Is Rush prog

Grumpyprogfan wrote: progaardvark wrote: I can't believe this thread has gone on for nine pages and nobody has said anything about pants yet. My pants have been destroyed by Graham Crackers.

How is Graham, haven't talked to him in awhile.

progaardvark wrote: I can't believe this thread has gone on for nine pages and nobody has said anything about pants yet.

My pants have been destroyed by Graham Crackers.

^ That is a shame.   I like pants.

Floydoid wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: It's funny to see how trolls can spark pointless discussions so effortlessly  Seen it so many times before on forums - they come and make a provocative stance which they know will get everyone into heated discussions, never to return to their thread, or even never to be seen again on the forums. Yet sections of the membership fall for it every time

Some do, and some like to argue and knock the trolls on their butts.   Fun stuff.

Most classic Prog albums are made not only of big epics, but also of simple songs and straight rock ditties (ask ELP or any of the Big 6). So yes, Rush is Prog, by far.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: It's funny to see how trolls can spark pointless discussions so effortlessly

Yes sure kind of... but who cares about the troll (if you're thinking about the topic starter) three, four or nine pages in?I'm "always" here for every twist and turn of the discussion anyways. And so is everyone else contributing, I suppose.

Most of the time when I make a thought through topic, poll etc... - and everyone says "nice poll" or whatever, it still dies down after a couple of pages. While a dumb question or pure trolling might start something of interest. That's just how it is.

It's funny to see how trolls can spark pointless discussions so effortlessly 

The Dark Elf wrote: David_D wrote: Animals and maybe Meddle are the only Floyd albums that really seem Prog to me. The rest of it is too psychedelic, melodic and similar to mainstream Rock, and the mass popularity of Floyd just confirms all this to me.  Wish You Were Here doesn't seem like Prog to you?  "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (all 25:33 of it)? "Welcome to the Machine"? Also, It always amuses me the idea that "mass popularity" somehow precludes a band like Floyd from someone's idea of "Prog". As if creating compositions that actually appeal to people is antithetical to prog-rock (we can't bloody well sell albums, we're prog for Christ's sake! We have to appeal to basement-dwellers, effete nerds and upper middle-class British schoolboys!). They were never a singles band, but folks still bought their albums and listened to them in their entirety.

Yeah, Wish You Were Here seems to be Prog to me. You mention the mass popularity being antithetical to Prog Rock. Interestingly, one could argue that Rush and Pink Floyd's majority of albums are not Prog, but their most popular and best selling albums were when they went Prog.

Floyd with DSTM, Wish You Were Here, Animals and the Wall and Rush with their run of albums from 2112 to Moving Pictures. My feeling is a good majority consider those run of albums to be Prog Rock albums. That's where those two bands gained their legion of fans and why they are considered Prog Rock bands.

^Ok, but it didn't seem like anybody else understood you either. And you actually wrote about not being proud as a progger.

David_D wrote: Anyway, personally, I'm sorry to say that I don't think of Rush as anything to be very proud of as a progger.

I'm not proud of John Coltrane or Miles Davis although they've made some of the most amazing music I know of - and Jazz is what I listen to the most. I guess I'm somewhat proud of my collection Jazz LP's, but I try to pretend that I'm not.