Happy Rhodes (Prog-Related - eventualy Crossover)

I would rather say more positive message: MAYBE YES.

Let the Eval begin!! 

Her "connection to Kate", if there is one, is not the reason to eval her.  Her music is.  The Crossover team seems quite open to giving artists a fair shake based on their music, not reputation or image. 

Happy is a serious artist, so let her be eval'd.  If she's not suitable for Cross she will be rejected. 

At the rate we're inducting more and more questionable material into Crossover and PR, I'm beggining to think Avant-Prog would be a better fit.

Edited by Kotro - October 18 2010 at 07:35

Hi, long time reader, first time poster.

Re: Happy Rhodes, I would say that she does sound similar to several artists already included on the site under both Crossover and Prog-Related (Kate Bush and Tori Amos, in particular). It's pretty obvious that Kate Bush was an influence on her.

She has covered other artists already included on the site, most notably Yes ("The Yes Medley" on the album The Keep -  though it is an accoustic album),  Bowie and Queen. I'm also pretty sure that she's cited them as an influences (although I'd have to look up the reference), along with Peter Gabriel.

Admittedly, I love Happy Rhodes' music, but I understand it would probably be considered a "controversial" inclusion to add her to PA (and I'm not sure if she has already been rejected -I didn't see anything for her on ProgFreak). However, I wouldn't argue against seeing her here in whatever category best suited her (I imagine it would almost certainly be Prog-Related or Crossover).

Though I'm aware that it's not an accepted argument for her inclusion, if Kate and Tori are already here, I can't see a convincing argument not to include Happy Rhodes. *ducks for cover* To my ears, she is of the same immediate "family" of art rock that they are and IMO would have similar appeal to prog fans. Considering that she isn't as well known as the other two, it would likely help expose more listeners to her.

I'd suggest the Many Worlds are Born Tonight and Equipose albums as the starting point for evaluation, but would highly recommend listening to everything she has released from Ecto going forward.



Edited by FunkyM - November 23 2010 at 13:50

Happy's similarities to Bush are evident and also overstated.  She is a very talented musician in her own right.  So I'm a solid YES YEEESSS YEEESSS.

Edited by Slartibartfast - August 04 2011 at 21:09

^Awesome!

^ It was a suggestion for Prog Related. Crossover was only mentioned in order to be made fun of, sorry about that, but...

Even a Crossover Team member posted here but didn't feel like bringing the suggestion to the team, so I don't know why you're surprised.


Edited by harmonium.ro - August 11 2011 at 07:47

harmonium.ro wrote: ^ It was a suggestion for Prog Related. Crossover was only mentioned in order to be made fun of, sorry about that, but... Even a Crossover Team member posted here but didn't feel like bringing the suggestion to the team, so I don't know why you're surprised.

I understand.

^ Mm, we have to be careful here. And to play on Evolver's words, that's not saying NO to her.

Do anyone know what is point of view of admins (as evaluators for Prog-Related) ? I think that's important before proceeding furt