Should Cream be added? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

SteveG wrote:

I wish Cristi would lighten up a little.

I'll let the ridiculous posts and trolling flow next time.

Will you ever forgive me? Ouch

I recall that I once suggested Pet Sounds for proto prog and Dean went balistic, and the Dark Elf called it a surf music album, even though none of the songs were about surfing or Woodies. So PA had changed for the better, in that regard. I wish Cristi would lighten up a little, but overall it's gotten less serious than it used to be, thank God.

Edited by SteveG - October 02 2021 at 03:36

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Cristi wrote:

Grateful Dead is a worthier candidate than Cream. At least under prog-related.

Even Toto is worthier than Cream, obviously under prog-related. Big smile

And C.A. Quintet's Trip Thru Hell from 1969 (not in PA that I could find) is more progressive, experimental and interesting to these ears than Cream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mLkm1nMJXs

Maybe I'll check and see if it's been suggested.

And maybe we could add Serge Gainsbourg for Histoire de Melody Nelson and Cannabis. ;) Another I've wanted to formally propose is Matt Berry, and The Rutles for the non-existent "Related to Prog-Related" category.

Edited by Logan - October 01 2021 at 18:17

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Grateful Dead is a worthier candidate than Cream. At least under prog-related.

Even Toto is worthier than Cream, obviously under prog-related. Big smile

I already moved this to General Music Discussions and would rather not move it again unless I feel it's somehow necessary to the integrity of the site. If someone else want to, fine, but I suspect this topic will just fall of the page anyway. It was fun to have such quick conversation before. I couldn't keep up with it, but was on my iPad which made it even harder and by the time I got in with response there would be several messages posted in the meantime.

I wish there was more humour, not less across this site, I sometimes think. This board is one of the most serious ones I've belonged to. If one wants to get things back on track, one can always try to post things about the topic at hand, respond to posts that are on topic that one finds interesting and share one;s own insights. Writing something scintillating on topic or controversial can work. ;) I had hoped this might turn into a general Cream appreciation thread.

And by the way, if we add Cream, we might just have to add Korn (creamed corn or garmonbozia as it exists in the Twin Peaks universe).

Oh gosh, I was just looking at images and came across this (too bad I suggested avoiding the politics thing, I would have loved to embed it): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPVGiJGVoAAijsB.jpg

A little bit of me would like to see Cream in the archives, but it's all part of my master plan to get The Shagg's Philosophy of the World in PA.

Funnily enough, the more I listen to Cream these days, the less I appreciate it and the less progressive it seems, and I used to love this band. The blues Spoonful live was my favourite. For a bluesy jammy band, I'd sooner have the Grateful Dead in PA (and I don't really support that). I think there is some case for inclusion, especially due to personnel already in PA, but there's a ton of stuff I'd sooner see in that has a psych and prog relation.

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Atavachron wrote:

^ I guess there's not a lot to say because there's not a lot progressive about Cream's music (and as pointed out even less about Clapton solo.)

I agree

so either send this thread to "just for fun" for a laugh or two or close it.

derailed off-topic a second time, or is ir third time already

let's move this to "just for fun" then

or close it... Stern Smile

Edited by Atavachron - October 01 2021 at 15:34

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Re Jack Bruce: Cream never did any songs like this; West, Bruce and Lang "Out into the Fields"

Edited by Easy Money - October 01 2021 at 14:56

Cristi wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ I never knew Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were on PA, so thanks for the heads-up. Thumbs Up

Maybe it's only A Question Of Time before Eric Clapton is added to PA too, but then again, maybe not. Smile

why would Eric Clapton be added? Wacko

From memory and knowledge, it's only Eric (alias Derek) of Derek and the Dominos for "Layla" that would be readily considerable. That said, PA is not the ultimate Prog Rock "song" resource.

I remember reading many years ago that Clapton was at odds with the others in Cream as he wanted to stick with standard blues based music and was not pleased about going in Cream's more experimental direction. One might say that Clapton was not only not progressive but regressive in terms of the approach he wanted. I think Jack Bruce was the most progressive minded of them.

Edited by Logan - October 01 2021 at 11:45

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