The Tubes and The Stranglers

Hello progheads.

I like the Tubes. They did some very good stuff. I don't think you could call them them prog related, though. Did they have anything other than just "songs"? Creative songs, for sure. But then again, I just listened to a few albums. Are they prog related in any way?

For the use of the keyboards and the atmospheres THE STRANGLERS are PROG RELATED.

... if you really care  !

i  was never really interested in the Tubes but was a big fan of the Stranglers in the 70's, they're a great band! many felt they were a commercial rock band riding on the new wave bandwagon at the time, they made some fabulous music and had regular chart entries, including a reggae style song "Nice an' Sleazy"  and some great rock numbers "Somethin' better Change"  and also covered some rather gloomy subjects such as nuclear power "Nuclear Device/Yellowcake uf6 " and nuclear war was high in the nation's conciousness at the time during President Carter's S.A.L.T. Treaty talks with the Russians ( Ian Gillan also covered this with his "M.A.D"  single).  As for the Stranglers being Prog i would say no, though i haven't heard all of their albums they  would be worthy of discussion.

The Tubes were excellent as a band but their styles were all over the place and I'm not so sure they did enough prog to qualify here.  They definitely had a sense of humor and a lot of courage.  Not familiar with the Stranglers at all.

I listen and love very much both of the bands and since i listen actively progressive music i stand strongly on the opinion that those two bands ARE NOT prog music. The Tubes are some kind of AOR/Melodic hard rock with funny lyrics and The Stranglers are mixture between dark/new wave/post punk music.

Just listen to the 2-CD compilation to discover what a progressive blend of styles The Tubes has delivered all those years so I disagree with AOR/melodic hardrock.

To me The Stranglers sound as Art-rock as Queen does after their punk/new wave in the early years.

Well my friend i don't need to listen to that compilation 'cause i have all The Tubes albums in my collection. If you think that The Tubes are prog-related you're wrong cause we could put then a whole bunch of bands into prog-related and that is in my opinion useless. I shall say it again, although progressive is a wide type of music genre it is defined at the same time, a lot of people tend to philosophy over this and that but it's all babble to me, i know what progressive music is. Hey lets put Madonna in progressive metal?

Oh, you're blushing, well i don't know if you're an expert in symphonic prog or whatever but if you say you are what are your arguments for saying that The Tubes are progressive??