Funny Ways: Your Unusual Prog Opinions

 

Whilst I will check out The Shepherd, I think Collins was a good fit range and power wise for Genesis and sang Squonk or Ripples better than perhaps Gabriel would have. Not as good as Gabriel at different voices and accents but not many are. His main problem on Trick and Wuthering was Banks' lyrics which are really awkward to sing over. Even Gabriel is a little subdued (by his standards) on Firth of the fifth.

I think Odyssey: The Greatest Tale (by various artists) is the absolute best prog album in the world.

Test For Echo is one of my favorite Rush albums, and I don't understand why it's their lowest rated album here on the Archives.

I prefer Spock's Beard's album X over all of the Neal era albums except for Snow.

 Damn Phil, they should never had allow him leave his drum kit.

Seriously I must revisit "The Shepherd" once again. Thanks for reminding !

Good thing I haven't posted a review of Court of the Crimson King, I'd probably get even more backlash. 

 

Once again...they are listed here as 'jazz  fusion' though imho they are more rock than jazz until the 4th album and some of Carlo's later side things and then later back to a more rock sound.....but then I suppose we can get into semantics and argue this if you like. Santana, one of my old time favorites, definitely have progressive elements in much of their music but as you said they are not pure prog.

(What I meant originally was that many people don't think of them as prog per se so it was not really an unusual prog opinion as the thread title says. ) I always thought of them as a rock band back in college when were listening to the early albums.

I think it's pointless having BOTH categories, crossover and prog-related, when they're essentially the same thing. 

But one of them might be OK, The Who and Zeppelin are not prog but there are bands that might be considered or not like Floyd, Supertramp, early Queen, etc. so it might help for those type of bands.