Favorite Art Rock Band

king16 wrote: I really like Alan Parsons (Project) Especially the instrumentals they've made

I think all Floyd fans know alan parsons & chris Thomas finest work.

''There is no dark side of the moon really,matter of fact it's all dark''

Art Rock definition has changed since the origins of Prog', in the first years as Swinto well said it was almost a synonim of Prog, but it has changed, and GEPR describes it simply but clearly:

Art Rock

The very border of progressive music in which more commercial styles of music were created at a different angle. Not quite progressive but almost.

Bands

Be Bop Deluxe, early Eno, Roxy Music, etc.

I don't think that Steve Hackett, Kansas or Rush fit here.

Iván

Zero the hero wrote: James Lee wrote: I guess I just don't understand what 'art rock' means. I used to use that term for bands like Bauhaus and Velvet Underground, who were simultaneously in the art world and the music world. The type of band that would be just as likely to play at a gallery as at a club.   art rock  Genre of rock that uses larger forms and more complex harmonies than other popular styles; occasionally quotes examples from classical music. Also Progressive rock.

Once upon a time (and why the need to change and be all encompassing?), in the Uk it was the name given to the music coming from Roxy Music and Be Bop Deluxe, i.e. one end of the Glam Rock brigade, hence avoiding inclusion of Mud, Gary Glitter, even Slade, etc from the other end. Indeed Queen and David Bowie (Aladdin Sane, Spiders period) were also dumped here, while Sweet were just outside. I do believe the term 'art rock' might mean different things either side of the Atlantic - I had one US correspondent swear blind he was using the term in 1966 or 7 interchangeably with 'progressive music'.

James Lee wrote: I guess I just don't understand what 'art rock' means. I used to use that term for bands like Bauhaus and Velvet Underground, who were simultaneously in the art world and the music world. The type of band that would be just as likely to play at a gallery as at a club.

art rock  Genre of rock that uses larger forms and more complex harmonies than other popular styles; occasionally quotes examples from classical music. Also Progressive rock.

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Bloody 'ell, the forum is going even more chaotic.

Man Erg with:

Roxy Music
Followed by
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rare Bird,
Kayak,
De De Lind

is the only one even on the target, using the term correctly wrt the bands named.