Do you think the Police should be on Progarchives

Slartibartfast wrote: Don't tell anyone but Andy Summers snuck in with Robert Fripp.  And of course Stewart Copeland with Curved Air. I think Sting has successfully been kept off this site.

 

I noticed that in the last few months the suggestions here seem to have been generally quite well founded or the more ridiculous suggestions may have been pounced on immediately by the admins.

How on earth did this one sneak through?

akamaisondufromage wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Don't tell anyone but Andy Summers snuck in with Robert Fripp.  And of course Stewart Copeland with Curved Air. I think Sting has successfully been kept off this site.   We can't let Sting in as well as everyone knows they don't get on together any more.  It would only end badly

Good point.

akamaisondufromage wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: npjnpj wrote: I noticed that in the last few months the suggestions here seem to have been generally quite well founded or the more ridiculous suggestions may have been pounced on immediately by the admins. How on earth did this one sneak through?   Well, for the reasons Slarti states above and for Strontium 90 with Mike Howlett  there is an argument to be made Your relatives were lineage to the throne but you were a commoner, what's your argument?   I don't really have an argument as I don't think they should be here.  I was just saying it might not be a comletely ridiculous suggestion for some connections.  (We are talking about Prog Related not symphonic Prog).

I'd be struggling to justify this as the OP has rather cunningly proffered Asia as a rebuttal, but I would hazard that the latter did not deliberately set out to sound like a 80's white reggae/pop hybrid i.e.Asia could be deemed premeditated commercial Prog like 80's Yes and Genesis perchance?

Syncronisity is MUCH more then rehashed white reagge and pop, it got jazz, it got elements of world music, punk, new wave, post punk, not very far of what a certain guy like Peter Gabriel created at exactly around the same time,
some complex layers are snuggeling its way througout the album, it does not make the Police a prog rock band, but the art rock aestethics is inside the body fo the band, it is like most band composing of more then just two sounds pop, or reagge but ceveral types (i could come up with 6 or 7 variations of popular music by just spinning that lone album), bands are more complex even if they are predomenantly pop music based, and some pop music is suprisingly intricate, and intricacy is related to complexity, and complexity is not only instrumentation, but compotition, arangements, production, songstructure, singing, lyrics, or more then those elements combined, complexity in using a wide array of tools to flash out a musical piece is the more comlex part of music making, which reflects most of the prog bands that we love and sherish, but also some of that also defines the pop band the Police, who in almoust all criterias reach the same amount of complexitys as bands like Genesis does, only different parameters are used, but the elements of comlexity is it, it is just combined diferently with different mindsetts and times, ......

Slartibartfast wrote: Don't tell anyone but Andy Summers snuck in with Robert Fripp.  And of course Stewart Copeland with Curved Air. I think Sting has successfully been kept off this site.

Copeland is here as a solo artist and as a member of Oysterhead as well, but that of should be about as close to adding the Police as we should get IMHO.

If you're motivated, look up the previous discussions of Strontium 90. If Sr90 was rejected, I can't imagine why the Police would fare any better.

^ i can hear prog tones from Downs also, his piano solo part on the next last track on debute is really good

ClemofNazareth wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Don't tell anyone but Andy Summers snuck in with Robert Fripp.  And of course Stewart Copeland with Curved Air. I think Sting has successfully been kept off this site. Copeland is here as a solo artist and as a member of Oysterhead as well, but that of should be about as close to adding the Police as we should get IMHO.

Oh yeah, forgot about that, shame on me as I have that one.

If I haven't said it before, I have a lot of solo Summers and I think he does belong in JRF.

Wait a second, Copeland snuck in as a solo?   Totally missed that.


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 30 2012 at 11:39