Prog Related as they've had many progressive moments throughout their entire career. I mean, A Quick One, While He's Away (the first mini-opera as they call it), The Who Sell Out (a loose concept album), Tommy, Quadrophenia, Who's Next, they had quite a run with many progressive overtones.
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Posted By: Dirk
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 14:14
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I'm not so sure they should be here. Tommy sounds like very good rock music to me. Shouldn't this thread be in the bands suggestions section? |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 15:15
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Don't have strong arguments against them not being here, don't have complete arguments against them being here; so-so.
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 15:33
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With The Beatles The Who created the Prog!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 20:21
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Agreed.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 02:46
Guys, this is at least the third time The Who are discussed here... Why doesn't anyone bother to use the Search function for a change? Check this one first:http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4012&KW=The+Who - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4012&KW=The+Who and this one too: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14825&KW=The+Who - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14825&KW=The+Who There was a third one too, where Chopper pointed out that the band were rejected in a poll in the Collabs section (it was last April). |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 02:51
you'll have to face a fact, Rafaella. Threads get exhuberantly repeated.  
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 03:03
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No doubt proof that they belong... Wait, the Who aren't listed, and the Beatles are?!? The Who invented the rock opera! I think... ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 03:19
Yes, and I'm going to have a field day closing them all... This is what I'm doing now, having posted links to at least other two such threads! So, please, use either one (possibly the second), as it's time to make some order on this forum... |